Since its inception in 2014, the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project has presented a wide variety of events, exhibitions, ceremonies and symposia connected to the project’s work and that of partners. We hope you will join us at a future event.
future events
Past events
GVJCI Day of Remembrance 2021
Date: Monday February 22 – Saturday February 27, 2021
Description:
A week-long virtual Day of Remembrance event hosted by the Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute.
Presentation:
Presentation from the event by the Gerth Archives and Special Collections, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
An opening ceremony for the Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga Papers and the archives scanning day hosted by the Gerth Archives and Special Collections, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Shikata Ga Nai
Date: Feb. 8 – May 2, 2020
Description:
Exhibition by Devon Tsuno, Art Professor, in collaboration with MOCA, the Topaz Museum, and the CSUJAD at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Unfinished Proof Ninomiya
Date: May 8 – September 18, 2019
Description:
Exhibition by Alan Nakagawa at the University Art Gallery, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Kenjinkai Open House
Date: Jan. 26, 2019, 1-3pm
Description:
Open House event to invite Southern California kenjinkai members and other members of the Japanese American Community at the Gerth Archives and Special Collections, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute (GVJCI) x CSUDH Archives History Scanning Day
Date: September 22, 2018
Time: 10-4pm
Description:
First GVJCI and CSUDH scanning day.
And then they came for us…
a symposium marking the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 authorizing the mass incarceration of Japanese-American citizens during WWII
Date: February 9, 2017
Time: 10-4pm
Location: Symposium at California State University, Dominguez Hills
Date: February 9, 2017 – May 20
Description:
Exhibition at the Library Cultural Arts Gallery, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Creativity Unconfined: Life in a World War II Japanese American Internment Camp
Date:
September 13 – December 23, 2016
Location: Symposium at California State University, Dominguez Hills
Date: February 9, 2017 – May 20
Description:
Exhibition of Digital Special Collection on Japanese Americans of Sonoma County at the University Library Art Gallery, Sonoma State University.
Artists Can Move Mountains: Creative expressions from the Eastern Sierra
Date: September 2 – December 16, 2014
Description:
Exhibition of watercolor painting responded to Japanese American wartime incarceration at the Library Cultural Arts Gallery, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
CSU Planning Grant Symposium
Date: June 17 – 18, 2014
Description:
Two-day symposium hosted by the Gerth Archives and Special Collections, California State University, Dominguez Hills.