Where:
MIT E15-070 Bartos Theater
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences, Social Good
Event website:
https://cis.mit.edu/events/starr-forum-national-security-civil-liberties-1942-2017
The event will begin as a day of remembrance on the 75th anniversary of internment of Japanese Americans, then turn to issues raised by the current wave of Islamophobia and xenophobia.
Program Invocation:
Hoda Elsharkawi, MIT Muslim Chaplain, invocation
Moderator:
Kenneth Oye, Professor MIT Political Science and NE JACL
Panelists:
Margie Yamamoto, NE JACL incarcerated with her family as a baby during WWII
Barbara J. Dougan, Civil Rights Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations
Nadeem Mazen, Cambridge City Council
Shannon Al-Wakeel, Executive Director, Muslim Justice League and Board, Mass ACLU
Paul Watanabe, Director UMass Institute for Asian American Studies
Co-sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies, The New England Japanese American Citizens League, and The Asian American Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston