Events & Calendars "'The Good War' and Asian Americans: Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos and Japanese in the United States"

2017 marks the 75th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066 authorizing the forced removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. That experience and the heroic military exploits of Japanese Americans, some of whom served even as their families remained behind barbed-wire enclosures, have been widely studied, but the war involved other major Asian American groups as well, in fascinating and complex ways. This panel of scholars will discuss the war and its impact upon these communities as well as the ways in which members participated both on battlefields and on the home front. Panelists include Greg Robinson, professor of history at l’Université du Québec à Montréal, and Franklin Odo, the John J. McCloy Visiting Professor at Amherst College, on Japanese Americans; Richard Chu, Five College Professor of History at UMass Amherst, on Filipino Americans; Lili Kim, associate professor of history and global migrations at Hampshire College, on Korean Americans; and K. Scott Wong, the Charles R. Keller Professor of History at Williams College, on Chinese Americans. There will be a Q&A session following the presentations.