Apologies, Reparations, and Restitution
Fall 2023
Lectures:
Memories of the World War II Mass Incarceration and Japanese American Redress Activism
Alice Yang analyzes the movement for redress for the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Yang is chair of the History Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She also co-directs the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories.
The Reparative Conjuncture
Jovan Scott Lewis draws from his work on the California Reparations Task Force. He examines African American reparations and what Black repair should be. He is the associate professor and chair of geography at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Failure to Repair and the Persistence of Genocide
Henry C. Theriault examines the harms of the Armenian genocides and the failure to repair. He demonstrates how those harms are central to the victimization of Armenians today. Theriault is associate vice president for academic affairs at Worcester State University.
Kamilah Moore
Kamilah Moore is the chairperson of the California Reparations Task Force. She shares insights into the next steps toward reparations. She also dispels common myths surrounding California’s historical role in slavery.
Holocaust Restitution: A Moral, Historical, and Political Problem
Mark Weitzman is chief operating officer of the World Jewish Restitution Organization. He leads in recovering Jewish properties in Europe and fostering memory of the Holocaust. He was previously director of government affairs for the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Charles Cronin
The significance of most tangible cultural artifacts comes from applying human intelligence to materials like stone or wood. This talk discusses how digital technologies reproduce these investments of human intelligence. Charles Cronin is a visiting scholar at George Washington University Law School. Here, he heads the Music Copyright Infringement Resource.
In and out of the museum: pre-Hispanic works from market to international collection
How did works of ancient, pre-Hispanic Mexico come to the United States? Mary Miller focuses on the turn from archaeological and anthropological collections and study to the art market. Miller is the director of the Getty Research Institute, where she leads the Pre-Hispanic Art Provenance Initiative.
The Weight of a Patina of Time
Gala Porras-Kim received a BA and MA from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Porras-Kim has had solo exhibitions at Leeum Museum of Art, REDCAT, Fowler Museum, and more.