Against a State of Forgetting - Guest Speaker at DePaul University

As part of the Department of International Studies’ syllabus titled ‘Identities and Boundaries’, I presented a John Berger-esque reading of When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka. Using Otsuka’s novel and scholarly research on the internment of Japanese Americans during World War 2, I connected the politics of discourse and manipulation of language with collective memory loss.