Starr Forum: National Security & Civil Liberties: 1942 & 2017

When:
Saturday, Feb 25, 2017 2:00p -
4:00p

Where:
MIT E15-070 Bartos Theater
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

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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

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