Events
Since its inception in 2014, the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project has presented a wide variety of events, exhibitions, ceremonies and symposia connected to the project’s work and that of partners. We hope you will join us at a future event.
current events
Past events
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project Exhibition
Date: May 2025
Description:
Torrance Public Library exhibition case features the Bruce Kaji Papers as well as selected items from the CSUJAD collections.
GVJCI Day of Remembrance 2021
Date: February 22–27, 2021
Description:
A week-long virtual Day of Remembrance event hosted by the Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute.
Presentation:
Presentation from the event by the Gerth Archives and Special Collections, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
2020 JACSC Education Conference: Connecting, Empowering, & Transforming Our Communities
Date: October 16–18, 2020
Description:
A three-day virtual forum hosted by the Japanese American National Museum.
Opening of the Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga Papers
Date: May 2, 2020
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Description:
An opening ceremony for the Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga Papers and the archives scanning day hosted by the Gerth Archives and Special Collections, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Shikata Ga Nai
Date: February 8 – May 2, 2020
Exhibition by Devon Tsuno, Art Professor, in collaboration with MOCA, the Topaz Museum, and the CSUJAD at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Unfinished Proof Ninomiya
Date: May 8 – September 18, 2019
Exhibition by Alan Nakagawa at the University Art Gallery, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Kenjinkai Open House
Date: January 26, 2019, 1-3pm
Open House event to invite Southern California kenjinkai members and other members of the Japanese American Community at the Gerth Archives and Special Collections, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Date: September 22, 2018, 10-4pm
Description:
First GVJCI and CSUDH scanning day.
And then they came for us…
a symposium marking the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 authorizing the mass incarceration of Japanese-American citizens during WWII
Date: February 9, 2017 – May 20, 2018
Exhibition at the Library Cultural Arts Gallery, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Symposium at California State University, Dominguez Hills
Exhibition of Digital Special Collection on Japanese Americans of Sonoma County at the University Library Art Gallery, Sonoma State University.
Date: September 2 – December 16, 2014
Exhibition of watercolor painting responded to Japanese American wartime incarceration at the Library Cultural Arts Gallery, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Date: June 17 – 18, 2014
Two-day symposium hosted by the Gerth Archives and Special Collections, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
