Event

The conversation will be focused on "American Sutra: Buddhism and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II"

Professor Duncan Ryūken Williams is currently a Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages & Cultures and the Director of the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture. He is the author of a monograph entitled The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Soto Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan (Princeton University Press, 2005) and co-editor of seven volumes including Hapa Japan (Kaya Press, 2017), Issei Buddhism in the Americas (U-Illinois Press, 2010), American Buddhism (Routledge, 1998), and Buddhism and Ecology (Harvard University Press, 1997). 

Professor Jolyon Thomas (Penn), author of Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan