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Asian American Studies.

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About the speaker: Laura Sachiko Fugikawa holds a doctoral degree from the University of Southern California’s Department of American Studies and Ethnicity with a certificate in Gender Studies. Her book- in-progress, Domestic Containment, is a comparative analysis of the intersections between the mid-20th century dispersal of Japanese Americans out of the internment camps and Native Americans off the reservation by U.S. government agencies. Her interdisciplinary project elucidates the state’s policy shift from physical containment to containment through assimilation ideologies through a narrative analysis of relocation agency propaganda and training manuals.  She then turns to contemporary literature and film to explore articulations of the long-term psychic effects of dispossession, dispersal and displacement alongside imagined strategies for survival.