Great Plains lecture: “Rescuing” Japanese American Histories of Nebraska

Name: Great Plains lecture: “Rescuing” Japanese American Histories of Nebraska
Start: 2025-11-11T18:00:00-06:00
Location: Lied Center for Performing Arts

Schedule

Tue, 11 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Lied Center for Performing Arts | Lincoln, NE

Learn about the vibrant histories of Japanese Americans in Nebraska from the late 19th Century to the present and the community-led efforts to maintain them in this screening and panel discussion.
This event begins with a screening of Nebraska Public Media’s recently aired “Nebraska Stories: Rescuing the Japanese Hall” episode (30 minutes), followed by a panel of Japanese American community members, Vickie Sakurada Schaepler (Japanese Hall and History Project Coordinator), Kim Hachiya (community descendant), and Sharon Ishii-Jordan (Professor Emerita at Creighton University and community descendant), and the senior producer of “Nebraska Stories,” Kay Hall. This event will be moderated by Dr. Donna Doan Anderson and will take place in the Lied Commons.
This is part of the Paul A. Olson Great Plains lecture series by the Center for Great Plains Studies.