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Little Manila Foundation
Little Tokyo Historical Society
University of California, Irvine Department of Asian American Studies
University of California, Riverside Public History Program
University of Southern California Heritage Conservation Program
Friends of APIAHiP
City of Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources
Form follows Function
Latinos in Heritage Conservation
Los Angeles Conservancy
National Park Service
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Save Our Chinatown Committee - Riverside
Western National Parks Association
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APIs and Historic Preservation Community Symposium
Safeguarding Our Stories and Places
For Future Generations
Saturday, May 13, 2017
National Center for the Preservation of Democracy
Japanese American National Museum
100 N. Central Ave Los Angeles, CA 90012
With May as both Asian Pacific American History Month and Preservation Month, we celebrate with a Community Symposium that will bring together scholars, preservationists, students, and the Asian and Pacific Islander community to learn about how we can safeguard historic sites and cultural resources and elevate AAPI history into historic preservation efforts. Learn from a series of panel discussions from governmental agencies, preservation groups, universities, and community organizations.
Program Schedule:
9:30am-10:00am Registration
10:00am-1:00pm Program with Welcome Remarks and Panel Discussions
Providing "Context" to Our Historic Sites and Cultural Resources
Barbara Wyatt, National Park Service
Jenan Saunders, California Historic Preservation Office
Ken Bernstein, City of Los Angeles Historic Resources Office
Moderated by Dr. Elaine Jackson-Retondo, National Park Service
Preserving our Stories and Places from the Ground Up
Rosalind Sagara, Save Our Chinatown Committee - Riverside
Kristen Hayashi, Little Tokyo Historical Society
Maya Santos, Form follows Function
Moderated by Navdeep Singh, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Educating and Engaging Scholars, Practitioners, and the Public in Preservation
Trudi Sandmeier, USC Heritage Conservation Program
Megan Suster and Steve Moreno-Terrill, UCR & California State Parks "Relevancy & History" Pilot Program
Moderated by Lisa Hasegawa, UCLA Activist-in-Residence and APIAHiP Board Secretary
Advocacy and Partnerships in Preservation
Laura Dominguez, Los Angeles Conservancy, Latinos in Heritage Conservation
Dennis Arguelles, National Parks Conservation Association
Christina Morris, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Moderated by Kevin Sanada, California Community Economic Development Association
1:00pm-2:00pm Light refreshments followed by an optional tour of Little Tokyo's First Street North National Historic District and/or visit the Japanese American National Museum (on your own)
Our program will be followed by a super-panel discussion hosted by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the AAPI Nexus Journal: Policy, Practice, and Community with authors from "Special Issue on AAPIs 2040” (released December 2016):
2:00pm-4:30pm AAPIs 2040: Creating the Future in An Uncertain World: Resisting Bigotry/Ignorance/Hate, Advancing Knowledge, and Forging Unity, Power & Solidarity
* Uniting to Move Forward: Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders in 2040 - Richard Calvin Chang
* The Future of the LGBTQ Asian American and Pacific Islander Community in 2040 - Glenn Magpantay
* Suspicious People: Profiling and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders - Navdeep Singh
* Asian Americans and the Media - Daniel M. Mayeda
* Cultural Preservation Policy and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Reimagining Historic Preservation in Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities - Michelle G. Magalong
Moderated by Elena Ong, AAPI Nexus Co-Editor