SHADOWS OF MINIDOKA
INSIGHT Art Talk Series
FEBRUARY 23, 7PM. 2011

Lawrence, KS (January 31, 2011) – The Lawrence Arts Center will present the INSIGHT Art Talk Series with Roger Shimomura and Bill Tsutsui February 23, 7PM.

William M. Tsutsui

From Bill Tsutui,
"I look forward to having a wide-ranging discussion with Roger about the themes that emerge from the Shadows of Minidoka exhibition and from his lifetime of artistic work. We will talk about his experience as an Asian American artist in Kansas, the weight of history and the importance of remembering, his passion for collecting, and the significance of community, place, and materiality to his art. Roger and I both hope that the audience will actively join in the conversation as well."

William M. Tsutsui is Dean of Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Tsutsui is a specialist in modern Japanese business and economic history whose books examine topics ranging from banking policy to the film icon “Godzilla.”

Tsutsui is the author of Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation (Routledge, 1988); Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan (Princeton University Press, 1998); and Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters (Palgrave, 2004). He is the editor of Banking in Japan (Routledge, 1999); A Companion to Japanese History (Blackwell, 2007); and (with Michiko Ito) In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage (Palgrave, 2006).

Tsutsui joined SMU from the University of Kansas, where he served as associate dean for international studies in the College of Arts & Sciences, professor of history and director of the Kansas Consortium for Teaching About Asia in KU’s Center for East Asian Studies. Tsutsui previously served as acting director of the university’s Center for East Asian Studies and executive director of its Confucius Institute. He has been named faculty fellow at KU’s Center for Teaching Excellence, received a William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence in 2001 and won KU’s Steeples Service to Kansas Award in 2001.

This event is free and open to the public.