Public History colloquium–Okinawa Memories Initiative

Director Alan Christy and lead student interns will speak about the Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI), a student-led public history and community-engaged research project that employs methodologies of experiential learning and community service to explore Okinawan life, society, and environment after the Battle of Okinawa. They will provide insights to the development of this ongoing public historical process, highlighting their current efforts to establish a multi-year food history project with collaborators in Okinawa and among the Okinawan diaspora in North America.