Speaking engagements
I'm no longer posting speaking engagements here. However, feel free to contact me through my contact page if you have a request .... or you just want to exchange some thoughts. Thanks.
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Luncheon Keynote Speaker, Rededication Ceremony, Arboga WWII Internment Site
Sponsored by Marysville JACL
Friday, October 21, 2022
The Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project
Harvard Kennedy School
Truth and Transformation 2022, Looking Back, Paying It Forward
Thursday, October 20, 2022
United States Court of Federal Claims Annual Conference
National Press Club, Washington, D. C.
Friday, September 30 - October 1, 2022
Inaugural Reparations Summit "Where Do We Go From Here: Imagining Our Future"
Hosted by the National Assembly of American Slave Descendants
Reparations Roundtable
Atlanta, GA
Wednesday, June 1, 2022 7:00PM - 8:00PM
Berkeley City Club
"Redress: The Untold Story"
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Saint Mary's College
"From Japanese American Internment to Redress: Lessons for the Black Reparations Movement?"
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 6:00PM
Miami University of Ohio
"Winning Reparations: John Tateishi and the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations"
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 9:30AM
February 16, 2022
KQED "Forum" with Alexis Madrigal
December 12, 2021
France24 program "Revisited" will air a documentary memorializing the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor but also tells the story of the nation's treatment of Japanese Americans during the war. Airing on December 12, with a longer version airing date TBD.
Sunday, November 28, 2021 4:00-6:00PM (PST)
Politics in Black - A Case for Lineage Reparations
Discussion on how Japanese American redress might inform strategies of Black Reparations.
Watch the broadcast live here.
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
"Dear White Women" podcast (dearwhitewomen.com)
Interview with podcast hosts Sara Blanchard and Misasha Suzuki Graham
Now available on the "DWW" site
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 11:30AM (PDT) 1:30PM (CDT)
40th Anniversary of the Chicago Community CWRIC Hearings
"With Liberty and Justice for All: Racism, Redress, and Reparations" Conference (Virtual)
Keynote speaker, opening plenary session
Northeastern Illinois University
Click here for event information.
Join the event. Passcode: 943681
Thursday, July 15, 2021
JACL Virtual Annual Convention, opening plenary session
A conversation with John Tateishi and Dreisen Heath, Human Rights Watch
Can the CWRIC strategies inform strategies for Black Reparations?
Thursday, July 1, 2021
"Never Again" KPFA radio interview with CA Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi and John Tateishi
Thursday, May 6, 2021 -- 6:00PM (PDT)
"Redress and Reparations" Meeting
UCLA Nikkei Students Union
Tuesday, May 4, 2021 -- 1:00PM (PDT)
"Courageous Conversations: John Tateishi"
Bank of America
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 2:00PM - 3:00PM
"The Politics of Racial Reparations: Japanese American and Black American Intersections"
Professor Charles Henry and John Tateishi
Asian American Research Center, University of California, Berkeley
Read the flyer and register here.
Saturday, April 17, 2021 - 4:30PM (PDT)
"Afternoon with the Author" series
Nisei Veterans Memorial Center, Hawaii
Register here.
Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM
California State University Monterey Bay Festival of Languages, Cultures and Ideas
Book Talk: "Redress"
Sunday, February 21, 2021 - 12:00 PM PST
Chicago Day of Remembrance: "Righting Historical Wrongs: Connecting Black Reparations to Japanese American Redress"
Chicago Chapter, Japanese American Citizens League; Japanese American Service Center of Chicago
Livestream the event here.
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 - 4:00 PM (PST)
"From Japanese American Redress to Black Reparations: A Conversation with John Tateishi and A. Kirstin Mullen / William Darity"
Hosted by The Ito Center of the University of Southern California
Read the flyer. Sign up on the event page.
Saturday, December 19, 2020 - 11:00 AM PST
Author's Talk with Rosalyn Tonai, Executive Director
National Japanese American Historical Society
Click here to register.
Wednesday December 9, 2020 6:00 PM PST
John Tateishi (Redress), a Book Talk on Zoom with the JACL Central California District
Read the flyer and join on Zoom.
Thursday November 12, 2020 - 4:00 PM PST
A conversation about reparations with William Darity and Kirsten Mullen, authors of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
Hosted by Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC. Register here.
Thursday November 12, 2020 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST
A conversation about black reparations, featuring Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, author of AB3121
A Conversation on Reparations by The San Diego Union Tribune. View the flyer.
ADOS (American Descendants of Slavery) Atlanta Presents: Is Japanese [American] Internment A Model for ADOS Reparations?
Tuesday October 20, 2020 4:00 PM PT
A Conversation with John Tateishi on his book "Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations"
Japanese American Museum San Jose
Saturday September 12, 2020 1:00-2:00 PM PT
John Tateishi (Redress), a Book Talk on Zoom with the JACL DC
Wednesday August 12, 2020 4:00-5:00 PM PT
John Tateishi (Redress), a Book Talk on Zoom with Patricia Wakida
Eastwind Books of Berkeley
Saturday June 27, 2020 3:00 PM PT
John Tateishi (Redress) live on Zoom with Berkeley JACL
Saturday May 23, 2020 1:00 PM PT
John Tateishi (Redress) at Pacific Council and Japanese American National Museum
Tuesday May 5, 2020 6:30-7:30 PM PT
John Tateishi (Redress) at Top of Mind with Julie Rose
Thursday April 23, 2020 1:20 PM PT
John Tateishi (Redress) at DIESEL in Brentwood
Tuesday Mar 10 2020 6:30 PM
DIESEL, A Bookstore 225 26th St, Santa Monica, CA map
John Tateishi (Redress) at JCCCNC San Francisco
Saturday Mar 07 2020 3:30 PM
JCCCNC San Francisco 1840 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA map
