APABA-PA and Blank Rome Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Event

APABA-PA and Blank Rome Honor Asian Pacific American Heritage Month on May 16, 2019 with And Then They Came for Us: Lessons for Today from Japanese-American Incarceration During World War II

Thursday, May 16, 2019 • 5:30–8:30 p.m

Blank Rome LLP

Marvin Comisky Conference Center

One Logan Square | 130 North 18th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Please RSVP to Cathy Van Arsdale by Monday, May 13.

Please join APABA-PA and Blank Rome for an event to honor Asian Pacific American Heritage Month on Thursday, May 16, 2019, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Blank Rome’s Marvin Comisky Conference Center in Philadelphia. The program entitled, “And Then They Came for Us: Lessons for Today from Japanese-American Incarceration During World War II,” will take place live in Blank Rome’s Philadelphia office and simulcast to Blank Rome’s Pittsburgh office.

The program will begin with a screening of the documentary, And Then They Came for Us, winner of a 2018 American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award. The documentary concerns the cultural and political environment that enabled the incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans following the signing of Executive Order 9066 in 1943.

A panel discussion will follow, addressing the parallels that can be drawn today to Japanese-American incarceration during World War II. The panel, moderated by Blank Rome’s Partner and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Sophia Lee, will feature Karen Korematsu, Founder and Executive Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute; Professor Craig Green, Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law; and Tuan Samahon, Professor of Law at Villanova University’s Charles Widger School of Law. Additional panelists to be confirmed.

This program is accredited for 1.5 Pennsylvania CLE Credits.