An international symposium about how democratic governments treat non-citizens in their countries during wartime, "Alien Enemies in Wartime: Race, Ethnicity and Civil Liberties," will be held at the University of Colorado at Boulder April 4-6.
The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will begin Thursday, April 4, at 7 p.m. at the Colorado Chautauqua Association's Community House on Morning Glory Drive in Boulder's Chautauqua Park.Ìý
Professor Roger Daniels of the University of Cincinnati will open the symposium with his talk "Executive Order 9066: What have we learned 60 Years After." Filmmakers David Foxhoven and Irene Rawlings will then show footage from their documentary on Colorado's Camp Amache, a military camp used to incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II.
The symposium presents a rare opportunity for people interested in national security, racial profiling, national identity and human rights to talk directly with some of the leading experts in those areas, according to Max Friedman, Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at CU-Boulder and organizer of the symposium.
The three-day symposium will bring experts from Canada, Australia and throughout the United States to CU-Boulder to discuss topics such as the recent government persecution of ethnic minorities for national security reasons, the incarceration of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II and the treatment of Italians in Canada and the United States during World War II, according to Friedman.
The Colorado Endowment for the Humanities, Japanese American Citizens League, Colorado Chautauqua Association and several departments and groups at CU-Boulder are cosponsoring the event.
Following the opening presentations on April 4, a series of panel discussions will be held on the CU-Boulder campus on Friday, April 5, and Saturday, April 6.Ìý
For more information about the panels including a complete schedule of titles and times, visit the Web site at and click on Alien Enemies Conference, or call (303) 492-0823.