Lost and found: How memory finds its place in the human mind after a disaster

This experimental presentation of a work-in-progress will conceptualize memory from the perspective of the Japanese American Internment Experiences, to the personal loss in the face of death of a beloved one (personal experience) to massive loss in he case of the Great Tohoku Earthquake (based on the personal blog of a young man who lost his mother and brother to the tsunami and after 9 months decided to become a politician), and will tease out implications between traumatic memory and the future.