
A dialogue between alumni Michael Adams (left) and Gyo Obata drew a standing room-only crowd to Steinberg Hall Oct. 2. Their talk, titled “Remembering the Internment,” focused on the friendship between their famous fathers, the photographer Ansel Adams and the painter Chiura Obata (pictured), and how both families were impacted by the U.S. government’s internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The event was organized by the Center for the Study of Ethics & Human Values as part of the semester-long series “Ethnic Profiling: A Challenge to Democracy.” Works by Ansel Adams and Chiura Obata also are included in the exhibition “A Challenge to Democracy: Ethnic Profiling of Japanese Americans During World War II,” on view in the Teaching Gallery of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum through Jan. 4, 2010.