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Connecting the Dots: Greg Dvorak at TEDxWasedaU

Greg Dvorak is an associate professor at Hitotsubashi University, where he focuses on cultural studies and history between the Pacific Islands, Japan, and the United States. As an American who spent his childhood on a US military installation in the Marshall Islands and much of his adult life in Japan, Greg was always curious about the marginalized histories of Marshallese and prewar Japanese communities. His MA and his doctoral work explored these nuanced and contradictory narratives of the Pacific War and the Cold War in Micronesia as they played out in indigenous and colonial representations. With a grant from the Toyota Foundation, in 2010 Greg began Project35 (Project Sango), a grassroots initiative to kindle new non-governmental ties between the Japanese archipelago and its Pacific Island neighborhood. Linking communities through traditional and contemporary arts, Project35 aims to collaborate with Pacific Islanders in overcoming the ravages of the past in pursuit of new, creative solutions to build a peaceful transoceanic community. websites: www.coralproject35.com / www.gregdvorak.com In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)