Due to the recent Los Angeles fires, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has rescheduled the inaugural Irene Hirano Inouye Distinguished Lecture with guest speaker Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Friday, March 14, at JANM’s Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center).
Bunch will speak in conversation with Lisa Sasaki, deputy under secretary for special projects at the Smithsonian. The program will be-gin with a reception honoring Irene Hirano Inouye at 4 p.m., followed by the lecture at 5:30 p.m.
Tickets are free and open to the public. Reservations are required and are available at janm.org/democracy. Tickets reserved for the original Jan. 31 date will be honored on the new date.
The Irene Hirano Inouye Distinguished Lecture Series centers on the leadership values and principles that inspired the late Irene Hirano Inouye to empower community, uplift women, and build bridges between the U.S. and Japan. The series will feature national leaders and voices who are shaping democracy to provoke thought and inspire change in the U.S., and is one of two signature Distinguished Lecture Series of the Democracy Center, the other inspired by the late Secretary Norman Y. Mineta.