• Treasure Hunt: Visitors can take part in a treasure hunt through the museum's exhibitions to find an array of leadership arts from across the African continent. Pick up self-guided activity at the information desk.

• 12 Noon-2 PM: Screening of the film Hip Hop Colony, a documentary that takes an intimate look at hip hop while establishing its ties to Kenya (Lecture Hall).

• 2-4 PM: DJ Adrian Loving performs a mix of African percussion and hip hop (Mezzanine).

• 4-5 PM: Dr. Mark Auslander (Brandeis University) discusses African kingship ceremonies in a lecture entitled "Leadership is People: African Celebrations of a New Leader" (Lecture Hall).

Free
Continues Jan. 19
Related Exhibition: African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection

• 9-9:30 AM: Introductory Remarks

• 9:30 AM: Energy and Climate Change: Michigan State University vs. Wake Forest University: These two schools represent the pinnacle of intercollegiate debate, both having won the National Debate Tournament (NDT) -- America's most historic and prestigious national debate championship -- in the last three years.

• 11:30 AM: Health Care and the Economy: University of Mary Washington vs. the University of Southern California: These two institutions have long traditions of excellence in intercollegiate debate.

• 2 PM: Foreign Policy: Fayetteville State University vs. Voorhees College These two HBCUs are committed to making debate education central to their educational mission. This debate marks the 100th anniversary of the first intercollegiate debates between HBCUs.

• 3:30-4 PM: Closing Remarks

Free

Co-sponsored by the Anacostia Community Museum, Discovery Theater, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies, and Smithsonian Heritage Months Steering Committee.

Presented in conjunction with the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
Free
Related Exhibition: Orchids through Darwin's Eyes: 15th Annual Orchid Show

• David Mura presents his debut novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire, about a self-proclaimed itinerant historian who must delve into his own family's past -- populated by both a 442nd survivor with a Purple Heart and a No-No Boy -- to understand how his parents' youthful experiences shaped not only their lives, but also the lives of subsequent generations.

• Kiyo Sato discusses her award-winning memoir Dandelion Through the Crack: The Sato Family Quest for the American Dream, which tells the story of a Japanese American family from California who survives the Great Depression only to live through the challenges of being imprisoned at Poston Relocation Camp during World War II.

• Shirley Castelnuovo discusses Soldiers of Conscience: Japanese American Military Resisters in World War II, which tells the story of men who were deployed in a segregated battalion in the U.S. Army to clean up property that had been damaged during training missions in the United States. The men were assigned to this unit after protesting the mass imprisonment of their Japanese American families during WWII.

• Cedrick Shimo, one of the resisters in Soldiers of Conscience, who also wrote the foreword to the book, will also participate.
Free; first come, first served