This conference is dedicated to Japanese American poet Amy Uyematsu and to the realities of the internment camps in which a large majority of citizens of Japanese descent were interned in the state of California by the federal government during World War II. The idea is to bring together specialists from multiple disciplines to study the realities and representations of these camps and to analyze the intergenerational transmission of the memory of this traumatic period. To this end, perspectives from the academic world will be exchanged and discussed with perspectives and memories from outside academia—poets, novelists, photographers, filmmakers, and activists—to better understand the complexity of this historical period and to raise awareness in France of the work and legacy of Amy Uyematsu, a major figure in the fight for the civil rights of Japanese Americans and in the construction of Japanese American identity in Los Angeles and beyond. A panel discussion will also be devoted to a comparison with the camps for repatriates from Indochina in France, notably that of Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot in Nouvelle Aquitaine. This parallel French situation will deepen and complement the historical and human analysis of the Japanese-American camps from a transnational perspective, allowing French and other audiences to discover events that are often overlooked on both sides of the Atlantic. This conference also addresses certain issues related to intermediality, in particular how it shapes collective memory, and how it is shaped in return. This event contributes to ongoing scientific discussions in several ways thanks to its interdisciplinary nature—studies focusing on Japanese, American, and Japanese American communities, Literature, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Translation Studies, Geography, and Photography and Film Studies. The conference will take place over two days at Bordeaux Montaigne University and will be accompanied by a photographic exhibition at the Rigoberta Menchù Library (BRM) on the Japanese American internment camps, photographed by Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange, among others, on behalf of the Roosevelt administration. The exhibition will also feature family photos of Amy Uyematsu, as well as original drawings of a future graphic novel on her life. There will be a screening of Tadashi Nakamura's short documentary Pilgrimage, about the Manzanar camp, where Amy Uyematsu's paternal family was interned. It will be followed by the film Hito Hata, by the great filmmaker Robert A. Nakamura, largely unknown in France. The conference will conclude with a reading of poems by Los Angeles poets who were friends of Amy Uyematsu and a poetry writing workshop led by poets Mike Sonksen and Traci Kato-Kiriyama.