Asian American Studies Lecture Series

Upcoming

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: David L. Eng

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: David L. Eng
Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 4:30 pm

David L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, and graduate chair of the Department of English of the University of Pennsylvania.

Location: East Pyne, Room 010
Speaker(s):
David L. Eng
University of Pennsylvania
(Gay) Panic Attack: Coming Out in a Colorblind Age

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: David Roh

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: David Roh
Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 4:30 pm

David S. Roh is associate professor of English and director of the Digital Matters Lab at the University of Utah, where he specializes in digital humanities and Asian American literature. He is the author of Illegal Literature (University of Minnesota Press), and co-editor of Techno-Orientalism (Rutgers University Press).

Location: East Pyne, Room 010
Speaker(s):
David Roh
University of Utah
Against Primordial Asian America: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Leti Volpp

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Leti Volpp
Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 4:30 pm
Leti Volpp is Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice and director of the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. She researches immigration and citizenship law with a particular focus on how law is shaped by ideas about culture and identity.
Location: Lewis Library, Room 120
Speaker(s):
Leti Volpp
Berkeley Law
Protecting the Nation from "Honor Killings": Banning Immigration in the Time of Trump

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Fiona I. B. Ngô

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Fiona I. B. Ngô
Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 4:30 pm

Fiona I. B. Ngô is an associate professor, and Conrad Humanities Scholar, 2016-2021, in the Department of Asian American Studies and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Location: East Pyne, Room 010
Speaker(s):
Fiona I. B. Ngô
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Tina Chang

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Tina Chang
Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 4:30 pm

Tina Chang is the poet laureate of Brooklyn. The first woman named to this position, she was raised in New York City. She is the author of the poetry collections Half-Lit Houses and Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way Books) and co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East,...

Location: Burr Hall, Room 219
Speaker(s):
Tina Chang

Symposium – Japanese America: Transpacific and Hemispheric

Symposium – Japanese America: Transpacific and Hemispheric
Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 1:30 pm
Location: Chancellor Green Rotunda
Speaker(s):
Iyko Day
Andrew Way Leong
Karen Umemoto
Karen Tei Yamashita

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Parul Sehgal

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Parul Sehgal
Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 4:30 pm

Parul Sehgal is a book critic at The New York Times.

Location: East Pyne, Room 010
Speaker(s):
Parul Sehgal
The New York Times

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Kandice Chuh

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Kandice Chuh
Thu, Mar 7, 2019, 4:30 pm

Kandice Chuh is professor of English and American studies and coordinator of the American studies certificate program at CUNY/The Graduate Center.

Location: East Pyne, Room 010
Speaker(s):
Kandice Chuh
CUNY/The Graduate Center
Asian Americanist Critique in the “Asian Century”

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Janelle Wong

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Janelle Wong
Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 4:30 pm

Janelle Wong received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Yale University. She is a professor of Asian American studies at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the University of Maryland in 2012, she was at the University of Southern California in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity...

Location: East Pyne, Room 010
Speaker(s):
Janelle Wong
University of Maryland
Coalitions and Cleavages in Asian American Politics

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Colleen Lye

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Colleen Lye
Thu, May 2, 2019, 4:30 pm
Colleen Lye (Ph.D., Columbia, 1999) is associate professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of America’s Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945 (Princeton University Press, 2005).
Location: East Pyne, Room 010
Speaker(s):
Colleen Lye
University of California, Berkeley