Asian American Studies Lecture Series

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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 in the Departments of Asian American Studies and 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

The Perfectible Refugee and the Welfare Queen: The Reordering of Race and Disability

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Tina Chang

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Tina Chang

Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 4:30 pm

Tina Chang is poet laureate of Brooklyn — the first woman named to this position — and 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, Asia and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008)...

Location: Burr Hall, Room 219

Speaker(s):

Tina Chang

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. She came to The Times in 2012. Her writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, Bookforum, The New Yorker and Slate, among other publications.

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, a member of the M.A. in Liberal Studies faculty, and is affiliated to the Africana studies program.

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

The Asian Bourgeois