Asian American Studies Lecture Series Archive

Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Tina Chang

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

Join Tina Chang as she reflects on a life fueled by the search for identity, meaning, and purpose. Ms. Chang will read poems from her three collections of poetry: Half-Lit Houses, Of Gods & Strangers, and her forthcoming collection, Hybrida, while she reflects on what it means to lead a life well lived through...

Location: Burr Hall, Room 219
Speaker(s):
Tina Chang
“A Mindful Life: a Poet's Journey”

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: 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: 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: 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. He is also professor in the Program in Asian American Studies, the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory, and the Program in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies.
Location: East Pyne, Room 010
Speaker(s):
David L. Eng
University of Pennsylvania
(Gay) Panic Attack: Coming Out in a Colorblind Age

Asian American Collisions Along the Arc of History, Past Present Future Tense

Asian American Collisions Along the Arc of History, Past Present Future Tense
Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 4:30 pm
 
Location: 100 Jones Hall
Speaker(s):
Helen Zia
Asian American feminist and LGBTQ author and activist

Embodying Labor-Time: Vital Temporalities and Vital Proximities in the Filipino Labor Diaspora

Embodying Labor-Time: Vital Temporalities and Vital Proximities in the Filipino Labor Diaspora
Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 4:30 pm
 
Location: 100 Jones Hall
Speaker(s):
Allan Puzalan Isaac
Associate Professor of American Studies and English, Rutgers University

Slow Life and Palestine: Settler Colonialism in Five Parts

Slow Life and Palestine: Settler Colonialism in Five Parts
Thu, Mar 1, 2018, 4:30 pm
 
Location: 100 Jones Hall
Speaker(s):
Jasbir Puar
Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies, Rutgers University

Possessing Polynesians: Whiteness and Settler Colonialism in Hawai'i

Possessing Polynesians: Whiteness and Settler Colonialism in Hawai'i
Thu, Feb 15, 2018, 4:30 pm
Maile Arvin is an assistant professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of Utah. A Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) scholar, her research focuses on historical and contemporary issues of race, indigeneity, gender and science particularly in relation to Kānaka Maoli, the Western idea of the Polynesian race as almost white, and the...
Location: 100 Jones Hall
Speaker(s):
Maile Arvin
Assistant Professor of History and Gender Studies, University of Utah

Logistical Monstrosities: Megaships, Megaports, and Infrastructures of Violence Along the TransPacific Supply Chain

Logistical Monstrosities: Megaships, Megaports, and Infrastructures of Violence Along the TransPacific Supply Chain
Thu, Dec 7, 2017, 4:30 pm
Situating the growth of mega-ships and ports within the broader context of the rise of logistics, Charmaine Chua argues that the material systems of global supply should be understood not as durable infrastructure — public works that stimulate local economic development — but as durable monstrosities that imprint the colonial violence of global...
Location: 010 East Pyne
Speaker(s):
Charmaine Chua
Oberlin College

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