Join us for a speaker series featuring Q&A sessions with leading authors who have recently published books on Asian American and Pacific Islander history. Throughout the series, speakers will discuss different ways of relating to and narrating a collective past, focusing on innovative research methods, feminist archiving practices, Cold War afterlives, and relational histories.
Event Schedule & Featured Speakers:
Kristin Oberiano (Assistant Professor of History, Wesleyan University)
Date & Time: October 29 | 3:30 PM Location: Rolfe 2125
Book: Territorial Discontent: CHamorus, Filipinos, and the Making of the United States Empire in Guåhan (UNC Press, 2026)
Crystal Mun-hye Baik (Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, UC Riverside)
Date & Time: November 5 | 3:30 PM Location: Public Affairs 2292
Book: Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun: An Elegy (Duke University Press, 2026)
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (Professor of History and Asian American Studies, UC Irvine)
Date & Time: November 12 | 3:45 PM Location: Public Affairs 2292
Book: Moving Mountains: Asian American and Pacific Islander Feminisms and the 1977 National Women’s Conference (University of Washington Press, 2026)
Wendy Cheng (Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California)
Date & Time: November 19 | 2:00 PM Location: Public Affairs 2292
Book: Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism (University of Washington Press, 2023)
