UCLA is the first University of California campus to offer a program specific to Pilipino Studies. The program, which began this academic year, offers a range of courses spanning history, language, literature and more. Read article here.
For more about the Asian American Studies Department Pilipino Studies Minor, please visit our page.
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Video Presentations
Professor Paul Ong speaks with LA Social Science about the challenges the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, big data research, and the xenophobic racism the AAPI community face here in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Read more about it here.
Asian American Studies Department Professor Renee Tajima-Pena featured in UCLA Newsroom story about her UCLA video campaign focusing on multiracial solidarity for AAPI month. Read more about it here.
David Myers, the director of the Luskin Center for History and Policy, spoke with Karen Umemoto, the Helen and Morgan Chu Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and David Yoo, vice provost of the UCLA Institute for American Cultures. They talked about the alarming increase of hate crimes against Asian Americans due to the Coronavirus this year and discussed the history of anti-Asian Violence within America. The conversation about the history and present-day events was recorded for an episode of the “Then & Now” podcast.
You can find notable moments of the conversation highlighted by Cheryl Cheng here.
For anyone who is interested, we are still accepting enrollment for one of our summer sessions courses, ASIA AM 191A: Topics in Research Methodologies: Seminar 1. This course will be held via Zoom on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from 1:00pm – 2:20pm with Lecturer Albert Kochaphum.
Please see below information regarding ASIA AM 191A:
For more information, please reach out to Albert Kochaphum at albertkun@idre.ucla.edu.
UCLA alumna Rita Phetmixay is the host of “Healing Out Lao’d,” a podcast dedicated to supporting the healing of intergenerational trauma that many of the Lao diaspora face. Read more about it here!
“Please allow me to share a podcast episode I have been working on that was just released today, on Operation New Life and the role Guam played in processing Vietnamese refugees after the Fall of Saigon.”
“On this day 46 years ago, my mom and grandmother left Vietnam as refugees and were processed on Guam. This podcast episode discusses their experiences; the contributions of local Chamorros in welcoming the Vietnamese refugees; the motivations of 1,600+ Vietnamese repatriates who actually decided to return to communist-unified Vietnam; and the role that Vietnamese refugees and their descendants can play in the ongoing decolonization movement on Guam.”
“This podcast episode is based on my book manuscript research. I’m very grateful for the opportunity to translate my academic writing into a format that is more accessible to a wider community!”
– Professor Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi
To listen to this episode, please go to the Memoirs Pasifika website or you can listen to it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music/Audible, etc.
The Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), invites applications for part-time Lecturer positions (Non-Senate) with primary responsibility in teaching interdisciplinary courses in Asian American Studies for the 2021-2022 academic year. Appointments are usually per course, on a quarter by quarter basis and we expect to need enough Lecturers to cover 15 courses. The UCLA Department of Asian American Studies offers a major, minor, a graduate concentration, and a Master of Arts.
If you would like to apply, you can find all the information here.
Since its establishment in 1925, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has granted nearly $400 million in fellowships to more than 18,000 individuals, among whom are more than 125 Nobel laureates, members of all the national academies, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Fields Medal, Turing Award, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award, and other internationally recognized honors.
In this year’s class of fellows, it holds a wide range of backgrounds, fields of study, and accomplishments. In all, 49 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, 73 different academic institutions, 28 states and 2 Canadian provinces are represented this year.
We would like to congratulate our very own, Keith Camacho, for being awarded as a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. You continue to lead our department with full strides, and we look forward to see what you create and research.
To see more professors who have been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, click here.
