Angel Trazo a current Asian American M.A. Student uses her talent for the arts and illustration as well as her knowledge of Asian American Studies to broaden representation in her newly published children’s book. Congratulation to Angel and her accomplishments! Read more about it here!
“Jennifer Chun, associate professor of Asian American studies and member of the UCLA International Institute’s teaching faculty, brings an interesting perspective and skill set to her work as a scholar: the methodological training of a sociologist, deep knowledge of the U.S. and South Korean labor movements and significant experience in Asian American community organizing.
A labor scholar who looks at both ends of the Asian American equation — labor organizing in South Korea and elsewhere in Asia, and labor organizing in Asian American immigrant communities — Chun employs an approach that examines how labor, gender, race, class and migration intersect in today’s global economy.
Chun’s interest in the South Korean labor movement and how it was addressing the challenges of precarious employment as a graduate student at Berkeley. That interest soon prompted a curiosity about the U.S. labor movement and how it was dealing with the challenges of a global neoliberal age. She soon became actively involved in the International Sociology Association, where she met international labor scholars exploring similar issues in countries across the world.
These research interests have sparked Chun’s lifelong self-education in Asian studies, starting with learning the Korean language in graduate school. While at Berkeley, Chun also plunged into Asian American community organizing, working throughout graduate school with Asian Immigrant Women Advocates in Oakland to advocate for low-income immigrant Asian women workers.
Chun’s publications include her book “Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States,” which examines how low-wage, low-education workers engaged in informal, precarious employment organized to protect their rights in South Korea and the United States. Chun continued to follow labor protests in South Korea after publishing her first book, repeatedly traveling there to interview workers and do fieldwork. Her second book, which she is currently co-writing with colleague Ju Hui Judy Han, assistant professor of gender studies, addresses the public culture of protests in South Korea.
Read the full story here on the UCLA International Institute website.”
Disclaimer: [Story taken from UCLA Newsroom]
List of Presenters, Times, and Posters
Come out and support our amazing undergraduate majors and minors as they present their research at Undergraduate Research Week!
With over 1,000 undergraduates participating in Research Poster Day on May 21st and over 100 giving oral presentations throughout the week, I hope you will be able to join us in celebrating the impressive range of undergraduate inquiry and initiative taking place at UCLA.
Undergraduate Research Week events are open to the entire campus community and general public. A complete event schedule can be found at: http://urweek.ugresearch.ucla.edu/.
Thank you to all of you who have mentored and seen our undergraduates through this process!
WHAT: The release of filmmaker Kulap Vilaysack’s award-winning documentary, Origin Story
WHEN: Friday, May 10th
WHERE: Exclusively on Amazon TVOD and theatrically at the Arena Cinelounge in Hollywood May 10-17
DETAILS: When Kulap Vilaysack was 14 years old, she took her father’s side in an argument and her mother replied, “Why are you defending him? He’s not your real dad.” Twenty years later, she’s finally ready to explore what that means.
Kulap’s raw and emotional documentary will roll out on Amazon SVOD exclusively starting May 10th. In mid-June, the film will be available on Google Play, followed by iTunes, Vudu, Xbox and TubiTV.
CONTACT: teamsechel@sechelpr.com
Faculty project for UCLA Center for EthnoCommunications called Building History 3.0 which uses Minecraft to teach about the historic meaning of WWII Japanese American incarceration camps. Currently, we are working on developing our social media and increase our audience/followers.
Facebook: Building History 3.0 Project
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Asian American Activism
An Activist-Scholar Symposium
January 24-25, 2019 at UC Santa Barbara
This symposium brings together some of the most important Asian American community organizers and activist-scholars to discuss various aspects of Asian American grassroots activism today, including immigrant rights, environmental justice, labor, housing, education, prisons, state violence, intersectional racialized gender and heteropatriarchy, and international solidarity work.
Keynote Speaker:Pam Tau Lee
The Struggle to Abolish Environmental Racism: Asian Radical Imaginings from the Homeland to our Frontlines
Thursday, January 24, 2019, 6 PM, UCSB MultiCultural Center
Rooted in 50 years of Asian American radical activism and environmental justice organizing, Pam Tau Lee addresses the question, “Can an Asian radical perspective contribute toward achieving environmental justice?” Pam Lee is a founding member of the Chinese Progressive Association, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, and Just Transition Alliance.
Asian American Activism Symposium
Friday, January 25, 2019, 11 AM – 3 PM, UCSB MultiCultural Center
For updates, livestream, and to participate virtually, visit: http://tinyurl.com/APIActivism2019
For more information, see http://www.asamst.ucsb.edu/ or contact Professor Diane Fujino of UCSB at fujino@ucsb.edu or Professor Robyn Rodriguez of UC Davis at rrodriguez@ucdavis.edu.
Hosted by the UCSB Department of Asian American Studies, UC Davis Department of Asian American Studies, and UCLA Asian American Studies Center. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Research Institute; UC Davis Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies; from UCSB: Center for Black Studies Research, Office of the Dean of Social Sciences, Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, MultiCultural Center, Global Environmental Justice Project, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and Nikkei Student Union; Fund for Santa Barbara.
Commemorating 50 Years of Asian American Studies
UC Santa Barbara | UC Davis | UCLA
12.12.18
Contemporary Asian American Activism and Intergenerational Perspectives:
An Activist-Scholar Symposium
January 24-25, 2019 at UC Santa Barbara
Call for Papers
Sinophone Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Critical Reflections
April 12-13, 2019
University of California, Los Angeles
Organized by Professor Shu-mei Shih (UCLA)
Deadline: December 1, 2018
Website: http://international.ucla.edu/apc/article/197181
Since the initial conceptualization of Sinophone studies over a decade ago as a field that examines Sinitic-language cultures and communities marked by difference and heterogeneity around the world, scholarly work in the field has become more and more interdisciplinary, involving not only literary and cinema studies, but also history, anthropology, musicology, linguistics, art history, dance, and others. Now we routinely see “Sinophone” as a specific marker with multiple implications that are no longer merely denotative, enabling, on the one hand, marginalized voices, sites, and practices to come into view, and, on the other hand, an expanded conversation with such fields as postcolonial studies, settler colonial studies, immigration studies, ethnic studies, queer studies, and area studies. There have been vibrant debates at the definitional and conceptual level about critical issues and standpoints, such as the pros and cons of the diasporic framework (diaspora as history versus diaspora as value), the difficulty of overcoming Chineseness, the strength and pitfalls of language-determined identities, imperial and anti-imperial politics, racialization and self-determination of minority peoples, place-based cultural practices, the dialectics between roots and routes, and many others, and presently, scholars in disciplines other than literary and cinema studies have begun to join these conversations. The increasingly interdisciplinary nature of Sinophone studies compels us to take stock, at this particular historical conjuncture, of where this inherently interdisciplinary field has been, where it is going, and where it might go in the future.
The conference calls for paper proposals that engage with the broad contours of Sinophone studies as described above with the aim of gathering selected conference papers into a new reader entitled Sinophone Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader, after the 2013 volume, Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader (Columbia UP). The 2013 volume was largely limited to literary and cultural studies, and the current volume in preparation will give preference to disciplines that are not yet represented in the 2013 volume as well as more conceptual and theoretical essays that elaborate upon Sinophone studies as an interdisciplinary field and the ways in which Sinophone studies has reframed existing discussions and challenged specific centrisms and boundaries.
Please send your paper proposal of no more than 300 words to Kunxian Shen at cw070145@gmail.com by December 1, 2018. Notifications of proposal acceptance will be sent by December 15 to allow presenters time to apply for travel funding. Full papers are expected for delivery at the conference. The conference organizers will provide lodging, refreshments, and some meals, but will not be able to cover travel expenses. Conference registration is free.
For more information, please review the following: https://asianam.ucla.edu/graduate-study/admissions/
September 2017: Inaugural Ethnic & Indigenous Studies Welcome held on the Hill
