UCLA Asian American Studies Department

Launch of Never Forget Online Exhibition
2023-06-06 12:30 - 13:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Please join us for the launch of Never Forget, an online exhibition of archival posters and oral histories from the transnational movement against martial law in the Philippines! Make sure to register for the event at neverforgetposters.eventbrite.com or through this link!
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org.

Beyond the Anti-US Base Movement: How the Corals of the Jeju Eco-Peace Movement Resist the Nations
2023-05-22 16:00 - 17:30 | 10383 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Join the UCLA Center for Korean Studies on May 22 at 4PM in 10383 Bunche Hall to learn about how feminist, eco-peace movements are reshaping the politics of antimilitarist and anti-US base movements in Jeju Island (South Korea) and its connections with movements across the islands of the Pacific. Our speaker, Hyeayoung Choi, is a long-time feminist-peace activist and artist-scholar based in Jeju, currently finishing her PhD in Sociology at Jeju National University, and she will share her experiences organizing in the Jeju town of Gangjeong, a key site of militarization resistance of the Korean peninsula and the Asia Pacific region.

Airing History: Pilipino Workers Center Timeline Installation
2023-05-20 10:00 - 16:00 | Pilipino Workers Center, 153 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, 90026, United States
Participants will:

take a tour of Historic Filipinotown led by Pilipino Workers Center staff Hannah De Castro-Abinuman
meet PWC staff and learn about their current campaigns including domestic workers’ rights education and advocacy
work with artist Tala Mateo to install a timeline in the PWC office.

Please make sure to RSVP. The first 15 students to sign up will receive a transportation stipend which will be disbursed after May 20th.
The deadline to RSVP is Thursday, May 18th 5 p.m.
All participants must sign a waiver form. Please contact Professor Burns at lmburns@g.ucla.edu.

Workshop for UCLA AASD Fulbright Scholar Nguyễn Thị Minh
2023-05-18 14:00 - 15:30 | 2125 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
During this workshop, participants will give feedback on Nguyễn Thị Minh’s paper entitled “Women’s Love in Antigone by Sophocles and The Tale of Kiều by Nguyễn Du.” The paper will be circulated one week in advance. Engaging feminist scholarship, the paper critiques how Antigone has previously been read within a Eurocentric frame and masculine model of subjectivity while Kiều has been positioned within a male-centered interpretive history in both Vietnam and the US. While Antigone is seen as “the hope” of feminism (Bonnie Honig 2013, 36) and “the occasion for a new field of human” (Judith Butler 2000, 82), Kiều’s story is viewed as conveying “a message of hope” for both the individual and the country of Vietnam (Huynh Sanh Thong 1983). Drawing on feminist philosophical reflections on love and utilizing the perspectives of women thinkers such as Maria Lugones, bell hooks, and Trinh Thi Minh-ha, the paper analyzes the possibilities of women’s love evoked by the figures of Kiều and Antigone in the two works. Highlighting the experiences of harmonious subjects who are moving beyond the private realm into the public sphere, these works offer new potentials for resistance and reflections on love. From this, the paper proposes a direction towards a “harmonious feminism” as an alternative projection for the future of feminism.

Nguyễn Thị Minh, a Fulbright research scholar in the Asian American Studies Department, UCLA, is a tenured lecturer in the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature Studies, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education. Her main research interests are comparative literature, film adaptation, gender studies, and semiotics. She is at the forefront of initiatives to cultivate Gender Studies in Vietnam, and to that end has worked with the Vietnam’s Women Publishing House to build the “Women’s Book: Gender and Development” series. This series critically addresses women’s history and gender inequities, advancing a feminist agenda amidst Vietnam’s current socioeconomic development. She is also a translator, co-translator, and editor of many classical book translations in philosophy, gender, and cultural studies. She translated Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt (Knowledge Publishing House, 2020); History of Philosophy, Volume 2 by Johannes Hirschberger (co-translation, Knowledge Publishing House, 2020); Antigone’s Claim by Judith Butler (Vietnam Women’s Publishing House, 2021); A History of the Breast by Marilyn Yalom (Vietnam Women’s Publishing House, 2022); and Key Concepts in Gender Studies by Jane Pilcher and Imelda Whelehan (Vietnam Women’s Publishing House, 2022). She has also edited and annotated Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler (Vietnam Women’s Publishing House, 2022). She won the Best Translated Book Award in Vietnam in 2022 for Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt. Regarding community services, she is the co-founder of The Ladder, a community learning space where academic knowledge is shared and made more accessible for everyone, especially the youth in Vietnam.

Another Land in the Sky
2023-05-15 17:00 - 19:00 | Northwest Campus Auditorium, 350 De Neve Dr., Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
In collaboration with the UCLA Asian Pacific Coalition, we present: Another Land in the Sky! Join us on May 15th, from 5-7PM at the Northwest Campus Auditorium for a night of powerful art and community building with @jessxsnow and @treyalam. Experience live poetry, music, and cinema that will take you on a journey through Asian American resistance and the healing of collective trauma.

Free food and drinks will be provided after the show!

RSVP at tinyurl.com/2023alits or click here.

Book Talk - "Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the 'American Dream'"
2023-05-10 17:00 - 18:30 | Haines Hall Room 220
Please join us Wed, May 10th for this book talk on “Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the ‘American Dream.'”

Information from the flyer:
“Beginning with the early development of LA’s Koreatown and culminating with the 1992 Los Angeles riots and their aftermath, Lee demonstrates how Korean Americans’ lives were shaped by patters of racial segregation and urban poverty, and legacies of anti-Asian racism and orientalism. Koreatown, Los Angeles tells the story of an American ethnic community often equated with socioeconomic achievement and assimilation, but whose experiences as racial minorities and immigrant outsiders illuminate key economic and cultural developments in the United States since 1965.”

Spring Fling: Angela Peñaredondo's "nature felt but never apprehended" Book Celebration
2023-05-09 12:30 - 14:00 | Haines Hall 110
Celebrate poet Angela Peñaredondo’s new poetry book–nature felt but never apprehended

Nothing Follows: A Poetry Reading and Conversation with Dr. Lan Duong
2023-05-08 15:30 - 17:00 | Royce Hall 156, 10745 Dickson Ct., Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Dr. Lan Duong will read from Nothing Follows, a collection of poetry that traces her family’s arrival to the U.S. in 1975. It narrates their resettlement as they move from Pennsylvania to California during Silicon Valley’s high-tech boom. With each city and street that the poems crisscross, the girl and those around her experience racism, objectification, and sexual violence. In marking the places that she has been, her stories map out the coordinates of a refugee girlhood, one that is spiked with brutality, joy, and longing all the same. Intermixing memoir and poetry, Nothing Follows is an accounting of everything that follows in the wake of war. UCLA Bookstore will sell books at the event.
Lan Duong is Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. Her poetry has appeared in the journals Oberon and Spoon River Review as well as the anthologies Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose and Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing. Her debut collection of poetry, Nothing Follows, is published by Texas Tech UP.

Spring Undergraduate Check-in
2023-04-28 13:00 - 15:00 | Charles E. Young Research Library Main Conference Room, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Please join us on Friday, April 28th from 1-3PM in the YRL Main Conference Room for this quarter’s undergraduate check-in! It’ll be a fun day of activities (including scrapbooking, mahjong, and coloring), food, and good conversation.

RSVP today at tinyurl.com/AASDSpring2023!

Alumni Career Panel
2023-04-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Online via Zoom
Join us on April 26th 6-7:30PM on zoom for our Alumni Career Panel! You will have the opportunity to learn about the different career pathways that Asian American Studies alumni have taken themselves and be entered for a chance to win one of three Squishmallows in our raffle.

RSVP now at tinyurl.com/AASDAlumniPanel

Panelists include:

Lotay Yang | CEO, Investment Management
Trung Nguyen | AAS Professor at San Jose State
Lawrence Lipana | Anesthesiologist
Erica Yamamura | Consultant, Professor
Brian Kohaya | Master in Urban and Regional Planning

RSVP as soon as you can here or on tinyurl.com/AASDAlumniPanel.

Research Talk Series: "Mapping Decolonized Futures: Indigenous Visions for Palestine and Hawai'i"
2023-04-14 14:00 - 15:30 | 2125 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Joining us in another installation of our Research Talk Series is Dr. Nour Joudah, who will be talking about her research on “Mapping Decolonized Futures: Indigenous Visions for Palestine and Hawai’i.” Please refer to the flyer for more details.

Pacific Islander Studies Research Talk Series: Pacific Cultural Performance and Social Media as ‘Digital Malae’
2023-04-10 14:30 - 16:00 | 2125 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
We are excited to welcome Lisa Uperesa for our upcoming Pacific Islander Studies Research Talk! Her talk is entitled, “Pacific Cultural Performance and Social Media as ‘Digital Malae’”. Come and listen to her talk on April 10th! See flyer below for more information.

Student Workshop: "Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations"
2023-04-05 15:00 - 16:00 | Charles E. Young Research Library, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Please join Professor Yu Tokunaga and Chao Romero in their book talk on the new book “Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations” 📖 and his student workshop right after! 🗣Learn about new and interesting things in YRL, but make sure to RSVP before March 24th!
Where: Young Research Library (YRL) Presentation Room 📍
When: April 5th, 2023 📆
Book Talk- 12pm 🕘
Student Workshop 3-4pm 🕘
RVSP before March 24th: bit.ly/3HT82XI

Book Talk: "Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations"
2023-04-05 12:00 - 15:00 | Charles E. Young Research Library, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Pacific Islander Studies Research Talk Series: Moompetam: Trans-Indigenous Recognitions and Futurities
2023-04-03 10:00 - 11:30 | 2125 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
We are excited to welcome Professor Kēhaulani Vaughn for our next Pacific Islander Studies Research Talk! Her talk is entitled, “Moompetam: Trans-Indigenous Recognitions and Futurities.” See the flyer below for more information!

Never Forget: Filipinx Americans and the Anti-Martial Law Movement: A roundtable session for the 2023 Asian American Studies Conference
2023-03-31 11:45 - 13:15 | CA
Throughout Ferdinand Marcos’s 21-year reign over the Philippines, resistance movements took shape, continued, and developed alongside and against the regime. While these movements formed in opposition to the brutality of Marcos’s rule (tortures, disappearances, and killings; political corruption and crony capitalism; censorship of the press; support for and advancement of imperialist programs), they also functioned as a network of political organizing that struggled against the long legacy of colonialism and racial capitalism.
This roundtable focuses on understanding the anti-martial law movements to discuss historical revisionism, knowledge formation, and Filipinx American political organizing. This session also introduces an upcoming online exhibit of rare posters from the transnational movement against Marcos’s martial law, part of the ongoing archival process led by the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA. The collection of posters and materials were collected throughout the 1970s and 1980s as part of anti-martial law political work in Los Angeles and California and transnationally in the Philippines.
Roundtable members include Xenia Tupas (Human rights activist and Migrante Los Angeles), Cathy Miraballes (Migrante Los Angeles), Joy Sales (Cal State LA, Malaya Movement Los Angeles), Josen Diaz (University of San Diego), with Karen Umemoto (Asian American Studies Center, UCLA). Moderated by Lucy Burns (UCLA).

U.S. Settler Militarism and CHamoru Survival in Guåhan
2023-03-24 14:00 - 15:30 | 2125 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
The UCLA Asian American Studies Department will be hosting our second Pacific Islander Studies Research Talk by Dr. Alfred Flores:

In 1944 the US military began occupying privately owned land throughout Guåhan as part of its reinvasion strategy. The US government facilitated this process through the creation of the Land and Claims Commission (GLCC), which accelerated and legitimated the military’s condemning of these lands during World War II and the Cold War. Together, the GLCC, the “liberation” of Guåhan narrative, and the Organic Act of 1950 enabled a process of US settler militarism that resulted in the US military’s occupation of approximately 50% of all land on the island in the early 1950s. Despite these draconian policies, CHamoru land stewardship persisted through the låncho (ranch) and other forms of survival that challenged US military occupation.
Alfred Peredo Flores is an assistant professor in the Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at Harvey Mudd College. He received his Ph.D. in History from UCLA, his M.A. and B.A. degrees in Public History and History from UCR, and an A.A. degree in Liberal Arts from College of the Desert. His research and teaching focuses on Pacific Islander Studies with an emphasis in diaspora, indigeneity, labor, militarization, oral history, and settler colonialism in Micronesia. Dr. Flores’ research has appeared in Amerasia Journal, American Quarterly, Critical Ethic Studies Journal, Brill, and Oxford University Press. His forthcoming book titled, Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944-1962 (Cornell University Press), will be released in September 2023.

Book Launch for "The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives"
2023-03-16 12:30 - 13:45 | Online via Zoom
Please join us for the virtual UCLA Book Launch for The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives! The 38 chapters included in this collection encompass a range of forcibly displaced subjects, a mix of geographical and historical contexts, and a variety of storytelling modalities. This book launch will feature presentations from 8 of the volume’s authors.

Check out the QR codes on the flyer for the Zoom registration info and open-access volume link! Alternatively, you can visit https://tinyurl.com/RoutledgeHandbookRegistration to register and https://tinyurl.com/ReadtheHandbook to read.

First Light: Settler Colonial Science and Kanaka ʻŌiwi Resistance at Mauna a Wākea
2023-03-13 14:00 - 15:30 | 2125 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Who’s ready for this series of research talks?!🤩 First up is Dr. Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar’s presentation on Settler Colonial Science and Kanaka ʻŌiwi Resistance at Mauna a Wākea. Learn more about decolonization, self-determination, and so much more! Come to ask him about his past research on social movements in and beyond Hawai’i!
Stay tuned for more on this series of research talks on our Instagram, Facebook and website (relaunch coming soon 👀)
When: March 13th 2023 📅
Where: Rolfe Hall 2125 📍
Time: 2pm- 3:30pm 🕑

New Directions in Vietnamese/American Studies Book Panel
2023-03-09 17:00 - 18:15 | CA
Join us for this upcoming book talk panel that will engage new directions in Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Studies! It will discuss two recent edited volumes: Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920-1963 (2022) and Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies: History, Community, and Memory (2023).

Panelists include: Nguyễn Thị Minh, Thuy Vo Dang, Tuong Vu, Cindy Nguyen, Hoang Phong Tuan, and Alex-Thai Vo.

"Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight For Justice in LA"
2023-03-01 15:30 - 17:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Want to learn more about race and environmental justice in LA? Come to this event with Professor Kim from Loyola Marymount University to talk about the book “Refusing Death”! Dive deep into discussions of race, class, gender, and more!

When: March 1st, 2023
Time: 3:30-5 PM (reception 5-6PM)
Where: Bunche Hall/ Zoom
RSVP for Webinar at: bit.ly/Kim-Webinar Event
RSVP for Reception: bit.ly/Kim-Reception

MANZANAR, DIVERTED: When Water Becomes Dust Film Screening
2023-02-13 18:00 - 21:00 | James Bridges Theater, 235 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Film screening ALERT!🚨🎥
Come to this screening of award winning documentary Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust! Learn the story of how these women came together to protect their land and water in LA. Support this amazing documentary!🎬
When: February 13th, 2023 📆
Time: 6-9pm 🕦
Where: James Bridges Theater 📍
Register at: https://tinyurl.com/mrysahfh or use QR code

Winter 2023 Undergraduate Check-In
2023-01-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Rolfe 2125, 345 Portola Plaza, Room 2125, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
The Asian American Studies Department, in conjunction with the Pilipinx Studies Minor, invites you to the Winter 2023 Undergraduate Check-In on January 25th, 12PM-2PM at Rolfe 2125. This is a great opportunity to meet other Asian American Studies Majors and Minors, as well as department faculty and lecturers.
Come join us free food, drinks, and the chance to win one of these three prizes: a weighted blanket, a copy of Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H-Mart, or a “Coffee Before Talkie” mug.

RSVP at this link: Winter Check-In RSVP.

We hope to see you there!

Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game with Lisa Uperesa
2022-11-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Interested in the history of football🏈? Learn from author Lisa Uperesa as she discusses how a “Polynesian Pipeline” brought football players from American Sāmoa to Hawai’i and the mainland United States to play Gridiron Capital: his high stakes game in her book, American football became a Samoan Game.
🗓Save the date: Tuesday, November 15th, 3-5pm 📍UCLA Royce Hall, Herbert Morris Seminar Room 306 💻RSVP here: https://gridironcapital.eventbrite.com
This event is sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA Asian American Studies Department.

Death & Dying in Diaspora, a talk by Allan P. Isaac
2022-11-08 16:00 - 17:30 | CA
📚Educational Talk📚 Death & Dying in Diaspora, a talk by Allan P. Isaac
Event Date & Time: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 @ 4pm
Event Location: 10383 Bunche Hall
Event webpage & RSVP: https://www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/event/15834

"Elemental Cartographies: Mapping Winds in Indigenous Economies of Abundance in the Era of Climate Change" with Candace Fujikane
2022-11-08 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Stop by Young Research Library on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 12pm to attend the public lecture by Candace Fujikane on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 as she covers the topic, “Elemental Cartographies: Mapping Winds in Indigenous Economies of Abundance in the Era of Climate Change.”
This event is cosponsored by the UCLA Department of English, Asian American Studies, Center for the Study of Women, Center for Asian American Studies, and the Laboratory of Environmental Narrative.

The Southeast: A Curatorial Atmosphere, a talk by Dr. Patrick D. Flores
2022-11-03 12:00 - 13:30 | CA
📚Educational Talk & Giveaway🎉 The Southeast: A Curatorial Atmosphere, a talk by Dr. Patrick D. Flores
Event Date & Time: Thursday, November 3, 2022 @ 12pm noon
Event Location: 11372 Bunche Hall
Event webpage & RSVP: www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/event/15833
*Giveaways for the first five students who rsvp to the event! Prizes will be distributed after the event. Patrick Flores Southeast Asian Atmosphere November 2022

Podcasting as a Tool For Social Change
2022-10-24 11:00 - 12:00 | CA
Love listening to podcasts🎧? Interested in beginning your own🤔? Professor Sangalang’s AAS M161 class invites you Week 5 Monday, October 24th at 11am to an online Zoom talk “Podcasting as a Tool for Social Change” with creator and host, Rita Phetmixay, of “Healing Out Lao’d.”🇱🇦
RSVP by Sunday, 10/24: https://tinyurl.com/rita1024
*This event is hosted by the UCLA Asian American Studies Department and Asian American Studies Center. @ucla_aasd @uclaaasc

Asian American Studies Mentorship Program
2022-10-21 | CA
Looking for a mentor in the Asian American Studies community? Seeking advice on which courses to take and went to take them? Well you’re in luck! This year, you can sign up for our Mentorship Program and get matched with another student in the Asian Am community! The deadline to sign up is this Friday, October 21st. Visit tinyurl.co/AASDMentor22 to apply.

IAC Fall Forum 2022 – Thursday, October 20, 3-4 PM (PST) via Zoom
2022-10-20 15:00 - 16:00 | CA
You are invited to the UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC) annual Fall Forum, featuring the 2022–23 IAC visiting researchers and scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees at UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers. Featured speakers will be interviewed by faculty experts, followed by a live Q&A.

“Unsettling Domesticity: Native Women and the SF Bay Area Outing Program” by Caitlin Keliiaa, Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. Interviewer: Juliann Anesi, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies.
“Getting Away with and Getting Rid of Yellowface: Contemporary Musical Theatre and Asian Americans” by Donatella Galella, Associate Professor of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production at UC Riverside. Interviewer: Sean Metzger, Professor and Head of PhD program in Theater and Performance Studies.
“Peeling Apart Impressions: Investigating the Factors that Influence HBCU and PWI Perceptions” by Kiana Foxx, PhD Candidate, Higher Education and Organizational Change. Interviewer: Walter R. Allen, Allan Murray Cartter Chair in Higher Education, Distinguished Professor of Education, Sociology and African American Studies.
“Indigenous Blackness in the Américas: The Queer Politics of Self-Making Garifuna New York” by Paul Joseph López Oro, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Smith College. Interviewer: Maylei Blackwell, Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies.

IAC Fall Forum 2022 registration link: https://bit.ly/3SpRiu1
IAC Fall Forum Flyer
