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, […]
Celebrate poet Angela Peñaredondo's new poetry book--nature felt but never apprehended
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Join an interactive art-making workshop centering and building on the UCLA Asian American Studies Center's digital exhibition Never Forget: Filipinx Americans and the Philippines Anti-Martial Law Movement. Artist Mae Decena will lead an art-making process and, with scholars and activists, provide the historical and social contexts of the transnational anti-martial law movement and shed […]
Looking to meet up with old friends from your Asian Am classes, or make new ones for the upcoming year? Stop by the Asian American Studies Department Open House between 12-2PM on Wed Sept. 27 (week 0) at Rolfe 3336! Free food and drinks will be served at the event.
Join AASD and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies for the screening of Above and Below the Ground directed by Emily Hong, with a discussion to follow! This documentary follows Indigenous women activists and punk rock pastors as they lead Myanmar's first environmental movement against the construction of the Myitsone Dam. The film explores how […]
Join the Asian American Studies Department and Samahang Pilipino on December 6th for some Halo-halo while learning more about the Pilipino Studies Minor as well as how to get involved in Pilipinx for Palestine. This event is also sponsored by the Pilipino Transfer Student Partnership, Kappa Psi Epsilon, Anakbayan at UCLA, Asian Pacific Coalition, and […]
