Graduate Writing Workshop on Anti-Asian Violence CFP! Deadline December 15th for abstracts. To submit and for more information please visit: https://tinyurl.com/aav-grad-workshop

Join us for the 2024 Winter Check-in brought to you by the Asian American Studies Department Undergraduate Leadership Committee! We'll have free food, a raffle for prizes, and good company. Hear about our Spring and Summer Sessions course offerings and talk with faculty. RSVP here or through http://tinyurl.com/AASDW24Checkin.  We hope to see you there!

Please join us on Sunday, March 3rd at the West LA Buddhist Temple for a Book Talk and Signing with author Tritia Toyota for her b! RSVP with the QR or through this link. Read below for more on Tritia Toyota and the discussants for the event: Book: Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary […]

Please join us in welcoming writer and performance artist Susan Lieu, who will read from her new book, The Manicurist's Daughter--an emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery.  The Manicurist’s Daughter is much more than a memoir about grief, […]

Join the UCLA Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group in discussing Margaret Lee’s newest book Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History. Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History is a poignant memoir by journalist Margaret Juhae Lee, who sets out on a search for her family’s history lost to the darkness of Korea’s colonial decades, and contends […]

Ticket reservations are required. Doors open at 5:30PM. Concert will start at 6PM. Please bring a blanket to sit in the grass area to enjoy the live concert! No-No Boy is an immersive concert experience that illuminates hidden Asian American histories through folk songs, sound pieces, live projections, and storytelling. NPR Music has hailed it […]

No-No Boy illuminates hidden Asian American histories through folk songs, sound pieces, live projections, and storytelling. NPR Music has hailed it as “one of the most insurgent pieces of music you’ll ever hear which re-examines americana with devastating effect... An act of revisionist subversion.” Taking inspiration from his own family’s history living through the Vietnam […]

Come on out to our first event of the school year, the Asian American Studies Department Open House! Free food and drinks will be provided. This is a great opportunity to make new friends, meet the AASD staff, or mingle with your professors. Join us on Wednesday, September 25th between 12-2pm at Rolfe Hall 3333. […]

Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with a panel of Asian American & Pacific Islander labor leaders from West LA building the workers’ movement and resisting repression, attacks on migrants, and fighting for justice. In conjunction with ASIAN AM / LBR STD M119XP - “Asian american and pacific islander labor issues” with Dr. Chun at UCLA. When: […]

In Cambodia, May 20th is observed as the National Day of Remembrance—a solemn tribute to the victims and survivors of the Cambodian Genocide under the Khmer Rouge regime. The United Khmer Students at UCLA invite students, alumni, and members of the Khmunity to join us in honoring this day at our annual Cambodian Genocide Remembrance […]

An Asian American Writer’s Notebook: Past, Present, and Future Tense Join us for the David Nishida and Tina Yamano Nishida Distinguished Lecture and Panel featuring keynote speaker Helen Zia, activist, journalist and author, who will be in conversation with Julie Ha, Journalist & co-director of “Free Chol Soo Lee” documentary and Amber Phung, Journalist with […]