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.
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.
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 […]
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!
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 […]
