Please join us for the screening of Susan Lieu's "140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother," on Friday, May 7, 2021, at 4:00pm (PST). Please register here for the Zoom webinar information.  Please note that while the number of registrants is not restricted, Zoom webinar capacity is capped at 500 participants.  Only the first 500 […]

Please join us for the first UC-wide, student led research colloquium for undergraduates in Asian American Studies. With support from the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Asian American Studies Department, and Asian Pacific Coalition, the colloquium will showcase research and creative projects pertaining to a topic in Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Desi Studies. The […]

Yves Tong Nguyen is a queer disabled abolitionist organizer with Red Canary Song and Survived and Punished NY. Elena Shih is the Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University and she received her PhD from the Department of Sociology, UCLA. Her forthcoming book, "Manufacturing Freedom: Trafficking Rescue, Rehabilitation, and the Slave Free […]

"Chamorus and Marshallese comprise two of the six largest Pacific Islander ethnic groups living in California and Washington. As Micronesians, they share similar cultural and historical experiences, all of which have shaped their diasporas to the continental United States. By featuring Chamoru and Marshallese activists and scholars in California and Washington, this roundtable will highlight […]

This workshop will focus on radical care in the midst of anti-Asian violence through tangible practices for self-preservation and communal healing. Recognizing the intersections of interpersonal and state violence, this workshop will also underscore the importance of abolition as a central part of the healing process for activists during these moving times. Join us for […]

Please join us for this book talk by Frank Abe where he will be discussing his book entitled, "We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration." This will take place on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, from 9:30am - 10:45am via Zoom. Please register here. Program moderator/host is Kelly N. Fong, Lecturer, ASIA AM 40: […]

Please join the Asian American Studies Department for this momentous event as we celebrate our graduating students of 2021, which will be taking place virtually via Zoom. Date: Sunday, June 13, 2021 Time: 10:30am - 12:00pm (PDT) Location: Virtual Event using Zoom

Date: Monday, September 20, 2021 Time: 11:00AM - 3:15PM Location: Online via Zoom

Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 Time: TBD Location: Online via Zoom

Vernadette Gonzalez is a Professor of American Studies and Director of the Honors Program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is the author of Empire’s Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper (2021) and Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and the Philippines (2013) and co-editor of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i (2019). Talk Abstract: How does attention to […]