Undergraduate Check-In Fall 2020: Wine, Whine, and Unwind

Bring your favorite wine and besties as you embark on an interactive and informative journey to “escape” UCLA together with staff and faculty from the Asian American Studies Department! The fastest group to escape wins mystery giftcards!   Come hang out with us and other Asian American Studies Major/Minor Peers! You don't have to be […]

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Pandemics and Vulnerable Communities

This event is sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, the UCLA Asian American Studies Department, the Carlos Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies. With support from the UCLA Center for the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. RSVP here

UCLA Institute of American Cultures Fall Forum

You are invited to the UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC) Annual Fall Forum, featuring the 2020–21 IAC visiting researchers and scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees at UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers. Scholars representing the four centers will talk about their research and goals. Featuring: Nicholas Barron, PhD, Associate Faculty of […]

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LA Rising: Book Talk by Professor Kyeyoung Park

The Department of Anthropology's colloquium series, "Culture, Power, and Social Change (CPSC)," is hosting a book talk by Professor Kyeyoung Park. Co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Center and the Asian American Studies Department.  Please refer to Zoom link here.

Asian American Solidarity from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter

"Asian American Solidarity from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter" November 20, Friday, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm RSVP  to https://asianamactivists.eventbrite.com for Zoom webinar info Speakers are Ed Nakawatase, Marion Kwan, Kabzuag Vaj              Speakers: Ed Nakawatase worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta, Georgia from 1963-64. He then went […]

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Winter 2021: Undergraduate Check-In

Declaring your major or minor can be kind of anti-climactic. New and old majors alike, come celebrate it with us! Clear out your schedules-- majors and minors old and new come join us January 19th, 2021 to “renew your vows” as an Asian Am major/minor. It was rough in 2020 but we want to start […]

Imagining the Political: Vernacular Idioms of Sexuality in India

Online via Zoom

Professor Navaneetha Mokkil, the Center for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, will discuss her new book, Unruly Figures which navigates the pulsating links between subjectivity, political activism and the world-making capacity of cultural practices in a non-metropolitan region in India. It focuses on the non-linear figurations of the sex worker and the lesbian in Kerala, […]

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S’21 Undergraduate Check-In: Spring Forward

Online via Zoom

Join us for our quarterly Asian American Studies Undergraduate Check-In! "Spring Forward" will be an evening focused on moving forward through the guidance of the Asian Am Department's faculty and mentors. Resources to help you develop your academic, research, and career endeavors will be discussed! Don't miss out! RSVP to receive a link to the […]

Department of Anthropology’s “Culture, Power and Social Change” Colloquium

Professor Jennifer Chun, a faculty member in the Department of Asian American Studies and the International Institute at UCLA, will be guest speaking at this event. She will be covering the study of protests and how they call attention to rare events that have changed the course of history. She argues that " the challenges […]

A Book Talk By Joyce Mariano

Join Professor Mariano in a talk inspired by her book, “Giving Back: Filipino America and the Politics of Diaspora Giving.”  The book explores transnational giving practices as political objects that shape the Filipino diaspora. "Giving Back shows how integral this system is for understanding Filipino diaspora formation. The book “follows the money” to investigate the […]