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 […]