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We are excited to welcome Lisa Uperesa for our upc

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!

When: April 10th, 2023 📆
Where: Rolfe Hall 2125 📍
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM 🕛

#ucla #pacificislanderstudies #aasd #researchtalks #uclaresearch

We are excited to welcome Professor Kēhaulani Vau

We are excited to welcome Professor Kēhaulani Vaughn for our next Pacific Islander Studies Research Talk! Her talk is entitled, "Moompetam: Trans-Indigenous Recognitions and Futurities."

When: April 3rd, 2023
Where: Rolfe Hall 2125
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

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Interested in Filipinx American Studies? Attend th

Interested in Filipinx American Studies? Attend this AAAS roundtable talk, Never Forget: Filipinx Americans and the Anti-Martial Law Movement, featuring our very own Karen Umemoto and Lucy Burns, along with other amazing scholars and thinkers within the field. Visit our website via link in bio to register.

Event Description: Throughout Ferdinand Marcos’s 21-year reign over the Philippines, resistance movements took shape, continued, and developed alongside and against the regime. While these movements formed in opposition to the brutality of Marcos’s rule (tortures, disappearances, and killings; political corruption and crony capitalism; censorship of the press; support for and advancement of imperialist programs), they also functioned as a network of political organizing that struggled against the long legacy of colonialism and racial capitalism.

This roundtable focuses on understanding the anti-martial law movements to discuss historical revisionism, knowledge formation, and Filipinx American political organizing. This session also introduces an upcoming online exhibit of rare posters from the transnational movement against Marcos's martial law, part of the ongoing archival process led by the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA. The collection of posters and materials were collected throughout the 1970s and 1980s as part of anti-martial law political work in Los Angeles and California and transnationally in the Philippines.

Roundtable members include Xenia Tupas (Human rights activist and Migrante Los Angeles), Cathy Miraballes (Migrante Los Angeles), Joy Sales (Cal State LA, Malaya Movement Los Angeles), Josen Diaz (University of San Diego), with Karen Umemoto (Asian American Studies Center, UCLA). Moderated by Lucy Burns (UCLA).

Join us this Friday, March 24th, for our next Paci

Join us this Friday, March 24th, for our next Pacific Islander Studies Research Talk, featuring Professor Alfred Flores!

When: March 24th, 2023
Where: Rolfe Hall 2125
Time: 2 PM - 3:30 PM

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Please join us for the virtual UCLA Book Launch fo

Please join us for the virtual UCLA Book Launch for The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives! The 38 chapters included in this collection encompass a range of forcibly displaced subjects, a mix of geographical and historical contexts, and a variety of storytelling modalities. This book launch will feature presentations from 8 of the volume's authors.

Check out the QR codes on the flyer for the Zoom registration info and open-access volume link!

This event is sponsored by the Asian American Studies Department, the Asian American Studies Center, the Center for Near Eastern Studies, the Center for the Study of International Migration, the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, the Asia Pacific Center, and the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Culture. Thank you to all of our sponsors!

Please join Professor Yu Tokunaga and Chao Romero

Please join Professor Yu Tokunaga and Chao Romero in their book talk on the new book "Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations" 📖 and his student workshop right after! 🗣Learn about new and interesting things in YRL, but make sure to RSVP before March 24th!

Where: Young Research Library (YRL) Presentation Room 📍
When: April 5th, 2023 📆
Book Talk- 12pm 🕘
Student Workshop 3-4pm 🕘
RVSP before March 24th: bit.ly/3HT82XI

#aasd #uclaassianamericanstudies #uclachicanostudiesresearchcenter #uclaasianamericanstudiescenter #uclacentralamericanstudies #uclahistory #uclacenterformexicanstudies #sugharaproject #booktalk #workshop #ucla

Who's ready for this series of research talks?!🤩 First up is Dr. Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar's presentation on Settler Colonial Science and Kanaka ʻŌiwi Resistance at Mauna a Wākea. Learn more about decolonization, self-determination, and so much more! Come to ask him about his past research on social movements in and beyond Hawai'i!

Stay tuned for more on this series of research talks on our Instagram, Facebook and website (relaunch coming soon 👀)

When: March 13th 2023 📅
Where: Rolfe Hall 2125 📍
Time: 2pm- 3:30pm 🕑

#ucla #asianamerican #asianamericanstudiesdepartment #aasd #pacificislanderstudies #uclaresearch #researchtalks

Have space in your schedule for one more course or

Have space in your schedule for one more course or even 1 more unit? 🤔 Enroll in ASIA AM 88S - Oceanic Filipinx Studies: Currents of Anticolonial and Abolitionist Future in Hawai’i (Wednesdays 12-12:50pm in Kaufman Hall 153) for Spring 2023! ☀️🌊

This 1-unit, Pass/No Pass that meets once a week will dive into Filipinx-American history and culture in settler occupied Hawai’i, particularly focusing on issues of US empire and colonization in the Philippines and in diaspora through an oceanic approach. Read more about the class in the flyer above and in the Class Planner on MyUCLA.

If you have any questions about enrollment, please schedule an appointment with our Interim Academic Advisor Dean Dacumos. If you have any questions about the course content, please do not hesitate to reach out to the instructor Sean Sugai @seaanathan

If you're interested in learning about the reclama

If you're interested in learning about the reclamation of foodways as a form of empowerment, identity, and community building for Asian Americans, enroll in AAS187B for Spring 2023!

For AAS Minors, this course will count towards either the Diversity or Multidisciplinary Approaches Upper Div requirements. If you have questions about enrollment or class planning, schedule an appointment with our academic advisor today!

All smiles at this grad check in! 😁🥳 Thank y

All smiles at this grad check in! 😁🥳 Thank you for coming and enjoying the food!! 🍽️

Stay tuned for more👀

#ucla #uclaaasd #uclagradstudents #asianamericanstudies

Interested in Asian American and Pacific Islander

Interested in Asian American and Pacific Islander Labor Issues? Take Asian Am M119 in Spring 2023! Students will have the opportunity to get hands-on learning experience working with labor and community orgs in Los Angeles.

Enroll through MyUCLA today! If you have any questions about enrollment or class planning, please schedule an appointment with our Academic Advisor. More information is available on our website.

Interested in developing your Vietnamese language

Interested in developing your Vietnamese language skills to bridge cultural barriers in the healthcare system?

Sign up for AAS 97: Vietnamese Medical Terminology (Wednesdays 5-5:50PM in Rolfe 3116) for Spring 2023! Enroll on MyUCLA today!

If you have any questions about enrollment or class planning, schedule an appointment with our Interim Academic Advisor Dean Dacumos.

Winter Undergrad Check-In was a success 🤩! Than

Winter Undergrad Check-In was a success 🤩! Thank you to everyone who stopped by, we hope you enjoyed the food and conversation.

We'll see you at our Spring Quarter Check-in, so stay tuned for more details soon!

#ucla #uclaaasd #undergradcheckin #aasdulc #asianamericanstudies

Looking for classes to take this summer? Then swip

Looking for classes to take this summer? Then swipe through for the Asian American Studies Department’s course offerings for Summer Sessions 2023!

Enrollment for Summer Sessions is now open as of February 1st for UCLA students on MyUCLA. Reach out to the AASD Academic Advisor if you have any questions about enrolling or declaring the Major/Minor.

Want to learn more about race and environmental ju

Want to learn more about race and environmental justice in LA? Come to this event with Professor Kim from Loyola Marymount University to talk about the book "Refusing Death"! 📚Dive deep into discussions of race, class, gender, and more!

When: March 1st, 2023📆
Time: 3:30-5 PM (reception 5-6PM)🕐
Where: Bunche Hall/ Zoom📍
RSVP for Webinar at: bit.ly/Kim-Webinar Event
RSVP for Reception: bit.ly/Kim-Reception

Film screening ALERT!🚨🎥 Come to this screen

Film screening ALERT!🚨🎥

Come to this screening of award winning documentary Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust! Learn the story of how these women came together to protect their land and water in LA. Support this amazing documentary!🎬

When: February 13th, 2023 📆
Time: 6-9pm 🕦
Where: James Bridges Theater 📍
Register at: https://tinyurl.com/mrysahfh or use QR code

Want to learn more about Vietnamese/Vietnamese Ame

Want to learn more about Vietnamese/Vietnamese American Studies? 🇻🇳Love reading books? 📚Interested in learning from a great panel? Go to this book talk panel discussing Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920-1963 and
Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies: History, Community, and Memory!
🗓Save the date: March 9th, 5-6:15pm
📍UCLA MS4000A

This event is in collaboration with:
UCLA Asian American Studies,
UCLA Asian American Studies Center,
& Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Want to meet great Asian American/Pilipino Studies

Want to meet great Asian American/Pilipino Studies faculty & friends📚 ? Want free food and drinks🍽🥤? To test your luck on a raffle🍀?

Then come on down to our Winter Check-In ❄⛄ where you can do all three! The Asian American and Pilipino Studies Departments are hosting this Winter Check-In❄⛄ for everyone! Come meet friends, grab some Pilipino lunch, and RSVP for some FREE prizes from our raffle!👀🎉 🎟

The event will be in Rolfe Hall, room 2125 on January 25th, from 12-2pm. Please RSVP before then using the link: tinyurl.com/aasdwinter23
See you soon!

Prizes include:
- Weighted blanket 🔩
- Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner📙
- A "Coffee Before Talkie" mug☕

The Academic Senate Faculty of the Asian American

The Academic Senate Faculty of the Asian American Studies Department’s Strike Solidarity Statement on Grading

December 14, 2022

Interested in South Asian and South Asian American

Interested in South Asian and South Asian American Studies? Enroll in AAS 187C: South Asian American Communities for the Winter 2023 quarter!
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Upcoming events

Never Forget: Filipinx Americans and the Anti-Martial Law Movement: A roundtable session for the 2023 Asian American Studies Conference

March 31 @ 11:45 am - 1:15 pm

Pacific Islander Studies Research Talk Series: Moompetam: Trans-Indigenous Recognitions and Futurities

April 3 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am2125 Rolfe Hall

Book Talk: “Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations”

April 5 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pmCharles E. Young Research Library

Past Events

Graduate Student Speaker at 2022 Commencement

Graduate Students at Winter ’23 Undergraduate Check-in

Graduate Students at 2022 Commencement

Students at Winter ’23 Undergraduate Check-in

Undergraduate Leadership Members at the 2022 Commencement

Student at Winter ’23 Undergraduate Check-in

Faculty and Keynote Speaker on Stage at 2022 Commencement

Students at Fall ’22 Undergraduate Check-in

Turning of the Tassels at 2022 Commencement

MA Orientation 2022

Department Faculty/Lecturers and Keynote Speaker Sefa Aina at 2022 Commencement

Students at Graduate Check-in Winter ’23

AAS 30W Guest Speaker Spring ’22

Students at Graduate Check-in Winter ’23

Audience at 2022 Commencement

Keynote Speaker Sefa Aina at 2022 Commencement