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UCLA Newsroom: Asian American Campus Leaders Reflect on Leadership During the Pandemic

This past year was an opportunity to become even stronger advocates…

June 2, 2021/by webteam

UCLA Newsroom: UCLA’s Pilipino Studies Minor: Imagining Community, Understanding the World

UCLA is the first University of California campus to offer a…

June 2, 2021/by webteam

Asian American Studies Research Colloquium Winners

Adjudication Document
Panel A

1st place: Emily Hong Van…

May 27, 2021/by asianamworkstudy

LA Social Science featuring Professor Paul Ong (Professor Emeritus) Discussing AAPI Community Challenges

Professor Paul Ong speaks with LA Social Science about the challenges…

May 24, 2021/by webteam

UCLA Newsroom: UCLA Video Campaign Focuses on Multiracial Solidarity for AAPI Month by Professor Renee Tajima-Pena and UCLA Alumnus Jeff Chang

Asian American Studies Department Professor Renee Tajima-Pena…

May 24, 2021/by webteam

Asian American Studies Department’s Statement of Solidarity with Palestine

Statement of Solidarity with Palestine

May 21, 2021

The…

May 21, 2021/by asianamworkstudy

Then & Now Podcast: Understanding The History of anti-Asian Violence

David Myers, the director of the Luskin Center for History and…

May 10, 2021/by asianamworkstudy

OPEN ENROLLMENT for 2021 Summer Session Course: ASIA AM 191A

For anyone who is interested, we are still accepting enrollment…

May 5, 2021/by webteam

FEATURED: UCLA Alumna Rita Phetmixay on the Daily Bruin

UCLA alumna Rita Phetmixay is the host of “Healing Out Lao’d,”…

May 3, 2021/by webteam

Memoirs Pasifika’s Podcast Episode by Professor Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi

"Please allow me to share a podcast episode I have been working…

April 28, 2021/by webteam

UCLA Asian American Studies Department Open Call For Lecturers

The Department of Asian American Studies at the University of…

April 19, 2021/by asianamworkstudy

Professor Keith Camacho Awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship

Since its establishment in 1925, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial…

April 19, 2021/by asianamworkstudy

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MAJORS, MINORS, & ALUM

MA ALUM AND CURRENT STUDENTS

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Meet one of the Asian American Studies Department’s summer lecturers: Albert Kochaphum! 🥳🥳 Swipe to learn more about his background and why it’s important for you to take Asia Am 191A during Summer Sessions 2024.

For more information on our Summer Sessions course offerings, visit our page or go through the link in our bio.

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*UPDATED LOCATION* Please join us MAY 2 FROM 5-6:3

*UPDATED LOCATION* Please join us MAY 2 FROM 5-6:30 PM AT ROLFE 2125 for a conversation with journalist Margaret Juhae Lee! Scan the QR or go through the link in our bio to RSVP for the event.

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On May 2, AASD is co-hosting a concert by Asian Am

On May 2, AASD is co-hosting a concert by Asian American musician and UCLA alumnus No-No Boy at the Fowler Amphitheater. The event is free and open to the public. We will be celebrating the release of their new LP, Empire’s Electric. Doors open at 5:30pm and the concert starts at 6:00pm. We hope to see you there!

Interested in getting involved in the Asian Americ

Interested in getting involved in the Asian American Studies Department? We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2024-2025 AASD Undergraduate Leadership Committee🥳🥳

Deadline to apply is Sunday, March 31 at 11:59 PM. See the application through the link in our bio or visit tinyurl.com/ULC2024APP for more information.

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*Updated Location*: Join us APRIL 4, 2024 5-6:20PM

*Updated Location*: Join us APRIL 4, 2024 5-6:20PM AT MS 5200 for a memoir reading of The Manicurist’s Daughter by writer and performing artist Susan Lieu! Please RSVP through the link in our bio! 🥳📖

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Please join us on Sunday, March 3rd at the West LA

Please join us on Sunday, March 3rd at the West LA Buddhist Temple for a Book Talk and Signing with author Tritia Toyota! RSVP with the QR or through the link in our bio. Read below for more on Tritia Toyota and the discussants for the event:

Tritia Toyota is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and is a Research Scholar at the Asian American Studies Center with the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging. She also wrote and produced the documentary Asian America. She is a recipient of the Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring and Teaching from the UCLA Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association.

Discussants for the event are Valerie Matsumoto and Yasuko Takezawa. Valerie Matsumoto is the UCLA George and Sakaye Aratani Chair on the Japanese American Incarceration, Redress and Community and a Professor of History and Asian American Studies. Yasuko Takezawa is a Visiting Professor serving as the Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations with UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies for 2023-2024.

Join us for the 2024 Winter Check-in brought to yo

Join us for the 2024 Winter Check-in brought to you by the Asian American Studies Department Undergraduate Leadership Committee! We’ll have free food, a raffle for prizes, and good company. We hope to see you there!🥳🥳

RSVP through the link in the bio or through tinyurl.com/AASDW24Checkin

Enrollment for Spring 2024 is coming up fast! If y

Enrollment for Spring 2024 is coming up fast! If you’re still looking for classes, swipe through for our undergraduate Asian American Studies course offerings! 🎉🎉

Enrollment for Summer Sessions 2024 is now open! 🥳 If you are looking to stay busy, need major/minor requirements, or interested in Asian Am classes, check out these courses!

The Asian American Studies Center has a variety of

The Asian American Studies Center has a variety of funding opportunities for students looking to support their education! Awards include grants, fellowships, scholarships, and internships, ranging from $500 to $10,000! Interested students should attend an Information Session on January 18th or 19th to learn more about how to apply.

Congratulations to our Asian American Studies 186

Congratulations to our Asian American Studies 186 students for completing their capstone projects! We had some truly remarkable, innovative, and fascinating topics this quarter. Thank you all for such amazing work!

Up next in the Asian American Studies Department S

Up next in the Asian American Studies Department Spotlight Series is Professor Purnima Mankekar! Read through the post above to learn more about Professor Mankekar🎉🎉

Enrollment is still open for Winter Quarter 2024!

Enrollment is still open for Winter Quarter 2024! Swipe through for Asian American Studies winter quarter course spotlights!

AAS 174B: This course is designed to incite student curiosity, foster sense of community, and expand capacity to critically approach familiar assumptions about transnational flows of culture, cultural materials, and goods of various Asian American communities. Students will navigate through vibrant Asian American communities in Los Angeles and beyond to expand their understanding. Students will analyze Asian American community roles in global shifts of various cultural production and consumption (e.g., art, food, media, music, politics, and more) and an examination of how communities are impacted by transnational flows. Students will interact directly with Asian American communities and spaces including those of nonprofit organizations, local artists, and events.

AAS 187C: Though South Asians are currently the fastest-growing racial group in the U.S., they are not new to this nation. From ship-jumpers, to railway builders, to celebrity gurus, to papermill laborers - South Asian American lives are deeply embedded in a rich history of resistance and resilience that is often marginalized and never told. This course will examine the historical and contemporary narratives of how South Asian American identities and communities have formed and how to retell community stories with a re-centered lens. The course incorporates historical and contemporary readings of South Asian communities; guest speakers; podcasts, documentaries and other multimedia content; archival research; interactive in-class discussions; the opportunity to develop your own podcast. Students will develop critical analytical skill of historical narrative and contemporary content. This course is taught by Manjusha Kulkarni and Taz Ahmed!

Scan the QR codes in the flyers for more information!

Join our department and Samahang Pilipino on Decem

Join our department and Samahang Pilipino on December 6th for some Halo-halo while learning more about the Pilipino Studies Minor as well as how to get involved in Pilipinx for Palestine ✊🏽. This event is also sponsored by the Pilipino Transfer Student Partnership, Kappa Psi Epsilon, Anakbayan at UCLA, Asian Pacific Coalition, and Students for Justice in Palestine!
RSVP here: https://bit.ly/Halo-HaloMix

Spotlighting our amazing lecturers for AAS 187C: T

Spotlighting our amazing lecturers for AAS 187C: Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed!

Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed is a political strategist, storyteller, and artist based in Los Angeles. She creates at the intersection of counternarratives and culture-shifting as a South Asian American Muslim 2nd-gen woman. She’s turned out over 500,000 Asian American voters, recorded five years of the award winning #GoodMuslimBadMuslim podcast and makes #MuslimVDay cards annually. Her essays are published in the anthologies, New Moons, Pretty Bitches, Whiter, Good Girls Marry Doctors, Love Inshallah, and in numerous online publications. She has published two poetry collections Emdash and Ellipses (2016) & The Day The Moon Split in Two (2020), is featured in Tia Chucha’s Coiled Serpent (2016) and her poetry has been commissioned by the Center for Cultural Power, PolicyLink, the Garment Worker Center, KPCC’s Unheard LA, and more. In Spring 2019 she was UCLA’s Activist-in-Residence at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy, in Summer 2017 was Artist-in-Residence at Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art Culture & Design, and in 2016 received an award from President Obama’s White House as a Champion of Change in Art and Storytelling. A protest sign she designed for the 2017 Women’s March sits in the permanent archives of the Smithsonian Museum of American History.

Enroll in AAS 187C today!

#aasducla #aasd #asianamericanstudies

Introducing one of our amazing lecturers for AAS 1

Introducing one of our amazing lecturers for AAS 187C: Manjusha P. Kulkarni! Read about her achievements and background above, and make sure to enroll in AAS 187C South Asian American Communities!📚🎉

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Enroll in Asian American Studies 187C: South Asian

Enroll in Asian American Studies 187C: South Asian American Communities, taught by Manjusha Kulkarni and Taz Ahmed!

South Asians were the fastest-growing racial group in the U.S. according to the 2020 census. Yet South Asians still occupy a precarious and constantly shifting space in the American racial landscape. Students will ask and discuss a multitude of questions surrounding South Asian identity, experience, and community formation. This course incorporates readings from ethnic studies, law, and academic journals; guest speakers; documentaries and media clips; in-class discussion; and group projects to explore these questions. Additional outcomes for students include the development of critical and analytical, writing, speaking, and presentation skills.

Scan the QR code for more information!

Still looking for classes to enroll in for second

Still looking for classes to enroll in for second pass? Look no further, the Asian American Studies Department is offering AAS174B: Asian American Transnational Cultural Flows for Winter Quarter 2024!

This course is designed to incite student curiosity, foster sense of community, and expand capacity to critically approach familiar assumptions about transnational flows of culture, cultural materials, and goods of various Asian American communities. Students will navigate through vibrant Asian American communities in Los Angeles and beyond to expand their understanding. There will be analysis of Asian American community roles in global shifts of various cultural production and consumption (e.g., art, food, media, music, politics, and more) and an examination of how communities are impacted by transnational flows. Students will interact directly with Asian American communities and spaces including those of nonprofit organizations, local artists, and events.

Make sure to scan the QR to learn more information about the course!

This Tuesday, the AASD Undergraduate Leadership Co

This Tuesday, the AASD Undergraduate Leadership Committee hosted a very successful Fall Quarter Check In! Thank you to everyone who came to the event to learn more about the department and the Winter course offerings! Another special thank you to the AASD Undergraduate Leadership Committee for your time and for hosting this event!

Join Prof. Zeynep Korkman and discussant Prof. Pur

Join Prof. Zeynep Korkman and discussant Prof. Purnima Mankekar on November 9th from 2-4pm for a book talk on "Gendered Fortunes". They will discuss al fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate the precarities of twenty-first-century life.
RSVP for the event here: https://tinyurl.com/mr3j4zcc
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