Asian American Activism
An Activist-Scholar Symposium
January 24-25, 2019 at UC Santa Barbara
This symposium brings together some of the most important Asian American community organizers and activist-scholars to discuss various aspects of Asian American grassroots activism today, including immigrant rights, environmental justice, labor, housing, education, prisons, state violence, intersectional racialized gender and heteropatriarchy, and international solidarity work.
Keynote Speaker:Pam Tau Lee
The Struggle to Abolish Environmental Racism: Asian Radical Imaginings from the Homeland to our Frontlines
Thursday, January 24, 2019, 6 PM, UCSB MultiCultural Center
Rooted in 50 years of Asian American radical activism and environmental justice organizing, Pam Tau Lee addresses the question, “Can an Asian radical perspective contribute toward achieving environmental justice?” Pam Lee is a founding member of the Chinese Progressive Association, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, and Just Transition Alliance.
Asian American Activism Symposium
Friday, January 25, 2019, 11 AM – 3 PM, UCSB MultiCultural Center
- Angelica Cabande, South of Market Community Action Network
- Ga Young Chung, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, undocumented immigration
- May Fu, University of San Diego, educational transformation
- Soya Jung, Change Lab
- Pam Tau Lee, Asian American environmental justice organizer and veteran Asian American Movement activist
- Irma Shauf-Bajar, GABRIELA USA
- Alex Tom, Chinese Progressive Association
- Karen Umemoto, UCLA, activist-scholarship and juvenile justice reform
- Eddy Zheng, Asian Prisoner Support Committee
For updates, livestream, and to participate virtually, visit: http://tinyurl.com/APIActivism2019
For more information, see http://www.asamst.ucsb.edu/ or contact Professor Diane Fujino of UCSB at fujino@ucsb.edu or Professor Robyn Rodriguez of UC Davis at rrodriguez@ucdavis.edu.
Hosted by the UCSB Department of Asian American Studies, UC Davis Department of Asian American Studies, and UCLA Asian American Studies Center. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Research Institute; UC Davis Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies; from UCSB: Center for Black Studies Research, Office of the Dean of Social Sciences, Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, MultiCultural Center, Global Environmental Justice Project, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and Nikkei Student Union; Fund for Santa Barbara.
Commemorating 50 Years of Asian American Studies
UC Santa Barbara | UC Davis | UCLA
12.12.18
Contemporary Asian American Activism and Intergenerational Perspectives:
An Activist-Scholar Symposium
January 24-25, 2019 at UC Santa Barbara
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Asian American Activism: An Activist-Scholar Symposium
/in NewsAsian American Activism
An Activist-Scholar Symposium
January 24-25, 2019 at UC Santa Barbara
This symposium brings together some of the most important Asian American community organizers and activist-scholars to discuss various aspects of Asian American grassroots activism today, including immigrant rights, environmental justice, labor, housing, education, prisons, state violence, intersectional racialized gender and heteropatriarchy, and international solidarity work.
Keynote Speaker:Pam Tau Lee
The Struggle to Abolish Environmental Racism: Asian Radical Imaginings from the Homeland to our Frontlines
Thursday, January 24, 2019, 6 PM, UCSB MultiCultural Center
Rooted in 50 years of Asian American radical activism and environmental justice organizing, Pam Tau Lee addresses the question, “Can an Asian radical perspective contribute toward achieving environmental justice?” Pam Lee is a founding member of the Chinese Progressive Association, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, and Just Transition Alliance.
Asian American Activism Symposium
Friday, January 25, 2019, 11 AM – 3 PM, UCSB MultiCultural Center
For updates, livestream, and to participate virtually, visit: http://tinyurl.com/APIActivism2019
For more information, see http://www.asamst.ucsb.edu/ or contact Professor Diane Fujino of UCSB at fujino@ucsb.edu or Professor Robyn Rodriguez of UC Davis at rrodriguez@ucdavis.edu.
Hosted by the UCSB Department of Asian American Studies, UC Davis Department of Asian American Studies, and UCLA Asian American Studies Center. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Research Institute; UC Davis Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies; from UCSB: Center for Black Studies Research, Office of the Dean of Social Sciences, Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, MultiCultural Center, Global Environmental Justice Project, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and Nikkei Student Union; Fund for Santa Barbara.
Commemorating 50 Years of Asian American Studies
UC Santa Barbara | UC Davis | UCLA
12.12.18
Contemporary Asian American Activism and Intergenerational Perspectives:
An Activist-Scholar Symposium
January 24-25, 2019 at UC Santa Barbara
iGrad Winter 2019 Workshop
/in NewsEdward A. Bouchet Honor Society – Deadline: Monday, November 26th at 9am PST
/in UncategorizedThe UCLA chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Honor Society (Bouchet Society) is now accepting applications. The Bouchet Society seeks to develop a network of preeminent scholars who exemplify academic and personal excellence, foster environments of support and serve as examples of scholarship, leadership, character, service and advocacy for students who have been traditionally underrepresented in the academy.
Doctoral Student Membership is available to any individual who is currently a doctoral student in good academic standing, and through initial research achievement in a humanities, social science, or science field, has shown outstanding promise as a scholar.
Postdoctoral Membership is available to any individual who has received their PhD degree over the last 6 years, and through initial research achievement in a humanities, social science, or science field, has shown outstanding promise as a scholar.
Applications are due by Monday, November 26th at 9am PST. For more information about Bouchet Society at UCLA, see our Bouchet Society website or you can link directly to the application.
Contact Maggie Gover, Assistant Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Admissions for questions (mgover@grad.ucla.edu)
Sinophone Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Critical Reflections
/in NewsCall for Papers
Sinophone Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Critical Reflections
April 12-13, 2019
University of California, Los Angeles
Organized by Professor Shu-mei Shih (UCLA)
Deadline: December 1, 2018
Website: http://international.ucla.edu/apc/article/197181
Since the initial conceptualization of Sinophone studies over a decade ago as a field that examines Sinitic-language cultures and communities marked by difference and heterogeneity around the world, scholarly work in the field has become more and more interdisciplinary, involving not only literary and cinema studies, but also history, anthropology, musicology, linguistics, art history, dance, and others. Now we routinely see “Sinophone” as a specific marker with multiple implications that are no longer merely denotative, enabling, on the one hand, marginalized voices, sites, and practices to come into view, and, on the other hand, an expanded conversation with such fields as postcolonial studies, settler colonial studies, immigration studies, ethnic studies, queer studies, and area studies. There have been vibrant debates at the definitional and conceptual level about critical issues and standpoints, such as the pros and cons of the diasporic framework (diaspora as history versus diaspora as value), the difficulty of overcoming Chineseness, the strength and pitfalls of language-determined identities, imperial and anti-imperial politics, racialization and self-determination of minority peoples, place-based cultural practices, the dialectics between roots and routes, and many others, and presently, scholars in disciplines other than literary and cinema studies have begun to join these conversations. The increasingly interdisciplinary nature of Sinophone studies compels us to take stock, at this particular historical conjuncture, of where this inherently interdisciplinary field has been, where it is going, and where it might go in the future.
The conference calls for paper proposals that engage with the broad contours of Sinophone studies as described above with the aim of gathering selected conference papers into a new reader entitled Sinophone Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader, after the 2013 volume, Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader (Columbia UP). The 2013 volume was largely limited to literary and cultural studies, and the current volume in preparation will give preference to disciplines that are not yet represented in the 2013 volume as well as more conceptual and theoretical essays that elaborate upon Sinophone studies as an interdisciplinary field and the ways in which Sinophone studies has reframed existing discussions and challenged specific centrisms and boundaries.
Please send your paper proposal of no more than 300 words to Kunxian Shen at cw070145@gmail.com by December 1, 2018. Notifications of proposal acceptance will be sent by December 15 to allow presenters time to apply for travel funding. Full papers are expected for delivery at the conference. The conference organizers will provide lodging, refreshments, and some meals, but will not be able to cover travel expenses. Conference registration is free.
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Fall 2019 MA application is OPEN – Deadline: December 1, 2018
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September 2017: Inaugural Ethnic & Indigenous Studies Welcome held on the Hill
In Memoriam: David Wong Louie (1954-2018)
/in NewsSeptember 21, 2018
Dear Asian American Studies Department,
I’m writing to you to share the sad news of the passing of David Wong Louie. After many years of cancer, he died with his family at his side at his home on Wednesday.
David was one of the leading voices in Asian American fiction since the 1980s, and he joined the faculty at UCLA in 1992. He was a founding faculty member of our Department over 15 years ago, and an active part of the Asian American Studies IDP before that. His major works include the short story collection Pangs of Love [1991] and the novel The Barbarians Are Coming [2000], both acclaimed and prize-winning. His recent Harper’s Magazine essay “Eat, Memory” was selected for The Best American Essays 2018. An inspiring and witty and committed teacher and colleague, he retired from UCLA in 2015, after an impactful career that touched so many of us.
Plans for a memorial service are in the works, about which we will keep you posted.
Sincerely,
Victor
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Asian American Studies Department
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University of California | Los Angeles
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Paul Nadal (M.A. ’05) accepts a tenure-track assistant professor position in Asian American literature and culture at Princeton University
/in Alumni SpotlightPaul “PJ” Nadal (M.A. ’07) has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in Asian American literature and culture at Princeton University, a joint-appointment in the Department of English and Program in American Studies. Nadal completed his M.A. in Asian American Studies at UCLA, under the direction of Professors Jinqi Ling and King-Kok Cheung, before pursuing his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in American Studies at Wellesley College, where he is working on his book manuscript, entitled “Remittance Fiction: Human Labor Export, Realism, and the Filipino Novel in English.”
Learn more:https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/05/17/board-approves-10-faculty-appointments and http://www.paulnadal.com
Congratulations to Asian American Studies alumnus Jennifer Tseng on her new novel, Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness
/in Alumni SpotlightCongratulations to Asian American Studies alumnus Jennifer Tseng on her new novel, Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness.
Forty-one years old, disenchanted wife and dutiful mother, Mayumi is a librarian on an island off the coast of New England. Her most erotic pleasure is in reading. That is, until the day she issues a library card to a shy seventeen-year-old boy who captivates her in a way that no one else ever has. She is hesitant at first, conscious of their age difference, the power differential, and the questionable morality (and legality) of acting on her feelings. But her attraction soon turns to obsession, and after a season of overlong glances and nervous conversation in the library, Mayumi quietly propositions the boy, who reciprocates. They quietly begin a passionate affair that changes the way Mayumi sees her entire life—and herself.
Exquisitely written and compulsively readable, Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness is equal parts wry confession and serious meditation. At its most anxious it’s a book about time; at its most ecstatic it’s a deeply human story about passion and pleasure, book love and physical infatuation.
Jennifer’s first book The Man With My Face won the 2005 Asian American Writers’ Workshop National Poetry Manuscript Competition and a 2006 PEN American Center Open Book Award. Her second book Red Flower, White Flower, winner of the Marick Press Poetry Prize, features Chinese translations by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen. Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness is her debut novel. She is the Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence at University of Massachusetts, Lowell.