Asian American Feminisms: From Campus Activism to National Politics
Speaker: Judy Wu, Associate Dean, School of Humanities, Professor of History and Asian American Studies, UC Irvine
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Rethinking U.S. Feminisms: Patsy Takemoto Mink, the Pacific, and Congressional Activism
Speaker: Judy Wu, Associate Dean, School of Humanities, and Professor of History and Asian American Studies, UC Irvine
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Empowering Voices: A Symposium to Remember the Live Lost in the 2021 Atlanta Spa Shootings
Speakers: Sohyun An, Professor of Social Studies Education, Kennesaw State University; Helen Kim Hendrix, Attorney and Activist, and Anna Storti, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University
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Jon Osaki, Director of Making Waves (2025), and Roland Sintos Coloma, Professor of Teacher Education and Associate Dean of Faculty and Staff Affairs, Michigan State University
See the trailer here: RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfINc7hu8oHaTRaclLzONzx11qPWuUenvhT-sfouxNLPFzVQQ/viewform
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Sameer Pandya, Chair and Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Book Talk & Conversation with the Novelist Sameer Pandya Chair and Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, UC Santa Barbara Professor Pandya will be speaking about this new novel, Our Beautiful Boys (2025), which follows the story of three families--one Asian American, one Latino, and one white--to explore the difficulties of raising teenagers in a society that values violent masculinity. Pandya's book has received glowing reviews from several major outlets including the New York Times and the Guardian. For a review of the book written from an Asian Americanist perspective, please take a look at the review in Pop Matters. It will be held on 11/17 (Monday) in Convocation Hall, 5-6pm. Free parking in the Peavine Deck after 4pm!
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Esther Kim Lee, Frances Hill Fox Professor of Theater Studies, International Comparatives Studies, and History, Duke University
Book Talk (Co-Sponsored w/Departments of Theatre & History) Professor Esther Kim Lee, Frances Hill Fox Professor of Theater Studies, International Comparatives Studies, and History, Duke University. Professor Lee will be speaking about her award-winning book, Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era (University of Michigan Press, 2022). Her book offers an extensive examination of the practice of yellowface as a historical way through which non- Asian performers portrayed Asian characters in theater, film, and media. November 20 (Thursday), 5-6:30pm White Hall 205
