CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Volume 25, Number 1, Spring - Summer 2002
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What's News?

• Center Releases First Book on Asian American Responses to 9/11
  As the one-year Anniversary of September 11, 2001 approaches, the United State continues to grapple with the ramifications of that event.
• Community Building, consciousness Raising Today
  I don't pretend to know anything about Jacques Derrida or deconstruction - but by chance I picked up a book entitled Deconstruction in a Nutshell at a friend's house a few weeks ago.
• Glenn and his Masses: A Photo Tribute to Activist and Mentor Glenn Omatsu
  Students and mentees of Glenne Omatsu organized a farewell celebration on May 13, 2002.
• Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment Contributors Talk to Students about Activism
  On May 6th, 2002, contributors of the recently published book, Asian Americans: The Movement and The Moment, joined UCLA students at Kerchoff Grand Salon for a night of history, personal experiences, criticism, frustration, inspiration, reflection and laughter.
• Center Announces New Secon National Journal
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Center is pleased to announce the launching of a new journal focused on applied social science research for and on the diverse and growing Asian Pacific American community.
• Luis Francia Speaks at UCLA
  On May 2, 2002, as a guest of UCLA's Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association (AASGSA) and Disorient Journalzine, author, poet, journalist and lecturer, Luis Francia spoke on issues pertaining to the state of post-colonial Philippines and Pilipino Americans today.
• Center Hosts Wen Ho Lee and Journalist Helen Zia to Discuss New Book
  Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos Scienctist who was falsely accused of being a spy, and award-winning ournalist Helen Zia kicked off their Southern California book tour at UCLA's james West Alumini Center on january 20,2002.
• UCLA Sponsors a Symposium on JA Internment and 9/11
  The Asian American Studies Center and the School Of Law's Concentration in Critical Race Studies co-sponsored a conference on "Learning from the Internment in a Post 9-11 World" on Saturday, February 16, 2002.
• 11 New Graduate Studens Promise to Push Asian American Studies community Involvement to Greater Heights
  Coming from all ove the country and around the world, the elevent first-year student in the M.A. program in Asian American Studies build upon their research interests and community involvement, including religion, media and "visual culture," inernational migration, organizing and resistance, history, and literature.
• Korean American Conference: "10 Years After the 1992 Civil Unrest"
  UCLA's Asian american Studies Center, in co-sponsorship with various student, academic and community organizations, osted the National Korean American Studies Conference, this year entitled "10 Years after the 1992 Civil Unrest."
• Asians in the Americas Working Group Advances Research on Asian Canadians, Americans and Latinos
  The Symposium on Asians in Latin America: History and Community (April 30, 2202) marked the third year of events since the establishment of the Asians in the Americas Working group (AiA) at UCLA in Fall 1999.
• Center Welcomes Fabulous Five
  Five New Staff member have been hired to and add the good times at the UCLA Asian American's Studies Center.
• Nobu McCarthy 1934-2002
  Renowned Japanese American Actor and Pioneer Nobu McCarthypassed away on April 6, 2002 while filming a movie in Brazil.

More News

• Announcements
• Professor Marjorie KagawaSinger Receives Herbert Nickens Memorial Lectureship
• Center Hosts Information Session on "The Toxic Legacy of Globalization"
• MA Students Sponsor Queer API Reading
• EthnoCom Holds Conference on Documenting Communities
• Center Hosts Two-Day Conference about Genter in Comtemporary Vietnam
• The United Cambodian Students of UCLA Present "Heart of Cambodia: Journey to the Past"
• Highlights from 2002 Association of Asian American Studies Conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah
• Center Congratulate M.A. Class of 2002
• Professor Emritus Paul Terasaki donates $100,000 for Graduate Fellowships
• Thu-huong Nguyen-vo Presents Research on Garment Workers in Ho Chi Minh City
• Professor Clara Chu Receives ALA Award
• Professor Vinay Lal of History Department Gains Tenure
• Asian Pacific Coalition Colaborates with Other Student groups to Commemorate 1992 Los Angeles Uprising
• Postdoc Lili Kim Gives Talk on JA Internment and Korean Americans
• Asian American studies Alumnus Eric Wat Talks about new Book on the Queer API Community in Los Angeles

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