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This year's Association for Asian American Studies Conference will be taking place online. The UCLA AASC Press will have a virtual exhibitor booth. Come join us at the exhibitor Meet and Greet! Wednesday, 3:00 - 4:00 pm PDT Exhibitor Meet & Greet Meeting ID: 889 1289 4208 Passcode: meet Many of our publications will be discounted throughout the duration of the conference. For those not attending the conference, you can also visit our online store and take advantage of these offers! For the select publications on sale, the price displayed reflects the sale price. No additional code is needed. Domestic shipping orders ONLY. If you would like to place an international shipping order, please contact aascpress@aasc.ucla.edu. Attend the AAAS Conference (Paid Registration Required). |
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In light of the horrific recent increase in crimes against Asians and Asian Americans, the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and campus partners are organizing a special panel discussion event for the UCLA community. Part 1: Main Panel Discussion 2:00 pm — 3:15 pm Part 2: Student Discussion 3:15 pm — 3:45 pm Featured Speakers (Main Panel Discussion)
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Organized by the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Asian American Studies Department, UCLA Asia Pacific Center, UCLA Asian Pacific Islander Faculty & Staff Association, UCLA Institute of American Cultures, and UCLA International Institute. This event is open to everyone. REGISTER: http://bit.ly/sah-ucla |
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Forty years ago, a group of Los Angeles-based journalists banded together to form the Asian American Journalists Association, a group dedicated to supporting and organizing Asian American and Pacific Islanders in the news media. On Friday, some of those same founders will describe that critical moment in journalism history, as part of the virtual panel "AAJA Founders Forum: Origin Story" and as kick off for AAJA's 40th Anniversary. Co-sponsored by the Los Angeles chapter of AAJA and the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The panel will feature AAJA co-founders Bill Sing, David Kishiyama and Nancy Yoshihara, all of whom worked at the Los Angeles Times; Frank Kwan, then of NBC4; and Dwight Chuman, then of the Rafu Shimpo. The forum will be moderated by ABC 7 news anchor David Ono. |
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Join Asian American Studies undergraduate and graduate students as they present their research. Organized by Lauren Higa, Sharon Lau, Emiko Krantz, and Emily Mun. Hosted and presented by the UCLA Asian American Studies Department and Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association. |
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Join a roundtable on innovative methodologies that attend to challenges or restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 lockdown. Short presentations will be followed by breakout rooms on the themes: 1) collaborative archival work, 2) Indigenous and Kanaka 'Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) methodologies, and 3) patchwork ethnography. The roundtable will be followed by discussion rooms led by the speakers. Access to breakout rooms will be provided at the end of the webinar. Speakers include:
This event is co-sponsored by Northwestern University Program of Asian American Studies, UCLA Asian American Studies, UCLA English, UCSD Institute of Arts and Humanities, UCSD's Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies Program, UCI Center for Latin American Studies, and UCI Humanities Center. Registration: bit.ly/TransOceanic |
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Click the following link at join the Zoom Meeting: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91268864382 Meeting ID: 912 6886 4382 Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) -identified students and allies are invited to a supportive dialogue session on Wednesday, March 31 at 6:30pm. Organizers understand that we all may be experiencing a number of reactions, including being in isolation, in dismay, sadness, and grief around the tragic incidents in Atlanta and the ongoing increase in hateful acts against Asian-Americans since the start of this pandemic. This space is an opportunity to be together virtually and is dedicated to sharing, listening, and building community. Campus resources will also be distributed. Hosted and partnered by Residential Life, CAPS, RISE, The Transfer Center, The Dashew Center for International Students, and USAC Internal Vice President. This event is open to everyone. |
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Film by Janet Chen, assistant director of the UCLA Center for EthnoCommunications, executive produced by UCLA Asian American Studies Center as part of the Lau Chinese American History Documentary Project. Screening is part of the 2021 Seattle Asian American Film Festival. For film info, visit bit.ly/phoenix-bakery-SAAFF For Q&A info, visit http://bit.ly/phoenix-bakery-SAAFF-QA |
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Professor Navaneetha Mokkil, the Center for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, will discuss her new book, Unruly Figures which navigates the pulsating links between subjectivity, political activism and the world-making capacity of cultural practices in a non-metropolitan region in India. It focuses on the non-linear figurations of the sex worker and the lesbian in Kerala, a state in Southern India, and the fractured processes of staging the politics of sexuality. The book moves back and forth from the post-1990s to the pre-1990s interlinking different forms, texts, genres and events in order to show how sexual subjects are not finished portraits, nor silenced bodies eager to claim visibility and recognition. Rather, the transactions between the subject and the figure point to the breaks in the conception of a cohesive, visible and agential political actor.
This book brings a substantial body of Malayalam-language scholarship, literature, and, media texts on gender, sexuality, and social justice (which do not usually travel across the language divide) into conversation with current debates around sexuality studies and transnational feminism in the Asian and Anglo-American academia. It puts forward a reading practice that examines public cultures of sexuality in Kerala, 'a small place' in the geopolitical dynamics of the nation and the globe, as the site for theorizing the political. It posits the regional as the ground through which questions can be asked about the past, present and futures of sexuality politics in India. Click here to RVSP. |
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This February, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive will continue to celebrate the legacy of Asian American Studies at UCLA with a virtual film festival! Over two weekends, we will present online programming featuring powerful imagery and poignant commentary about meaningful issues facing Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Audiences will hear from filmmakers and actors on their creative journeys, as well as from scholars, artists, and community leaders on themes that apply to today's world. Stay tuned as we announce programming details, including featured films and special discussions with filmmakers, actors, scholars, in the next couple of weeks! We will post updates on our website here. Thank you to everyone who joined us this past March for our 50th Anniversary Film Festival! As many of you know, our celebrations were cut short due to the pandemic. You can read a recap of that jam-packed weekend in our annual CrossCurrents. |
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Online Webinar via Zoom Register at: bit.ly/UCPacificWorlds Engaging with trans-Oceanic studies, which understands oceans as matter and being, we bring the Black Pacific into conversation with the Black Atlantic and the Indian Ocean to consider not only the intimacy of continents but also the intimacies of oceans and islands. What new intellectual, political, and cultural work might we explore together when we center the Black Pacific in our visions of decolonial justice?
Guest Speakers: Anthony Jerry, Nitasha Sharma, Quito Swan, and Joyce Pualani Warren
Sponsors: UCI Humanities Center, UCI Center for Latin American Studies, UCLA Department of English, UCLA Asian American Studies Department, UC San Diego Institute of Arts and Humanities, and UC San Diego Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies |
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Online Webinar via Zoom Join us for the presentation, "From Foundations to Frontiers," a landmark study of the enduring contributions of Chinese Americans to American society from the 1800s to today. The evidence-driven study details the contribution across the following seven industries: Arts & Culture, Civil Rights, Public Service and Politics, Business Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Infrastructure, Military & National Security, Public Health, and Science & Technology. Presented by Committee of 100 President Zhengyu Huang, this forum will provoke curiosity and offer a new perspective on Chinese American contributions, while identifying, quantifying and showcasing the contributions of the Chinese American community through data and storytelling. The event will begin with a 30-minute presentation, followed by a facilitated discussion moderated by Min Zhou (Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S.-China Relations & Communications, and Director of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center) For questions about the event, please contact asia@international.ucla.edu Sponsors: Asia Pacific Center, Center for Chinese Studies, Asian American Studies Center |
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