Information session about the COVID-19 Multilingual Resource Hub which is a searchable collection of online links and materials.

This information session about the COVID-19 Multilingual Resource Hub will include faculty and community speakers from UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON).

The COVID-19 Multilingual Resource Hub is a searchable collection of online links and materials to help equip our diverse language communities, especially the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, with important information about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Speakers:

Jocelyn Estiandan: Senior Public Health Analyst. Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

Karen Umemoto: Director, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Professor, UCLA Departments of Urban Planning and Asian American Studies

May Wang: Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Daniel Kim: Programmer, UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Presentation on survey of Asian American businesses in Southern California and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic

Presentation on a survey of Asian American businesses in Southern California and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on these businesses.

Speakers:

Paul Ong, Research Professor & Director, Center for Neighborhood Knowledge - UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Alycia Cheng, Project Coordinator, UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge & Asian American Studies Center.

Karen Park, Chair of Asian Business Association Foundation and president of TEN Advertising

More speakers to be announced

Cosponsored by Asian American & Pacific Islander Policy Initiative of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Asian Business Association, UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge

Book talk by Frank Abe, Author of "We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration"

Frank Abe is the author of "We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration". He wrote and directed the PBS film on the largest organized resistance to incarceration," Conscience and the Constitution". He won an American Book Award for "JOHN OKADA: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy", and is co-editing a new anthology of incarceration literature for Penguin Classics.

He blogs at Resisters.com.

Co-sponsored by the George and Sakaye Aratani CARE Award, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience

an offering

a book-to-be

a poetry reading

a performance altar

a birthday jam

a virtual house party

Jason Magabo Perez (alongside poet-comrades Hari Alluri and Christian Aldana) will read from his current manuscript titled I ASK ABOUT WHAT FALLS AWAY, an intimate grief manifesto against the quotidian violations of racial capitalism.

Jason Magabo Perez is the author of Phenomenology of Superhero (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016) and This is for the mostless (WordTech Editions, 2017). Recent Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Art + Thought, previous co-recipient of a Challenge America Grant for the National Endowment for the Arts, Perez has been a featured performer at notable venues such as National Asian American Theatre Festival, International Conference of the Philippines, La Jolla Playhouse, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Perez works as Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at California State University San Marcos, Associate Editor for Ethnic Studies Review, and Community Arts Fellow at Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies. Alongside his comrades in The Digital Sala, Perez is dreaming up alternative visions of what radically flexible, community-centered, revolutionary poetic spaces can be.

Presented by: The Digital Sala, Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies, Pilipino Studies Minor in the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies

A conversation with Karen Umemoto, UCLA professor in the departments of Urban Planning and Asian American Studies and the inaugural Helen and Morgan Chu Endowed Director's Chair of the Asian American Studies Center

Please join the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and our campus partners for a special virtual event and follow-up discussion on #StopAsianHate.

Yves Tong Nguyen is a queer disabled abolitionist organizer with Red Canary Song and Survived and Punished NY.

Elena Shih is the Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University and she received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology, UCLA. Her forthcoming book, "Manufacturing Freedom: Trafficking Rescue, Rehabilitation, and the Slave Free Good," is a global ethnography of the transnational social movement to combat human trafficking in China, Thailand, and the United States. She is the author of "How to Protect Sex Workers," New York Times, March 26, 2021.

Introduction will be provided by Jennifer Chun, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies and the International Institute.

Co-Sponsors: 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, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, UCLA Department of Gender Studies, UCLA International Institute

RSVP: http://bit.ly/ucla-rcs

A recent study from Cal State San Bernardino observed a 164% increase in reported anti-Asian hate crimes in the first quarter of 2021, versus the same period last year. The growing urgency around this troubling trend has sparked action and dialogue about how to mitigate future threats but also has brought conversations about America's troubling history of AAPI discrimination into a new light. Join our panel of experts as we discuss the legal history of discrimination against AAPI communities in America, the origins and nature of anti-AAPI hate crimes, and the potential legal, policy, and community-based solutions to stemming future violence.

Radical Storytelling is an experiential workshop grounded in themes of identity, lineage, community, and growth. Susan Lieu will be teaching the four stages of traumatic healing as a means to explore the stories we carry upon and within ourselves. Through this experience, attendees will individually and collectively reflect upon their lived and inherited pasts to gain a better understanding of how to cherish their stories, share them, and transform them into sources of power.

About Susan Lieu:

Susan Lieu is a Vietnamese-American playwright, producer, and performer who tells stories that refuse to be forgotten. With a vision for individual and community healing—made possible through the interplay of comedy and drama—her work delves deeply into the lived realities of body insecurity, grieving, and trauma.

After a year and a half workshopping her show, Susan premiered her first theatrical solo show, "140 LBS: HOW BEAUTY KILLED MY MOTHER" in Seattle February 2019 with a sold-out run. Later that year, Susan self-produced a nearly sold-out 10-city National Tour with accolades from NBC News, L.A. Times, NPR, The Washington Post (The Lily), American Theatre, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Seattle Times. In February 2020, Lieu held a sold-out World Premiere of the sequel "OVER 140 LBS" at Seattle's ACT Theatre as their inaugural SoloFest headliner. Lieu has performed iterations of her family's story 51 times to 6000 people from 2019 to 2020.

Sponsor(s): Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Asian American Studies Center, Asian American Studies Department, UCLA Institute of American Cultures, UCLA Vietnamese Student Union, UCLA Asian Pacific Coalition, UCLA Undergraduate Student Association Council

Register for the workshop: https://tinyurl.com/radicalstorytelling

A talk by Professor Raymundo titled "Nom de Guerre/War Name." How do different types of identities--Filipino, Filipino American, immigrant, citizen--intersect with different types of narratives--letter, memoir or autobiography? Co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Department and the Asian American Studies Center.

The Asian American Studies Department and Asian American Studies Center at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). As a land grant institution, we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), Ahiihirom (Elders), and Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present, and emerging.

Register for the event

Join the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities on Tuesday, May 11 from 3:00-4:00pm EDT for a special webinar in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month featuring five Asian Pacific American leaders in public higher education.

During this event, the featured speakers will discuss their own personal journey from growing up to becoming campus leaders. They will discuss the important role Asian American and Pacific Islander students, faculty, and staff play on campus and in their communities as well as how university leadership can best support them while recognizing and honoring the diverse composition of the community. The conversation will also explore the troubling increase in verbal attacks and physical violence across the country against members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, including how campuses are working to raise awareness and ensure the safety for the AAPI community while fostering an inclusive environment.

Join us for a screening of 140 LBS, followed by a Q&A with the creator and performer Susan Lieu!

"140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother" is a theatrical solo performance written and performed by Susan Lieu, a first-generation American born to Vietnamese refugees. "140 LBS" is the true story of how Susan's mother went in for plastic surgery and died due to medical malpractice. At the time of her mother's death, Susan was 11 years old.

The performance weaves together several through-lines: the multi-generational immigrant experience; body insecurity and shame; repression and subsequent examination of personal loss; and lack of accountability in the medical system; Vietnamese folkloric practice of spirit channeling.

The World Premiere was held in Seattle February 2019 with a sold-out run. Susan self-produced a nearly sold-out 10-city National Tour in 2019 with accolades from NBC News, Los Angeles Times, NPR, The Washington Post, American Theatre, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Seattle Times. This event will be a screening of a pre-recorded performance followed by a live Q&A with the artist.

Free and open to the public.

Register at shorturl.at/NBHV9

Sponsored by UCLA Asian American Studies Department, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Vietnamese Student Union, UCLA Asian Pacific Coalition, and other partners at UC Irvine and UC San Diego.

An intergenerational conversation among Asian American Artivists in the Movement for Social Justice

Two generations of artist-activists/"activists" will talk about their role as artists who were active in the grassroots social movements of Asian American communities from the 1960's to today. This program connects two filmmakers and two songwriter-performance of artists who will talk about how they use their medium to tell the stories of and engage Asian American communities.

Speakers: Eddie Wong, Lan Nguyen, Nobuko Miyamoto, and Tiffany Lytle

Moderater: Kelly Fong, Lecturer for AAS 40: Asian American Movement

Co-sponsored by UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Asian American Studies Department, and East Wind ezine

Register for Zoom: https://asianamartivistsinmovement.eventbrite.com

Please join us for a conversation with Ga-Eun Han, Ju Hui Judy Han (UCLA Gender Studies), and gender studies students at UCLA.

This conversation will be in Korean. Simultaneous interpretation in English will be provided through live closed captions.

Ga-Eun Han 한가은 (Le Thi Mai Thu) is a Vietnamese-Korean interpreter and migrant rights activist in South Korea. As the Secretary General of the Korean Women Migrants Human Rights Center (한국이주여성인권센터), Han oversees numerous policy advocacy campaigns and 6 branch offices throughout the country. She has been at the forefront of community organizing and educating the public about anti-immigrant racism, sexism, and violence against women. She trains migrant women leaders to fight against discrimination and bigotry and advocates for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Her short film, THE STORY OF OUR SOJOURN (2011, 11m), screened at the Seoul International Women's Film Festival. Han's writings appear in A STORY NOBODY KNEW (2018), a groundbreaking collection of stories about migrant women's struggles against gender violence, in which she emphasizes the need for more migrant women-led organizing and advocacy. Han received the 2019 Women Leaders of the Future Award from The Women's News in Korea.

Ju Hui Judy Han is a cultural geographer and Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at UCLA, where she teaches classes on gender and sexuality, Korean studies, (im)mobilities, and comics. Her research and publications concern conservative religious formations, queer activism, and protest cultures. Judy grew up in Seoul and has lived and worked in Los Angeles, Berkeley/Oakland, Vancouver, and Toronto.

Register for Zoom link: http://bit.ly/feministkorea07

Join the Asian American Studies Department on May 4th, 2021 at 12:30 PM for screenings of Janet Chen's Phoenix Bakery, Akira Boch and Tad Nakamura's Atomic Cafe, and Jeff Liu's film adaptation of David Henry Hwang's play Trying to Find Chinatown, followed by a discussion with the artists.

Register for Zoom link here.