2013 AAAS Annual Conference: The Afterlives of Empire

AAAS 2013Wednesday, April 17, 2013 to Saturday, April 20, 2013
Where: Westin Hotel, 1900 5th Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98101
Sponsored by: Association of Asian American Studies
For more information: www.aaastudies.org

Come find our Publications in the book store area and join our Roundtable Discussion:

 

PROGRAM TITLE: Creating Community Media: Reclaim, Redefine, Revision
VENUE: Westin - Stuart
April 18, 2013, 4:30-6:00PM
PRESENTERS:

Chair & Discussant: Renee Tajima-Pena, University of California, Santa Cruz, & University of California, Los Angeles

 

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Illness, Disability, and Asian America: An Amerasia Journal
Roundtable
VENUE: Westin - Stuart
April 20, 2013, 2:45-4:15pm

PARTICIPANTS:

Chair & Facilitator: Arnold Pan, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Other Programs Featuring Center Faculty and MA Graduate Students:

April 18, 2013, 8:15-9:45AM

 

PROGRAM TITLE: Asian American Citizen-Subjects: Youth Identity, Cultural Politics and Institutional Inequalities
VENUE: Westin - St. Helens
PRESENTERS: Ger Xiong (UCLA), Daniel Woo (UCLA), James Ong (UCLA), Kate Viernes (UCLA)

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Contemporary Community Formation and Oral History Narratives
VENUE: Westin - Blakely
PARTICIPANTS: Elizabeth Kopacz (UCLA), Mihiri Tillakaratne (UCLA), Jane Lee (UCLA)

PROGRAM TITLE: Examining Trauma: Methodological Considerations to Studying Violence Across Generations
VENUE: Westin - Orcas
PRESENTERS: Yvonne Kwan, Lina Chhun (UCLA), Phi Su (UCLA), Jane Le Skaife
Chair & Discussant: Asiroh Cham

PROGRAM TITLE: Transpacific Imperial (Re)education: Traces and Traversals
VENUE: Westin - Adams
PRESENTERS: Nobuko Yamasaki, Tzu-hui Celina Hung (UCLA), Long Bui
Chair & Discussant: Rahul K. Gairola

 

April 18, 2013, 11:30am-1pm

FILM SCREENING: The Crumbles
VENUE: Westin - Olympic
PRESENTER: Gena Hamamoto (UCLA)

 

April 18, 2013, 1:00-2:30pm

PROGRAM TITLE: Gender, Sex, Work: Studies of Intimate Labor
VENUE: Westin - Whidbey
PRESENTERS: Anna Kim, Elena Shih (UCLA), Anita Jain, Preeti Sharma (UCLA)
Chair & Discussant: Miliann Kang

PROGRAM TITLE: Economic Narratives and Moral Subjects: Asians in Old and New Capital Circuits
VENUE: Westin - Olympic
PRESENTERS: Elena Shih (UCLA), Leela Tanikella, Linta Varghese
Chair: Kamala Visweswaran
Discussant: Lok Siu

 

April 19, 2013, 8:15-9:45AM

PROGRAM TITLE: Keywords in the Afterlives of Empire (from the Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature and Culture)
VENUE: Westin - Vashon 2
PRESENTERS: Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Timothy Yu, Sean Metzger (UCLA)
Chair: Rachel Lee (UCLA)
Discussant: Thuy Linh Tu

 

April 19, 2013, 10:00-11:30AM

ROUNDTABLE/WORKSHOP: Our Questions, Our Voices: Forging the Way Ahead in Survey Research on Asian Americans
VENUE: Westin - Cascade 1B
PARTICIPANTS: Karthick Ramakrishnan, Ninez Ponce (UCLA), Janelle Wong

PROGRAM TITLE: Space, Body, Politics: Circulations of Empire
VENUE: Westin - Whidbey
PRESENTERS: Lauren Hirshberg (UCLA), Go Oyagi, Christen Sasaki
Chair & Discussant: Vernadette Gonzalez

 

April 19, 2013, 1:00-2:30PM

PROGRAM TITLE: Mapping Life Chances: Inventories of Filipina/o American Rationalities Under Empire
VENUE: Westin - Pike
PRESENTERS: Edward Curammeng (UCLA), Jonathan Magat, Raymond San Diego
Chair and Discussant: Victor Bascara (UCLA)

 

April 19, 2013, 2:45-4:15PM

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Mixed is the New Massive: How Mixed Race Offers New Models for Digital, Global, and Cross-Disciplinary Education
VENUE: Westin - Whidbey
PARTICIPANTS: Juliana Pegues, Lily Welty (UCLA), Melissa Poulsen, Zelideth Rivas
Facilitator: Lawrence-Minh Davis

SESSION TITLE: Empire and Dictatorship: Defamiliarizing Time, Narrative, and Space in Terms of Ferdinand Marcos
VENUE: Westin - Vashon 2
PRESENTERS: Mark Pangilinan, Mark Sanchez, Precious Singson (UCLA)
Chair & Discussant: Christine Balance

PROGRAM TITLE: Reexamining Japan: Education, Empire, and the Diaspora
VENUE: Westin - Olympic
PRESENTERS: Dean Ryuta Adachi, Jeannie Shinozuka, Shuji Otsuka, Lily Anne Yumi Welty (UCLA)
Chair & Discussant: Dana Y. Nakano

 

April 20, 2013, 8:15-9:45AM

PROGRAM TITLE: Time After Time: On Temporalities and Diasporic Performance in Asian America
VENUE: Westin - Vashon 2
PRESENTERS: Christine Balance, Allan Isaac, Lucy San Pablo Burns (UCLA)
Chair: Laura Hyun Yi Kang

 

April 20, 2013, 10:00-11:30AM

PLENARY III: Bridging Divides in Asian American Studies
VENUE: Westin - Cascade 1A
PRESENTERS: Leslie Bow, Richard M. Lee, Renee Tajima-Pena (UCLA)
Chair & Discussant: Paul Watanabe

 

April 20, 2013, 2:45-4:15PM

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Author Meets Critic: Transforming the Ivory Tower by Brett Stockdill and Mary Yu Danico
VENUE: Westin - Olympic
PARTICIPANTS: Mia Tuan, David Leonard, Victor Bascara (UCLA), Neil Gong (UCLA)
Chair & Facilitator: Anthony Ocampo

PROGRAM TITLE: Interrogating and Recovering Historical Sources
VENUE: Westin - Pike
PRESENTERS: Miya Shichinohe-Suga, Vivian Wong (UCLA), Daniel Tsang
Chair: Andrea Geiger, Simon Fraser University

PROGRAM TITLE: Transpacific Reverberations of World War II
VENUE: Westin - Vashon 2
PRESENTERS: Adrienne Winans, Amy Nishimura, Jean-Paul deGuzman (UCLA)
Chair: Takashi Fujitani

PROGRAM TITLE: Violence, Trauma, Empire
VENUE: Westin - Blakely
PRESENTERS: Roy Vu, Kim Trinh, Jungha Kim, Christine Ho
Chair: Lucy San Pablo Burns (UCLA)