Dear AASC friends, colleagues, and supporters:
What can we do in the face of violence, variants, and rollbacks on rights and liberties? As Asian American Studies has taught us, we can draw strength and wisdom from our personal and collective pasts to think critically about the issues of the present and to work towards creating a better future. And here at the Center, we have been focused on doing just that.
Last year, we launched the AAPI Policy Initiative to address the impact and fallout of the pandemic on AAPI communities. Eighteen members of our faculty and their students across the UCLA campus have been conducting research and formulating recommendations for advocacy and policy change related to health, immigration, housing, the economy, and addressing anti-Asian hate. The first of these policy reports, specifically on Asian American businesses, are available on our website. The research findings from the other reports will be released at a policy summit in the fall. We invite you learn more about the initiative and join us (stay tuned for details!).
This year, we received state funding for the AAPI Multimedia Textbook to educate high school students and the general public about the AAPI experience and our contributions to American society -- past, present, and possible. As a free, open-access resource, we are looking to meet the need for ethnic studies resources, as well as to bring the stories of our communities into more classrooms and into every home. We are grateful to the California Asian American & Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus and our donors and contributors for their support on both initiatives.
These efforts will set a foundation for the next generation of change makers and open up unlimited possibilities for the future. We are grateful for your support and trust in these endeavors. We hope you will continue to join us on this path as we work to expand what we are collectively able to see, do, and imagine.
With warm regards,
Karen
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Remembering Franklin Odo (1939-2022)
Franklin Odo was a pioneer in Asian American Studies and he was interviewed as part of the UCLA Collective Memories project.
To learn more about him, please view his oral history interview conducted on October 30, 2018.
Project Spotlights
UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press Team at AAAS
Long Beach, CA
Thursday, April 6 to Saturday, April 8
Exhibitors Room
Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations
by Professor Yu Tokunaga, Kyoto University
Thursday, April 6, 12:00-1:00 pm Book Talk; 3:00-4:00 Student Workshop
UCLA Young Research Library - Presentation Room
Professor Yu Tokunaga (Kyoto University) will join Professor Robert Chao Romero (UCLA) in conversation about his new book, Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations. A light lunch will be provided. Limited seating, please RSVP at bit.ly/3jsVtJ9.
Sponsored by Institute of American Cultures, Asian American Studies Center, Chicano Studies Research Center
The Power of Fiction and the Fragility of Power: Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the Making of Indonesia
Professor Vinay Lal with Maxwell Lane
Tuesday, April 18, 4:00-6:00 pm
Bunche Hall, Room 6275
Vinay Lal, Professor of History and Asian American Studies UCLA will be in conversation with Maxwell Lane, Independent Scholar, translator of Pramoedya, and Visiting Senior Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies - Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, on Maxwell Lane's new book Indonesia out of Exile: How Pramoedya's Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship.
Sponsored by Helen and Morgan Chu Chair, Asian American Studies Center, Institute of American Cultures
When You Left Me on That Boulevard
Winner of the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at Sundance
Sunday, April 23, 7:00 pm
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
Filmmaker Kayla Abuda Galang will attend for audience Q & A session.
Admission is free. No advance reservations. Free tickets must be obtained on a first come, first served basis at the box office, where seating will be assigned.
Presented by UCLA FIlm & Television Archive with community partner UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Film Screening
Saturday, May 6, 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
In-Person Q&A with filmmakers Julie Ha, Eugene Yi; Benjamin Kang (UCLA KASA), Jai Lee Wong (member of Chol Soo Lee Defense Committee), Michael Suzuki (L.A. Country Office of the Public Defender). Moderated by Charlene Tonai Din, Jennifer Chun. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Free tickets must be obtained on a first come, first served basis at the box office, where seating will be assigned.
Presented by UCLA Film & Television Archives, with the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and community partners, UCLA Documentary Film Legal Clinic, UCLA Asian American Studies Department, UCLA Korean American Student Association, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA Nikkei Student Union.
Koreatown, Los Angeles, Immigration, Race, the "American Dream"
Book talk by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee, Professor, American Studies, Brown University
Wednesday, May 10, 5:00-6:30 pm
UCLA Haines Hall, Room 220
Sponsored by Asian American Studies Department & Center, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment - Labor Studies
AAPI POLICY SUMMIT
Building Solutions for an Equitable Future
DATE: Friday, February 10, 2023
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center | Centennial Ballroom
425 Westwood Plaza | Los Angeles, CA 90095
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