In 1995, students at Northwestern began a hunger strike to demand Asian American Studies at the University, sparking a crisis that led to the establishment of a Program in Asian American Studies. For the tenth anniversary of the hunger strike, the Program is proud to host a conference that explores Asian American Studies at Northwestern and also examines the development of the field over the same period. While Asian American Studies began within a cross-racial Ethnic Studies movement, scholars have turned to other ideas, particularly “diaspora,” to reframe their considerations of race and ethnicity beyond the borders of any one nation. The conference looks toward the future to discuss where Asian American Studies is headed intellectually and what form it will take here at Northwestern.