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Events
Spring 2009
Asian American Arts in Practice
A Forum of Asian American Artists
Tuesday — April 7
University Hall 102
6 - 9 pm
Each artist will present & discuss examples of their work.
Q&A follows
Moderated by Tatsu Aoki
Featuring:
Tatsu Aoki
Mia Park
Harrison Pak
Jonald Reyes
Amy Homma
Tatsu Aoki: Bassist Tatsu Aoki is a prolific and accomplished musician, composer and educator. He works in a wide array of musical styles, ranging from traditional Asian music to jazz to experimental music and is a much in-demand artist performing on both contrabass and the shamisen (Japanese 3-stringed lute). He has recorded over 100 albums featuring many of the musical legends of Chicago, including Fred Anderson, Von Freeman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Don Moye and John Watson Sr. 2006 saw Aoki present his most ambitious work to date, “re: Rooted” a continuation of his “Rooted” composition cycle featuring the MIYUMI Project Big Band at Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion. Aoki is the founder and Artistic Director of the Annual Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival.
Mia Park: Mia Park is happy to wear many hats in Chicago. In Chicago’s acting community, “Miss Mia” has co-hosted the underground cable music show, Chic-A-Go-Go, and acted professionally for over ten years. As a member of SAG, AFTRA and AEA, she’s acted in independent movies, national commercials, industrial films and on stage. She is co-founder of Chicago’s newest Asian American theater company, A-Squared Theatre Workshop. In Chicago’s music scene, Mia’s played drums in over a dozen rock and jazz bands in Chicago since 1995. As an Arts Administrator, Mia served as the Asian American Cultural Ambassador for The Old Town School of Folk Music and curated programs at the Chicago Cultural Center. She’s always producing a variety of music or theater shows at any given time. Mia’s also contributed to Chicago’s non-profit community and is a yoga instructor. Only in Chicago could she accomplish so much! Mia is grateful for everyone and everything in her life.
Harrison Pak: Harrison Pak is currently the Artistic Director of Stir-Friday Night!, one of the nation’s premier Asian American sketch comedy/improv troupes. He’s also one of the founding members of Fool for Thought, a sketch comedy troupe, and a graduate of Second City’s Writing and Improv Conservatory Program. He is currently enrolled in Second City’s Directing Program. He has produced and/or written or acted in over 30 shows in Chicago and abroad.
Jonald Reyes: Jonald J. Reyes is a writer, producer, and filmmaker from Chicago, IL. As a graduate from Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), he has published articles for a variety of magazines including KoreAm Journal and Asiance Magazine. In 2008, he completed his first-length feature film entitled “That Asian Thing.” “That Asian Thing” is a documentary that focuses on artists in the Chicago area, asking the question “Why is there a low impact of Asian-American culture in mainstream America?” Screened in a number of film festivals and colleges, the film has also won the Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Features Film Festival in 2008. Jonald is currently the Executive Producer for “The Slant,” a magazine style, entertainment news show. Much like his documentary, “The Slant” continues to expose the Asian/Asian-American experiences in Chicago, IL.
Amy Homma: Amy Homma was born in Chicago. A second generation Japanese American, she is a leader in her generation of Chicago Japanese American artists dedicated to working in the traditional Japanese cultural arts. In 1990, she joined the Waka Daiko group to explore her Japanese cultural legacy, and years later she joined Tsukasa Taiko. She is also studying Toyoaki Ozashiki shamisen under the instruction of Tatsu Aoki. Amy is currently the head taiko instructor/performer for JASC Tsukasa Taiko and performs with the Miyumi Project, was a part of Basser Live II, performed in the Miyumi Project Big Band’s presentation of re:Rooted at Millennium Park and performed in Poland as part of the Malta International Theatre Festival 2007. Recently she has performed at Steppenwolf Theater for the Miyumi Project Big Band’s ‘East Meets the Rest’. She also performs with Yoko Noge’s Japanesque. In addition, she also studies Japanese Classical Dance with Fujima Ryu of Chicago
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Winter 2009
The Alice kaplan Institute for the Humanities Research Workshop Series
East of California, Across Ethnic Studies: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race and Diaspora
Workshop 2:
Transhemispheric Approaches
to
Race, Power and Culture
Friday — March 6
African American Studies Conference Room
Kresge Hall 2-425, 1880 Campus Drive, Evanston
10:00 - noon
Featured Speaker:
Sandhya Shukla,
Associate Professor of English and American Studies,
University of Virginia
Northwestern Co-Panelists:
Ivy Wilson, English
Rámon Rivera-Servera, Performance Studies
Moderator:
Jinah Kim, Asian American Studies
This workshop will initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue addressing the need to reconceptualize current understandings of “America” beyond national boundaries and to address where and how “race” can expand current transnational studies.
This panel brings together scholars who address transnational migration, border crossings, hybridity and intellectual cross-over that reorient East/West hemispheric conceptions to and highlight the productive connections of the North/South.
Framing Questions:
1. Discuss models of scholarship that expand our concept of “America,” particularly by animating the interplay between race and power, nation and empire. At which epistemic crossroads and historical junctures do trans-hemispheric American Studies and Ethnic Nationalist Race Studies meet?
2. How can local spaces become parts of larger crossings and transnational exchange? Does the local facilitate crossings, remappings, and hybridization?
3. Discrete departments in the Humanities and Social Sciences are increasingly lending themselves to conversations in neighboring academic disciplines. How does race circumscribe interdisciplinary formations and scholarship in the University?
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On the 67th anniversary of the signing of
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066, we are proud to host
DALE MINAMI
Lead attorney in the U.S. Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States which overturned a 40 year old conviction for refusal to obey exclusion orders aimed at Japanese Americans during WWII.
speaking on
"WW II Japanese American
Internment Camps & Civil Liberties Today
in Post 9/11 America"
Thursday ~ February 19th
12:30 - 1:30 Talk followed by Q&A
1:30 - 2:00 Reception, light lunch is provided
The McCormick Tribune Center Forum
1870 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL
This event is free and open to the public
Dale Minami has been involved in significant litigation involving the civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans and other minorities, including Korematsu v. United States, a lawsuit to overturn a 40 year old conviction for refusal to obey exclusion orders aimed at Japanese Americans during WWII.
He was also involved in Spokane JACL v. Washington State University, a class action on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans to establish an Asian American Studies program at Washington State University and Nakanishi v. UCLA a claim for unfair denial of tenure which resulted in the granting of tenure after several hearing and widespread publicity over discrimination in academia.
Mr. Minami served as a member of the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission. He has also served as a Commissioner on the State Bar’s Commission on Judicial Nominee’s Evaluation, Senator Barbara Boxer’s Judicial Screening Committee which made recommendations for Federal Judicial Appointments. In 1996, Minami was appointed by President Clinton as Chair of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund.
In recognition of his achievements, Mr. Minami has received numerous awards including:
• American Bar Association’s 2003 Thurgood Marshall Award
• 2003 ACLU Civil Liberties Award
• State Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award
• Honorary Juris Doctor degree from the McGeorge School of Law
• Designation of a dormitory at the University of California at
Santa Cruz —“Queen Liliuokalani-Minami” Dormitory
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The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Research Workshop Series
East of California, Across Ethnic Studies:
Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race and Diaspora
Workshop 1:
TransPacific Histories: Migration and Diaspora
Friday, February 20
African American Studies Conference Room
Kresge Hall 2-425 (1880 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL)
10:00 — noon
Featured speaker:
Naoko Shibusawa, Associate Professor of History, Brown University
Moderator:
Ji-Yeon Yuh, History, Asian American Studies, Northwestern University
Northwestern Co-panelists:
Dr. Dilip Gaonkar, School of Communication, Northwestern University
Dr. Amy Stanley, Department of History, Northwestern University
Mr. Shuji Otsuka, Department of History, Northwestern University
Panel Questions:
1) How has the study of Asians and Asian Americans whose lives encompassed both Asia and the United States challenged nation-centered narratives of U.S. empire and immigration?
2) How has national foreign policy reflected and been influenced by Asians who have maintained complex web of human networks in more than one country? In particular, how have the foreign policies of various Asian states reflected their studied and strategic responses to U.S. racial politics?
3) How might we integrate Pacific Islander/Hawaiian Studies into this new Pacific Studies scholarship that shifts our focus from affinities based on national belonging to ones based, for example, on race?
Collectively, this work looks toward a complex and emerging “TransPacific Histories,” suggesting the inadequacy of the categories “Asian” and “American” in capturing lived experiences of migration, nation-building, and intercultural relations. Highlighting the historical interconnections between, for example, Japan and Asian America, our panel will investigate the possibilities of a critical “TransPacific World” as a compliment to, but not a replacement for, binational and national histories.
Organizers:
Jinah Kim, Assistant Director and Lecturer, Asian American Studies Program
Shuji Otsuka, Doctoral Candidate, History
Nitasha Sharma, Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies and African American Studies
Main sponsor:
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Co-sponsors:
Institute for Comparative Race and Diaspora, The Graduate School, The Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, African American Studies Department, History Department
For information:
Asian American Studies Program • Kresge Hall 1-435,1880 Campus Drive • Evanston, IL 60208 • 847.467.7114
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
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Fall 2008
"Children in No Man's Land"
A film by Anayansi Prado
Film Screening followed by a Discussion
with film maker, Anayansi Prado
Thursday - November 20, 2008
6:30 — 9:00 pm
McCormick Tribune Center Forum
*This event is free and open to the public
Children In No Man's Land is a documentary that uncovers the current plight of the 100,000 unaccompanied minors entering the United States every year. This film gives this timely political debate aboutthe U.S.-Mexico border a human face by exploring the story of Maria de Jesus (13) and her cousin Rene (12) as they attempt to cross the U.S./Mexico border alone to reunite with their mothers in the Midwest. Focusing on minors crossing through the Sonora Desert area in Nogales, Arizona, this film explores every detail of these children's journey as well as the journeys of other children we meet on the way. We uncover in an intimate and personal way where they are coming from, what their journeys have been like and how they've gone about it, through to the arrival at their destination — their new home, the United States of America.
http://impactofilms.com/children.html
Children In No Man's Land is presented as the second event in “Chicago and the Third Border: Race, Culture, and Belonging in the Heartland”, a two event series organized by the Asian American Studies Program. This series highlights Chicago as a place of global migration. Both of these events explore how policing citizenship within national borders (“the third border”) shape our cultural, material and social landscape. These two events connect Chicago with national and global debates and underline the powerful ways immigration is felt in the Midwest. The first event in this series features David Mura.
Sponsored by the Asian American Studies Program • Latina/o Studies Program • Department of Sociology • Asian/Asian American Student Affairs • Department of Radio/TV/Film • Center for the Writing Arts • Department of English • WCAS Dean’s Office • Hispanic/Latino Student Affairs
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Fall 2008
David Mura
Monday — October 27
The Hagstrum Room (201 University Hall)
12 noon - 12:30 Buffet Reception
12:30-1:50 Reading/Talk/Q&A
David Mura will read from his new novel, Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire (2008) which is set in Chicago and centers around a family whose father refused to be drafted from a Japanese American internment camp (a “No-No Boy”) during WWII-era America. Mura’s novel highlights a rarely studied repercussion of WWII-era Japanese American internment - the dispersal and relocation of Japanese Americans from California and the West Coast to the Midwest and the East Coast.
http://www.davidmura.com/
*This event is free and open to the public
David Mura is presented as the first event in “Chicago and the Third Border: Race, Culture, and Belonging in the Heartland”, a two event series organized by the Asian American Studies Program. This series highlights Chicago as a place of global migration. Both of these events explore how policing citizenship within national borders (“the third border”) shape our cultural, material and social landscape. These two events connect Chicago with national and global debates and underline the powerful ways immigration is felt in the Midwest. For the second event in this series, we will screen the documentary film Children in No Man’s Land (2008) by Anayansi Prado which follows two youth, Maria de Jesus, 13, and her cousin, Rene, 12, as they cross the U.S.-Mexico border to reunite with their mothers who are working in Chicago.
Sponsored by the Asian American Studies Program • Latina/o Studies Program • Department of Sociology • Asian/Asian American Student Affairs • Department of Radio/TV/Film • Center for the Writing Arts • Department of English • WCAS Dean’s Office • Hispanic/Latino Student Affairs
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Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora
Wed — October 22
Crowe Hall 1-135
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) is open to undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, faculty, and friends who share active research interests in Asian American studies, African American studies, Latino/a studies, and related fields such as globalization studies and other pan-ethnic studies. Since 2007, the CED has helped to create a vibrant intellectual community through lively, critical discussions of recent research across disciplines. Read an article that you found engaging and would like to discuss?
Have research that you’d like to present and receive constructive feedback on from a cross-disciplinary audience? Want to be kept abreast of ground-breaking work related to race and ethnic studies? Then, this group is for you. The CED meets one to two times per month, and papers are circulated a week before the scheduled meeting.
Victor Padilla and I (Jenny Korn) are excited about receiving your input about books to read and presenters to bring to CED this year. If you would like to join our e-list, or if you would like to email me your ideas, please email j-korn@northwestern.edu. We also invite you to join us at our organizational meeting on Wednesday, October 22, 12-1:30 pm, in the Asian American studies conference room at Crowe 1-135. Thanks, and we look forward to seeing y’all soon!
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Asian American Young Adult Literature:
A Forum of Authors
Thurs - Oct 16, 2008
• 5:00 - 6:45 Presentations by the Panel / Q&A
102 University Hall
• 6:45 - 7:15 Reception —Food & Refreshments
101 University Hall
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Panelists will include:
Linda Sue Park
Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Ken Mochizuki
*This event is free and open to the public
Linda Sue Park is the author of A SINGLE SHARD, which was awarded the prestigious Newbery Medal by the American Library Association in 2002, for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. She has written both picture books and novels for young people, including the Jane Addams Peace Prize honor book, WHEN MY NAME WAS KEOKO, and the Chicago Tribune Young Adult Literature award title, PROJECT MULBERRY. Her most recent books are TAP DANCING ON THE ROOF, a collection of poetry, and KEEPING SCORE, a baseball story set during the time of the Korean War. The daughter of immigrant parents, Ms. Park draws on her Korean ancestry for much of her work. A childhood love of the public library has led her to consider herself a reader first and a writer second. She lives with her family in western New York. Learn more about Linda Sue and her books at her website,
http://lindasuepark.com/
Marie Myung-Ok Lee has published five award-winning young adult novels. Finding My Voice was a Friend of American Writers award winner,
Necessary Roughness, an American Library Association Best Book, and her books have also been chosen for the International Reading Association Children’s Choice lists and for the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age. Lee’s adult novel, Somebody’s Daughter, was a Booklist Best Adult Book for Young Adults and an AAUP “Best of the Best”. Her fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review and Witness, TriQuarterly and has been short-listed for the O. Henry awards. Nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, the Washington Post, and most recently, the anthology Love You To Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs. Lee, writer-in-residence at Brown University where she also teaches, has been a judge for the National Book Awards, a Fulbright Scholar, and a MacDowell Colony and Sewanee Writers’ Conference fellow. She also wrote the introduction for the photo installation, THE KYOPO PROJECT, which will be shown at a Smithsonian site in the near future.
Ken Mochizuki is the author of the young adult novel Beacon Hill Boys and the picture books Baseball Saved Us, Heroes, Passage to Freedom: the Sugihara Story, and Be Water, My Friend: the Early Years of Bruce Lee.” He contributed to the anthologies On the Wings of Peace and A Different Battle: Stories of Asian Pacific American Veterans. Mochizuki also wrote Within the Silence, a performance piece about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, for the Seattle-based Living Voices; and a stage musical version of Baseball Saved Us for the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Mochizuki received a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Washington and served as staff writer/editor for the Seattle newspapers International Examiner and Northwest Nikkei, with a special interest in the history and current issues of Americans of Asian/Pacific descent. In 1999, he was hired by the U.S. Army to give presentations on the history of Asian/Pacific Americans in the U.S. military. As an author and free-lance writer, he travels extensively to speak to students, teachers and librarians about his work.
Co-sponsored by: Asian American Studies Program, The Writing Program
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The Asian American Studies Program annual
OPEN HOUSE
Thursday October 2
12:30 - 2:00
Kresge 1-435
Come see our new offices, meet the faculty and find out what's new in the Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern!
Food from Ruby of Siam will be served
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Spring 2008
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Winter 2008
Laura Kina artist lecture
Aloha Dreams:
Hapa Heritage Tourism and the Quest for Racial Paradise
March 5, 2008 — 4:00pm
University Hall 122
Northwestern University, Evanston
"Me and Joe at Paradise Cove", Acrylic, pencil, glitter, Envirotex on wood panel, 14" x 18", 2006
Laura Kina is a painter and an Assistant Professor of Art, Media and Design and the Program director of Asian American Studies at DePaul University. Her artwork is focused on the fluidity of cultural difference, in the slipperiness of identity and what we think of as "race" and how that intersects with ethnicity, religion, class, and gender. Her work is represented by Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts in Miami, FL and is currently on view at the Spertus Museum in Chicago as part of The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation.
Her Aloha Dreams series uses Hawai’i as a tropical muse to explore pattern, color, figuration and abstraction, hapa heritage tourism, the quest for a racial paradise and legacies of orientalism in painting.
Sponsored by a course enhancement grant from the Dean's Office of the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the Program in Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. For information: 847.467.7114
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"Our Sisters are NOT for Sale:
Examining the issue and implications
of
Asian trafficked victims into the U.S."
Thursday — February 7, 2008
6:30 Reception/7:00 Panel Discussion
McCormick Tribune Center Forum
Northwestern University, Evanston
Panelists:
Rachel Durchslag,
Executive Director, Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation
Kaitlyn Lim,
Coordinator, Polaris Project, Los Angeles
Timothy Lim,
Professor of Asian Studies, Cal State, Los Angeles
Bing Luo,
Immigrant Services Advocate, National Immigrant Justice Center/Heartland Alliance
Kavitha Sreeharsha,
Staff Attorney, Legal Momentum
Moderated by Ji-Yeon Yuh,
Director, Asian American Studies, Northwestern
.
Sponsored by the Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern • KAN-WIN (Korean American Women In Need) • Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights • Department of History, Northwestern • Department of Sociology, Northwestern • Additional funding provided by The Initiative For Comaprative Race & Diaspora
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"We Were Not All Immigrants: Towards a Radical Vision of (Asian) American History"
A Public Lecture by
Moon-Ho Jung
Associate Professor: Asian American History,
University of Washington
Friday ~ January 25, 2008
12 noon — Buffet Lunch
12:30 - 1:50 — Lecture/Discussion
Harris Hall 108
Professor Jung is the author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) *Winner, Merle Cuti Award (for the best book in social, intellectual, and/or cultural history), Organization of American Historians
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Fall 2007 Events
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Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora:
Dissertation Workshop on "The Rights of Civilian Internees under the Geneva Convention"
by Stephen Mak (Doctoral Candidate in History, NU)
Wed ‑ November 7th
12:30-1:30pm
Crowe Hall 1-135
Please respond to s-otsuka@northwestern if you plan on attending this event, indicating any food restrictions that you may have.
Since we will need to circulate Stephen's chapter in advance of our meetings, please let us know by November 2.
~lunch will be provided~
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A Faculty Round Table Conversation
Faculty members of the Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern University will be speaking on
Asian American Studies, the field, their own special interests,
and how they came to be part of it.
~featuring~
Nitasha Sharma
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies/African American Studies
Shalini Shankar
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies/Anthropology
Shanshan Lan
Mellon Fellow, Asian American Studies
Thursday – November 8
3:30 – 5:30
Kresge Hall 2-301
Light refreshments served
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"Free The Jena Six!"
A Report From Jena and an exploration of racial violence in America today and the movement this has sparked
Thursday — October 25
6:30 — 9:00 pm
122 University Hall
Northwestern University, Evanston campus
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Panelists:
Martha Biondi, African American Studies
Hank Brown, Reporter for Revolution newspaper who has been reporting from Jena
John Márquez, African American Studies
Alice Woodward, Reporter for Revolution newspaper who has been reporting from Jena
Sponsors
Asian American Studies Program
African American Studies Department
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Asian American Studies Open House
Thursday October 18, 2007
3:30 - 5:30
Crowe Hall 1-135
Meet the faculty
Find out about the program
Learn about our courses
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Fall 2005 Events
Asian American Studies Program presents:
“This Day in Asian American History .
. . ” Competition
The “This Day in Asian American History” competition
is sponsored by the Northwestern Asian American Studies Program.
Student teams are invited to submit a list of contemporary and historical events
for inclusion in an Asian American history calendar. Accurate and relevant
events will earn the team points with additional bonus points awarded for events
related to Northwestern, Chicago, and the Midwest and for events further back
historically. Each member of the winning team, judged by total points, will
win an Apple iPod nano.
rules and registration form
For more information or questions contact:
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone 847-467-7114
Asian American Studies Program presents:
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
4pm, University Hall 102
light refreshments served
For more information or questions contact:
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone 847-467-7114
Asian American Studies Program presents:
A Musical Conversation with
Thursday, October 20, 2005
7:30pm, Norris Gathering Place
light refreshments served
map/directions
For more information or questions contact:
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone 847-467-7114
Asian American Studies Program presents:
A Faculty Roundtable Conversation:
Thursday, October 13, 2005
4:30pm, Hagstrom Room
University Hall
light refreshments served
For more information or questions contact:
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone 847-467-7114
The Department of Anthropology and
the
Asian
American Studies Program present
Associate Professor of Anthropology
University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Race and
Queer Space in
the Neoliberal
City
Thursday, October 6, 2005
4pm, Anthropology Seminar Room
1810 Hinman Avenue
reception to follow
For more information or questions contact:
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone 847-467-7114
Asian American Studies Program and
Asian/Asian American Student Affairs present
Thursday, September 15, 2005
1-5pm workshops
Crowe Café and Courtyard / Kresge Hall
For more information or questions contact:
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone 847-467-7114
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Spring 2005 Events
Winter 2005 Events
Asian American Studies Program presents:
End of Winter Quarter Study Break
Wednesday, March 9, 2004
3-5pm, Crowe Hall 1-135
For more information or questions contact:
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone 847-467-7114
Asian American Studies Program and
the South Asian Student Alliance present:
"intelligent hiphop is back in
Brown"
South Asians in America are stereotypically
turbaned cab drivers, motel owners with heavy accents, young, slick
doctors, brainy software engineers, and traditional matchmaking mothers.
They are seen as politically passie and financially successful. So,
what does it mean when a "model minority" ventures across
its social boundaries into hip-hop culture?
Friday, February 25, 2005
7pm McCormick-Tribune Forum
reception with food follows
co-sponsored by Gender Studies, American
Studies, and Radio/TV/Film
For more information or questions contact:
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone 847-467-7114
Asian American Studies Program presents:
Racial Aesthetics and Lawson
Inada's "Jazz"
a talk by
Kandice Chuh
author of imagine otherwise: on asian americanist
critique
What's Race Got To Do With It? . .
. "Jazz" is one of the poems/meditations about life
in Japanese American internment camps during World War II from Lawson
Inada's Legends from Camp. Inspired by African American jazz music,
jazz is also the style of language, of riffing and repetition, Inada
uses in these poems. Can the experience of racism produce expressive
style and aethetics?
Thursday, 20 October, 2005
4pm, Harris 108
reception to follow
co-sponsored by the Department of English
and the Alice Berline Kaplan Humanities Center
For more information or questions contact:
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone 847-467-7114
Fall
2004 Events
Asian American Studies Program presents:
End of Fall Quarter Study Break
Wednesday, December 1, 2004
3-6pm, Crowe Hall 1-135
For more information or questions contact:
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone 847-467-7114
Asian American Studies Program presents:
A Jazz Café with
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Thursday, November 4, 2004
7:30pm, Norris Gathering Place
light refreshments served
map/directions
For more information or questions contact:
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone 847-467-7114
Asian American Studies Program presents:
Who is a better candidate for Asian
Americans?
a debate featuring
Li Chung Wang and Andrew Kim
Thursday, October 28, 2004
4pm, Crowe Hall 1-135
pizza and drinks served
For more information or questions contact:
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone 847-467-7114
Asian American Studies Program presents:
former Chair,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
and Northwestern alum
"Politics and Asian Pacific Americans"
and
Welcome Back to Campus Reception
Thursday, October 7, 2004
5pm, Harris 107
reception to follow in Harris 108
For more information or questions contact:
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone 847-467-7114
Asian American Studies Program presents
Sunday, October 3, 2004
1-6pm workshops
Crowe Hall 1-117
6:30-10pm film and performances
McCormick-Tribune Forum
advanced registration suggested
directions/map | register
For more information or questions contact:
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone 847-467-7114
Spring 2004 Events
Asian American Studies Program
invites you to a Q&A discussion with
Eric Byler
Director of Charlotte Sometimes
Sex and Race in Mainstream Media
Free Screening of Charlotte Sometimes
Friday, April 23, 2004
7:00 PM
Harris Hall 107
R.S.V.P.
asianamerican@northwestern.edu Phone
847-467-7114
Asian American Studies Program Presents:
Ronald Richardson
Director of African American Studies &
Associate Professor of History, Boston University
The “MODEL” Minority Meets The “REAL” Minority
Student & Faculty Luncheon
April 30, 2004
12:00 P.M.
Crowe Hall, Room 1-125
R.S.V.P.
asianamerican@northwestern.edu Phone
847-467-7114
Asian American Studies Program Presents:
Michael Thornton
Professor of Afro-American Studies
University of Wisconsin at Madison
The “MODEL” Minority Meets The “REAL” Minority
Student & Faculty Luncheon
May 7, 2004
12:00 P.M.
University Hall, Room 201
R.S.V.P.
asianamerican@northwestern.edu Phone
847-467-7114
Asian American Studies Program Presents:
Kerri Sakamoto
and her new book
One Hundred Million Hearts
Kerri Sakamoto is the author of The Electrical Field, which won the
Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the Canada-Japan Literary
Award, and was nominated for several others, including the Governor General's
Award for Fiction and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. She lives in Toronto.
The Toronto Stars calls Sakamoto as "a major new force in the landscape
of Canadian fiction".
One
Hundred Million Hearts is a story of love, guilt,
and complicity in the context of war. The novel was
a bestseller when first published in Canada late in
2003. Kerri Sakamoto skillfully weaves larger questions
of guilt and obligation into an intimate, suspenseful
account of a young woman and a country both confronting
themselves.
"A dazzling, multi-layered novel of loss and regret, of love and death, of sacrifice
and self-centredness....Sakamoto writes with a keen, almost merciless eye for
detail, a painter's eye for scene and setting."- The Ottowa Citizen |
Come and join Kerri Sakamoto as she talks about her new book, life as an author,
and reads excerpts from One Hundred Million Hearts!
April 6, 2004 at 1pm
University Hall Rm 201
Lunch provided, please RSVP
asianamerican@northwestern.edu Ph.
847-467-7114
Asian American
Studies Program Presents
Shozo Sato
A Series of Performances and Lectures on the Traditional Japanese Arts of Tea
and Dance
Saturday, April 24, 1pm - Story and Visual Image in Japanese Traditional Dance
Saturday, May 8, 1pm - Cha and Tea
Saturday, May 22, 1pm - Sense of Beauty Through the Tea Ceremony
Click here for full brochure.
All events are in McCormick Auditorium, Norris University Center, 1999 Campus
Drive, Northwestern University.
Events are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact the Asian American Studies Office at asianamerican@northwestern.edu or
(847) 467-7114
Winter 2004 Events
Asian American Studies Program
Presents
Yvonne M. Lau, Ph.D.
Professor, DePaul University
"Media & Constructions of Asian Americans:
Menace or Model?
Thursday, March 4, 2004
4 p.m.
Harris 108
Reception to Follow
Yvonne Lau received her doctorate in Sociology from Northwestern University and is currently teaching at DePaul University in Asian American Studies and sociology. She is director of the Chicago Public School-DePaul, DAAAO Program - DePaul's Asian and Asian American
Opportunities Program, a two-year early college program specializing in Asian American Studies and
Asian languages. She is also Program Director for Supplemental Instruction at DePaul and serves in the
Office of Academic Affairs.
R.S.V.P.
asianamerican@northwestern.edu Phone: 847-467-7114
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Asian American Studies Program
invites you to a lunch discussion with
Diane Fujino
Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara
Political Organizing in Asian and Black Communities:
Solidarities and Conflicts
Friday, February 27th, 2004
12:00 PM
University Hall 201
R.S.V.P.
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
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Discussion by Core Asian American Faculty:
"How I Became a Scholar of Asian American Studies"
Professors Carolyn Chen, Ji-Yeon Yuh, Dorothy Wang Moderator: Professor
Aldon Morris
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
4:00 PM
Crowe 1-125 (across from Crowe Café)
Open House and Reception to Follow
R.S.V.P.
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-467-7114
Fall 2003 Events
Asian American Studies Program
INVITES YOU TO TAKE A STUDY BREAK AND COME TO
THE AAS Holiday
LUNCHEON
Friday, December 5, 2003
12:30-2:00
University Hall Room 18 (basement)
R.S.V.P.
asianamerican@northwestestern.edu
847-467-7114
Spring 2003 Events
Asian American Studies Program
INVITES YOU TO
THE AAS MINORS'
END OF THE YEAR
LUNCHEON
Come and wish our graduating minors a successful future!
June 4, 2003
Noon - 1:00 pm
University Hall 201
R.S.V.P.
asianamerican@northwestestern.edu
847-467-7114
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Asian American Studies Program Presents
ANGELA E. OH
ATTORNEY AND FORMER PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR
Friday, May 30, 2003 Noon University Hall Rm 201
Lunch Provided
Angela Oh is a partner at Oh & Berrera, LLP and has been teaching, writing and lecturing on the subject of race and human relations since 1992. A prominent spokesperson for the APA community, Oh was the only Asian American to serve on the Advisory Board to the President's Initiative on Race. She has published and lectured on law, civil rights, and race issues nationwide, and has served as Special Counsel to the Assembly Special Committee on the L.A. Crisis following the 1992 riots. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company, Women's Policy, Inc., and the Board of Directors for the Korean American Bar Association of Southern California. Ms. Oh recently finished a collection of essays about the people she has met and the experiences she has had in a book published by the Asian American Studies Department of UCLA - "Open: One Woman's Journey."
For more information, please contact Asian American Studies 467-7114 or email asianamerican@northwestern.edu
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Asian American Studies Program
Presents
Spring Lecture Series
Featuring
Asian American Studies Program Presents
Shifting Sands of Racial Exclusion:
Local Practices in the Shaping of American Citizenship
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
University of California, Berkeley
Professor, Department of Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies
Founding Director, Center for Race and Gender
Professor Glenns teaching and research interests focus on transdisciplinary methods, political economy of households, the intersection of race and gender, immigration, and citizenship. Her articles have appeared such journals as Social Problems, Signs, Feminist Studies, Social Science History, Stanford Law Review, Contemporary Sociology, and Review of Radical Political Economy, as well as in numerous edited volumes. She is the author of Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service (Temple University Press), Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency (Routledge), and Unequal Freedom, How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizen and Labor (Harvard University Press).
Her book, Unequal Freedom will be available for sale after her presentation.
Reception to Follow
May 23, 2003 University Hall 201 Noon 2 pm
For more information, please contact Asian American Studies at asianamerican@northwestern.edu or call 467-7114
This event is co-sponsored by American Studies Program and Gender Studies Program
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Asian American Studies Program
Presents
Yen Le Espiritu
Professor and Chair
Department of Ethnic Studies
University of California, San Diego
Race, Immigration and Asian America:
A Critical Transnational Perspective
Professor Espiritu has authored many books and articles. Two of her award winning books are Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities (1992, Temple) and Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love (1997, Sage).
Her current research calls attention to the intersection of race, class, and gender in immigrant lives, to the immigrants transnational activities and organizations, and to the fluid and multiple identities of the second generation. Her forthcoming book, Home Making: Filipino Migration in Transnational Context, (University of California Press), documents the transnational and gendered lives of Filipino Americans in San Diego County.
Lunch Provided!
May 2, 2003
12 noon 1:30 pm
Sociology Seminar Room
1808 Chicago Avenue
For more information, please contact Asian American Studies at 7-7114 or email asianamerican@northwestern.edu
This event is co-sponsored by Asian/Asian American Student Services and Department of Sociology
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Asian American Studies Program Presents
Frank H. Wu
Professor at Howard University School of Law
Race in America Beyond Black and White
Tuesday, April 22, 2003
6:00-7:30 pm
Swift Hall Room 107
2029 Sheridan Road
Reception to follow featured presentation
This event is co-sponsored by African American Studies, Asian/Asian American Student Services, Legal Studies, Office of the Provost, Simeon E. Leland Forum,
WCAS Office of Undergraduate Studies and Advising
For more information contact
asianamerican@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-467-7114
Winter 2003 Events
"Roads + Bridges"
A film by Abraham Lim, Produced by Robert Altman
Wednesday, February 5, 2003
7 :00 PM
Block Cinema
Pick-Laudati Auditorium at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Spring 2001 Events
MARCH
"Deep Dish Discussions" - Thursday, March 29, 12 noon
APRIL
Author Alvin Lu - Tuesday, April 17, 4PM
Lecturer Alexander Saxton - Thursday, April 19th, 4PM
MAY
"Deep Dish Discussions II" - Thursday, May 10, 1PM
Meet Mia Park - Drummer and frontwoman for the Asian American all-female rock/punk/pop band, KIM
Performance, "Close Encounter with Mr. Chow Yun-Fat"
May 18-19
8 PM
Block Museum, Pick-Laudati Auditorium
Free
Performance and lecture, "Rape/Race/Rage/Revolution: Dance as Alternative to the Master's Tools "
by dancer/choreographer Peggy Myo-Young Choy
Friday, May 18, 4:30-6:30 PM
Marjorie Ward Dance Center
1979 S. Campus Drive, Evanston
Ballroom Studio Theatre
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