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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
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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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