TALK: Lok Siu

Asian American Studies Graduate Student Group (ASAGSG) and the Asian American Studies Program Presents:

Lok D. Siu, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asia/Pacific American Studies at NYU

“Asian American Studies: Toward a Hemispheric Approach”

Place:         126 Voorhies
Date:         Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Time:          4:00-6:00pm

About Lok D. Siu:
Dr. Siu is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asia/Pacific/American Studies at NYU, and currently the Director of Events for the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. She is the author of numerous publications. Her book, Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama (Stanford University Press, 2005), is the winner of the 2005 Book Award in Social Sciences from the Association of Asian American Studies. Currently, she is co-editing Asian Diasporas (forthcoming with Stanford U Press) with Dr. Parreñas and is working on another volume, Gender and Cultural Citizenship. Her research focuses on migration, diaspora, transnationalism, cultural citizenship, Central America and Panama, and Asians in the Americas.

Sponsors: Anthropology Dept., ASAGSG, Asian American Studies 
Contact Jeannie Woo at jeawoo@ucdavis.edu for additional information on the talk.

NEED PRESENTERS: AA Literature Panels at 2007 MLA convention

The Division on Asian American Literature is sponsoring 3 panels for the 2007 MLA convention in Chicago. Please contact panel organizers listed below with submission or queries.

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"Racial Allegory"
Narratives about Asian Americans that do not explicitly reference racializedbodies/ subjects. How does "Asianness" circulate symbolically? To what end? Theorizing implications of invoking race metaphorically in American literature and culture. 1-page abstract, c.v., 15 March; Leslie Bow lbow@wisc.edu

"Poetry's Place in Asian American Studies"
Roundtable addressing the relative lack of attention to poetry in shaping the field and offering conceptual frameworks for why poetry matters. Polemical presentations especially welcome. 1-page abstract, c.v., 15 March; tina.chen@vanderbilt.edu.

"Marketing Childhood/Adolescen ce in Asian American Literature"
Theoretical analyses of texts/graphic novels about childhood/adolescence and/or targeted for youths, contextualized by examining their publishing, networking and/or marketing. 1-page abstract, c.v., 15 March; greta.niu@rochester.edu

2007 APAHE Conference

NOTE: If you are interested in getting more info on this conference, please email Dawn at dtlee@ucdavis.edu It looks like they haven't set up a website yet but Dawn has all the conference documents.

APAHE CONFERENCE

May 3-5, 2007 Oakland, CA

“Going Back to Our Roots – A 20th Anniversary Celebration of Activism and Empowerment”

Asian and Pacific Americans in Higher Education (APAHE) announces its spring conference to be held Thursday, May 3 through Saturday, May 5, 2007 in Oakland California. APAHE’s new president and Laney College President, Frank Chong, will be our host in the same city that hosted our inaugural APAHE conference 20 years ago! This is an excellent opportunity for all of us to get reconnected and to reinvigorate APAHE as our organization as well as to welcome new members and interested individuals. Twenty years later, student admissions issues, faculty tenure cases, under-representation in hiring and promotion, affirmative action, and Asian American Studies continue to be pressing issues impacting Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Higher Education. APAHE is the leading national organization to address these concerns.

This year’s APAHE conference is being generously co-sponsored by Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. (LEAP). LEAP is a nationally recognized, nonprofit organization that offers leadership training, publishes public policy research, and organizes efforts to increase community empowerment.

The conference will be held both on the campus of Laney College and at the Marriott Oakland City Center and throughout Oakland’s vibrant Chinatown district. Everything is very close together, so no other transportation should be necessary. The Oakland airport is 9 miles away from the hotel.

Hotel
Marriott Oakland City Center Room rate guaranteed through April 12, 2007
1001 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94607
Phone: 510-451-4000 Fax: 510-839-0677
Room rates: $145/night – must register under APAHE or LEAP
Parking: $15/day

Schedule
Thursday, May 3
8:30 a.m. Preconference Workshop (separate registration)
11:30 a.m. Registration and Lunch at Laney College
1:00 p.m. Opening Session at Laney College
2:00 p.m. Plenary Session at Laney College
6:00 p.m. Dinner—Oakland Chinatown: Silver Dragon Restaurant

Friday, May 4
8:30 a.m. Morning Plenary at Marriott Oakland City Center
10:30 a.m. Workshop Sessions -- Marriott
12:00 p.m. Lunch -- Marriott
1:30 p.m. Workshop Sessions -- Marriott
5:30 p.m. Reception – Oakland Chinatown: Peony Restaurant

Saturday, May 5
8:30 a.m. Full Breakfast/Morning Plenary at Marriott Oakland City Center
11:30 a.m. Conference ends

Call for Presentations
Submit conference workshop proposals by March 23, 2007
Workshop sessions are 90 minutes in length. Use separate form for proposal submission.

Registration Fees
$250 regular registration
$ 99 student registration (undergraduate and graduate)

CFP: 6th Annual UC Womyn of Color Conference

Call for Papers & Workshops:

6th Annual UC Womyn of Color Conference

"Decolonizing Ourselves: Reconceptualizing Our Lives"

April 20-22, 2007 Davis, CA

http://wrrc.ucdavis.edu/wocc

The 6th annual University of California Womyn of Color Conference will be held this spring at UC Davis. Historically, this conference has provided a space for students and faculty to dialogue on issues concerning womyn of color. This year is no different. We invite proposals for academic panels/papers, informational workshops, skill building workshops, artistic presentations, and workshops from UNDERGRADUATE and GRADUATE students. We want students to feel empowered to make this conference their own by contributing new and creative ways to make their voices heard.

Proposals and Papers must be submitted by March 5th, 2007. Submit abstracts to wocc2007@gmail.com.

Conference Theme: "Decolonizing Ourselves: Reconceptualizing Our Lives"

Colonialism/Imperialism is a system in which a state or other entity claims power over territories or borders that are not their own. These borders can be real or imagined; they mark the boundaries of land, our labor and are written on our bodies. As womyn of color, colonization and imperialism touches the most intimate aspects of our lives because it is a system of that replaces existing social fabrics with oppressive hierarchical systems. These systems affect how we relate to each other, our families, institutions and ourselves. Despite attempts at colonization, womyn of color have managed to maintain our sense of self, community and culture. The conference invites presentations and papers that consider how we, as womyn of color, decolonize ourselves and reconceptualize our lives.

Possible formats:
*Papers/panels: If you have written a paper about an issue concerning womyn of color that you wanted to share, this is the place and time! You can organize your own panel of 3-4 papers and a commentator, or submit an abstract of your work and we will place it with a panel.

*Performative format: Do you have piece you feel speaks to theme of this conference? We welcome artistic performances from the arts (dance, music, drama, spoken word, performance art) to multi-media presentations (video, film, audio, digital media) and readings of creative fiction and non-fiction.

*Roundtables/ caucuses: We will reserve space for ethnic/race specific caucus to convene and dialogue about community specific issues. If there are issues and concerns you feel a certain caucus should address.

*Workshop format: Presenters will create venues to verbally and/or physically interact with the participants. We invite educators, artists, and community activists to lead workshops that emphasize interaction and challenge us to think in new ways.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

The "F" word
--Womyn of color and feminism
--Historical essays - examination of "unknown" or unwritten histories of womyn of color, and Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer womyn.
-- Models and methods for working across culture and/or class within feminist organizations.

Our Bodies our Selves
--Body image
--Eating disorders
--Cosmetic surgery
--Body modification

Violence
--Violence in the media
--Violence and the global economy
--Violence of law enforcement
--Womyn of color-centered approaches to challenge domestic violence and sexual assault
--Violence in faith communities
--Violence against queer womyn, children, and refugee womyn
--Violence and disability

Gender and sexuality
--Heterosexism and homophobia
--Gender policing and transphobia
--Racial myths and the regulation of sexuality/sexual expression
--Domestic violence in South Asian and Middle Eastern communities
-- Transgendered/womyn and incarceration
--Successful trans-feminist organizing
-- Organizing around transgendered and same-sex parenting rights

Health and Healthcare:
--Sterilization abuse, dangerous contraceptives and attacks on the reproductive rights of womyn of color
-- Sterilization projects that target poor womyn, incarcerated womyn, etc.
--Holistic projects that deal with multiple-intersecting issues of reproductive justice
--HIV/AIDS and STI's (Sexual Transmitted Infections)

Alternative spaces:
--Womyn of color and LBT resource centers and grassroots organizing.
-- Womyn of color and LBT organizations, alternative feminist visions, artist collectives, internet communities, blogrings, etc.

Land and Labor
--Feminist responses to Katrina, mining on indigenous lands, environmental degradation and environmental racism, etc.
--Feminist response to the Womyn of Juarez: maquilladoras and gender violence
--Undocumented womyn and labor
--Sex workers rights
--Immigration detention, border violence and xenophobia
--Imperialism and U.S. occupations

Educational Access
--Prop 209 and continuing backlash
--Recruitment and Retention efforts in UC schools
--Psychological affects of low representation of womyn of color in higher education

Submission Guidelines:
Individual Paper:
Contact Information for each person presenting:
Individual Author information including: first name, last name, affiliation, e-mail and telephone.
Presenter Bio/s: Please include brief biographies no more than 100 words for each presenter.
Session/Paper Title: maximum of 15 words
Paper Abstract (maximum of 250 words per abstract)
Special Requests (including audio-visual equipment needs)

Panel Submission: (The following is needed from each session participant)
Contact Information for each person presenting:
Individual Author information including: first name, last name, affiliation, e-mail and telephone.
Presenter Bio/s: Please include brief biographies no more than 100 words for each presenter.
Session/Paper Title: maximum of 15 words
Paper Abstract (maximum of 250 words per abstract)
Special Requests (including audio-visual equipment needs)

You will receive an email confirmation that your submission was received. Individual papers will be organized into sessions.

For more information
Maria Cervantes
Program Intern, WRRC
North Hall
wocc2007@gmail.com
(530) 752-3372

Northeastern U: 2007-2008 Visiting Scholars opportunity

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
BOSTON, MA
2007-2008

The Women's Studies Program at Northeastern University annually offers Research Associate positions to scholars researching topics on women or gender issues in the humanities and sciences. The Program is also interested in scholars that work on the intersectionality of race and gender. Scholars are in residence for the academic year (or
shorter) at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts and are offered a modest stipend. Scholars should have additional financial support.

Located in the center of Boston, Northeastern University is ideally located for visiting scholars. In addition to its proximity to Boston's rich cultural and artistic life, Northeastern is close to major research libraries such as the Boston Public Library, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College as well as numerous academic institutions that make the intellectual life of Boston one of the richest in the country.

Scholars may apply by sending a brief statement of their project, dates of expected residency and a current curriculum vitae to:

Dr. Lihua Wang, Coordinator of The Women's Studies Program
524 Holmes Hall
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115

CFP: Pacific SW Women's Studies Association

Seventeenth Annual

Pacific Southwest Women's Studies Association Conference
Students, Teachers, and Activists Working Together
Friday, April 13, 2007
California State University, Los Angeles

Call For Proposals
Proposals should be submitted via email as Word attachments to Ester Hernandez at:
eherna17@calstatela.edu

Proposal Deadline: February 19, 2007

For More Information contact Deborah Mindry dmindry@oxy.edu
or
Ester Hernandez eherna17@calstatela.edu

Conference Registration is Required for Attendance and Presentation

The theme of this conference is motivated by current domestic and international political crises: the ongoing war in Iraq, the push for homeland security, the tightening of immigration policies, and the increased policing and criminalization of the "other," among other dehumanizing projects and actions. These affect all communities and families, locally and globally, shaping our everyday lives and the spaces in which we live, discouraging human relationship, promoting the unjust distribution of wealth and allocation of resources, and increasing the militarization of society. As feminists seeking to end the subordination of women and all oppressed people, we must challenge our complacency and sense of futility in the face of these multiple "battles" and seek ways to create solidarity across borders and boundaries to work towards change.

UCLA AASC: Latest Census Reports on Asian Americans, Black Americans, and Hispanic Americans

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center, as an official U.S. Census Information Center in partnership with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific Community Development, is pleased to assist the U.S. Census Bureau in announcing the release on February 15 of three informative reports on Asian Americans, Black Americans, and Hispanic Americans based on the 2004 American Community Survey. Each report can be downloaded.

The American Community: 2004 -- Feb. 15 -- These three reports present a portrait of racial and ethnic population groups in the United States based on data from the 2004 American Community Survey. Each report provides information on a number of characteristics (e.g., education, household type, income, commuting, etc.). Data are presented in tables, figures, and maps. In addition, the Asian and Hispanic reports present data for selected detailed groups (Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese for Asians; Guatemalans, Hondurans, Salvadorans, Colombians, Ecuadorians, and Peruvians for Hispanics). Two additional reports on the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander population and the American Indian and Alaska Native population will be released later this year.

Internet address:

The American Community -- Asians: 2004
http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/acs-05.pdf

The American Community -- Hispanics: 2004
http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/acs-03.pdf

The American Community -- Blacks: 2004
http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/acs-04.pdf

Travel Grants offered by CWR

The Consortium for Women and Research announces its

Spring Graduate Travel Awards

New travel dates: May 1, 2007- December 14, 2007

Applications for Spring Graduate Student Travel Awards (up to $600 for domestic and up to $800 for international travel) are due March 13. For information and application forms, please visit our website at cwr.ucdavis.edu. Blank applications are also available outside the Consortium’s office at 158 Kerr Hall.

Application Deadline: March 13^th at noon

TWO Gary Okihiro events

Thursday, February 8th
"Toward a Black Pacific: On the Intersections of African Americans and Pacific Islanders"
Gary Okihiro, Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia
Place: University ClubLounge
Time: 4-6p (part of the Cultural Studies Winter Colloquium)
Sponsors: ASAGSG, Asian American Studies program, APA Political Research Cluster, Cultural Studies Graduate Group, History department, African American and African Studies, Graduate Student Association

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Special Professional Development Workshop for Grad Students
Place: 3201 Hart
Time: 2-330p
**You must RSVP for this event.**

Workshop will cover:
-How to be successful in grad school
-Negotiating interdisciplinary research
-How to get faculty to give you the support you need
-Building your academic career
-A faculty perspective on the interview process and what search committees really look for
-What to look for as a junior faculty person
-plus any other of your burning questions!

Workshop format will be open to question and answer and general discussion.
To RSVP for this event please email Dawn at dtlee@ucdavis.edu

Talk: Ahmed Kanna

UC Davis Department of Anthropology Sociocultural Series
Winter 2007

Ahmed Kanna
Postdoctoral Fellow
International Programs
University of Iowa

"Dubai: Space and Time on the Neoliberal Spatial Frontier"

Monday, February 12, 2007
4:10-6:00 pm
147 Olson

New Book

Begin Here: Reading Asian North American
Autobiographies of Childhood, by Rocio G. Davis.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007.
ISBN: 978-0824830922. 256 pp.

This new work by widens the critical focus of Asian North American literary studies by proposing an integrated thematic and narratological approach to the practice of autobiography. In analyzing how Asian North American writers challenge the construction and performance of national experiences by rewriting the inherited scripts of childhood, Davis highlights the ways in which these writers deploy their childhood narratives to represent individual processes of self-identification, and to negotiate cultural and national affiliations. Davis examines the artistic projects of some fifty AsianNorth American writers, providing a comprehensiveoverview of autobiographies of childhood published over the last century, while also attending to new ways of writing, including graphic novels, diaries, and mixed genre works. By reading the texts as generic engagements with North American life writing, Davisreveals their performative potential within the wider project of creating a community of readers that will produce and preserve cultural memory.

Further information about the book is available from
its publisher, the University of Hawai'i Press, at www.uhpress.hawaii.edu

Call for Nominations

The Consortium for Women and Research Call for Nominations:

Outstanding Mentor Awards, 2007

The Outstanding Mentor Award provides recognition and $500 in research money to faculty who have been outstanding in the mentoring of women graduate students and postdocs at UC Davis.

Visit our website for information and nomination forms: cwr.ucdavis.edu

Deadline: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at Noon

Nominations can be turned in to our office located at 168 Kerr Hall

Film Screening: "Pilgrimage" at UCSC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 31, 2007
Contact 831-459-5349
aapirc@ucsc.edu

"PILGRIMAGE" PREMIERES AT UCSC
How a new generation of Japanese Americans reclaimed the WWII Concentration Camps

UCSC will mark the 65th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, the
legal order that led to the wartime incarceration of 120,000 Japanese
Americans, with the Santa Cruz premiere of Pilgrimage, a new
documentary by award-winning filmmaker, Tadashi Nakamura.
Co-producer Karen Ishizuka will also be on hand to talk about her new
book, Lost & Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Internment.

The event takes place Friday, Feb. 9, 6:30-8:30PM, Oakes Lecture Hall
105, UCSC west campus. Admission is free.

With a hip-hop music track and never-before-

seen archival footage,
Pilgrimage tells the inspiring story of how a small group of Japanese
Americans in the late 1960s transformed the abandoned Manzanar,
California concentration camp into a symbol of retrospection and
solidarity for people of all ages, races and nationalities in a post
9/11 world. The documentary is slated for broadcast on PBS, and will
tour the west coast this spring. Tadashi Nakamura is the
award-winning director of Yellow Brotherhood and a student in the
Masters Program in Social Documentation of the Community Studies
Department.

In her new book, Lost & Found, Karen Ishizuka combines heartfelt
stories with first-rate scholarship to reveal the complexities of the
Japanese American struggle to reclaim their own history. Ishizuka
deftly blends official history with community memory to frame the
historical moment of recovery within its cultural legacy. Ishizuka is
a media producer and former Senior Curator at the Japanese American
National Museum in Los Angeles. Her forthcoming book is Mining the
Home Movie: Excavations into Histories and Memories, co-authored by
Patty Zimmerman.

Sponsored by the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center,
Community Studies Department, and Asian Pacific Islander Student
Alliance. For more information and/or disability related needs, call
831-459-5349 or email aapirc@ucsc.edu. Directions and campus map can
be found at http://maps.ucsc.edu. Parking is free at the West Remote
Parking Lot after 5:00 p.m..

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PILGRIMAGE
(22 min, color, digital video, 2006)
A new documentary by
Tadashi H. Nakamura

Synopsis
Pilgrimage tells the inspiring story of how a small group of Japanese
Americans in the late 1960s transformed an abandoned WWII
concentration camp for Japanese Americans into a symbol of
retrospection and solidarity for people of all ages, races and
nationalities in our post 9/11 world.

Although the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World
War II is no longer hidden, this dark chapter of American history was
virtually forsaken until 1969 when two young Japanese Americans set
out to find a place called Manzanar and ended up creating an annual
event that has since attracted thousands of people. Calling it a
"pilgrimage, " it was the first public event in the nation to call
attention to the reality of the WWII concentration camp experience
that had almost been deleted from public understanding.

With a hip music track, never-before- seen archival footage and a
story-telling style that features both old and new pilgrims,
Pilgrimage is the first film to show how the WWII camps were
reclaimed by the children of its victims and how the Manzanar
Pilgrimage now has fresh meaning for diverse generations of people
who realize that when the US government herded thousands of innocent
Americans into what the government itself called concentration camps,
it was failure of democracy that would affect all Americans. As the
U.S. is again in tumultuous times, Pilgrimage is a timely and
engaging film that brings new and much-needed insight to the lessons
of the past for our post 9/11 world.

Featuring
Interviews with the late Sue Embrey, Warren Furutani, June Kuromoto,
Sandy Maeshiro, Jim Matsuoka, Mo Nishida and Victor Shibata; in
addition to Osman Ahmed, Ronnie Bautista, Nancy Hernandez and Yousef
Tajsar.

Never-before- seen footage and stills of the first Manzanar Pilgrimage
in 1969, the early Asian American Movement, and Manzanar Pilgrimages
of the 1970's as well as rare footage of the WWII camps and civil
rights, black power and anti-war movements of the 1960s.
Music by Miles Senzaki, Fatgums, Blue Scholars and Kiwi.