ANNOUNCING THE SUCHENG CHAN ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES COLLECTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Historian and pioneering scholar Sucheng Chan is donating her formidable collection of Asian American Studies-related books and research materials to the
Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States.
Prof. Chan will be visiting the
DETAILS:
Thursday, April 26th, 5:00-7:00 pm
"Why Asian American Studies Matters"
Sucheng Chan, Professor Emeritus of Asian American Studies, UC Santa Barbara
University and community reception and book signing 120 Andersen Library
PLEASE RSVP FOR THE RECEPTION
To rsvp by email: ihrc@umn.edu
To rsvp by phone: 612-626-5928, Jan Logelin
The event will be held in the Andersen Library, on the West Bank of the U of M campus, near the law school. The sponsor is the
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Suchang Chan donates her collection to U. Minnesota
Monday, April 23, 2007
CALL FOR PHOTOS & STORIES
The
IS THERE A PHOTO that captures your strongest memory of you and/or your family arriving in the
IS THERE A STORY/ MEMORY that speaks of that moment, when you knew and felt for the first time, that
Was it the sweet taste of your first hot dog? The feeling of snowflakes touching your skin for the first time? Perhaps it was the sight of a
to
AND IF YOU¹VE spent YOUR ENTIRE LIFE in the
We particularly encourage you to submit your photos and stories if you and/or your family arrived in the
We look forward to hearing from you!
GUIDELINES:
1. DEADLINE:
2. PLEASE FILL OUT & ATTACH THE DONATION FORM with your submission.
3. PHOTOS may be sent via email as TIF or JPEG files. High resolution images (300 dpi) are preferred. We are especially interested in photos that provide a sense of geographical context,
time, and place.
4. Email submissions should be sent to Cynthia Lee at clee@moca-nyc.org with the subject heading CORE EXHIBIT
5. Mail submissions should be sent to: CORE EXHIBIT,
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Africa and African Diaspora Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2007
Spring Quarter Schedule 2007
Seminars held at
Tuesday April 17th
Katherine Prager
Veterinary Pathology Microbiology and Immunology
“Investigating the role of jackals and hyenas in canine distemper and rabies virus dynamics in the Laikipia region of
Monday April 23rd
Brian Schreier
Anthropology
“Conservation and Field Primatology: Learning Valuable Lessons in
Thursday May 10th
Adams Bodomo
Linguistics and African Studies
“The African Diaspora in
Monday May 14th
Milmon Harrison
African American and African Studies
“And that’s the Gospel Truth: Representations of Black Religious Culture in American Mainstream Media”
Important Associated Events
Wednesday April 11th
Patricia A. Turner (3201 Hart Hall
African American and African Studies, American Studies, Vice Provost, Undergraduate Studies
“Category 5: Rumor, Race and Hurricane Katrina”
African American and African Studies Program & the African Studies Committee.
For further information please contact: Bettina Ng’weno
African American and African Studies
(530)-752-0877 bngweno@ucdavis.edu
Talk: Isao Fujimoto
*War stories I've lived to tell from 40 years of involvement with Community Development and Sustainable Agriculture *
This week, come hear Isao Fujimoto as he shares his 40 years of experience in community development and sustainable agriculture. Hear about :
• how the Community Development graduate program got started
• internships that put undergrads doing action research in Appalachia, the Navajo Nation and the Central Valley
• work with the National Center for Appropriate Technology, Rural Development Leadership Network, and the Central Valley Partnership
• getting UC students in touch with community activists in Japan,USA and the Bay Area
• plus changes made in Davis and UC Davis through these involvements
*Friday April 13, 2007 11:00 am *
*3201 Hart Hall *
Talk: Sanda Mayzaw Lwin
Permanent Guests: Asylum and Loss in Wendy Law-Yone's The Coffin Tree
In her recent book The Constitution of Asian America, Lwin identifies a series of constitutional crises in the last century – Jim Crow segregation, Chinese exclusion, racial prerequisites (and prohibitions) to naturalization, the Japanese American internment, Southeast Asian refugee migration, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and its legacies. The Constitution of Asian America not only supplements literature by and about Asian Americans with legal narratives, but also argues that the very paradigms which have organized Asian American literary studies thus far – immigration, exclusion, assimilation, and exile – are in fact structured by (and help to restructure) American juridical discourse. Her talk stems from this larger work and will examine the figure of the refugee as well as medical and juridical notions of asylum through a reading of Wendy Law-Yone's 1983 novel, The Coffin Tree.
Sanda Mayzaw Lwin
Assistant Professor of American Studies
and English at Yale University
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
4:00-6:00pm
1130 Hart Hall
Cultural Studies Spring 2007 Colloquium
Updated Cultural Studies Spring 07 Colloquium Schedule
*All events
Thursday, April 12th
"Cultural Studies Q&A"
A conversation for graduate students with the chair and graduate
advisers.
Tuesday, April 17th
Stephen Sohn, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Film and Media Studies, UC Irvine
“There's
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Sponsored by the Asian American Studies Graduate Student Group
Thursday, April 19th
Louisa Schein, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Women's Studies,
"Betrayed Brides, Haunted Hunters: Social Critique in Hmong Diasporic Media"
Thursday, May 17th
Marisa Belausteguigoitia, Director, Gender Studies, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
"Veil, Mask, and Rebozo: Identity, Border, and Citizenship in the Geopolitical Borderlands of Latin America"
Thursday, May 24th
Mel Chen, Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley
“Queer Animality”
Thursday, June 7th
End of the Year Reception
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
New Book
Monday, April 9, 2007
CFP: Intimate Labors
October 4-6, 2007
University of California, Santa Barbara
INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Viviana Zelizer (Princeton) and Rose Ann DeMoro (California Nurses’ Association)
INVITED CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS: Eileen Boris (UCSB), Laura Briggs (Arizona), Amalia Cabezas (UCR), Grace Chang (UCSB), Dorothy Sue Cobble (Rutgers), Evelyn Nakano Glenn (UCB), Steven Gregory (Columbia), Maria Ibarra (SDSU), Jennifer Klein (Yale), Cameron Macdonald (Wisconsin), Premilla Nadasen (CUNY-Brooklyn), Rhacel Parreñas (UCD), Raka Ray (UCB), Ellen Reese (UCR), Becki Ross (British Columbia).
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Hull Professor of Women’s Studies Eileen Boris of UCSB and Asian American Studies Professor Rhacel Parreñas of UC Davis invite single paper proposals from graduate students and junior faculty members that advance critical and innovative ways of thinking about how intimate labor could be a useful category of analysis for understanding not just current economic transformations and strategies for social change, but also for the social meanings of money and love; constructions of race, gender, and sexuality; and relations of power and authority in the global economy. We encourage diverse methods and approaches from the humanities as well as social sciences, including but not limited to ethnography, microhistory, political economy, critical race theory, and cultural studies. Papers will be “work shopped” in breakout sessions not only to provide an opportunity for graduate students and junior faculty to present their work but also to receive extensive comments from invited commentators and the assembled audience.
Call for Papers
We hope this conference creates a venue for intellectual exchange and collaboration between junior and senior scholars to discuss care work, sex work, and domestic work around the themes of the political economy of intimate labor, globalization “from below” through intimate labor practices, work process and the culture of intimacy, and the politics of space and labor organizing. Princeton sociologist Viviana Zelizer, the author of /The Purchase of Intimacy/, will give the academic keynote on October 5 and we have invited Rose Ann DeMoro, Executive Director of the innovative California Nurses’ Association, for a kick-off keynote on October 4.
Funding (transportation and 2 nights in hotel shared accommodations) is available for workshop participants connected to the UC system and partial funding may be available for other selected participants.
The conference organizers ask that all proposals be sent to Elizabeth Shermer (ellie@umail.ucsb.edu
Proposals are due April 15^th , 2007. Decisions will be made and participants notified by May 15^th , 2007. Papers due September 1. They will be pre-circulated through the password protected conference webpage.
Min Zhou talk at UCB
Culture, Immigration and Youth Violence Prevention Speaker Series: Delinquency and Assimilation: Revisiting the Vietnamese American Community in New Orleans
*Tuesday, April 17, 2007*
*12:00 - 1:30pm
Light refreshments will be served.
ISSC Conference Room
2420 Bowditch Street (at Haste)
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative*
*Min Zhou
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
*Gianna Tran, *as respondent
Deputy Executive Director of the East Bay Asian Youth Center (EBAYC)
*Abstract*
Zhou's collaborative work with Bankston on Vietnamese youths in an ethnic enclave in New Orleans during the mid-1990's showed a growing trend of "bifurcation," a situation in which youths were diverging in two distinct
directions—valedictorian v. delinquent (Chapter 8 of Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States, 1998). Has bifurcation continued to perpetuate itself among the children of Vietnamese? In this paper, Zhou examines current behavioral and attitudinal trends among Vietnamese youths, using recently gathered data from the same Vietnamese community in New Orleans that she studied nearly ten years ago. She finds that bifurcation is continuing, but that the ranks of the "valedictorians" and "achievers" are getting somewhat smaller, while those of the "delinquents" are growing. Zhou's examination leads to the conclusion that delinquency is likely to become a more serious problem among Vietnamese adolescents in the foreseeable future. While the "Vietnamese
valedictorians" celebrated in the media in earlier years will not disappear, it does seem that they will become less common. She discusses implications of these apparent trends for the assimilation of the children of immigrants.
Friday, April 6, 2007
6th Annual Womyn of Color Conference
The 6th Annual Womyn of Color Conference will be held HERE at UCD,
April 20-22, 2007.....
This will be an empowering event open to students, staff, faculty, and allies! ALL ARE WELCOME!
For more information, including online registration please visit the official web page at:
http://wrrc.ucdavis.edu/wocc/
Registration includes meals, and conference materials. Cost is ONLY $5 for UCD affiliates!
Be sure to register soon, online registration ends WEDNESDAY APRIL 11TH!!!
Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns!
Jacqueline Wells
Program Coordinator
Women's Resources & Research Center
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave., Davis CA 95616
(530) 752-3372
jlwells@ucdavis.edu
http://wrrc.ucdavis.edu
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
8th Annual Pathways Career Symposium
8th Annual Pathways Career
Featuring workshops and panel discussions on a variety of career-related issues for graduate students and postdocs. Careers in academia and beyond are covered.
How to Survive and Thrive in a New Faculty Position
Finding a Postdoc Position and Getting the Most Out of It
Negotiating Your First Faculty Position
Career Opportunities in Government
An Inside Look at an Interview in Industry
Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement
Careers Beyond Academia for Scientists
Building Your Teaching Experience
Interview Etiquette: Strategies for Success
Negotiating Your First Position in Industry
An Inside Look at an Academic Search Committee
Administrative Careers in Academia
For more information visit:
http://gp.ucdavis.edu/gps/gp-eve-pat.htm
Workshop: Women on the Market
Women on the Market:
The Gendered Experience of Job Hunting
Mee Room, MU
Our distinguished panelists - Professor Grace Wang of American Studies, Professor Cynthia Lin of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and image consultant Karri Grant - will cover the following topics to help graduate and postdoctoral women face the job market with confidence:
Tips for interviewing and giving job talks
Professional attire
Makeup advice
"Reading" institutional culture
Making sense of regional and disciplinary differences
Nonverbal communication
Tips for women whose gender identity doesn't include skirts, makeup, etc.
Light refreshments will be served. No registration necessary.
For more information please contact Melissa Strong mjstrong@ucdavis.edu .
Sponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies (Professors for the Future and the Professional Development Series) and the English Department Women’s Caucus
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
CAPS Workshops
Here's a series of workshops that Counseling and Psychological Services is offering during Spring quarter. These workshops are geared towards the API student community so please attend!
Lost and Found in Asian America: Bridging the Cultural Gap
Learn how to connect with family and friends about unique issues of API students
Location: North Hall, Room 232 Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS)
Time: 5:10-6:30pm
April 10th: What it means to be API: Stereotypes, Myths, and –Isms
April 17th: Smashing Through the Bamboo Ceiling: Finding a Career that Fits
April 24th: Honoring my Ancestry and Family History
May 1st: Who am I? Walking the bicultural tightrope
May 8th: Let’s Talk About Sex (and Intimacy)
May 15th: Reclaiming our Bodies: Redefining the Standards
Facilitated by Agnes Kwong, Ed.M., Allison Lau, M.S. and Anneliese Singh, M.S., LPC, NCC
For more information, please call 752.0871 or email aslau@ucdavis.edu, akarora@ucdavis.edu, or annsingh@ucdavis.edu
Sunday, April 1, 2007
CFP: (Un)Making Queer Worlds: Transformations in Asia-Pacific Queer Cultures
(Un)Making Queer Worlds: Transformations in Asia-Pacific Queer Cultures
Roundtable Workshop for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers
June 22-23, 2007
Graduate Centre, University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Call for Papers
Proposal deadline: April 27 2007
Since 2000, intellectual interest in Asia-Pacific queer cultures has surged. This surge responds partly to the new visibility of non-normative sexual and gendered subjectivities in the Asia-Pacific and its multiple diasporas. Along with the new thinking around Asian/Pacific sexualities and genders come various contestations: in particular, the fine distinction between understanding A/P sexual cultures as part of an emerging ‘queer globality’, and the tendency to subsume them under a developmental model that places the ‘West’ as the vanguard of, or bad example for, the ‘rest’. Collaborations between queer studies, post-colonial studies, and post-structuralist critiques have shed light on the contemporaneity and historicity of each local queer culture in the Asia-Pacific. But although such effort to carefully describe geographical or local queer particularities is invaluable, locality does not subsist in an insular manner, but is always relational. ‘Glocal’ queer theory marries the specificity of locality with the context of globality. Additionally, the economic processes of globalisation have been accompanied by—indeed, in some cases actively promoted—mass migration, warm body exports and brain drains, particularly from the Asia-Pacific regions, that have temporarily and permanently dislocated individuals and families from their homelands. In such instances the ability to locate ‘local sexualities’ is brought to the fore just as it proposes new difficulties for the analysis of sexuality along national, regional lines, particularly in Australia. And if sexualities and genders are ‘glocal’, then so is capital. Understanding the nexus between glocal capital and sexual subjectivities through their localised and diasporic trajectories is, at bottom, about the political stakes of queer survival in a neoliberal world.
(Un)Making Queer Worlds tackles these important questions directly by bringing together scholars for a two-day roundtable workshop at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The workshop is particularly interested in proposals from postgraduates and Early Career Researchers (ECRs).
Confirmed speakers: Associate Professor Peter A. Jackson will deliver a keynote address on Friday June 22. Dr Jackson is the Deputy Convenor and Senior Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is the author and editor of numerous publications on genders and sexualities in Thailand and elsewhere, including Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand (Haworth Press, New York, 1999) and Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives (Haworth Press, New York,
1999).
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Submission of abstracts
What we’re looking for:
We seek participants investigating how various Asia-Pacific constituents are (un)making trajectories of queer world and globality. We encourage papers that employ interdisciplinary approaches. We hope that (Un)making Queer Worlds will contribute to the ongoing elucidation of constantly evolving Asia-Pacific queer cultures and their global articulations.
Workshop format:
Featured participants will be asked to circulate their papers a week in advance of the workshop. Participants will be allocated a one-hour session to present a paper (20-30 minutes) and engage in discussion. As this is a postgraduate and ECR event, registration is free of charge.
Please submit abstracts of 450-500 words to unmaking-worlds@unimelb.edu.au by April 27 2007. Keep in mind that
papers presented will be circulated before the workshop. Circulated papers should be no more than 6000 words in length.
Important dates:
Proposals due: 27 April 2007
Speakers confirmed: Monday May 7
Deadline for papers to be submitted: Monday June 4
Papers circulated: Monday June 11
Workshop: Fri/Sat June 22-23
For more information, to register or to submit a paper proposal, please email
unmaking-worlds@unimelb.edu.au or go to
http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au/postgraduate/unmaking_worlds.html
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(Un)Making Queer Worlds is a project jointly initiated by the Cultural Studies Program, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, and the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney. We acknowledge the support of the Cultural Research Network of the ARC and the School of Graduate Studies, University of Melbourne.