Suchang Chan donates her collection to U. Minnesota

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 Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Prof. Chan is author or editor of more than fourteen books, including Asian Americans, Hmong Means Free, Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America, Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, and
Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States.

Prof. Chan will be visiting the University of Minnesota to give a public lecture titled, "Why Asian American Studies Matters," Thursday, April 26, 2007 from 5-7pm. A reception will follow.

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 Immigration History Research Center. Here is a link to directions and a map: http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/about/visiting.html

CALL FOR PHOTOS & STORIES

The Museum of Chinese in the Americas is collecting images and stories for our new core exhibition honoring the adventurous and creative spirit of Chinese in America. The exhibit will open in January 2008 in our new facilities designed by architect Maya Lin, and we want YOU and many others who share Chinese ancestry to be a part of it!

IS THERE A PHOTO that captures your strongest memory of you and/or your family arriving in the United States?

IS THERE A STORY/ MEMORY that speaks of that moment, when you knew and felt for the first time, that America was your new home?

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 new city skyline? Or maybe your father’s description of drinking powdered milk as the way he experienced America for the first time?

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AND IF YOU¹VE spent YOUR ENTIRE LIFE in the United States, what photos, objects, and stories have been passed down over the years to become symbolic of your family¹s immigration to America?

We particularly encourage you to submit your photos and stories if you and/or your family arrived in the U.S. after 1965.

We look forward to hearing from you!

GUIDELINES:
1. DEADLINE: April 23, 2007.
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, Museum of Chinese in the Americas, 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10013.

Africa and African Diaspora Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2007

Africa and African Diaspora Brown Bag Seminar
Spring Quarter Schedule 2007

Seminars held at noon in 2215 Hart Hall

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 Kenya”

Monday April 23rd
Brian Schreier
Anthropology
“Conservation and Field Primatology: Learning Valuable Lessons in Tanzania”

Thursday May 10th
Adams Bodomo
Linguistics and African Studies
University of Hong Kong
“The African Diaspora in Asia: The Case Hong Kong”

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 4:00-5:30)
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
University of California, Davis
(530)-752-0877 bngweno@ucdavis.edu

Talk: Isao Fujimoto

*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

UC Davis Asian American Studies Program, School of Law, and the Department of English invite you to join us for a special talk on

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 4:00-6:00PM in 3201 Hart Hall unless otherwise noted. Please contact the Cultural Studies program for more information: 530-754-7683 or culturalstudies@ucdavis.edu .

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 No Place Like Home: Claiming Disorientation in Suki Kim's The Interpreter ”
*2:00-4:00pm, 126 Voorhies Hall
Sponsored by the Asian American Studies Graduate Student Group

Thursday, April 19th
Louisa Schein, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Women's Studies, Rutgers University
"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

New Book

“Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans: Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities,” edited by Edith Wen-Chu Chen and Glenn Omatsu. (link to the book on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-About-Asian-Pacific-Americans/dp/0742553388).