News and Events | Department of Asian American Studies at UC Davis

Check out our 2026 End of the Year Newsletter

5/14 Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair, Summer Kim Lee

5/12 "Population Crisis and the Reproductive Archive" Josen Diaz

5/13 Voices of the Valley: A Community Movie Night at UC Davis

4/29 Edhi Alice Screening

4/22 (Asian) American Studies and the Crisis of U.S. Empire, Scott Kurashige

2/26 "Care At the End of the World" by Jina B. Kim

2/19 Air Conspiracies Guest Lecture by Sunny Xiang and Nicholas Shapiro

2/12 "Grounded Internationalism at the Ends of US Empire" Guest Lecture

1/29 Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun, Book talk by Crystal Mun-hye Baik

1/22 "The Refugee, The Deportee, and The Student" Guest Research talk

11/18 Short Story Reading & Workshop with Award Winning Author Andrew Lam

11/13 "On Healing Land, Birds Perch" Screening

11/6 "Year of the Cat" Screening w/ Tony Nguyen

10/21 Claudia Krich & Craig McNamara

10/16 New Wave Screening

10/15 ASA Fall Welcome

10/9 "Feeling Lost California Enclaves: Relational Reconstructions of Asian Diaspora Survivals"

10/7 BeBe Khuê Jacobs & Amaia Xuân Brehaut Memoir workshop

10/2 "Caring for Caregivers Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis"

10/1 "Asian America is Suburban: Lessons from the Hinterlands of L.A. and Beyond "

Welcome Letter From the Chair

2025 End of the Year Newsletter

Spring 2025 Events

Lunar New Year Celebration 2025

Winter Research Colloquia Series

EVENT: 11/7 Jasbir Puar lecture

EVENT: 10/24 "Stars, Earth, and Coral: Pacific Entanglements and Futures Beyond the Human"

Letter from the chair: Welcome!

ASA Events 2024-25