Save the dates for our upcoming ASA events!
ASA Fall Welcome 10.10
Hart Hall 3201 3pm
Join us to celebrate the new year in community with peers, staff, and faculty in Hart Hall 3201 at 3PM. Boba will be provided!
RSP: tinyurl.com/asafall24
Threshold, a dual program by choreographer Claudine Naganuma of dNaga Dance Co. and Choreographer SanSan Kwan, offers a feminist response to anti-Asian violence and Asian American invisibility.
This evening of dance ushers audiences into an encounter with the shadows and structures that uphold racial violence and choreographs a space of restoration and liberation. Join us in exploring the kinetics of resilience.Meet us at the Threshold. Cross through with community and dive into legacies that bring us toward sovereignty over our Selves and into solidarity with the collective.
"Stars, Earth, and Coral: Pacific Entanglements and Futures Beyond the Human" 10.24-10.25
Research symposium with Aimee Bahng (Pomona College, Current Project: Transpacific Ecologies), Nicole K. Furtado (UC Santa Cruz, Current Project: Galaxies like Islands, Islands like Galaxies: Envisioning Futurity through Seascape Technologies) and Frances Tran (Rollins College, Current Project: Sensory Acts: On Asian Racialization and the Politics of Futurism)
Hart Hall 3201 4-7PM Thursday
Hart Hall 3201 9:30-11AM Friday
The Department of Asian American Studies presents a roundtable presentation on how we can reimagine futures when we center Pacific, Oceanic, and Indigenous histories, aesthetics, and ways of knowing. Such a reimagining will raise questions and topics such as: going beyond the human in imagining the future; critiquing settler colonial practices and their relationships to capitalism; how is Asian American studies positioned in relation to projects of reimagining the future? The panel will feature three leading scholars, who will present brief papers followed by conversation, Q&A, and dinner. Friday morning will feature a small casual breakfast discussion with the panelists.
"Asian Futures, Without Asians" Astria Suparak 10.24
(Mondavi Center Performance, Tickets here,7:30 PM)
Asian futures, without Asians is a multimedia performance lecture by artist Astria Suparak, which asks: “What does it mean when so many white filmmakers envision futures inflected by Asian culture, but devoid of actual Asian people?” Part critical analysis, part reflective essay and sprinkled throughout with humor, justified anger, and informative morsels, this hour-long illustrated lecture examines nearly 60 years of American science fiction cinema through the lens of Asian appropriation and whitewashing.
Research talk (Hart Hall 3201)
"Abolition: Race, Capitalism, and Empire" 2.6-2.7
Research symposium with Naomi Paik, Iyko Day, and Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez (Hart Hall 3201, 4-6PM)
Research talk (Hart Hall 3201)
