Athia Choudhury Friday 1.24 12-1pm Hart 3201
The Making of the American Calorie and Metabolic Metrics of Empire
Athia N. Choudhury is a writer, cultural theorist, and feminist educator specializing in Asian American feminisms, 20th century body politics, and militarized food cultures. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity with a graduate certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies from the University of Southern California.
Katherine Achacoso Tuesday 1.28 12-1pm Hart 3201
Towards Mapping an Insurgent Politic of Surigaonon Ecological Knowledge
Dr. Katherine Achacoso (she/her/sija) is a queer daughter of the Surigaonon and Filipinx diaspora. She was the recipient of the 2022-2024 Guarini Pre-to-Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Studies with a joint appointment in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Dartmouth College.
Lila Sharif Friday 1.31 12-1pm Hart 3201
The Keepers of the Olive Tree
Lila Sharif is a Palestinian educator, researcher, creative writer, and scholar based in the Phoenix area. Her research is located at the intersection between critical refugee studies and Indigenous studies of southwest Asia with an emphasis on food, land, epistemologies, and ecologies.
Josephine Ong Tuesday 2.4 12-1pm Hart 3201
Their Fingerprints and Thumbprints: (Re)building Chamorro-Filipino Relations in the 1940s-1960s
Josephine Faith Ong (she/her/hers) is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies at Dartmouth College. She received her Ph.D. in Gender Studies (September 2024) and M.A. in Asian American Studies (2019) from UCLA. Motivated by her experiences living and organizing in Guåhan/Guam, her dissertation investigates to what extent the Spanish and U.S. empire’s carceral infrastructures and logics have impacted Chamorro-Filipino relations.
Najwa Mayer Friday 2.7 12-1pm Hart 3114
The Biopower of Genre and the ‘Muslim American’ Form
Najwa Mayer is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount University and a Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar in the Society of Fellows at Boston University. She holds a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and teacher of Asian American, Gender and Sexuality, and Critical Muslim Studies, specializing in the cultural politics of US empire.