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ASA Lecture Series | Policing Asian Massage Work and Human Trafficking in Global Contexts: Manufacturing Freedom & Fly in Power Screening
Nov 30, 2023, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationManning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies, and Faculty Affiliate in the Departments of Sociology, East Asian Studies, and Watson Institute for International Studies.
- CharlotteAffiliationLead member of Red Canary Song outreach team and former massage worker.
- Yeonhoo ChoAffiliationOutreach organizer at Red Canary Song and former research fellow at Brown's Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Human Trafficking Research Cluster, where she received a BSc in Social Analysis and Research.
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Lisa Lowe
Oct 5, 2023, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies and Professor of Ethnicity, Race, & Migration, Yale University
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Kathryn Gin Lum
Apr 24, 2023, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and, by courtesy, History, Stanford University
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Karan Mahajan and Jenny Xie
Oct 29, 2020, 7:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationAssistant Professor of Literary Arts, Brown University
- AffiliationLecturer in Creative Writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Monica Youn and Jenny Zhang
Feb 26, 2020, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationLecturer in Creative Writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts
- AffiliationWriter, Apple TV+
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Yiyun Li and Jia Tolentino
Dec 4, 2019, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationProfessor of Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts
- AffiliationStaff writer, The New Yorker
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Ken Chen and Sally Wen Mao
Nov 6, 2019, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationPoet
- AffiliationPoet
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Elaine Castillo and Jessica Hagedorn
Oct 2, 2019, 4:30 pm
Speakers
- AffiliationNovelist
- AffiliationNovelist, dramaturg, screenwriter
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Colleen Lye
May 2, 2019, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
Presentation
“What is Asian American Marxism?”
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Janelle Wong
Mar 28, 2019, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland
Presentation
“Coalitions and Cleavages in Asian American Politics”
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Kandice Chuh
Mar 7, 2019, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Professor of English and American Studies; Coordinator, American Studies Certificate Program, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Presentation
“Asian Americanist Critique in the ‘Asian Century’”
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Tina Chang
Nov 15, 2018, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Sarah Lawrence College, City University of Hong Kong
Presentation
“A Mindful Life: a Poet's Journey”
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Fiona Ngô
Oct 25, 2018, 4:30 pm
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Fiona I. B. Ngô
Affiliation
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presentation
“The Perfectible Refugee and the Welfare Queen: The Reordering of Race and Disability”
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Leti Volpp
Oct 18, 2018, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Berkeley Law
Presentation
“Protecting the Nation from ‘Honor Killings’: Banning Immigration in the Time of Trump”
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: David Roh
Oct 11, 2018, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Associate Professor of English; Director, Digital Matters Lab, University of Utah
Presentation
“Against Primordial Asian America: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions”
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: David L. Eng
Sep 27, 2018, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Presentation
“(Gay) Panic Attack: Coming Out in a Colorblind Age”
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Helen Zia
Apr 26, 2018, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Princeton Class of 1973; Asian American feminist and LGBTQ author and activist
Presentation
“Asian American Collisions Along the Arc of History, Past Present Future Tense”
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Allan Punzalan Isaac
Apr 19, 2018, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Associate Professor of American Studies and English, Rutgers University
Presentation
“Embodying Labor-Time: Vital Temporalities and Vital Proximities in the Filipino Labor Diaspora”
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Jasbir Puar
Mar 1, 2018, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
Presentation
“Slow Life and Palestine: Settler Colonialism in Five Parts”
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Maile Arvin
Feb 15, 2018, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Assistant Professor of History and Gender Studies, University of Utah
Presentation
“Possessing Polynesians: Whiteness and Settler Colonialism in Hawai'i”
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Charmaine Chua
Dec 7, 2017, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Assistant Professor of Politics, Oberlin College
Presentation
“Logistical Monstrosities: Megaships, Megaports, and Infrastructures of Violence Along the TransPacific Supply Chain”
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Kathleen López
Nov 16, 2017, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Associate Professor, Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, Department of History, Rutgers University
Presentation
“Toward a Transnational Asian American Studies: Afro-Asian Encounters in the Caribbean”
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Nayan Shah
Oct 19, 2017, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Professor of History; Professor and Chair, Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Presentation
“Refusal, Bodily Struggle, and Japanese American Resistance in Tule Lake Stockade”
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Simeon Man
Sep 21, 2017, 4:30 pm
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Affiliation
Assistant Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
Presentation
“Securing ‘Asia for Asians’: Race, Counterinsurgency, and the U.S. Empire, 1954–63”