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AAAS 2014 Conference Booklet

ComiXology Thousands of Digital Comics. East Dane Designer Men's Fashion. Hence, we are excited to welcome our very first Japan exchange scholar, Yuki Matsumoto from Osaka University who is being hosted by Kyoto University. In addition, we wanted to advocate for our communities by ensuring that the scholarship that we engage in has real community-policy implications. That is, congratulations on the organizations 35th Anniversary, and welcome back to where Asian American Studies arose 45 years ago, as a result of the organized struggles of Asian American students and others in the Third World Liberation Front, demanding higher education that included curriculum by and about Asians in the United States, and that was accountable to all people and communities.

This years conference offers over sessions that reflect the AAAS diverse membership, research interests and concerns, and involvement with various communities. We have designed it to provide lively opportunities for members from within and beyond the academy to discuss, debate, and deliberate the past and current state of Asian American Studies, and to provoke deep and practical reflection on the challenges and possibilities of Asian American Studies today and in the future. This program would not be possible without the contributions of our program committee members, and the dedicated work of Anna Gonzalez and her staff, especially Tamara Ko and Jennifer DeLuna.

We are also grateful to the AAAS student assistants, volunteers, university administrators, community partners, and Board, whose energy and efforts are crucial to producing a conference that is as orderly and enjoyable as it is wide-ranging and enriching. Finally, thank you for your membership and continued support of the AAAS and the conference. May this years program inspire all of us to imagine and develop fresh and timely ways for Asian American Studies to build bridges and forge movements within and across our respective communities, as we continue to advance the highest professional standard of excellence in teaching and research in our fields.

Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans. He holds a B. Under Peters long-term leadership, the Asian American Studies Program has offered the most Asian American Studies courses, faculty, and community linkages of any university in New England. He was also a signatory at the East Coast Asian American Scholars Conference that led to the establishment of the East of California Network for which he served as a Coordinating Committee member from Born and raised in Hong Kong, she came to the U.

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Over a career of almost three decades, Wong developed several areas of expertise. She worked on textbook development in bilingual education; published studies of Chinese learners; and coedited two volumes on immigrant language education. However, she is best known for her scholarship on Anglophone Asian American literature, and later, on Sinophone Chinese American and diaspora literature.

Wongs Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance uses motif studies to establish a theoretical basis for Asian American literary studies beyond accidents of authorial nativity. After two decades, the book is still in print and in use. Her essay Denationalization Reconsidered has been widely cited in debates on transnationalism and diaspora.

She has mentored and nurtured scores of graduate students, and supported many junior scholars on their fellowship, tenure, and promotion cases. Working with scholars in Taiwan, China, Japan and Korea as well as Europe, she has played an active role in promoting Asian American literary and cultural studies overseas. He had Fulbright and other visiting professorships at four European and two Canadian Universities and has lectured widely in North America, Europe, and Asia. He has two children, now adults, and two grandchildren, and lives in Bellevue, Washington.

He has edited more than a hundred others and published some one hundred and fifty articles. His public and professional activities include serving as the historical consultant to the Presidential Commission on the Relocation and Internment of Civilians, membership on the history committee which helped plan the immigration museum on Ellis Island, as a consultant for the National Park Service, and as a trustee of the Cincinnati Historical Society.

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He has been a participant in a number of documentary films including Unfinished Business, an Academy Award nominee in , and was senior historical advisor for three minute films by the Moyers Organization, Becoming American: The Politics of Prejudice: Exploration of the Nature of Prejudice [with Harry H. Kitano], , The Bonus March: He is the author of Global Divas: His current book projects include the ethical and embodied dimensions of the lives and struggles of undocumented queer immigrants, Asian American immigrant culinary cultures, sensory and affective dimensions of race and difference, and Filipino return migration.

He received his Ph. Guevarra is the author of Becoming Mexipino: He is the founding director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education, and the current president of the National Association for Multicultural Education. Reizman is a Ph. She is interested in the use of racial logic in the development of the Republic of Korea.

As such, her research looks into the human consequences of U. Applying interdisciplinary methodologies, she analyzes films, photographs, and literature to rethink how race has been represented within an ethnic national framework as well as how current Korean multicultural policies have impacted mainstream perspectives on marginalized communities such as those labeled as multicultural families. Her work aims to bridge the disciplinary gap between Asian and Asian American studies to better understand our intersectional histories.

His dissertation explores the intersections of these two fields, in particular how American conceptions of the Japanese colonial project in Korea shaped the lives of Korean and Japanese immigrants in the United States, and vice versa, in the first half of the 20th century. The paper he will be presenting at the AAAS conference is drawn from the dissertation, and it examines transnational reception of Younghill Kangs much-neglected novel, The Grass Roof, to illustrate how the novels anticolonial critique resonated with the shared aspirations of Koreans in the Japanese colony and the North American diaspora during the s.

Guevarra is currently working on two contracted book projects, Aloha Compadre: Department of Education, to support Asian American, Pacific Islander, and English-language learner students in higher education. He has taught in schools and colleges across the United States and abroad, and has served as a consultant for school districts, universities, and state and federal agencies. He is the award-winning author or editor of nine books on education and social justice, including Restoried Selves: He received his B.

Community Organization AwardChinese Progressive AssociationFounded in , the Chinese Progressive Association is a grassroots organi-zation that educates, organizes and empowers low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to promote justice and equal-ity for all people. CPAs programs and campaigns seek to raise the living and working conditions of Chinese Americans and provide community members a stronger voice in the decision-making processes that affect their everyday lives.

Asawa was 16, she and her family were interned along with , other people of Japanese ancestry who lived along the West Coast of the United States. The internment was the first step on a journey to a world of art that profoundly changed who she was and what she thought was possible in her life.

As an art activist and educator, she devoted her life to arts education in San Francisco public schools. Asawa was instrumental in founding the San Francisco School of the Arts - a public arts high school - which was renamed in her honor in English, Northwestern University, andrew. Filipinos on the Stages of Empire. War, Debt and Other Refugee Passages. The Making of the U. University of California Press, History and American Studies, Rutgers University. Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature. Denise Cruz, Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina.

Department of English, University of Toronto, denise. Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice. Temple University Press, Sociology, University of Southampton, b. Stanford University Press, Sociology, Tufts University, pawan. This plenary features college students, youth activists, and recent graduates who have been invited to reflect experiences in college that have shaped their involvement in working towards social change. These individuals are engaging in advocacy work in and around Asian Americans communities in the SF Bay Area and nationally including the impact of the accreditation crisis at City College of San Francisco and accessing higher education, LGBTQ activism, immigration and undocumented status rights, labor and union organizing, and cultural production and will share their thoughts on their experiences today and the relevancy of Asian American Studies as a field of study to the advocacy work that they are doing.

Nathanael now works as a designer at Facebook, after a number of different internships at companies like Airbnb and Hattery. He is also an alumni of Project M, a program designed to teach young creatives that their work can have a positive, social impact on the greater world. Because of lack of resources and false information from her mothers employer, she fell out of status. Outside of her academics, Akiko fights for immigrant rights with ASPIRE, the first pan-Asian undocumented youth led organization in the nation, to raise the voices of API undocumented immigrants, to challenge the mainstream view of immigration, and to advocate for the passage of pro-immigrant policies.

Nguyen is an artist, activist and scholar. She has been writing and performing solo shows since she joined the Solo Performance Workshop in She was featured as a closing act at the San Francisco Theater Festival for four years As an academic, her area of study is at the intersection of live performance, mental health, and social justice. She is currently an instructor of public speaking and performance at San Francisco State University. He was born in Lima, Peru and came to the United States when he was ten years old. When he found out about his undocumented immigration status, he was threatened with deportation and spend 66 days in a deportation center in Arizona.

However, because of the rally of DREAMers and community supporters, he remains in the Bay Area as a leader in the undocumented youth movement. Advocating for social justice, highlighting the importance of immigration reform in conjunction with labor, health care and human rights issues. Samala known simply as Samala started 18MR. Samala is a Bay Area based, New York raised, first generation Filipina American dedicated to using her new media expertise for good and to connecting technology, creative and social change communities.

He is the author of Yellow: Race America Beyond Black and White, which was immediately reprinted in its hardcover edition, and co-author of Race, Rights and Reparation: She is the author of two award-winning books: Immigrant Gateway to America co-authored with Judy Yung.

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A History of Asian Americans from to the Present. He is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, and the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field. The Angry Asian Podcast. Building a steady, loyal readership since , Angry Asian Man has been called a daily must-read for the media-savvy, socially conscious, pop-cultured Asian American. Movies, and currently serves on the board of Visual Communications. She was Executive Editor to Ms.

Magazine and has written and edited many other articles and publications. She is a Fulbright Scholar, and a graduate of Princeton Universitys first coeducational class. After college she attended medical school but quit after completing two years, then went to work as a construction laborer, an autoworker, and a community organizer, after which she discovered her lifes work as a writer.

Today we have over X of Asian American Studies in the nation and a growing demand to create more at universities where there is a lapse and absence of programs and majors. We are excited to have most of our presidents from the past 35 years to discuss the past, discuss issues facing us today, and what we can envision for the future. Nomura, 34 35Kenyon S. Chan, Elaine H. Lee, President Sessionsthursday, april Wong University of Maryland, College Park 3: Career Options for M. Students Belvedere Have you been thinking of what career options you might have after you complete your advanced degree?

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This session brings together three individuals who all pursued advanced degrees and whose careers did not take the traditional faculty route. Together, they will discuss the paths they took that led them to their careers. They will also give participants words of wisdom about career options. Doris Ching, Anna K. Gonzalez, and Kent OnoModerator: Ono has a Ph.

Hom, has a Ph. She has served on the boards of the following organizations: His research and community work focuses on race, ethnicity, class, culture, language, migration, education, hip hop, and cultural production in Hawaii, the United States, and the Philippines. Prior to joining the Department of Ethnic Studies, he worked for nearly a decade as the director of a university-based college access program in a low-income, urban Honolulu community.

He has lived and worked in Honolulu for the past 20 years. Since joining the Smithsonian, the center has launched several groundbreaking museum projects, including the Smithsonian Folklife Festivals Asian Pacific Americans Program, the Portraiture Now: It is designed for a broad audience, but especially for doctoral students and assistant professors currently or soon to be in tenure-track positions. The panelists are either full professors or current or former heads of departments.

Gary Pak also has teaching experience in a community college. Thus, all the panelists have direct experience dealing with tenure cases from their respective backgrounds. He came to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 13 years ago to join their History Department full time while also being among the first faculty to constitute the campus Department of Asian American Studies.

He maintains a full-time agenda of research, teaching, and administrative leadership in view of his passion for bringing into dialogue the diverse fields of history, ethnic studies, Caribbean and Hispanic studies, and Southeast Asian studies. For more than two decades, she has explored Asian diasporas in Latin America and the Caribbean, with particular attention to the Chinese of Mexico, Peru, and Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean.

Louis, University of Arizona, and University of Michigan. Her current research interest is in Asian American childrens literature. He has published three novels and two collections of short stories. University of Hawaii Press, He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Korea University in and since then has been returning regularly to Korea in the summers to lecture at Ewha Womans University and Yonsei University, and to conduct research.

Panelists will engage the topic with regard to professional development and support, scholarship, teaching, and practice in academic and non-academic contexts. The panelists will discuss gender formation and gendered institutional experiences from a personal and professional viewpoint. This panel, sponsored by the AAAS Mentorship Committee, is designed to raise up issues related to gender in the academy to better understand how the association and its members can most effectively address them.

In addition, the panelists will consider the ways in which Asian American Studies contributes to gender and queer studies more generally. Wong, and David K. Wong is author of Democracys Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions and the co-author of two books on Asian American politics.

Her interdisciplinary research focuses on immigrants and how their experiences coincide and conflict with larger national ideologies and histories. Her work explores how immigration politics functions within the context of neoliberalism to endorse the retrenchment of public goods, services, and space.

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Centering issues of gender, race, class and nation, her publications delve into these issues from multiple vantage points including environmental justice concerns among immigrant women workers in Silicon Valley, social citizenship struggles among second generation Asian Americans, and health care access for low-income pregnant immigrant women. She is the author of Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair- Haired Bastards: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era.

She is working with Gwendolyn Mink on a political biography of Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color congressional representative and the co-sponsor of Title IX. As curators, scholars, artists and activists working in Asia, America and in-between, these presenters challenge national policies and the politics of community and identity.

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He has been published in Amerasia Journal, American Quarterly, positions: L received his MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where he has taught studio art and visual culture courses. He received his doctorate from the University of Southern California and was a postdoctoral fellow at Academia Sinica, Taipei.

Troubling Borders in Literature and Art and its companion exhibition. While these communities make up the largest refugee arrivals in this country, with 30 percent and 26 percent respectively, Burmese and Bhutanese refugees continue to be the most overlooked and invisible Asian American populations in the United States, especially when it comes to their demographic patterns, socioeconomic outcomes, and educational attainment and experiences. The omission of these groups is to be considered given that all Asian Americans, including Burmese and Bhutanese refugee communities, represent the changing face of America.

PR1Film Screeningsthursday, april Meet many of them in this tour of San Franciscos ornate City Hall.

Tour will include box lunch, lecture on local San Francisco government and remarks from San Francisco elected officials. Prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, Japanese American soldiers were secretly trained in the Japanese language at this site then deployed to the Pacific Theater of war. Executive Order resulted in the forced removal of their families and the school to Minnesota. MIS veterans kept their activities under wraps for many years, so their tremendous contributions to the Allied forces through intelligence gathering in the Pacific Theater and the reconstruction of Japan were generally not known by the American public.