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Past Events

Kit Myers Violence of Love book talk flyer

Kit Myers, Assistant Professor of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Merced

Book Talk and Grad Meeting on The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States (2025)

5/12/25 in HSSB 5024

Chris Eng, Assistant Professor of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Merced

Book Talk and Grad Meeting on Extravagant Camp: Getting to the Bottom of the Japanese American Incarceration (2025)

4/28/25 in the McCune Conference Room and HSSB 5024

Graduate Workshop for Asian American Studies

Spring Quarter 2025

This workshop is designed as a supportive, student-centered space to discuss emerging new directions in the field and participate in professional development activities. We will engage recent publications, meet visiting scholars, an receive feedback on works-in-progress, conference presentations and job talks.

Wen Liu, Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica

"Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility between Assimilation and Oppression"

11/13/24 in HSSB 4202, moderated by Clara Chin

Lily Wong, Associate Professor of Literature (LIT) and Critical Race Gender & Culture Studies (CRGC) at American University

"Beyond the 'New Cold War': Intimating Movements across Taiwan and Asian/Pacific/America"

11/18/24 in HSSB 4202, moderated by Tandee Wang

Wendy Cheng, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism

12/2/24 on zoom, moderated by Maile Young

AASC Welcome Breakfast 2024

Annual welcome event for current and prospective AASC members

10/9/24 at HSSB Courtyard

Cold War and Martial Law Formations of Taiwanese America, Wendy Cheng Poster

Wendy Cheng, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

Graduate Student Meeting, "Cold War and Martial Law Formations of Taiwanese America"

4/15/24 in HSSB 5024

AASC Grad School Panel for Undergraduates Poster

AASC Grad School Panel for Undergrads

A panel of AASC members geared towards undergrads to questions about applying to graduate school

2/29/24 in HSSB 5024

Timothy K. August, Associate Professor of English at Stony Brook University

Grad Office Hours with Timothy August, in collaboration with the American Cultures & Global Contexts Center

2/28/24 in SH 2710

Colleen Lye, Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley

Graduate Workshop, "A Value Theory of the Cultural Turn" in collaboration with Global Studies and the Marxist Institute for Research

2/14/24 in HSSB 5024

Welcome Reception for Liz Rubio and Jigna Desai

Jigna Desai, Professor of Feminist Studies and Asian American Studies at UCSB

Liz Rubio, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at UCSB

Welcome reception for two new faculty in Asian American Studies

11/15/23 in MCC Lounge

traci kato-kiriyama, artist and organizer

Navigating With(out) Instruments reading and workshop

11/14/23 in MCC Theater

AASC Welcome Breakfast 2023

Annual welcome event for current and prospective AASC members

10/5/23 at HSSB Courtyard

AASC Graduate Symposium 2023

A national convening for graduate students working in Asian American studies. Featuring a book launch for Departures (2022) with co-authors Lan Duong, Yế́n Lê Espiritu, and Ma Vang.

5/20/23 at Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve

Leslie Bow, Sally Mead Hands-Bascom Professor, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, English and Asian American Studies

Please join us for a discussion of Leslie Bow’s Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (2022). The talk will feature a brief comment from the author, followed by Q and A with participants.

2/22/23 in HSSB 5024

Graduate Workshop for Asian American Studies

Fall Quarter 2022

This workshop is designed as a supportive, student-centered space to discuss emerging new directions in the field and participate in professional development activities. We will engage recent publications, meet visiting scholars, an receive feedback on works-in-progress, conference presentations and job talks.