Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Screening of film "Who Killed Vincent Chin" and panel discussion (June 23, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95707 95707-21790727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 23, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

In 1982, a 27-year-old Chinese American named Vincent Chin was beaten to death with a baseball bat by two auto workers who blamed the Japanese for the U.S. auto industry’s troubles. The men were fined $3,000 and never spent a day in jail. Such a light sentence for such a brutal killing brought Asian Americans together across ethnic lines to form multiethnic and multiracial alliances, to organize for civil rights, advocating for change.

As the fortieth anniversary of Chin’s death, this story that is so Michigan and so important to the Asian American community is still poorly known. However, in today’s political landscape which is increasingly racist, sexist, violent, and exacerbated by COVID19-inspired anti-Asian American sentiment—it is not enough to know about this one case of injustice, but to harness that outrage and use it for good today.

Join us for a special anniversary screening of the Oscar nominated 1987 documentary produced and directed by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Pena.

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SCHEDULE

7:00pm Welcome

7:15-8:45pm Screening

8:45-9:30pm Panel Discussion + Q&A

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TICKETS + DONATIONS

This event is free and open to the public. Registration and masks are encouraged. Seating is in the main theater and should allow for social distancing.

A $10 donation is recommended and will support:

A book anthology of Asian American activists and artists about how this case has inspired them and connects to contemporary issues. It will be published by Wayne State University Press with a foreword written by Asian American civil rights icon Helen Zia. By: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang;

as well as Stop AAPI Hate Organization The coalition (AAPI Equity Alliance (AAPI Equity), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), and the Asian American Studies Department of San Francisco State University) tracks and responds to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning, and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Their mission is to advance equity, justice and power by dismantling systemic racism and building a multiracial movement to end anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) hate.

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PANEL DISCUSSION

Moderator:

Manan Desai is the author of The United States of India: Anticolonial Literature & Transnational Refraction (2020), published by Temple University Press as part of the Asian American History and Culture Series. His essays have been published in Comparative Literature, the Journal of Popular Culture, and the forthcoming volume of Asian American Literature in Transition. He has served on the Board of Directors for the South Asian American Digital Archive (saada.org). He is currently the director of the University of Michigan Program in Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Studies in the Department of American Culture.

Panelist:

1. Ayesha Ghazi Edwin has dedicated her career to helping to mobilize and fight for the rights of the Asian American community. She previously served as the Executive Director of American Citizens for Justice, worked for APIAVote-Michigan, and currently serves as the Governor Whitmer appointed Chair of the Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission. Ayesha is an award-winning social justice activist, having previously worked in health equity, labor rights, for immigration reform and for voting rights. Ayesha’s family is of Indian descent, and she grew up in Ann Arbor after immigrating here from London at the age of 3. Currently Ayesha serves as the Deputy Director of Detroit Disability Power, is an award-winning lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, an appointed Ann Arbor Human Rights Commissioner, and a current candidate for Ann Arbor City Council, Ward 3.

2. Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a poet, artist, essayist, and activist focused on issues of Asian America, race, justice, and the arts. Her writing has appeared at PBS NewsHour, NBCAsianAmerica, PRI GlobalNation, Cha Asian Literary Journal, Kartika Review, Drunken Boat. She teaches Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies at University of Michigan and creative writing at Washtenaw Community College. She was formerly Executive Director of American Citizens for Justice and Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce. She co-created a multimedia artwork for Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. She is a 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Detroit artist creating an anthology of essays and a digital arts archive about Vincent Chin. Her book of poetry, “You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids,” is just out at Wayne State University Press. Franceskaihwawang.com @fkwang

3. Chien-An Yuan is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator based in Ann Arbor, MI. Yuan runs 1473, a record label specializing in improvisation, electronics, and collaboration. He is also a founding member of IS/LAND, a performance collaborative comprised of AAPI movers, artists, and collaborators. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, NewCity, Salon, ArtSlant, Huffington Post, and WNYC. Past performances and exhibitions include Detroit Institute of Arts, The Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gene Siskel Film Center, Museum of Chinese in America NYC, Syrup Loft, Zhou B Arts Center, Asian American Cultural Center of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Hyde Park Art Center, and Gallery 312.

4. Dim Mang (they/she) is a Community Organizer with Rising Voices, an Asian American non-profit committed to building power with Asian Americans in Michigan. Dim was born in Mandalay, Burma to two Tedim Chin parents, and they immigrated to the US with their family in 2005. She was raised in a working-class family in Tulsa, Oklahoma and went to college at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, majoring in History and Political Science. Outside of her day job, Dim is an At-Large Vice President of APALA (Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance), and helps run a mutual aid network and fundraiser to aid anti-coup protesters in her home country, Burma. They are fluent in English and Tedim Chin, and hope to relearn Burmese. Dim currently lives with her partner and their two cats on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Potawatomi, Fox, and Peoria. They hope to one day help co-create a Burmese community center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where her immediate and extended family still live. They hope to organize for collective liberation for the rest of their life.

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And out in the lobby:

Kizuna Tree art installation (w/o dancers)

Kizuna Tree is an interactive installation/performance collaboration between Detroit Public Television, WDET, Rising Voices, and IS/LAND Asian American Arts Collaborative. Comprised of an Ikebana Tree designed by Celeste Shimoura Goedert of Rising Voices, sound recordings from the collaborative series ‘Kizuna Stories’ from DPTV and WDET by Zosette Guir and Dorothy Hernandez, and dance by AAPI Performance Collaborative IS/LAND, Kizuna Tree is an exploration of communal healing for AAPI peoples, across generations, communities, and ethnicities, connected through words, visuals, and movement. The restorative and healing properties through this physical movement and storytelling offers the audience an experiential exploration of the interactive connections between the dancers with each other, the audience, and the tree itself.

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Thank you to our Sponsors; CultureVerse & The New Foundry.

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Film Screening Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:36:09 -0400 2022-06-23T19:00:00-04:00 2022-06-23T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Film Screening An image from the documentary "Who Killed Vincent Chin?"
A Conversation on Indigenous Performance and Production (August 19, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96719 96719-21793117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 19, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Native American Studies

Creating, performing, producing, and distributing works of art are fundamental processes for many artist. The choices artists make, the paths they choose, the roadblocks they face shape what is possible and what audiences can encounter. This event attempts to understand how Indigenous artists make these choices, how they practice their creative processes, and how they navigate the networks, institutions, and organizations that shape their disciplines. In a conversation moderated by Department of American Culture Assistant Professor Bethany Hughes (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), representatives from an Indigenous film festival in Virginia and an Indigenous theatre company in Michigan will discuss practice, performance, and production through an Indigenous creative lens. Joining the conversation will be Brad Brown (Pamunkey), director of Pocahontas Reframed: Native American Storytellers Film Festival, and Colleen Medicine (Ojibwe Sault Ste. Marie), Executive Director of Anishinaabe Theater Exchange, and Tomantha Sylvester (Ojibwe Sault Ste. Marie), artistic director of Anishinaabe Theater Exchange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Aug 2022 16:32:48 -0400 2022-08-19T13:00:00-04:00 2022-08-19T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
Muslims of the Heartland: How Ottoman Syrians Made a Home in the American Midwest (September 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96757 96757-21793267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Arab American author Edward E. Curtis IV is the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts at Indiana University, Indianapolis. The author or editor of fourteen books about Black, Muslim, and Arab American history and life, he has received major fellowships and grants from Carnegie, Fulbright, Luce, Mellon, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:59:34 -0400 2022-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
Asian Americans, Religious Freedom, and the State (September 29, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98308 98308-21796470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

How have Asian Americans pursued legal recognition, religious freedom, and religious equality in the United States? This public forum convenes scholars from across disciplines to discuss how state governance has defined and regulated Asian American religious liberty claims and how Asian American religious practitioners have advocated for rights and recognition.

Panelists
Dr. Prema Kurien, Syracuse University
Dr. Arvind-pal Mandair, University of Michigan
Dr. Junaid Rana, University of Illinois
Dr. Isaac Weiner, Ohio State University

Moderators
Dr. Dusty Hoesly, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. Melissa Borja, University Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:15:01 -0400 2022-09-29T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Hawai'i Is My Haven: Race & Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (October 11, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97161 97161-21794081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Nitasha Sharma (African American Studies & Asian American Studies, Northwestern) will be in conversation with a faculty member about her most recent monograph, Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific. This book is an ethnography based on a decade of fieldwork including interviews with 60 people of African descent in the islands, including Black Hawaiians, Black Japanese, and African American transplants from the continental U.S. Two questions frame this project: What does the Pacific offer people of African descent? And how does the racial lens of African Americans illuminate inequalities, including anti-Black racism, in the islands? Bringing Black Studies into conversation with Native Studies, it charts how Hawai‘i’s Black residents, including Black hapas, negotiate race, indigeneity, and culture.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Oct 2022 10:55:39 -0400 2022-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Latinx Heritage Month 2022 Closing Performance (October 12, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99433 99433-21798201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs and Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives invite you to join us for a night of music and dialogue with LADAMA! LADAMA consists of four members - Lara Klaus from Brazil, Daniela Serna from Colombia, Maria Fernanda Gonzalez from Venezuela, and Sarah Lucas from the U.S. who are all socially engaged musical artists. LADAMA has been on a journey to share rhythms and create a pedagogy aiming to empower women and girls to connect through voice, percussion, and movement. The night will consist of a performance, workshop, and dialogue. Capacity is limited to 90 individuals; register today! Register here: https://myumi.ch/n8WgG

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Performance Wed, 28 Sep 2022 16:26:25 -0400 2022-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 2022-10-12T18:30:00-04:00 North Quad Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Performance Top: Latinx Heritage Month logo followed by Latinx Heritage Month Closing Performance By: LADAMA (picture of the respective group members included at the side). Who are they? A Latin alternative band of four women musicians and activists. Program description then follows: Wednesday, October 12th From: 5 PM-6:30 PM North Quad Space 2435, 105 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Our sponsors' logos at the bottom: Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, and North Quad Programming.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD AND SUPREME LITERACY (October 19, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99874 99874-21798818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Elijah Muhammad and Supreme Literacy situates the Nation of Islam
leader within academic discourse by exploring his teachings on "Knowledge of Self" as a definition of literacy in its broadest applications.

Dr. Muhammad is a teacher, lecturer and columnist whose research interests include urban and cultural literacies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:36:55 -0400 2022-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
From Havana to Chapel Hill: A Latina's Search for Home (October 20, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100021 100021-21799000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

In this presentation, UNC-Chapel Hill Professor and Michigan alumna Rosa Perelmuter takes us on a journey through the questions of identity and belonging with which she has wrestled since she was born in Cuba to Eastern European Jewish immigrants.
Exiled in the U.S. at age 13 as a product of the Peter Pan Airlift, she reflects on the outsider status that first manifested itself in Cuba and the various shapes it took in Miami, Boston, Ann Arbor, and finally North Carolina.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:35:18 -0400 2022-10-20T18:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T19:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Asian American High School Conference (November 5, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100908 100908-21800498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 5, 2022 8:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Asian American High School Conference

High School Conference (HSC) is a free, one-day conference held at the University of Michigan that aims to help Asian American (AsAm) high school students explore their identity, gain insight into college life, and meet fellow peers in the AsAm community.

Our theme for this year is “Stories by the Fire” through which we hope to inspire students to be bold in their identity for their communities and themselves. With the support of the University of Michigan’s students and organizations, we will be leading workshops, group discussions, and a panel on topics related to AsAm identity, representation, community, and college life. There will also be performances from a variety of AsAm organizations on campus. Breakfast and lunch will be provided!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 31 Oct 2022 20:03:45 -0400 2022-11-05T08:00:00-04:00 2022-11-05T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Asian American High School Conference Workshop / Seminar Asian American High School Conference save the date
Peter Gelderloos and StopCampGrayling on Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below (November 7, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100819 100819-21800388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Global warming, climate change, the ecological crisis. Tipping points, extinction events. Conservation, green fascism. Carbon footprint, carbon offsets, carbon capture, neocolonialism. How we talk about the disaster is strongly related to how we respond to it, and how we understand it. Is it a countdown to an impending future event, a danger we are beginning to see the early signs of, or a catastrophe that has been ongoing for at least 500 years? The answer to these questions, and the language we use to pose the questions, can determine whether we consider a proposed response to the problem as compelling or completely absurd, whether a delusional half-measure or an exaggerated non-sequitur. The fact that, faced with the same problem, people lack a common language and reach such polarized viewpoints, has become a structural part of the problem itself.

Peter Gelderloos, author of The Solutions Are Already Here, will discuss how centrist approaches like conservation and carbon capture, and even approaches considered progressive like the Green New Deal, are responses to the needs of the current political and economic system rather than responses to the actual crisis that is unfolding. Moreover, there is strong evidence that our current system of government and capitalism is inherently and integrally ecocidal, that under any political program it would lead to broadly similar results as regards the ability of our planet to support life. As a result, standard approaches to dealing with the disaster will ignore or suppress the kinds of movements and solutions that are our greatest hope. This event will tie this analysis with exactly these kinds of movements, groups that offer a strategic horizon for facing our intersecting and most pressing challenges.

Peter will be joined by local activists from StopCampGrayling, a new initiative campaigning against the proposal to grant 162,000 acres of public lands, water, and forests to Michigan’s National Guard, a proposal threatening to destroy precious habitats, poison water sources, and increase militarization, all while expanding the army base at Grayling to twice the size of Chicago.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Nov 2022 10:37:36 -0400 2022-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley (November 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97162 97162-21794082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Carolyn Chen (Comparative Ethnic Studies, Berkeley) will be in conversation with Melissa Borja (American Culture & A/PIA Studies, UM) about her recent book Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies in Silicon Valley are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the line between work and religion and transforming the very nature of spiritual experience in modern life.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Aug 2022 16:12:38 -0400 2022-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley (November 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100863 100863-21800450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Carolyn Chen (Comparative Ethnic Studies, Berkeley) will be in conversation with Melissa Borja (American Culture & A/PIA Studies, UM) about her recent book Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley. Work, Pray, Code explores how tech companies in Silicon Valley are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the line between work and religion and transforming the very nature of spiritual experience in modern life.

The event is also co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics, Society and Computing (https://esc.umich.edu/)

To register: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsfu2qqDIrGNHoT4OcWoRemvF4MG2dQ5we

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:31:10 -0400 2022-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Hula Showcase (December 5, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101760 101760-21802325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 5, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

The students in AMCULT & ASIANPAM 372 invite you to a performance showcase of the Hawaiian hula and protocols they have learned this semester! Join us for refreshments after the performance.

To join virtually:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96740072500

Meeting ID: 967 4007 2500
Passcode: 067366

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Performance Mon, 05 Dec 2022 09:52:43 -0500 2022-12-05T18:00:00-05:00 2022-12-05T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Performance Event Poster
Paths of Protest: Histories of Student Activism on Campus (December 6, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101545 101545-21801503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of American Culture

When the university fails, who steps up? Join the students of History 294/Amcult 301 for a historical campus walking tour about UMich student activism on Tuesday, December 6th at 1:00PM on the front steps of the Michigan Union. “Paths of Protest” disrupts university narratives of progress and instead centers students as the agents of change on campus. This hour-long tour includes stops at ten different historical campus sites, and free hot chocolate will be served afterwards.

Register to attend here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccGRMfOF43IN-4QfctFjWLxzIQtGExzSYhzLY5DFgNoYV9dg/viewform

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Tours Fri, 02 Dec 2022 11:06:18 -0500 2022-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 2022-12-06T14:00:00-05:00 Department of American Culture Tours Event Poster
Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race & the 'American Dream' (January 23, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97163 97163-21794083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Shelley Sang-Hee Lee (American Studies, Brown) discusses her latest book Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race & the 'American Dream.'
Beginning with the early development of LA's Koreatown and culminating with the 1992 Los Angeles riots and their aftermath, Lee demonstrates how Korean Americans' lives were shaped by patterns of racial segregation and urban poverty, and legacies of anti-Asian racism and orientalism. Koreatown, Los Angeles tells the story of an American ethnic community often equated with socioeconomic achievement and assimilation, but whose experiences as racial minorities and immigrant outsiders illuminate key economic and cultural developments in the United States since 1965.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Aug 2022 16:16:47 -0400 2023-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
KOREATOWN, LOS ANGELES: IMMIGRATION, RACE, AND THE "AMERICAN DREAM" (January 23, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103088 103088-21806763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Shelley Sang-Hee Lee (American Studies, Brown) discusses her latest book Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race & the 'American Dream.' Beginning with the early development of LA's Koreatown and culminating with the 1992 Los Angeles riots and their aftermath, Lee demonstrates how Korean Americans' lives were shaped by patterns of racial segregation and urban poverty, and legacies of anti-Asian racism and orientalism. Koreatown, Los Angeles tells the story of an American ethnic community often equated with socioeconomic achievement and assimilation, but whose experiences as racial minorities and immigrant outsiders illuminate key economic and cultural developments in the United States since 1965.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:24:38 -0500 2023-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Event poster featuring the cover of Dr. Lee's book
AMAS Presents 'Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies' (February 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104053 104053-21808333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Join us for a roundtable discussion and celebration of the publication of the book 'Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies' with the editors and UM contributors!

Reception to follow at the Hussey room, 2nd floor, Michigan League.

Register for livestreaming here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqcO6orDorHNDg227BbYJpfJLiWgkwwC23

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:06:18 -0500 2023-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-06T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Chistes (y chisme) con Chingonas of Chicago/Jokes (and gossip) with [Badass Latinas] of Chicago (February 7, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102351 102351-21803905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Tuesday, February 7
7:00 PM
Keene Theater
East Quad
701 E. University Ave.
Free and open to the public

Stories from your favorite tías!

Featuring: Gwen La Roka and Las Locas Comedy members: Janice V. Rodriguez, Hilary Jimenez, and Jess Martinez. Emcee and Q&A with Julianna Loera Wiggins.

Gwen La Roka
Fresh off her recent win of HBO Max’s “Entre Nos” Latino comedy competition, she is the first Latina from Chicago to be featured on an upcoming HBO Comedy Special. Gwen has been featured at comedy clubs throughout the country including The Improv, The Laugh Factory and Zanies in Chicago.

Las Locas Comedy members:
Janice V. Rodriguez
Chicago based entrepreneur, producer, podcaster, and comedian. She’s the founder and executive producer of Las Locas Comedy, a comedy showcase that features Latina/Latinx comedic talent and honorary locas of any background.

Hilary Jimenez
Chicago based comedian, writer and Limited Too fitting room survivor, whose comedy style is crossing the border and the line all while wearing designer shows. She performed at the Laugh Factory Chicago, Zanies Old Town, The Lincoln Lodge and many more venues, clubs, and showcases.

Jess Martinez
Jess Martínez is a Chicago-based comedian who has entertained audiences across the country and was selected as one of 11 acts to perform at the 2022 Latinx Theatre Commons Comedy Carnaval. Jess is co-producer of Holiday Party, co-founder of the Latina Comedy Festival, and assistant producer at The Moth StorySLAM Chicago.

Presented by the Center for World Performance Studies with support from the U-M Department of American Culture Latina/o Studies Program and Arts Initiative.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Performance Tue, 31 Jan 2023 11:58:58 -0500 2023-02-07T19:00:00-05:00 2023-02-07T20:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Performance Gwen La Roka
A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni (February 8, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104166 104166-21808549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join us for a “A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni” on Wednesday, February 8th | 6:00 - 7:30 PM EST in the Rackham Auditorium. moderated by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies faculty, Dr. SaraEllen Strongman, Michigan Medicine Special Programs Manager and DEI Practitioner, Blaire Tinker, M.Ed. and Kayla Tate, Black Student Union Speaker.

Nikki Giovanni is a Grammy-nominated poet, National Book Award finalist, recipient of several NAACP Image Awards, the Rosa Parks Women of Courage Award, a Literary Excellence Award, the Langston Hughes Medal and a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. Ms. Giovanni is one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement and has authored 3 New York Times and Los Angeles Times Best Sellers. Her experiences are incredibly relevant and perfectly aligned with the theme of this year’s for the Black History Month.

Giovanni last visited the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in January 1999 to speak at the annual MLK, Jr. Day Symposium. While on campus, she also spoke to a group of students in the Nikki Giovanni Lounge in Mosher-Jordan Hall. This lounge celebrates her activism and literary contributions which centers race, gender, sexuality and the African-American family.

If you have questions, please contact Braini McKenzie, blackhistorymonth@umich.edu

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Presentation Fri, 27 Jan 2023 15:37:21 -0500 2023-02-08T18:00:00-05:00 2023-02-08T19:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Presentation Nikki Giovanni Event Flier
Asian Abstraction & the Pleasure of Fantasy (February 15, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97164 97164-21794084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Leslie Bow (English, Wisconsin) will be in conversation with a UM faculty member about her recent book Racist Love: Asian Abstraction & the Pleasure of Fantasy. In Racist Love, Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as “racist love,” she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children’s books, home décor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asianness. At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Aug 2022 16:20:37 -0400 2023-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-15T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasure of Fantasy (February 15, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104386 104386-21808989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Leslie Bow (English, Wisconsin) will be in conversation with Victor Mendoza about her recent book "Racist Love: Asian Abstraction & the Pleasure of Fantasy".
In "Racist Love", Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as “racist love,” she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children’s books, home décor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asianness. At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence.

Leslie Bow is professor of English and Asian American Studies at UW-Madison. She is the author of the award-winning “Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South" (New York University Press, 2010); "Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women’s Literature" (Princeton University Press, 2001); and "Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy" (Duke University Press, 2022).

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hjsXfN3NRqKRXimgDWMAZw

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:43:28 -0500 2023-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-15T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Brooklyn, InshaAllah (February 20, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104486 104486-21809138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Please join us for a screening of "Brooklyn, InshaAllah", followed by a conversation with Linda Sarsour and Director, Ahmed Mansour. Leading the Q&A section, filmmaker and UofM alumni, Razi Jafri.

Learn more about the film here: https://www.brooklyninshallah.com/

Register to attend here: https://forms.gle/tGiDX7Q8dhnXw3Ky6
(Registration will be limited to UMich faculty, students, and staff until February 10th and then open to our broader community).

This event is co-sponsored by SAFE, the Muslim Coalition, the Arab Students Association, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of History, the Global Islamic Studies Center, and Middle East Studies Department.

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Film Screening Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:46:19 -0500 2023-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 2023-02-20T21:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Film Screening Event Poster
Betty Ch'maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture (2023) (March 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105259 105259-21811464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Professor Evelyn Alsultany will be delivering the Spring 2023 Betty Ch'Maj Lecture on her new book, "Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion", that was just published. Join us for this amazing talk and stay for the reception that will follow!

Evelyn Alsultany is an associate professor at the University of Southern California and is a leading expert on the history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in U.S. media.

About the Betty Ch’maj Lecture: With generous support from the Ch’maj family, the Annual Betty Ch’maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture Series was established to honor the legacy of Betty Ch’maj. Ch'maj, who was awarded the very first Ph.D. in American Culture in 1961 at Michigan, continued her career researching American literature and music, founding the Radical Caucus of ASA, and working to challenge systematic gender discrimination in American Studies programs.

Register to join remotely: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvd-6qrDMiE9Uot_-WWsK0yzoR63QaP4tB

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2023 09:47:32 -0500 2023-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Alternate Career Options When You're Phinished! (March 15, 2023 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105935 105935-21813287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Please join us for this panel of professionals with PhDs who are on alternate career tracks to academia. Come and listen to their experiences, connect with them, and learn about the different career options your PhD is preparing you for!

Dr. Sigrid Anderson is Librarian for English Language and Literature at Hatcher and a lecturer in American Culture. She holds a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from the University of Virginia and has published on American and British literature and culture, women's writing, and transatlantic print culture. She is the author of Fictions of Dissent: Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women’s Writing of the Late Nineteenth Century (2010), and her manuscript, Settling the Land of Sunshine: Gender, Race, and Regional Development in California Periodicals, is currently under review.

Dr. Jessica Tollette (she/her) is Innovation for Poverty Actions’s Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion where she leads the organization’s global DEI strategy. Prior to joining IPA, Dr. Tollette was the founding academic director and professor for IE University’s Bachelor in Behavior and Social Sciences in Madrid, Spain. She has experience teaching and researching about a range of topics including: DEI, migration, education, behavioral science, and wellbeing. She has an MA and a PhD in Sociology from Harvard University.

Dr. Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna is a sociocultural anthropologist who specializes in the study of science and technology, risk, and food. He is the author of Food Safety after Fukushima: Scientific citizenship and the politics of risk, with the university of Hawai’i press. He is currently a ux researcher at Meta, and was previously an associate professor in the department of anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He has a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University.

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvd-iprjgtG926ozU78VlXwfqXvruy0_LI

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 08 Mar 2023 09:48:01 -0500 2023-03-15T15:30:00-04:00 2023-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of American Culture Careers / Jobs Event Poster
Political Violence and the Carceral State: From COINTELPRO to Counterterrorism (March 15, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105634 105634-21812538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Daniel S. Chard will discuss his book, Nixon's War at Home, and how the history of violent domestic conflict in the 1960s and 70s can inform contemporary American debates over political violence, policing, and social change.

Daniel S. Chard is Visiting Assistant Professor of U.S. history at Western Washington University.

This is an in-person event in 1014 Tisch Hall.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Mar 2023 10:45:20 -0500 2023-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-15T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Cover of the book "Nixon's War at Home" next to the author, Daniel S. Chard
The Limits and Possibilities of Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarity (March 23, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106085 106085-21813696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Join us for a talk and Q&A with Dr. Lamont Hill on "The Limits and Possibilities of Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarity.

The event will be livestreamed here: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa032323.html

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:30:53 -0400 2023-03-23T17:30:00-04:00 2023-03-23T19:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Directions in Asian American Studies: Past, Present, Future (April 4, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97165 97165-21794085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Jennifer Ho (Ethnic Studies, Colorado), Past President for the Association of Asian American Studies, will discuss future directions of Asian American Studies and reflect on developments over the past twenty years in the field.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Aug 2022 16:23:48 -0400 2023-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-04T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
CANCELLED: Directions in Asian American Studies: Past, Present, Future (April 4, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106536 106536-21814435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Jennifer Ho is the director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts and Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado (Boulder), where she teaches courses on Asian American culture and Critical Race Theory. She is past president of the Association for Asian American Studies (2020-2022) and the author of two co-edited essay collections and three scholarly monographs "Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels (2005), Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture (2015), and Understanding Gish Jen (2015).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:31:21 -0400 2023-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 2023-04-04T18:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered (April 5, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106543 106543-21814444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

On May 5th, 1991, people took to the streets of Washington D.C.’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood to protest the police shooting of Daniel Gomez, a young man from El Salvador. Through testimony, song, poetry, and street theatre, La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered weaves together the collective memory of one of D.C.’s first barrios, and dives into the roots of the ‘91 rebellion. As people across the world take to the streets to demand an end to police brutality, the film honors the largely untold stories that have come before us, and explores how artists prompt us to remember what we still have to fight for.

RSVP for the reception after the screening: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdQ1doM4tGR_dF66vyX9iSw4PR9VTGCzIl3BYP5zSGvUKbG_w/viewform

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Film Screening Wed, 29 Mar 2023 09:22:26 -0400 2023-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Latina/o Studies Film Screening Event Poster
POSTPONED: Considering an Academic Career? (April 11, 2023 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/106892 106892-21814972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 11:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Interested in becoming a professor? Unsure about a faculty career, but want some more time in academia to figure it out? Come hear from a panel of faculty with substantial experience on the academic job market applying for fellowships, post-docs, tenure-track and visiting faculty positions. Lunch will be provided!

Panelists:
William Calvo-Quirós’ research and teaching is all about connections and intersections between the multidisciplinary fields of Design, Aesthetics and Space with Latina/o Chicana/o Studies.
Retika Adhikari is a cultural anthropologist and works at the intersection of anthropology and ethnic studies. Her research explores the limits of contemporary humanitarian interventions and the processes of refugee racialization in the American Rust Belt cities.
Umayyah Cable is jointly appointed in the departments of American Culture and Film, Television, and Media, and is a core faculty member in the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program.

Moderator:
Nancy Khalil is an anthropologist whose research interests include US Muslims, particularly US Islamic higher education institutions and Muslim clerics, or imams. She is a core faculty member in the Department of American Culture's Arab and Muslim American Studies Program.

Registration required:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPHOnpwWHFMJzpytiZRY9Gb_GjUyoHR9K6od7QfcN4YWEXyg/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:23:19 -0400 2023-04-11T11:30:00-04:00 2023-04-11T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Careers / Jobs Event Poster