Natya Dance Company
performing at Von Der Mehden
during Asian American Heritage Observance
All of our events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Updated regularly, they showcase the rich diversity of the Asian American
experience. Events are subject to change. Please contact us to confirm
date and time.
Contact Information Fe Delos Santos at 860 486. 5083 or fe.delos-santos@uconn.edu
Schedule of Events 2007 - 2008
OMIA 10th Anniversary "Promoting Excellence through Our
Diversity"
Tuesday September 18, 2007
AASI faculty members Bandana Purkayastha and Kornel
Chang will take part in a panel discussing Immigration.
Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies, Purkayastha,
is author of Negotiating Ethnicity with Rutgers University Press.
Prof. Chang is Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies.
Book sale and signing. This event is open to the public.
Time: 4:00
pm
Location: UConn CO-OP, Storrs
Sponsors: Office of the Vice Provost for Multicultural and International
Affairs, UConn CO-OP
Annual Mahavir Ahimsa/Nonviolence and Asian American Heritage
Lecture
Thursday October 4, 2007
The Fifth Annual Mahavir Ahimsa / Nonviolence and Asian American Heritage
Observance Keynote Address, "The Crises of the 21st Century
- Some Gandhian Solutions," will be delivered by
Ela Gandhi, peace activist and former Member of Parliament in South Africa
from 1994 to 2004. During apartheid she was banned from political
activism and subjected to house arrest for nine years. In Parliament Ms.
Gandhi aligned herself with the African National Congress party and represented
the area of her birth in the KwaZulu Natal province near Durban. Granddaughter
of the Mahatma Gandhi, she founded the Gandhi Development Trust, developed
a 24-hour program against domestic violence, and currently serves as Chancellor
of Durban University of Technology. This event is free and open to the
public.
Time: 4:30 pm Keynote Address
Location: Student Union Theatre, UCONN - Storrs Campus
Sponsors: Asian American Studies Institute, Asian American Cultural
Center, Jain Center of Greater Hartford, Women's Studies Program, Women's
Center, UNESCO Chair and Institute of Comparative Human Rights, India
Studies Program, Dept. of History
OMIA 10th Anniversary "Promoting Excellence through Our
Diversity"
Tuesday October 16, 2007
AASI Director and Professor of History Roger N. Buckley
will take part in a panel discussing Identity Development.
Prof. Buckley is author of the "Accommodation and Resistance: Three
Who Chose Rebellion" trilogy, Congo Jack, I, Hanuman,
and The Death and Life of an Irish Soldier, all works of historical
fiction. Book sale and signing. This event is open to the public.
Time:
4:00 pm
Location: UConn CO-OP, Storrs
Sponsors: Office of the Vice Provost for Multicultural and International
Affairs, UConn CO-OP
AASI Guest Lecture Series
Saturday October 27, 2007
Winston E. Langley whose latest publication is Kazi Nazrul
Islam: The Voice of Poetry and the Struggle for Human Wholeness (Nazrul
Institute - Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007) will discuss Nazrul's contribution
of World Literature. This event is open to the public.
Time:
2:00 pm
Location: Student Union Theatre, UCONN - Storrs Campus
Sponsors: Asian American Cultural Center, Asian American Studies
Institute
OMIA 10th Anniversary "Promoting Excellence through Our
Diversity"
Tuesday November 13, 2007
Margo Machida, Associate Professor of Art and Art History
and Asian American Studies, will take part in a panel discussing Art
and Culture. Prof. Machida co-edited Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes
(University of California Press). Book sale and signing. This event
is open to the public.
Time:
4:00 pm
Location: UConn CO-OP, Storrs
Sponsors: Office of the Vice Provost for Multicultural and International
Affairs, UConn CO-OP
The Art of Gaman Exhibit at the Benton Museum
Opening Reception January 25 and through March 30, 2008
The Art of Gaman is an art exhibit based on a book of the same name by
Delphine Hirasuna (Ten Speed Press, 2005) featuring the work of Japanese
Americans imprisoned in internment camps located on U.S. soil during World
War II. This exhibition has received funding from the Connecticut Commission
on Culture and Tourism. It is estimated that more than 22 million people
attend Connecticut's various arts and creative spaces. This event is free
and open to the public. Go to http://www.thebenton.org/ for more information.
The Asian American Studies Institute will also sponsor events to be announced
here and elsewhere, concurrent with this exhibition.
Time: Opening
Reception 5:00 - 7:30 pm with curator Delphine Hirasuna
Location: The Benton Museum on the UConn Storrs Campus
Sponsors: Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, William
Benton Museum of Art, Asian American Studies Institute, Asian American
Cultural Center
Visva Bharati Scholar in Residence
February 11 - 29, 2008
Somdatta Mandal, Associate Professor of English at Visva
Bharati, the university founded by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
While at UCONN, Prof. Mandal will conduct research on "Pearl Harbor
Echoes: Japanese American Internment Experiences through American Literature
and Culture." She is editor of The Diasporic Imagination (Prestige
Books), a three-volume anthology on Asian American writing, the first
of its kind to be published in India. Also while in Storrs, Prof. Mandal
will give a public lecture based on her research project and interests,
which also include, texts and contexts of Indian cinema, literary and
cinematic representation of the Indian woman, and colonial travel writing
from India. Events will be open to the public.
Time:
2:00 pm on Tuesday, February 19 (see below)
Location: Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center, Storrs
Sponsors: Asian American Studies Institute
Day of Remembrance
Tuesday February 19, 2008
Day of Remembrance 2008 at UConn will feature two speakers: Dr. Somdatta
Mandal, who will address internment through literature at 2:00 at
the Dodd; and Delphine Hirasuna, who is guest curator of the art
exhibition currently on view through March 30 at the Benton Museum (www.thebenton.org)
and based on her book The Art of Gaman (Ten Speed Press, 2005),
will give a public address at 4:00 at the Benton. Day of Remembrance at
UConn is an annual event that examines and commemorates the internment
of Japanese Americans and people of Japanese ancestry in the Americas
during World War II. The internment of Japanese Americans was the result
of federal action, pursuant to Executive Order 9066, signed by President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. This annual event is open
to the public.
Time: 2:00 pm (Dodd) and 4:00 pm (Benton)
Location: Konover Auditorium-Dodd Research Center and Benton Museum
of Art
Sponsors: Asian American Studies Institute, Asian American Cultural
Center, William Benton Museum of Art
EAST OF CALIFORNIA Conference "A Movement to Look Back
To"
Friday October 31 and Saturday November 1, 2008
As the Asian American Studies Institute celebrates its fifteenth anniversary
at the University of Connecticut, the field of Asian American Studies
also celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the San Francisco State University
strike, which facilitated the emergence of Ethnic Studies and Asian American
Studies on the higher education landscape. The Asian American Studies
Institute at the University of Connecticut is honored to host the 2008
EOC Conference with the theme "A Movement to Look Back To" from
October 31 to November 1 at its Storrs Campus. Conference organizers Cathy
Schlund-Vials and Jennifer Ho invite proposals for individual
papers, panels and roundtable submissions that acknowledge the extent
to which the field continues to grow, both within and outside the institution
of the academy, and particularly in programs located to the east of California.
Submit electronic copies of all materials to
both schlundvials@gmail.com
and hojennifer@earthlink.net by
Thursday, May 1, 2008. See Press Release below for more detailed information.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FRIDAY, MAY 30TH.
Time: KEYNOTE
BY GARY OKIHIRO, October 31, 2008, 6:00 pm
Location: The Pavillion at Nathan Hale Inn, University of Connecticut,
Storrs
Sponsors: Asian American Studies Institute, Asian American Cultural
Center
Seminars & Special Presentations
Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut is honored to host the 2008 East of California Conference
“A
Movement To Look Back To”
Friday,
October 31 and Saturday, November 1, 2008
Storrs, Connecticut
PLEASE NOTE: SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED Conference organizers invite electronic proposals for individual papers, panels and roundtables by May 30, 2008
In 1993, the East of California Conference was hosted by the recently formed Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. Fifteen years later, the EOC Conference returns to UConn. As the Asian American Studies Institute celebrates its fifteenth anniversary, the field of Asian American Studies also celebrates a significant moment in 2008. The title for this year's conference, "A Movement to Look Back To," signals the fortieth anniversary of the San Francisco State strike, which facilitated the emergence of Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies on the higher education landscape.
The nature and tenor of Asian American Studies has altered dramatically, and the field is increasingly marked by multidisciplinary methodologies and interdisciplinary collaborations between Ethnic Studies programs and departments.
Mindful that Asian American Studies was founded on both the theory and practice of social justice, the conference organizers invite proposals for individual papers, panels and roundtable submissions that acknowledge the extent to which the field continues to grow, both within and outside the institution of the academy, and particularly in programs located to the east of California.
Proposals that actively engage contemporary considerations of Asian American cultural production, identity formation, aesthetics, and politics are encouraged. Possible topics may include, among others: Transnationalism & Cosmopolitanism; Demographic Shifts; Border Studies; Cross-Ethnic/Racial Collaborations & Coalitions; Multi/Inter-Disciplinary Collaborations & Coalitions; Scholar-Activist Work, within and outside the academy; Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, before and after 9/11; Teaching in the 21st Century; The State of "Asian America"; Asian American Methodologies & Epistemologies; Asian American Visual Cultures; The Asian American Archive: What Is It and Where Is It?
The requirements for submission are as follows: Roundtable (1 page curriculum vitae and a 1 page outline for 5-7 minute remarks); Panel (1 page curriculum vitae per participant and a 1 page panel abstract of no more than 500 words); Individual Paper (1 page curriculum vitae and 1 page abstract of no more than 250 words).
Please send electronic copies of all materials to both Professor Cathy Schlund-Vials at <schlundvials@gmail.com> and Professor Jennifer Ho at <hojennifer@earthlink.net> by May 30, 2008.
END OF EAST OF CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE 2008 PRESS RELEASE/4/4/08 SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION 5/6/08
Visva
Bharati Scholar in Residence Somdatta Mandal
Public Lecture
“Of
Wars, Relocation and Documentation: Surveying Japanese American Internment
and the 1947 Partition of India”
Tuesday,
February 19 at 2:00 pm
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center, Storrs
Somdatta Mandal, Associate Professor of English at Visva Bharati, the university founded by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore is Asian American Studies Institute’s 2008 Visva Bharati Exchange Program Scholar in Residence. While at UCONN, Prof. Mandal will conduct research on "Pearl Harbor Echoes: Japanese American Internment Experiences through American Literature and Culture." She is editor of The Diasporic Imagination (Prestige Books), a three-volume anthology on Asian American writing, the first of its kind to be published in India.
Prof. Mandal will give a public lecture entitled “Of Wars, Relocation and Documentation: Surveying Japanese American Internment and the 1947 Partition of India” at 2:00 pm in the Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center on Tuesday, February 19, 2008. This event is free and open to the public. It is part of the Asian American Studies Institute’s annual Day of Remembrance program that marks and examines the internment of Japanese people in the Americas during World War II.
A companion Day of
Remembrance talk and book signing by Delphine Hirasuna, author
and guest curator of The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese
Internment Camps 1942-1946 (Ten Speed Press, 2005) sponsored by the
Benton Museum will be held there at 4:00 pm in conjunction with
“The Art of Gaman” exhibition currently on view until March
30, 2008.
END OF DAY OF REMEMBRANCE 2008 PRESS RELEASE/FDS 2/15/08
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Fred Ho Fellowship in Asian
American
Politics & Culture to be Awarded Annually
The Fred Ho Fellowship will be awarded annually to a faculty member, doctoral candidate or independent scholar who has a demonstrated research interest in the Fred Ho Collection, housed in the Dodd Research Center at UConn. The Fred Ho Fellow is required to give a public lecture, and to reference the collection in his or her published works. Applicants for the fellowship are eligible for an award of up to $1000 to be used for travel and accommodations. Applications are judged on the significance and cogency of the proposed research, the applicant's scholarly research credentials, letters of support attesting to the value of the proposed research, and the appropriateness of the Fred Ho Collection to the research.
Send letters of inquiry to Roger N. Buckley, Professor of History and Director of the Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut, 354 Mansfield Rd, Unit 2091, Storrs, CT 06269.