CURRENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Fall 2012 Announcements & Events
UIC's Asian American Studies Program proudly presents CAN, A documentary Film by Pearl J. Park
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
His name is Can Truong, but mental illness is only part of his story. Coming from a culture where only 12% of those with mental illness are willing to mention it to a friend or relative, Can is now one of the few Asian Americans willing to talk about the other battle ---
---the battle against the stigma and silencing shame with which many Asian Americans view mental illness, including Can’s own parents and friends.
Please join the filmmaker and producer Pearl J. Park at both screenings and a panel of speakers on September 25 and 26 to discuss the film and the ways we can address mental health issues. (Download flyer)
For full program details and registration, please click on the following link: http://candocumentary.eventbrite.com
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ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES LGBTQ HERITAGE MONTH EVENTS
1) BROWN BAG & ASAM FALL MIXER
Monday, October 8, 2012: UH 850, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m.
12:30 - 1:30: "Arbitrary Passions" -- In May 2007, during the cease-fire, Professor Mary Anne Mohanraj travelled to her homeland of Sri Lanka with her ex-girlfriend; join us for a presentation and discussion of her new memoir exploring love, monogamy, and nationalism.
1:30 - 2:30: Meet the ASAM faculty, grad students and staff at our fall mixer!
RSVP to Mary Anne Mohanraj; mohanraj@mamohanraj.com
Light refreshments will be served.
2) ASAM FALL LECTURE SERIES: PROFESSOR JUDY WU
Professor Judy Wu, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University
October 11, 12-1 pm, Institute for the Humanities. Title and description of
lecture TBA. RSVP to kxiong2@uic.edu
3) MARGARET CHUNG LEGACY WALK
Interested students, staff, and faculty who would like to go to the public streetscape portion of the Inaugural Dedication of 2012 inductees for the Legacy Walk to see the plaque for Margaret Chung and the other 2012 inductees, please contact Prof. Laura Fugikawa <fugikawa@uic.edu>, who will coordinate a group to attend together from UIC. Or meet at the Asian American Resource and Cultural Center (101 Taft Hall) on Oct. 11th at 3pm to leave campus as a group. For more information about the Legacy Walk, see http://legacyprojectchicago.org/Streetscape_Plan.html
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NOVEMBER BROWN BAG
Monday, November 11, 2012: UH 850, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Speaker TBD.
Previous 2012 Announcements & Events
BROWN BAG: "Collective Historicizing with Filipino Communities in Chicago," Professor Anna Guevarra
March 8, 2012: IRRPP, 12 - 1 p.m.
330 CUPPA Hall, 412 S. Peoria St.
RSVP to Meg King @ mking11@uic.edu
BROWN BAG: "Engaging Filipinos in Chicago through Collective Historicizing: A community-based research with AFIRE and CIRCA-Pintig"
Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement (IPCE)
March 14, 2012, 110 CUPPA, 12 p.m.
ASAM BROWN BAG LECTURE SERIES: Tania Unzueta: "Sample of a Lesson Plan on Immigration"
This lesson plan is designed for junior or senior high school students in a social studies, civics, or history class. It is an exploration of the experiences of undocumented immigrant youth living in the United States (U.S.), with a focus on Asian-American youth and Chicago.
March 16, 12 - 1:30; UH 850
RSVP requested to mohanraj@uic.edu; lunch will be served.
ASAM's brown bag colloquium series takes place every second Friday of the month from 12 - 1:30 p.m. (bring your own lunch!), where faculty, staff, and students present and lead a discussion on their research. More info
FILM: PRECIOUS KNOWLEDGE SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
Film screening of the new documentary film, "Precious Knowledge: Arizona's Battle over Ethnic Studies," followed by a discussion with producer Eren McGinnis and Tucson public-school teacher Jose Gonzales.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
University of Illinois at Chicago
800 S. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60607
Free and open to the public. DVDs will be available for purchase. Donations will be accepted to support teachers and students in their legal struggles.
For more information on the film, visit http://www.PreciousKnowledgeFilm.com
For more information on the legal struggles, visit http://www.saveethnicstudies.org
For more information on this event, contact Amina Chaudhri, ashafi4@uic.edu
Event co-sponsors:
- UIC Asian American Studies Program
- Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
- Northern Illinois Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education
- Chicago Teachers Union
- Teachers for Social Justice
LECTURE: "Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community since 1870" by Professor Huping Ling
Friday, March 30, 10 - 11 a.m.
208 Burnham Hall
A leading scholar in Asian American studies, Executive Editor of Journal of Asian American Studies, and award-winning author of eleven books and over one hundred articles, Professor Huping Ling of Truman State University will present her newly published book Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration and Community since 1870 (Stanford University Press, 2012), from the three Moy brothers in the 1870s to the present Chinese Chicagoland. In her presentation, Ling will highlight the differences between the Midwest and coastal Asian American history.
PANEL DISCUSSION: Surprising Revelations about Asian American and Pacific Islander College Students
A panel discussion on:
- National research from the new book, "Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education," by Drs. Doris Ching (University of Hawai'i at Manoa), Anna Gonzalez (University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Robert Teranishi (New York University)
- Campus research and preliminary analysis of the 2011 AANAPISI Demographic Survey of Asian
American and Pacific Islander Students at UIC by Dr. Sharon S. Lee (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Thursday, April 5, 2012
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
African American Cultural Center (Addams Hall 207)
Refreshments will be served.
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Amina Chaudri, ashafi4@uic.edu
CHANDRA TALPADE MOHANTY
ASAM Spring Lecture Series is pleased to present:
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Neoliberal Academies, Insurgent Knowledges, and Pedagogies of Dissent: Reflections on Anti-Racist Feminist Practice"
Location: Student Center East, Room 302, Univ. of IL at Chicago
750 S. Halsted, Chicago, IL 60607
Date: April 26, 2012, 4 p.m., lecture to be followed by a reception.
Free and open to the public.
BIO: Chandra Talpade Mohanty is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Dean’s Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University. Her work focuses on transnational feminist theory, anti-capitalist feminist praxis, anti-racist education, and the politics of knowledge. She is the author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (Duke University Press, 2003 and Zubaan Books, India, 2004; translated into Korean,2005, Swedish,2007, and Turkish, 2009), and co-editor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Indiana University Press, 1991), Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Routledge, 1997), Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism, (Zed Press, 2008), and The Sage Handbook on Identities (co-edited with Margaret Wetherell (2010). Her work has been translated into Arabic, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Swedish, Thai. Korean, Arabic, Turkish, Slovenian, Hindi, and Japanese. She is a member of the advisory boards of Signs: A Journal Of Women in Culture and Society, Transformations, The Journal of Inclusive Pedagogy and Scholarship, Feminist Africa (South Africa), Asian Women (Korea), Feminist Economics, and the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. She is a steering committee member of the Municipal Services Project (municipalservicesproject.org), a transnational research and advocacy group focused on alternatives to privatization in the Global South. She has worked with three grassroots community organizations, Grassroots Leadership of North Carolina, Center for Immigrant Families in New York City, and Awareness, Orissa, India, and has been a consultant/evaluator for AAC &U and the Ford Foundation. She is series editor of “Comparative Feminist Studies” for Palgrave/Macmillan.
ASAM BROWN BAG LECTURE SERIES 2011-2012
ASAM's brown bag colloquium series takes place every second Friday of the month from 12 - 1:30 p.m. (bring your own lunch!), where faculty, staff, and students present and lead a discussion on their research. Next session is Friday, October 14, 12 - 1:30 p.m., UH 850.
• Friday, September 9, 12 - 1:30, UH 2028: Professor Helen Jun, "Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-emancipation to Neoliberal America"
• Friday, October 14, 12 - 1:30 p.m., UH 850, Smita Das, "Pauline E. Hopkins and the Politics of Racial Ambiguity"
• Friday, November 11, 12 - 1:30 p.m., UH 850, Winona May Lozada, "Breakdown on Ethnic Disparities of AANAPI at UIC"
• Friday, January 20, 12 - 1:30, UH 850: Pallavi Banerjee, "Visas as Neoliberal Tools: Indian Professional Families in the U.S" -- An analysis of how the skilled workers visas (H1B) and the dependent visas (H4) are used to control labor and migration of Indian professional families.
• Friday, February 10, 12 - 1:30, UH 850, Professor Mark Chiang, "Neoliberalism and the Economy of Cultural Nationalism in Chang-rae Lee and Zora Neale Hurston."
• Friday, March 16, 12 - 1:30, UH 850, Tania Unzueta: "Sample of a Lesson Plan on Immigration"
ASAM's brown bag colloquium series takes place every second Friday of the month from 12 - 1:30 p.m. (bring your own lunch!), where faculty, staff, and students present and lead a discussion on their research. More info
The final lecture in 2011-2012 will take place April 13. Further details forthcoming shortly.
UIC's Asian American Studies Program proudly presents KIN-ETIC: Activating Asian American Students in Civic-Community Life
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 from 10:15 AM to 2:00 PM
KIN-ETIC is a community-campus partnership that will bring students, faculty/staff, community organizers, activists, and other leaders together to engage in civic-community projects centered on the needs and strengths of Chicago’s Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. (Download flyer; download full program.)
For full program details and registration, please click on the following link: http://kin-etic.eventbrite.com/
NEW ASAM COURSES
Fall 2011:
ASAM 290: Disability and Mental Health Disparities in Pan Asian-American Communities; Rooshey Hasnain, TR 2:00 - 3:15 p.m., 2LH 300
ASAM 490: Asian American Youth, Education, and Activism; Kevin Kumashiro, W 5 - 8 p.m., 2BSB215
Spring 2012:
ASAM 290: Cultural Politics of Asian American Food, Anna Guevarra, Tu/Th 2 - 3:15 p.m., 304SH
ASAM/GWS 458: Asian America and Transnational Feminism; Anna Guevarra, 319SH
Summer 2012:
ASAM 105: Seminar in Asian American Studies: A seminar on an area of current interest in the field of Asian American Studies. Topics may vary.
PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS
ASAM UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH / ARTS GRANTS PROGRAM 2011-2012
Application Deadline: October 28, 2011
The UIC Asian American Studies Program is pleased to announce the ASAM Undergraduate Research / Arts Grants Program for 2011-2012. These competitive grants, of up to $1000, are designed to facilitate and encourage Asian American and Pacific Islander students to pursue independent research and/or creative-arts projects about and with Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. A total of up to twenty grants will be awarded on a merit basis. Projects that have a Chicagoland and/or Midwest component will be prioritized in order to encourage local and community-engaged work.
Awardees will be supervised by a faculty mentor, and must demonstrate adequate progress to receive full funding. Awardees will be required to present their completed projects at the 2012 ASAM Expo in April to share their work with the broader UIC community.
More information and application procedures
TAKE THE UIC AANAPISI ONLINE DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY
Weekly count: As of Sept. 26th, 545 respondents completed the survey. Last Monday was 425! We still need more to reach our goal!
What is it? Research on UIC Asian American and Pacific Islander undergraduate students. The research survey is part of the UIC Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions grant initiative, which is fully funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The survey contains basic demographic questions, taking approximately 15-20 minutes to complete.
Who is eligible? Non-international undergraduate UIC students of the following ethnic backgrounds, including multi-racial. Asian American: Bangladeshi, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hmong, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Mongolian, Nepalese, Pakistani, Singaporean, Sri-Lankan, Taiwanese, Thai, Tibetan, Vietnamese, or other Asian ethnic background. Pacific Islander: Chamorro, Fijian, Guamanian, Native Hawaiian, Papua New Guinean, Polynesian, Samoan, Tongan, or other Pacific Islander background.
Qualified respondents will be entered into a random drawing to receive one of the fifty $25 gift cards. Survey ends October 15, 2011. IRB protocol #2011-0520. For more information, see The UIC AANAPISI Initiative page.
FILM PREMIERE: MODEL MINORITY: DO THE MATH
Model Minority: Do the Math reveals the impact of the model minority myth on Asian American
college students. While many believe the stereotype of Asian Americans as academic overachievers is positive, it causes many problems. Asian Americans suffer the highest student rates of suicide, depression, and anxiety. Despite their preferences or abilities, they are pressured by parents, society, and even counselors to pursue and excel in narrow math-intensive fields. Portrayed as too competitive and successful, they are usually denied affirmative action funds and academic assistance, and face alienation, resentment, discrimination, and hate crimes.
Model Minority increases our understanding of Asian American students.
November 1st, 2011
11 - 12:30
UIC Lecture Center D
Free and open to the public.