Asian American Studies in the 2020s: Disciplinary, Ethnic, Diasporic Identities
There are myriad examples of marginalization and decentering, but to elaborate on two, social scientists from underrepresented fields – namely, psychology, political science – were heavily involved in the formation of the association, Amerasia Journal, and Asian American Studies more generally, and yet those fields (as well as anthropology, communications, economics, sociology, etc) have not been centered – discretely or interdisciplinarily. Without claiming that these underrepresented social sciences are unproblematic, still, how might they and their methods help us shift our scholarly, pedagogical, and public-facing work as well as the broader discipline? Similarly, how might a more focused and intensive treatment of South Asian American Studies, placing South Asian Americans and South Asian nations at the center of our (inter)disciplinary inquiries, shift our understanding of the raced and gendered global economic order, of transnationality and diaspora, of the post 9/11-COVID era, of Asian American Studies?
We invite Asian American Studies practitioners, scholars, teachers, artists, activists and beyond to engage broadly with questions of inclusion/exclusion, examining a series of topics including, but not limited to:
Rethinking 1968 and the Rise of “Asian American”
Asian American Studies Then and Now
On Presentism and Futuricity
The Historical Imagination
The Social Scientific Imagination & Methodology
Disciplines: Multi-, Inter-, and Trans-disciplinarity
The Model Minority and its Discontents
The Racialized “Foreigner”: The Terrorist, the Temptress, the Virus, the Competition, the Empire
The Racialization of 9/11 and Covid: Comparisons
Caste and Asian America
Meditations on the Atlanta and Sikh American Massacres
Ranking Oppressions or Contextualizing/Interrelating Oppressions
How the Global & Transnational relate to Asian “America”
Centering/Interrelating: South Asian/American Studies, Pacific Islander/Oceanic Studies, Southeast Asian/American Studies
On Critical Mental Health Studies, Disability Studies, Environmental Studies, Queer Studies
Nadia Kim, Program Co-Chair
Sameer Pandya, Program Co-Chair
Please note that ticket prices will double on March 1, 2024 at 12 pm PST
Registration is nonrefundable as per our policy.
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