The Chinese Exclusion Act
WHEN: Monday, April 24, 2017, 6-10:30pm (showings at 6:00pm-8:00pm and 8:30pm-10:30pm)
WHERE: Marquee Theater, Union South
CONTACT: For more information, please contact the Wisconsin China Initiative
WHEN: Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 4:00pm
WHERE: Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (University Ave. and Orchard St.)
CONTACT: For more information, please contact the Wisconsin China Initiative
FLIGHT: A Forum & Hip-Hop Workshop
WHEN: Friday, February 17, 2017, 3:30-4:30pm
WHERE: H’Doubler Theater, 3rd Floor, Lathrop Hall, Dance Department
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Peggy Choy
Peggy Choy
Volcanic Arc: Dancing Across Hot Spots
WHEN: Friday, November 11, 3:30-4:30pm
WHERE: H’Doubler Theater, 3rd Floor, Lathrop Hall, Dance Department
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Peggy Choy
The 2nd Annual Judith L. Ladinsky Lecture: Creative Criticism, or Writing as an Other
WHEN: Friday, October 21, 2016
WHERE: 206 Ingraham Hall
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Fall 2016 University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research in the Humanities Burdick-Vary Lecture Series: Asian Americans and the Pleasures of Fantasy
Christine Yano
Kawaii: Fraught Innocence in Asian (American) Commodity Culture
WHEN: Wednesday, September 14, 7:30pm
WHERE: Elvehjem L140, 800 University Ave.
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Leslie Bow at lbow@wisc.edu
Leslie Bow
Fantasy as Microagression?: Racial Caricature, Kawaii-Style, and the Anthropomorphic Asian
WHEN: Wednesday, October 19, 7:30pm
WHERE: Elvehjem L140, 800 University Ave.
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Leslie Bow at lbow@wisc.edu
Charles Yu
How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe: an Evening with writer Charles Yu
WHEN: Thursday, October 27, 7pm
WHERE: 6191 H.C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St.
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Leslie Bow at lbow@wisc.edu
Lori Kido Lopez
Limits of Racebending in the Struggle for Asian American Representation
WHEN: Thursday, December 8, 7pm
WHERE: 6191 H.C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St.
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Leslie Bow at lbow@wisc.edu
Poetry and Translation: A Brown Bag Discussion
WHEN: Tuesday, April 19, 2016
WHERE: 340 Ingraham Hall
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Timothy Yu at tpyu@wisc.edu
Reading with Ouyang Yu
WHEN: Tuesday, April 19, 2016
WHERE: Pyle Center, Room 121
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Timothy Yu at tpyu@wisc.edu
Changes in Hmong American Filmmaking
WHEN: Wednesday, February 17, 2016
WHERE: 206 Ingraham Hall
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Ian Baird at ibaird@wisc.edu
More Than Tuition Money: The ‘Asia Orienting’ of the University of Michigan’s Levi Barbour Scholarship for Women from the Orient, 1917-1930 with Victor Jew
WHEN: Thursday, September 24, 2015, 12:00pm
WHERE: 206 Ingraham Hall
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Victor Jew at vjew@wisc.edu
Since 1917, the University of Michigan has supported the Levi Barbour Scholarship for Women from the Orient, a program that brought female students from India, China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines to Ann Arbor for undergraduate, graduate, and professional study. On the surface, this seems like one among many scholarships provided by one Midwestern university, but the early years of the Levi Barbour program encapsulated numerous larger themes that implicated such momentous historical formations as political revolutions in Asian settings, immigration restriction in the United States, as well as the emergence of the “Modern Woman” in the early twentieth century. Based on primary source research in the Barbour Papers at the Bentley Historical Library, this presentation will explore ways to problematize and foreground the many cultural, social, and gendered dimensions of the Barbour Scholarship.
Madison’s Asian American Media Spotlight
Asian American Studies Speaker Series: Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries with Dina Okamoto
WHEN: Monday, April 20, 4:00-5:30pm
WHERE: 6191 Helen C. White Hall
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Yang Sao Xiong at ysxiong2@wisc.edu
This research provides insights about the conditions and mechanisms that encourage distinct ethnic, linguistic, and cultural groups to widen their boundaries to generate a new, collective identity – a concept and process referred to as panethnicity. It traces the complex evolution of “Asian American” as a panethnic label and identity from 1970 to the present, and emphasizes that panethnicity is a deliberate social achievement negotiated by group members, rather than an organic and inevitable process. Complicating assimilation and racialization frameworks, this research elaborates upon (1) how local conditions help to generate a collective identity and status across ethnic groups and (2) how ethnic boundaries are layered and even complementary. Moving beyond past research, Professor Okamoto tests hypotheses about the local conditions shaping dynamics within and between groups that heighten group boundaries and encourage group members to organize as part of a larger collective group. In this talk, Professor Okamoto focuses on an analysis of ethnic and panethnic organizing efforts, and argues that the emergence of a panethnic identity depended, somewhat paradoxically, on different groups organizing along distinct ethnic lines to gain recognition and rights from the larger society. In particular, ethnic organizations provided the foundation necessary to build solidarity within different Asianorigin communities, and ethnic leaders and community members who created inclusive narratives and advocated for policies that benefited groups beyond their own were key actors in generating panethnicity. The results suggest that despite political opportunities, access to resources, and intergroup competition, groups must not only be structured in a way that they can interact, build trust, and share commonalities before organizing upon a panethnic identity, but group narratives must be deployed for panethnicity to be sustained.
Ethnic Studies and #BlackLivesMatter, From Ferguson to Madison
WHEN: Friday, April 10, 2015, 5:30-7:30pm
WHERE: Elvehjem Building, Room L160
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Timothy Yu at tpyu@wisc.edu
Sponsors: Asian American Studies Program, Department of Afro-American Studies, American Indian Studies Program and Chican@ and Latin@ Stuies Program
UW-Madison faculty members will offer ethnic and indigenous studies perspectives on the Black Lives Matter movement and the issues surrounding it, from policing to racial inequities. A discussion with the audience will follow. This event is free and open to the public.
Asian American Studies Speaker Series: The Troubling and Disappearing Mother, and the Policing of Race: Kultida Woods in Black and Asian American Newspapers, 1996-2010 with Michael Thornton
WHEN: Tuesday, April 7, 4:00-5:30pm
WHERE: 340 Ingraham Hall
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Yang Sao Xiong at ysxiong2@wisc.edu
“Among B-Boys”: Film Screening and Discussion with Director Christopher Woon
WHEN: Thursday, March 26, 2015, 6:00-8:00pm
WHERE: 22 Ingraham Hall
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Ger Xiong at gxiong22@wisc.edu
Among B-Boys is the first documentary on break dancing in the Hmong American community.
“Among B-Boys” explores a movement of Hmong youth with a starting point in the California Central Valley, going back to the early 1990′s in Fresno, CA. Many of these b boys/b-girls are on a quest for respect and even fame through their skills. In this search for success in the breakdancing world, these youth must also navigate their way and strike a balance between their identities as Hmong and B-Boys. The documentary, directed by Christopher Woon aka Paper Son, features Bboys Villn and Mpact of Underground Flow, Sukie and Velocity/Soul Rivals, Charles of Soul Control, Vang of Among B-Boys, Airsteps, Wizardz and more!
Asian American Studies Speaker Series: Defining the Nation Through Empire: Filipino Military Service and the Promise of Benefits with Katrina Quisumbing King
WHEN: Tuesday, March 24, 4:00-5:30pm
WHERE: 340 Ingraham Hall
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Yang Sao Xiong at ysxiong2@wisc.edu
In this talk, Katrina will present her dissertation proposal. She is in the early stages of collecting data. In the project, Katrina selected U.S. colonization of the Philippines and the benefits promised to Filipino veterans as a case to explore how race and nation were constructed through empire and war. She analyze the period between 1934 and 1947—a time when the U.S., having already promised independence to the Philippines, recruited Filipinos to fight the imperial expansion of Japan in World War II. In exchange for their service, the U.S. promised citizenship and military benefits. In 1946, however, the United States revoked these rights. No other national group was denied benefits. By focusing on this puzzling period of war and decolonization, she explores how the competing interests of the state manifest in policies toward Filipinos. Katrina examine historical records pertaining to the promise and revocation of military benefits to Filipino veterans, asking: (1) what was the logic organizing these polices? (2) how did government officials deploy the category of “active military service” in revoking military benefits from Filipinos? And (3) how did they invoke the concepts of race and nation in making these decisions? Thus, Katrina’s dissertation illuminates the categories of difference created by the state in the colonial period, and how these categories continued to define the U.S. national state in the post-colonial era.
Asian American Studies Speaker Series: The World of Suzie Wong: Making a Paradoxical Icon and a Problematic Iconicity with Victor Jew
Screening of “The World of Suzie Wong” (1960)
WHEN: Monday, March 9, 2015, 5:30pm
WHERE: 22 Ingraham Hall
Talk: The World of Suzie Wong: Making a Paradoxical Icon and a Problematic Iconicity
WHEN: Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 4:00-5:30pm
WHERE: 340 Ingraham Hall
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Yang Sao Xiong at ysxiong2@wisc.edu
Sponsored by the Asian American Studies Program
“Who’s Afraid of Suzie Wong?” Have you ever made a reference to “The World of Suzie Wong” (the 1960 film), but never wanted to actually see it because of its abject reputation? Here’s a chance to view the film, talk about it critically, and think about larger issues that it inadvertantly raises. This screening will lead up to the talk by Victor Jew for the Asian American Studies Speaker Series for Spring 2015, “The World of Suzie Wong: Making a Paradoxical Icon and a Problematic Iconicity.” The talk will be on Tuesday, March 10 from 4 to 5:30 pm in 340 Ingraham Hall.
If Fanon Had Facebook: Postcolonial Knowledge, Rhizomes and the Gnosis of the Digital
WHEN: Monday, March 9, 2015, 7-9pm
WHERE: Union South, TITU
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Co-sponsors: Asian American Studies Program, the Digital Humanities Research Network, Center for the Humanities, and the A.W. Mellon Foundation
How is racial inequality addressed in the digital sphere through social media? In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon makes a stirring argument that colonialism cannot end without a radical shift in mainstream discourse, and he issues a call to accomplish this through pioneering ideological innovations. But the media environment available to Fanon at that moment was drastically different from the one today. In this talk, Koh will explore the question: what if Fanon had Facebook at his disposal in the 1950s? By invoking “Facebook,” Koh is not limiting this question to that particular platform but wants to gesture towards a larger conceptualization of knowledge distribution in digital ecologies. Koh asks: how would Fanon have reacted to the Internet and social media? How would he have tried to deconstruct and to reconstruct it for his own radical use?
Hunting in Wisconsin Roundtable Discussion
WHEN: Monday, March 2, 2015, 7-9pm
WHERE: 206 Ingraham Hall
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Ian Baird at ibaird@wisc.edu
Co-sponsors: Asian American Studies Program, the Hmong Studies Consortium and the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies.
Disability, Healing and Justice
WHEN: Thursday, February 12, 2015
WHERE: 2nd Floor Red Gym, 716 Langdon Street
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Chelsea O’Neil at chealsea.oneil@wisc.edu or 608-890-2082
Co-sponsors: Asian American Studies Program, Multicultural Student Center, and Open House Learning Community.
3PM Workshop, MSC Classroom
Participants will write under-told, boundary-pushing, life saving stories from their bodies’ fierce wisdom and resilience, to create the deeply necessary stories we need to share the truths of how we’re keeping on living and the amazing lives we’re making. Space is limited! Secure your spot at msc.wisc.edu/register
7PM Performance & Talk-Back, MSC Lounge
Leah will share performance about queer femme of color survivorhood, transformative justice, and disability justice movement and radical healing.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled Sri Lankan cis femme writer, performer, organizer and badass visionary healer. She is the author of the Lambda Award winning Love Cake and Consensual Genocide and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities. With Cherry Galette, she co-founded Mangos With Chili, North America’s performance incubator for Two Spirit, queer and trans people of color performance artists, and is a lead artist with Sins Invalid.
Ki-Achè: Beyond Walls, A Dance Informance With Peggy Choy Dance
WHEN: Friday, January 30, 2015, 3:30-4:30pm
WHERE: H’Doubler Performance Space
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Peggy Choy at pachoy@wisc.edu
Co-sponsors: Asian American Studies Program, Afro-American Studies Dept., Anonymous Fund, Brittingham Fund, Dance Dept., Latin Am., Caribbean and Iberian Studies, Office of the Vice Provost & Chief Diversity Officer and Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement.
Peggy Choy presents a showing of new dance work that celebrates intersections between African-American, Asian American and Afro-Caribbean cultural and political histories.
Asian Australian, Asian American: Exporting a Literary Culture?
WHEN: Tuesday, November 18, 4:00-5:30
WHERE: 336 Ingraham Hall
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Yang Sao Xiong at ysxiong2@wisc.edu
Sponsored by the Asian American Studies Program
Tim Yu is associate professor of English and Asian American Studies and director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Race and Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 (Stanford University Press 2009), which won the Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. His current book project, Diasporic Poetics, examines English-language poets of Asian descent working around the Pacific Rim—in the United States, Canada, the Philippines, and Australia.
The Nobel Fighter: Putting Malala Yousafzai in Context
WHEN: Thursday, October 30, 1:00-2:30pm
WHERE: 6191 Helen C. White Hall
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Leslie Bow at lbow@wisc.edu
Co-Sponsored by the Asian American Studies Program and Go Big Read
Amitabh Pal is managing editor of The Progressive magazine, founded in 1909, and co-editor of the Progressive Media Project, an op-ed service, both based in Madison, Wisconsin. He has interviewed several eminent personalities for the magazine, including Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Dalai Lama, and Joseph Stiglitz. His work has been included in school and college textbooks, and he has appeared on BBC, C-SPAN and on television and radio stations throughout the country. Pal is the author of ‘Islam’ Means Peace: Understanding the Muslim Principle of Nonviolence Today (Praeger, 2011).
Light refreshments will be served.
Ethnic Studies in the 21st Century: American Racial Branding, South Asians and Spelling Bee Competitions
WHEN: Thursday, October 16, 2014, 12-1:30pm
WHERE: 336 Ingraham Hall
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Timothy Yu at tpyu@wisc.edu
Sponsor: Asian American Studies Program
Free and open to the public
The Asian American Studies Program is pleased to welcome Professor Shilpa Davé as the first speaker in our speaker series. Feel free to bring your lunch and join us for a research presentation and discussion.
Shilpa Davé is assistant professor of Media Studies and American Studies and assistant dean at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film (University of Illinois Press 2013) and is the co-editor of the collection East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (NYU Press 2005). Dr. Davé earned her Bachelors degree with Honors in English and Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and her Ph.D. in English Literature and Languages from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
LIGHTS TRAUMA REVELATION
A Poetry Reading with Cathy Linh Che, Jess X Chen, and Paul Tran
WHEN: Sunday, August 31, 2 pm
WHERE: A Room of One’s Own Bookstore, 315 W. Gorham St., Madison
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Timothy Yu at tpyu@wisc.edu or see the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1388151141445862/
Sponsor: Asian American Studies Program
Free and open to the public
Inspired by the directorial cue—”Lights, camera, action!”—award-winning poets Cathy Linh Che, Jess X Chen and Paul Tran visit Madison as part of a cross-country extravaganza to read from their first and upcoming books.
From New York City to Seattle, these fearless poets combine the ferocity of oral history, spoken word, and Asian American poetics to extricate new narratives of trauma, exile, colonialism, ecological collapse, and love in the aftermath of war.
Their poems turn from anger to sorrow, mercy to compassion, the erotic to the crowning of one’s own life. Nothing is spared or unexamined. Here is a desire to witness and write it all.
The reading will be introduced by Professor Timothy Yu, director of Asian American Studies at UW-Madison.
CATHY LINH CHE is the author of Split (Alice James, 2014), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. A Vietnamese American poet from Los Angeles and Long Beach, CA, she received her BA from Reed College and her MFA from New York University. She has been awarded fellowships and residences from Poets & Writers, The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, Kundiman, Hedgebrook, Poets House, The Asian American Literary Review, The Center for Book Arts, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Residency, and a Jerome Foundation Travel Grant. A founding editor of the online journal, Paperbag, Cathy is the Managing Director at Kundiman.
JESS X CHEN is a Chinese American multi-disciplinary poet, illustrator, filmmaker and the author of From the Earthworm to the Night (independent, 2013). Her work has been recognized by the Asian American International Film Festival, Yale Environmental Film Festival, CURA Magazine for Art and Action, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and more. She received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and studied poetry at Brown University, where she coached the slam team that won “Pushing the Art Forward” at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI). She co-founded LoveHoldLetGo, a film and theater production collective whose full-length plan, Silence and the Earth, strives to rethink what the Earth and its ravaged landscape might say to its colonizers if it hadn’t been ignored and casted as an exploitable space. It played in over 50 North American cities in 2013 and is now being adapted into a feature film.
PAUL TRAN is a Vietnamese American historian and spoken word poet. He represented Brown University three times at the Wade Lewis Poetry Slam Invitational and the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, where he won “Best Poet” and “Pushing the Art Forward.” He has also received awards and fellowships from Kundiman, The VONA/Voices Writing Workshop, The Asian American Literary Arts and Performance Festival, The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His work combines oral history and performance to examine the violences inherited from the Vietnam War. He has twice coached the Providence youth slam team which competed at the Brave New Voices international poetry slam in Chicago (2013) and Philadelphia (2014), and is currently working on a chapbook called Still Life.
For more on the poets and their work: http://lightstraumarevelation.tumblr.com/
Asian American Studies Certificate Graduation Reception
WHEN: Friday, May 16, 2014, 4:30-5:30pm
WHERE: 6191 Helen C. White Hall, UW-Madison
CONTACT: Asian American Studies Program, aasp@mailplus.wisc.edu or 608-263-2976
Congratulations to our graduates! All certificate students are invited to come support our graduates and meet faculty and staff from the Asian American Studies Program. Graduates may bring up to two guests each. Refreshments will be served and there will be a short presentation of certificates to graduates.
Breaking the Norm Hmong American Student Association Spring 2014 Conference
WHEN: Saturday, April 12-Sunday, April 13, 2014
WHERE: Memorial Union, UW-Madison
CONTACT: For more information, please contact the HASA Spring Conference Committee at hasa.conference@gmail.com
Co-Sponsors: Asian American Studies Program, Associated Students of Madison, Wisconsin Experience Grant, People Program, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Multicultural Student Center, Office of the Provost, and LGBT Campus Center of UW-Madison.
This year’s theme is Breaking the Norm, and its purpose aims to explore contemporary Hmong identity by bringing the community together to educate and challenge individuals on cross-cultural issues that are not often talked about. With that, we hope to raise awareness and create open dialogues including some of these following social issues: interracial relationships, gender roles and oppression, domestic abuse, the Hmong LGBTQ, and more.
Asian Am Films at the Wisconsin Film Fest
WHEN: Thursday, April 3-10, 2014
CONTACT: For more information, please visit the website at: http://guide.wifilmfest.org/2014
Co-Sponsors: Asian American Studies Program, Communication Arts Department and the Arts Institute
American Revolutionary
This documentary traces the extraordinary life of Asian American activist Grace Lee Boggs, who is known for her landmark work on behalf of black communities during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Sat, Apr 05 | 6:30 PM UW Chazen Museum of Art Sun, Apr 06 | 1:15 PM UW Chazen Museum of Art
Love Child
This film explores the story of a South Korean couple who let their three-year-old child die while they played online videogames. It provocatively discusses the rise of South Korea as a technological world leader alongside the dangers of internet addiction. Sat, Apr 05 | 1:15 PM UW Union South Marquee Danny Lee, co-producer and 2008 UW Alum, scheduled to appear
To Be Takei
This energizing and entertaining new documentary shows the seeming-ly inexhaustible George Takei, now 76 years-old, who rose to promi-nence with his role as Sulu in Star Trek and has since become an out-spoken LGBT advocate and social media guru. Fri, Apr 04 | 4:30 PM UW Union South Marquee
Hmong Parents Day
WHEN: Saturday, March 29, 2014
WHERE: UW-Madison Campus
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Pa Tou Vue at pvue3@wisc.edu
Co-Sponsors: Asian American Studies Program, Department of Counseling Psychology, Office of the Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer, Southeast Asian Student Academic Services, Center for Academic Excellence, Parent Program, L&S Career Services, Center for Educational Opportunity, Cultural Linguistic Services, Center for First Year Experience and UW Parking Services
Bits and Bytes: Tracing Hmong Diasporic Culture and History Through the Digital Humanities
WHEN: Thursday, March 6, 2014, 6:00-7:30pm
WHERE: 206 Ingraham Hall, UW-Madison Campus
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Ian Baird at ibaird@wisc.edu
Co-Sponsors: Asian American Studies Program and the Hmong Consortium of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UW-Madison
This event will trace the presence and influence of the digital through Hmong cultural production since the mid-twentieth century. The goal of this event is to become aware of projects that digitally explore, archive, and invent Hmong diasporic experiences—and to generate ideas for new projects. We will dedicate time to actively dialogue about your ideas for ways that we might use an array of digital tools to experience and understand Hmong cultural production and history.
Diversity in Diaspora
WHEN: Friday, February 7, 2014, 3:30-5:30pm
WHERE: 206 Ingraham Hall, UW-Madison Campus
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Yang Sao Xiong at ysxiong2@wisc.edu
Co-Sponsors: Asian American Studies Program
Book Panel Presentation of Diversity in Diaspora
Mark Edward Pfeifer (SUNY-Institute of Technology) and Yang Sao Xiong (UW-Madison)
This anthology wrestles with Hmong Americans’ inclusion into and contributions to Asian American studies, as well as to American history and culture and refugee, immigrant, and diasporic trajectories. It negotiates both Hmong American political and cultural citizenship, meticulously rewriting the established view of the Hmong as new Asian neighbors an approach articulated, Hollywood style, in Clint Eastwood’s film Gran Torino. The collection boldly moves Hmong American studies away from its usual groove of refugee recapitulation that entrenches Hmong Americans’ points-of-origin and acculturation studies rather than propelling the field into other exciting academic avenues.
Diversity in Diaspora represents an essential step in carving out space for Hmong Americans as primary actors in their own right and in placing Hmong American studies within the purview of Asian American studies.
Linsanity
WHEN:Tuesday, November 19, 2013, 7:30pm
WHERE: AMC Star Fitchburg 18
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Timothy Yu at tpyu@wisc.edu
Co-Sponsors: Asian American Studies Program
Join us for an exclusive Madison screening of Linsanity, the new documentary about Asian American basketball superstar Jeremy Lin. Lin came from obscurity to take the sports world by storm with the New York Knicks in 2012, and the “Linsanity” that followed sparked new public discussions of race, religion, and the role of Asian Americans in popular culture. Director Evan Jackson Leong began filming long before Lin was a household name, and the result is a compellingly personal story that has been a hit at film festivals around the country. It will only come to Madison if we make this event happen, so reserve your tickets now!
Timothy Yu, director of Asian American Studies, will introduce the film and lead a discussion with the audience afterwards.
The Changing Roles of Hmong Women in Wisconsin
WHEN: Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 6-8pm
WHERE: 206 Ingraham Hall, UW-Madison
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Ian Baird at ibaird@wisc.edu or the Asian American Studies Program at aasp@mailplus.wisc.edu
Co-Sponsors: Asian American Studies Program and the Hmong Consortium at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The panelists will be:
Yer Vang (Madison immigration attorney and lecturer for the course Hmong American Women’s Experiences, UW-Madison)
Yer Yang (Sheboygan high school teacher and Vice-President of the Hmong 18 Clan Council of Wisconsin)
Anne Vang-Lo (Appleton teacher and Education PhD student at UW-Madison studying Hmong women leaders in America)
Panel Discussion on the Go Big Read Book A Tale for the Time Being
WHEN: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 5:30pm
WHERE: Room 460 Memorial Library
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Timothy Yu at tpyu@wisc.edu
Co-Sponsors: Asian American Studies Program, UW-Madison Center for the Humanities, Department of English, Nelson Institute and Go Big Read
Hip Hop Dance Workshop: Extreme Breakin’
WHEN: Thursday, May 2, 2013, 1:20-3:10 pm
WHERE: 249 Lathrop Hall (2nd floor, west wing)
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Peggy Choy at pachoy@wisc.edu
Co-Sponsors: Asian American Studies Program, Dance Program, Office of the Vice-Provost and Chief Diversity Office
Ze Motion teach the “power-science” of breaking
Open to UW-Madison students; to reserve place, email: pachoy@wisc.edu
Panel & Dance Showing: “Like Water: Environmental Justice Through the Lens of Science and Hip Hop Dance”
WHEN: Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 12-1:30 pm
WHERE: Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, The Forum, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 330 N Orchard St, Madison, WI 53715
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Peggy Choy at pachoy@wisc.edu
Co-Sponsors: UW-Madison Office of the Vice-Provost and Chief Diversity Officer, UW-Madison Dance Department, 10th International Breakin’ The Law Urban Dance Festival
Moderated by Peggy Choy, with guest panelists Melanie West (Tiz Media, Illinois), Lainet Garcia-Rivera (Center for Ecology, Milwaukee), and Prof. Patty Loew (Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison)
Dancers Sekou Heru, Ze Motion and Lacouir Yancey perform in Choy’s new dance work-in-progress
Hip Hop Dance & Martial Arts Fusion Workshop
WHEN: Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 1:20-3:10 pm
WHERE: Lathrop Hall, Studio 249 (2nd floor, west wing)
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Peggy Choy at pachoy@wisc.edu
Co-Sponsors: Asian American Studies Program, Dance Program, Office of the Vice-Provost and Chief Diversity Office
Guest dancers Ze Motion and Lacouir Yancey will teach breaking, Sekou Heru will teach his Power House Fitness™ (his own fusion of fitness, house style & martial arts) in Peggy Choy’s Afro Asian Improv class.
Open to UW-Madison students; to reserve a place, email: pachoy@wisc.edu
Breakin’ for Wellness: Hip Hop Dance Workshop
WHEN: Monday, April 29, 2013, 6-7 pm
WHERE: 510 Lathrop Hall
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Peggy Choy at pachoy@wisc.edu
Co-Sponsors: Asian American Studies Program, Dance Program, Office of the Vice-Provost and Chief Diversity Office
Lacouir Yancey teaches a breaking workshop that integrates body wellness “for the long haul.”
Dance Informance: “Be Like Water: Exploring Martial Arts and Urban Dance Connections with Ecosurvival”
WHEN: Monday, April 29, 2013, Noon -1:30 pm
WHERE: Student Activity Center, Multipurpose Room
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Peggy Choy at pachoy@wisc.edu
Co-Sponsors: Asian American Studies Program, Dance Program, Office of the Vice-Provost and Chief Diversity Office
Peggy Choy will address the theme of water resources and ecosurvival through martial arts and urban dance. The Peggy Choy Dance Company will show a new work-in-progress, “Like Water” along with hands-on dance workshop.
Dancers: Sekou Heru, Ze Motion, Lacouir Yancey
What Kind of Peace? Hmong Americans in Homeland Conflict a research talk by Dr. Nengher Vang
WHEN: Friday, March 8, 2013, 4-5:30pm
WHERE: 2235 Nancy Nicholas Hall (the re-newed School of Human Ecology Building)
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Lynet Uttal, luttal@wisc.edu OR Yer Lor, aasp@mailplus.wisc.edu
Dr. Nengher N. Vang is Assistant Professor of History in the Dept. of History and Political Science at Elizabeth City State University. He received his Ph.D from the University of Minnesota and was visiting instructor in Asian American Studies at UW-Madison and postdoctoral fellow in Hmong Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include Hmong transnational politics, religions, and community development.
Migration, Settlement and Placemaking: Hmong American War Memorials a research talk by Dr. Chia Youyee Vang
WHEN: Monday, March 4, 2013, 4-5:30pm
WHERE: 2235 Nancy Nicholas Hall (the re-newed School of Human Ecology Building)
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Lynet Uttal, luttal@wisc.edu OR Yer Lor, aasp@mailplus.wisc.edu
Dr. Chia Youyee Vang is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she is founder and coordinator of the Hmong Diaspora Studies certificate program. She has conducted extensive research on the politics of U.S. refugee policies and programs and the myriad ways that refugees build communities in host societies. She is author of Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora (University of Illinois Press, 2010).
Hmong Americans’ Movements Against Welfare Reform and for Political Inclusion a research talk by Mr. Yang Sao Xiong
WHEN: Friday, March 1, 2013, 4-5:30pm
WHERE: 2235 Nancy Nicholas Hall (the re-newed School of Human Ecology Building)
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Lynet Uttal, luttal@wisc.edu OR Yer Lor, aasp@mailplus.wisc.edu
Mr. Yang Sao Xiong is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at UCLA. His research interests include the study of racial and linguistic inequalities in public schools and the political incorporation of immigrants in the U.S. He serves on the editorial board of the Hmong Studies Journal and the doctoral student editorial review board of the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement.
Advancing Hmong American Education and Career Development: A Psychosociocultural Investigation of 1.5 Generation Hmong American Women a research talk by Dr. Ava Yang
WHEN: Monday, February 25, 2013, 4-5:30pm
WHERE: 2235 Nancy Nicholas Hall (the re-newed School of Human Ecology Building)
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Lynet Uttal, luttal@wisc.edu OR Yer Lor, aasp@mailplus.wisc.edu
Dr. Ava Yang holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her professional work has included research, teaching, counseling, evaluation, and consultation. Dr. Yang is currently a visiting assistant professor at UW-Madison where she teaches Hmong American studies courses in the Asian American Studies Program.
Dragging Histories: A Feminist Reading of Hmong American Narratives in Gran Torino a research talk by Dr. Ma Vang
WHEN: Friday, February 22, 2013, 4-5:30pm
WHERE: 2235 Nancy Nicholas Hall (the re-newed School of Human Ecology Building)
CONTACT: For more information, please contact Lynet Uttal, luttal@wisc.edu OR Yer Lor, aasp@mailplus.wisc.edu
Dr. Ma Vang is a University of California (UC) President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Riverside in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Southeast Asian Studies Program. Her research focuses on Hmong and Asian American Studies, gender and critical race theory, critical refugee studies and immigration, history, and US imperialism. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC San Diego.
The Experiences of Gay Hmong Men: An Exploratory Study
WHEN: November 9, 2017, 4:00 PM
WHERE: Room 206, Ingraham Hall
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Limits of Racebending
WHEN: December 8, 2017, 7:00 PM
WHERE: 6191 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park Street
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC