Past Events
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Oct 16Thao Thai: Author Visit
Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Dr, Madison, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53706
The Center for East Asian Studies is hosting a campus visit by novelist Thao Thai on Friday, Oct 16. Ms. Thai will be in Madison as part of the Wisconsin Book Festival. Her Madison appearances will be as follows: – Friday, Oct 16, 2 p.m., 206 Ingraham Hall, in conversation with Asian Languages and Literature …
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Sep 29AfroAsianist Readings of Marx
Colleen Lye
History Lounge, 4281 Levy Hall, 232 N. Park St. AfroAsianist Readings of Marx
The 1960s represented a conjuncture that gave rise to new readings of Capital and to identity-based epistemologies, or modes of critique that presented themselves antagonistically to each other. The 2010s presented another conjuncture. This time there were efforts at their unification or reconnection through ideas of racial capitalism which entailed a reopening of 60s thought, but one shorn of …
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Sep 23Visiting Artist Colloquium: Wendy Maruyama
Wendy Maruyama
Part of the Art Department’s weekly visiting artist lecture series. Furniture maker, artist, and educator Wendy Maruyama has spent more than five decades creating innovative, boundary-pushing work. Rooted in traditional craft, her early pieces explored feminist ideas through furniture and material culture. In recent years, her practice has expanded beyond studio craft into the realm …
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Sep 18Ethnic Studies Fest
Levy Hall #3204
Hosted by the American Indian & Indigenous Studies program, Department of African American Studies, the Asian American Studies program, and the Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies program, students will have the opportunity to learn about research opportunities, course topics, upcoming events, and enrich understandings of Ethnic studies as a discipline and as a field at UW–Madison.
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Sep 16Visiting Artist Colloquium
Pei-Hsuan Wang
Part of the Art Department’s weekly visiting artist lecture series. Pei-Hsuan Wang’s practice traces kinship shaped by migration, memory, and the interplay between personal and canonized histories. Weaving together bio(mytho)graphical narratives, folklore, and cultural artifacts born of Asia-Pacific geopolitics, her work reflects on how meanings are carried and reconstructed across generations. Through sculpture, installation, video, …
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Mar 11Astria Suparak’s Asian Futures, Without Asians
Play Circle Theater Memorial Union, UW-Madison 800 Langdon St. Madison, WI 53706
Performative Lecture Wed., March 11, 5:00pm (Doors at 4:30pm for general admission seating; no late seating.) Thurs., March 12, 7:00pm (Doors at 6:30pm for general admission seating; no late seating), followed by a panel discussion at 8:30pm with Professors Preeti Chopra (Visual Studies, South Asian Art & Architecture), Derek Johnson (Media & Cultural Studies, Film), & Nam Kim (Anthropology), …
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Mar 10Amy Ling Awards Submission Due
Check out our 2026 submission call here! Amy Ling Yellow Light Awards
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Mar 6AASP x APIDASC Spring 2026 Study Break
MSC Lounge, Red Gym
False Spring? No problem, we got boba and Yummee cookies! Kick off your weekend at the Red Gym to relax, craft, study, treats and more! With an Instagram Takeover with one of our Program Ambassadors! Friday, March 6th @ 4-6PM MSC Lounge, Red Gym Questions and accommodations, please contact: apidasc@studentaffairs.wisc.edu or asianamerican@letsci.wisc.edu.
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Feb 20Spring 2026 AASP Graduate Luncheon
Ingraham 340
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Feb 10Faculty Book Talk: Kong Pha & Rachel Kuo
Kong Pheng Pha, Rachel Kuo
Mystery to Me Bookstore - 1863 Monroe Street Madison WI See Event Here!
The Mystery to Me Bookstore will be hosting two of our Asian American faculty for their respective book talks- Movement Media by Prof. Rachel Kuo and Queering the Diaspora by Prof. Kong P. Pha – join us in person or remote for a lively, insightful discussion!