Asian Studies and Asian American Experiences Events
Current Events
2024-2025 Academic Year
- October 30, 2024
- Undergraduate Research Incubator
- Learn about fellowships and internships for Asian/Asian American Studies in a cozy faculty-& peer-led setting. Discuss ideas and get inspired!
- Umphrey Lee 303
- 5:00 pm
- Undergraduate Research Incubator
- November 11, 2024
- Conversations about Race, Gender, and Other Issues Across Divides: The 2024 Elections and Beyond
- One of the reasons we remain silent, even when something that deeply touches our identity or core values is at stake in some way, is that we have not done the preparatory work to engage in important conversations across deep social divides. In this brief workshop, we'll think about the conversations we're not having, and then prepare for those conversations using an interview technique designed to uncover what matters most to you, as well as points of intersection between you and those you'd like to be heard and better understood by. The workshop will be led by Religious Studies Professor Dr. Jill DeTemple using approaches developed by Essential Partners, a non-profit dedicated to conflict transformation through dialogue.
- Registration Page
- Hughes-Trigg 121
- 5:00 pm
- Conversations about Race, Gender, and Other Issues Across Divides: The 2024 Elections and Beyond
Past Events
2023-2024 Academic Year
- October 24, 2023
- Reading Circle: "A Gulf Unites Us: The Vietnamese Americans of Black New Orleans East"
- In anticipation of Dr. Eric Tang's lecture on November 9th, our cluster will discuss one of his articles and a recommended chapter related to how Asian Americans perspectives inform the multidisciplinary study of urban communities. Dr. Tang is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and African American Studies at the University of Texas in Austin. The program is open to all students, staff, and faculty, as well as members of the Dallas community. It aims to support campus conversations around the Urban Research Faculty Cluster. There is a Zoom option in registration
- Moody Hall Room 241
- 3:30-4:30 pm
- Reading Circle: "A Gulf Unites Us: The Vietnamese Americans of Black New Orleans East"
- November 9, 2023
- Dr. Eric Tang lecture
- November 15, 2023
- Screening of documentary "Far East Deep South"
- Come view the award-winning documentary feature film that follows the Chiu family on a surprising journey through Mississippi in search of their lost family history. Along the way, they meet a diverse group of local residents and historians, who shed light on the racially complex history of the early Chinese in the segregated South. A reception and discussion will follow the screening. Students, staff, and faculty are warmly welcome.
- Moody Hall Auditorium
- 6:00 pm
- Screening of documentary "Far East Deep South"
- February 29, 2024
- Film Screening: "American Dreams in China"
- Join us for a reception with boba tea and egg tarts and a screening of "American Dreams in China" (Chinese), co-sponsored as part of the 9th Annual World Languages and Literatures Film Festival. A faculty-led discussion will follow the screening. First shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, the 2013 film by Peter Chan tells the story of three friends who build a successful English language school in China called "New Dream." This school helps the dreams of Chinese teenagers come true.
- Caruth Hall 147
- 6:00 pm
- Film Screening: "American Dreams in China"
- March 5, 2024
- The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Expansion and Exclusion
- Dr. Chris Suh (Emory University) will discuss his book, The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Expansion and Exclusion (Oxford University Press, 2023). It traces how American ideas about race in the Pacific were made and remade on the imperial stage before World War II. Following the Russo-Japanese War, the United States cultivated an amicable relationship with Japan based on the belief that it was a "progressive" empire akin to its own. Even as the two nations competed for influence in Asia and clashed over immigration issues in the American West, the mutual respect for empire sustained their transpacific cooperation until Pearl Harbor, when both sides disavowed their history of collaboration and cast each other as incompatible enemies.
- Moody Auditorium
- 6:00 pm
- The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Expansion and Exclusion
- April 16,2024
- 2024 AAPI Symposium
- This annual symposium explores issues, concerns, and research finding pertinent to Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders in higher education through multidisciplinary lenses. Our goal is to create a better understanding of issues affecting the AAPI community on college campuses as well as promote inclusion, empowerment, and solidarity among AAPI and allies. This year's theme is community building and resilience. Through dynamic presentations, though-provoking discussions, and interactive workshops, the participants will
- Learn how to bounce back from adversity
- Dive into deep conversations about partnerships among ethnic communities
- Examine proactive inclusion and cultural intelligence practices
- Explore innovation inclusion pedagogy, and
- Enjoy poetry in the park
- Moody Auditorium
- This annual symposium explores issues, concerns, and research finding pertinent to Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders in higher education through multidisciplinary lenses. Our goal is to create a better understanding of issues affecting the AAPI community on college campuses as well as promote inclusion, empowerment, and solidarity among AAPI and allies. This year's theme is community building and resilience. Through dynamic presentations, though-provoking discussions, and interactive workshops, the participants will
- 2024 AAPI Symposium
2022-2023 Academic Year
- February 16, 2023
- Film Screening: "English Vinglish"
- The Asian Studies and Asian American Experiences Research Cluster is supporting this event, which is part of the World Languages Department's International Film Festival. The critically acclaimed Hindi-language drama-comedy "English Vinglish" (2012) tells the story of a woman negotiating a new linguistic landscape in New York City as she learns English and how the experience affects her identity and relationships. Free admission and there will be a reception.
- McCord Auditorium
- 7:00 pm
- Film Screening: "English Vinglish"
- April 10, 2023
- Becoming Texans, Becoming Americans: Voices and Images of Vietnamese North Texans
- Join us for a talk by oral historian Betsy Brody as she discusses her oral history project that documents the Vietnamese refugees who arrived in North Texas following the fall of Saigon in April 1975. She will be joined by photographer Byrd Williams IV who collaborated with Brody to create portraits of each of the narrators.
- McCord Auditorium
- 6:00 pm
- Becoming Texans, Becoming Americans: Voices and Images of Vietnamese North Texans
- April 25, 2023
- 2023 AAPI Symposium
- This symposium brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss issues, concerns, and new research finding pertinent to Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders in higher education. Through research presentations, dynamic discussions, and interactive activities, we explored AAPI voices through the lenses of race, identity, history, gender, politics, law, and communication. This much-needed dialogue was geared toward the inclusion, empowerment, and solidarity among AAPI and allies.
- Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Hall
- 2023 AAPI Symposium