U of MN Asian American Studies

Kamusta/Greetings!

You are cordially invited to Not Your Model Minority: Asian American Studies 20th Anniversary Celebration!

Date: Thursday, April 24, 2025
Time: 6-8:30pm
Location: Pillsbury Hall Attic
Address: 310 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
(East Bank of Campus.)

Partners, kids, friends, family/pod members, and allies are welcome too!

If you have disability needs, please contact Prof. Kale B. Fajardo ([email protected])

We look forward to seeing you there!

Please join us this Wednesday! Professor stef torralba (Grinnell College) is giving a talk in our zoom lecture series! Please use the QR below to register. Zoom link in upper corner should be live. If you have any problems, please email Professor Kale Fajardo: [email protected](.)

Next in our Asian American Studies Zoom Lecture Series, Dr. Jeong Eun Annabel We, bringing in different ideas from a Korean lens/perspective to the conversation of marginalized people in Asian/Asian American Studies at zoom lecture "Korean Diaspora, Settler Colonialism, and the Pastoral Fantasy in Minari (2021)".

This lecture will take place February 26th, 2025 at 4:00 - 5:15 PM CT, via zoom. To attend, please RSVP at the link provided.

RSVP: https://z.umn.edu/DrWeLecture

Good Morning!

This Spring 2025 semester, Asian American Studies will be hosting a series of Webinar Zoom lectures with scholarly guest speakers from across the country that will start conversations about marginalized people in Asian/Asian American Studies as well as highlight the importance of public history and visual cultures.

To attend these events, please use the RVSP link included and we will see you there!

RSVP: https://z.umn.edu/SP25zoomlectures

Good Afternoon Everyone!

For AAS's 20th Anniversary celebration on April 24th, 2025, we will be including arts and research submissions in an all day gallery at the Liberal Arts Engagement Hub to celebrate and memorialize the Asian American voices in our community. This arts exhibit is open to all, so please submit your work at this link attached to get approved and share with others you think would want to be included in this gallery!

The submission opens today and ends MARCH 21st. We are excited to see everyone's submissions!

SUBMISSION LINK:
http://z.umn.edu/AAS20thExhibit
DEADLINE: March 21, 2025

Hello everyone!

The IHRC and the Binger Center for New Americans will be hosting a public lecture by Rose Cuison-Villazor, Professor of Law and Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar at the Rutgers Law School, and Director of the Rutgers Center for Immigrant Justice,
named "Forbidden Love: Race, Citizenship and The American Family". This event will take place on February 6th at 6:00pm in Andersen Library.

WHEN: January 6th, 2025
TIME: 6:00 - 7:30 PM
WHERE: Andersen Library 120

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Graduates and Undergrads,

Rose Cuison-Villazor invites you to sit back with a morning cup of coffee while joining in on a conversation about "Forbidden Love: Race, Citizenship and The American Family"

WHEN: February 6th, 2025
TIME: 9:00 - 10:00 AM
WHERE: Andersen Library 308

Welcome back everyone! The AAS community hopes you all had a wonderful break. We are excited to jump back into the school year and start off strong!

Let's Go!

Still need some classes for your Spring semester schedule? Take a look at some courses AAS is offering Spring 2025!

Our IHRC Assistant Director Michele Waslin and her co-author, Dr. Carol Cleaveland of George Mason University, are releasing a book next Monday, November 18th, 2024! Join them along with the Honorable Susan Conley de Castro, a former immigration judge, and Mackenzie Heinrichs of the Binger Center for New Americans, in the release of their book "Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum".

You can register for the event here!
http://z.umn.edu/privateviolence

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Tomorrow Takeo will be here in Minnesota, so please join us in warmly greeting him and listening in on important conversations about the Asian American voice!

This is an open event, so please feel free to bring a friend to tag along! We will also be providing light snacks and beverages to keep you relaxed while listening to the amazing Takeo Rivera and Jennifer Row!

WHEN: October 29th
WHAT TIME: 5:30 - 7:30 PM
WHERE Liberal Arts Engagement Hub ( Pillsbury Hall, 310 Pillsbury Dr SE Rm 120, Minneapolis, MN 55455)

RSVP Here: https://z.umn.edu/TRBookTalk

Join us October 29th for a book talk with author Takeo Rivera from Boston University and Jennifer Row, from here, The University of Minnesota!

Join Us October 29th for a book talk with Author Takeo Rivera and Jennifer Row at the Liberal Arts Engagement Hub!

Students, come join us in our "Engaging the Asian American Votes" event on October 8, 2024, 5:00-7:00PM. You can RSVP here: z.umn.edu/EngagingAAVotes

See you all there! Light snacks and beverages provided. Let's chat it up!

REGISTER FOR AAS/COMM 3351 ASIAN AMERICANS AND POP CULTURE NOW!

This course explores Asian Americans in popular literature, cinema, television, entertainment, and how these relations are connected to longer histories of Asian immigration and racial exclusion. How do Asian Americans influence the current essays, films, and videos that are consumed by millions today? How are increasingly pan-ethnic, in*******al, multiracial, transnational, and global experiences reflected in popular culture now?

The representation of Asians and Asian Americans in American popular culture has a long and complex history. For most of this history, Asian Americans have either been underrepresented in mainstream media like television and Hollywood films or when they do appear, are portrayed in negative, stereotypical ways. However, within the past few decades Asian Americans have become increasingly visible as both the subjects and producers of popular culture in the United States.In this course, we will take a critical look at contemporary Asian American popular culture as a site of resistance and empowerment where Asian Americans have established a foundation for their continued struggle for greater visibility and self-determination of identity. We will focus particularly on the difficulties and complexities of representation that Asian American performers, visual artists, and cultural producers must navigate by addressing the following questions:

1. In what ways do Asian Americans working within popular culture resist and challenge stereotypical portrayals?

2. In what ways do Asian Americans perpetuate racism and sexism, either towards themselves or other minorities?

Learn more about the instructor: Nou-Chee Chang (they/she) is a graduate instructor in the Communication Studies program whose work focuses on Asian American representation through popular culture media.

Check out "Contemporary Perspectives on Asian America 3001" taught by our very own faculty, Kale B. Fajardo! Register now! It's not too late. You do not want to miss out on this!

This spring, Asian American Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, had developed three listening sessions of three different groups: students, staff and faculty, and community. As we all come together to tackle conversations about past and current events that had and continues to influence and impact the Asian American experiences and curriculum at the U of M, this 2 hour-long listening session focuses on the Asian American narrative and experiences at the University and in the Minnesota communities. Through centering the narratives of Asian American community members, its goal is to increase advocacy and awareness for the needs of Asian Americans in the community.

AAS will be co-facilitating this session with Tri Vo from The SEAD Project. Food will be provided at the event.

If you have any questions, contact AAS Outreach and Program Coordinator, Huab Xiong at [email protected].

Thank you. See you all soon!

RSVP HERE: z.umn.edu/9gds

Join Us! RSVP at https://z.umn.edu/9cla

Welcome back to campus! Join the Asian American Studies Program’s Grad Luncheon on February 1st from 11:30-1:00PM at the COSP Lounge. Come learn more about the different resources and opportunities that the program provides for scholars who are doing work with Asian American community. RSVP at z.umn.edu/aas_rsvp.