“US Gun Violence and Asian Americans”

Roundtable discussion with Sophie Bjork-James, Jonthan Metzl, and Ben Tran

Date: Wednesday 2/1/2023

Time: 11:30am-12:45pm

Place: Sarratt 189

“A Philosophy of Hedonism in Early China: Understanding Yang Zhu in Ancient and Medieval Texts” 

Lecture by Erica Fox Brindley (Penn State University)

Date: Thursday 2/16/2023

“Decolonizing Film Studies” 

Lecture by Aimee Nayoung Kwon (Duke University) about her new book Theorizing Colonial Cinema

Date: Thursday 2/23/2023

“Caste in the United States with Yashica Dutt”

Lecture by Yashica Dutt (anti-caste expert, journalist and the award-winning author)

Date: Tuesday 3/7 - Wednesday 3/8/2023 

Jonathan Tran (Baylor) on his new book: Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (Oxford, 2021)

Date: Monday 3/20/2023

Time: 4pm

Place: Divinity School

“Women as Harmonious Subjects: Intervals between Antigone and Nguyễn Du’s Kiều” 

Lecture by Nguyen Thi Minh (UCLA, Fulbright Fellow)

Date: Thursday 3/23 - Friday 3/24/2023

“Welcome to the New Real: Why Nipper Barks in Japanese” 

Lecture by Jonathan Abel (Penn State University) about his new book The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji 

Date: Monday 3/27/2023

“Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People’s Republic”

Lecture by Mike Chinoy (Senior Fellow, University of Southern California; former CNN foreign correspondent)

Date: Thursday 3/30/2023

“Asian America and Critical Environmental Studies: A Symposium with Neel Ahuja and Aimee Bhang”

Lectures by Neel Ahuja (University of Maryland) and Aimee Bhang (Pomona College in Claremont, California) 

Date: Thursday 4/20/2023