Where is
the “Heart”
of Asian America?
Troubling “American” Identity and Exceptionalism
in an Age of Globalization and Imperialism
2008 Association for
Asian American Studies
Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
Chicago, IL
April 16–20, 2008
Where is
the “Heart”
of
Asian America?
Troubling “American Identity and Exceptionalism
in an Age of Globalization and Imperialism
2008 Association for
Asian American Studies
Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
Chicago, IL
April 16-20, 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE
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ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
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Purpose
6
Activities
6
Membership
7
OFFICERS AND REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
8
THE 2008 CONFERENCE
10
Site Committee
11
Program Committee
11
Book Award Committees
12
Special Thanks
12
HONORS AND AWARDS
13
Lifetime Achievement Honorees
13
Heart of Asian America Community Awards
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Book Awards
17
Anita Affeldt Graduate Travel Fund Winners
17
REGISTRATION 18
HOTEL
18
EXHIBITORS
19
COMMITTEE AND CAUCUS MEETINGS
20
SPECIAL PROGRAMS
22
RECEPTIONS
23
FILM SCREENINGS
24
MEGASESSIONS
25
TOURS
26
WEDNESDAY WORKSHOPS AND FILM SCREENING
30
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Thursday
37
Friday
65
Saturday
92
INDEX OF PARTICIPANTS
116
ADVERTISEMENTS
124
MAP OF MCCORMICK CONVENTION CENTER
131
CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2008
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2008
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
9:00 PM - 1:00 AM
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Registration
Pre-Conference Workshops Film screening: A Moral Debt
Caucus Meetings
Registration
Exhibits
Sessions 7.1 – 7.10
Mega session I
Sessions 8.1 – 8.6
Linda Furiya Reading
Sessions 9.1 - 9.9
Sessions 10.1 - 10
Mega session II
Sessions 11.1 - 11.6
Don Lee Reading
CIC/UIUC Reception
HIPHOPISTAN Showcase
Caucus Meetings
Registration
Exhibits
Sessions 16.1 - 16.10
Sessions 17.1 – 17.10
Midwest Writers Showcase
CAAM Film Screening: Wet Sand
Poetry Reading
Visual Arts Showcase
S Asian Hip Hop Brown Bag
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2008
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Community Roundtable
Sessions 19.1 - 19.10
Mega session III
Gotanda Theatre Workshop
U of Texas Austin Reception
Caucus Meetings
JAAS Board Meeting
Registration
Exhibits
Sessions 24.1 - 24.10
Sessions 25.1 - 25.10
S Asian Literary Reading
Film screeing: Eric Byler films
Aoki Brown Bag
R. Zamora Linmark signing
Sessions 27.1 - 27.10
Mega session IV
Sessions 28.1 - 28.6
General Business Meeting
Awards Ceremony and Banquet
Association for Asian American
Studies
The national headquarters for the Association for Asian American
Studies is located at Cornell University, 420 Rockefeller Hall, Ithaca,
NY 14853-2502. AAAS membership is handled by Johns Hopkins
University Press. Information regarding upcoming conferences may
be obtained by contacting Cornell University. Information on membership and the Journal for Asian American Studies (JAAS) may be
obtained by contacting Johns Hopkins University Press.
Purpose
The Association for Asian American Studies was formed in 1979 for
the
purposes of:
(1) advancing the highest professional standards of excellence in teaching and research in the field of Asian American Studies;
(2) to promote better understanding and closer ties between and among various sub-components within Asian American Studies: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Hawai’ian, Southeast Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islander, and other groups;
(3) sponsoring professional activities including conferences and
symposia, special projects and events;
(4) facilitating increased communication and scholarly exchange among teachers, researchers, and students in the field of Asian American Studies;
(5) advocating and representing the interests and welfare of Asian American Studies and Asian Americans;
(6) educating American society about the history and aspirations of Asian American ethnic minorities.
Activities
The Association has sponsored national conferences since 1980 in cities such as Seattle, Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pullman,
New York City, Santa Barbara, Honolulu, San Jose, Ithaca, Ann
Arbor, Boston, Salt Lake City, Toronto, and Washington, DC; publishes a newsletter and a journal; advocates for students, faculty,
and programs through advice and letters of support; advances Asian
American Studies through its standing committees; awards, advocacy,
curriculum and library, publications, professional ethics, and publicity;
and serves as an information resource on matters concerning Asian
Americans.
Membership
The Association is open to any individual or organization with an
interest in the Asian American experience. The membership is composed of researcher, teachers, and students within higher education.
The membership also includes individuals in government and the
private sector, and professionals serving the needs of the ethnic community, as well as members of the community.
Membership in the Association for Asian American Studies is based
on a calendar year, i.e., January 1st to December 31st. A member in
good standing will receive the quarterly AAAS newsletter, Journal
for Asian American Studies, and reduced rates at the national conference. The Directory of Asian American Studies Programs and
Departments are available on the Association website.
Officers and Regional Representatives
PRESIDENT
Rajini Srikanth (2006-2008)
University of Massachusetts
at Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125-3393
rajini.srikanth@umb.edu
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez (2006-2009)
Rutgers University,
New Brunswick-Piscataway
Department of Sociology
54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue
Piscataway, NH 08854-8045
robynmr@rci.rutgers.edu
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Rick Bonus (2007-2008)
University of Washington
American Ethnic Studies Dept.
Seattle, WA 98195-4380
rbonus@u.washington.edu
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (2007-2009)
University of California, Davis
3102 Hart Hall, University of
California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 94616
rparrenas@ucdavis.edu
SECRETARY/TREASURER
Anna Gonzalez (2007-2009)
University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign
117 Swanlund Admin Bldg
601 E. John St.
Champaign, IL 61820
annag@uiuc.edu
HAWAI’I/PACIFIC ISLANDS
Pensri Ho (2007-2009)
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
Ethnic Studies Department
Honolulu, HI 96822
pensri@hawaii.edu
MID-ATLANTIC/SOUTH
Larry Hajime Shinagawa (2007-2009)
University of Maryland, College Park
Asian American Studies Program
1120 Cole Student Activities Building
College Park, MD 20742
MIDWEST/MOUNTAIN
Karen Leong (2007-2009)
Arizona State University
Social Sciences 100/P.O. Box 4401
Tempe, AZ 85287-4401
Karen.Leong@asu.edu
NEW ENGLAND/CANADA
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Emily Noelle Ignacio (2007-2009)
University of Washington
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Box 358436
1900 Commerce Street
Tacoma, WA 98402
eignacio@u.washington.edu
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Mary Yu Danico (2006-2009)
California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona
3801 West Temple Blvd.
Pomona, CA 91768
mkydanico@fulbrightweb.org
GRADUATE STUDENT
Ligaya Domingo (2006-2008, 20082010)
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate School of Education
1020 Jackson Street, #202
Albany, CA 94706
ligayadomingo@gmail.com
NEWSLETTER
Sunn Shelley Wong
Cornell University
420 Rockefeller Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-2502
ssw6@cornell.edu
JAAS
George Anthony Peffer
Castleton State College
Woodruff Hall
62 Alumni Drive
Castleton, VT 05735
tony.peffer@casteton.edu
SECRETARIAT/
GENERAL INFORMATION
Cornell University
Asian American Studies Program
420 Rockefeller Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-2502
(607) 255-3320
FAX: (607) 254-4996
aaasconference@cornell.edu
MEMBERSHIP
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Journals Publishing Division
P.O. Box 19966
Baltimore, MD 21211-0966
(800) 548-1784
(410) 516-6968
THE CONFERENCE
Where is the “Heart” of Asian America?:
Troubling “American” Identity and Exceptionalism in an Age of
Globalization and Imperialism
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Chicago specifically and the Midwest generally function as the symbolic
“Heartland” of “America,” a culturally homogenous space relative to the main
cosmopolitan sites of Asian America on the coasts. The “Chicago School” of
sociology has played a large role in shaping the discourse and research on
immigration, race, and urban development. Immigrants to this part of the
country gradually have assimilated, become “American,” settled into the
rhythms of an industrial and capitalist economy, and exhibited “proper,”
normative and idealized notions of citizenship: nationalistic, “wholesome,”
“corn-fed,” solid “American.” Their ability to do so speaks to the supposed
unique character of the U.S. But this is only one face of the Midwest. African
Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans have played,
both historically and currently, an essential role in building up the area while
also serving as the discursive “other.” Even European Americans complicate
the notion of uniform Whiteness with sustained enclave settings based on
historic and continued migration flows. Still, the “Heartland” serves as an
organizing trope in framing the U.S., both internally and abroad. In this age of
globalizations and new imperialisms, precisely how does this trope play out?
How does Asian American Studies both reinforce and resist, both accept and
complicate the framing of the Midwest as the “center” of the United States?
This conference seeks to trouble the Midwest as a key space of a homogenous
“America.” How does geography shape the experiences and study of Asian
America? What are the new politics in the heart of Asian America? How have
pan-Asian American movements fared in the Heartland relative to other
spaces? What types of inter-racial, intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic coalitions have
formed? What implications has the homeland security apparatus had on Arab
American and South Asian American relationships with the state? How does
the “Heartland” serve as a device in analysis focused on the coasts? Asian
American Studies is rooted in challenges to many of the assumptions of the
nation, but typically these resistances have been seen as concentrated on the
East and West Coasts and not where they supposedly have the most resonance,
in the “Heartland.” Yet, the Midwest has given birth to powerful forces of
counter-consciousness and interrogated an uncomplicated framing of the idea
of a “true America” and essential core of the nation. Here, in the heartland of
America, we ask “What is the ‘Heart’ of Asian America?”, how does geography shape and “What is the uniquely Midwestern approach of doing Asian
American Studies?”
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
Site Committee
Co-chairs:
Theresa Mah,
University of Chicago
Karen Su,
University of Illinois, Chicago
Members:
Stephanie Drenka,
DePaul University
Anna Guevarra,
University of Illinois, Chicago
Zalmay Gulzad,
Harold Washington College –
City Colleges of Chicago
Joyce L. Mariano,
DePaul University
Thomas Szymanek,
Department of Veterans Affairs
Rooshey Hasnain,
University of Illinois, Chicago
Ann Lata Kalayil,
South Asian American Policy
& Research Institute (SAAPRI)
Jinah Kim,
Northwestern University
Laura Kina,
DePaul University
Shanshan Lan,
Northwestern University
Yvonne Lau,
DePaul University
Shalini Shankar,
Northwestern University
Program Committee
Co-chairs:
Pawan Dhingra,
Oberlin College
Yvonne Lau,
DePaul University
Martin F. Manalansan IV,
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Members:
Nerissa Balce,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Carolyn Chen,
Northwestern University
Monisha Das Gupta,
University of Hawaii
Jigna Desai,
University of Minnesota
Ann Lata Kalayil,
University of Chicago
Madhulika Khandelwal,
Queens College, CUNY
Josephine Lee,
University of Minnesota
Russell Leong,
University of California, Los Angeles
Warren Liu,
Bryn Mawr College
Andrea Louie,
Michigan State University
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Fiona Ngo,
University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign
Dina Okamoto,
University of California, Davis
Yoon Pak,
University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign
Junaid Rana,
University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign
Jean Wu,
Tufts University
Jeffrey Santa Ana,
Dartmouth College
Shirley Tang,
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Judy Wu
Ohio State University
Edward J. W. Park,
Loyola Marymount University
Yen Le Espiritu,
University of California, San Diego
History 2006
Kevin Scott Wong, Chair,
Williams College
Davianna McGregor,
University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Augusto Espiritu,
University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
Prose and Poetry 2006
Victoria Chang, Chair
Monica Chiu,
University of New Hampshire
Nora Okja Keller
With special
thanks to:
Shiro Akiyoshi,
DePaul University
BOOK AWARD
COMMITTEES
Jose Arauz,
Hyatt McCormick
Cultural Studies 2006
Diane Dumas,
Marguis Imprimeur
Laura Kina,
DePaul University
Vladimir Micic,
Cornell University
Paul Nelson,
Done Right Web Design
Joe Punzalan,
ARES Travel
Martin Manalansan IV, Chair,
University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign
Kandice Chuh,
University of Maryland
Gayatri Gopinath,
New York University
Social Science 2006
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Lok Siu, Chair,
New York University
Stephanie Hsu,
Cornell University
Honors and
Awards
Lifetime Achievement
Honorees
After a forty-year career in academic
editing and publishing, MURIEL
BELL retired from Stanford University
Press in 2007 as senior editor. Her
contributions to academic publishing,
in Asian Studies and Asian American
Studies in particular, are legion.
During her long and distinguished
career, Muriel worked with dozens of
young and senior scholars in bringing
to print some of the most important
scholarship in the fields of history,
anthropology, sociology, literature, art
history, and political science.
After receiving degrees in French
studies at Cornell, Muriel began at
Stanford University Press in 1966 as
an assistant editor and then worked
at the Center for Advanced Research
in the Behavioral Sciences, where she
served as a staff editor for a number
of years. In 1986, Muriel returned to
the Press, now as an acquiring editor responsible for Asian Studies and
other social science and humanities
disciplines, the position that she held,
with shifting disciplinary emphases,
until her retirement.
Academic book prizes represent one
of the strongest and most demonstrable measures of the intellectual
success of an acquiring editor. In
Muriel’s case, these prizes are legendary, ranging from such well-known
book prizes as the Bancroft Prize,
Fairbank Prize, and Levinson Prize,
to prizes that few outsiders are aware
of such as the Admiral Samuel Eliot
Morison Prize, offered by the Naval
Order of the United States. The best
way to summarize her achievement
is to note a number of the academic
organizations whose book prizes
Muriel’s book have won: these include
the American Historical Association (at
least three Fairbank prizes, along with
an Atlantic History Prize and the John
Edwin Fagg Prize), the Association
for Asian Studies (six Levenson
prizes), the American Political Science
Association (the Fenno Award
and Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Award), the American Sociological
Association (two Robert Park awards),
the American Anthropological
Association, the Association for
Asian American Studies (several
prizes), the Society for the History
of American Foreign Relations (two
Bernath prizes, the Ferrell prize, and
the Kuehl prize), the Urban History
Association, the International Labor
History Association, the Society for
Urban Anthropology, the National
Conference of Black Political Scientists,
the Herbert Hoover Presidential
Library Association, Friends of the
Columbia Libraries, the Association of
Third World Studies, the Society for
Historical Archaeology, the Gustavus
Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry
and Human Rights, and the Before
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Columbus Foundation as well as,
from the Association of American
University Presses. In addition, for
most of Muriel’s time at the Press,
she had books selected by Choice
to go into their list of the year’s
Outstanding Academic Titles (in at
least three of Muriel’s years at the
Press, she had more than one title chosen in this category).
dering about the mysteries of academic publishing. For her many and varied contributions to Asian American
Studies that have provided inestimable help in establishing the intellectual vitality of our field, it is our
great honor to bestow on Muriel Bell
the Association for Asian American
Studies’ Lifetime Achievement Award.
Muriel made special contributions to
the field of Asian American Studies.
She became the Stanford Press editor for its series on Asian American
Studies, which published its first
title in 1993. Over the next fourteen
years, Muriel worked with more than
twenty-five authors for the series.
These include, among others, Eiichiro
Azuma, Gordon H. Chang, Shenglin
Chang, Tina Chen, Yong Chen, August
Espiritu, Akhil Gupta, Leslie T.
Hatamiya, Brian Masaru Hayashi, Bill
Ong Hing, Yuji Ichioka, Emma Gee,
James Hirabayashi, Lane Hirabayashi,
Izumi Hirobe, Madeline Hsu, Akemi
Kikumura-Yano, Daniel Kim, Susan
Koshy, Purnima Mankekar, Robert
G. Lee, David Leiwei Li, Lisa SunHee Park, Gita Rajan, Shailja Sharma,
Mary Kimoto Tomita, Usha Welaratna,
Alice Yang-Murray, and Timothy Yu.
For more than a decade, Muriel regularly attended the annual meeting of
the AAAS and became a regular and
familiar presence at the Stanford Press
exhibit. There she graciously offered
wise advice and counsel to those won-
BARBARA M. POSADAS, professor of history at Northern Illinois
University, has been a leader in the
fields of U.S. immigration and ethnicity, U.S. women, and the history
of Chicago. A pioneering specialist in Filipino American labor and
women’s history—especially the
history of Filipino Americans in the
Midwest—she is the author of The
Filipino Americans (1999), and articles
in such publications as Labor History,
Amerasia, and the Journal of American
Ethnic History, as well as in various
scholarly collections. She has held
a Senior Fulbright Research Award
at the Asia Center of the University
of the Philippines, a post-doctoral
fellowship at the Asian American
Studies Center at UCLA, and an NEH
Summer Research Grant. In addition,
she has been a leader in organizing
within the community and the professions. Posadas received her Ph.D.
from Northwestern University and has
been at NIU since 1974. She served
as a member of the Organization of
American Historians’ Committee
on the Status of Minority History
and Minority Historians from 19961999, chaired that committee in 1998,
and also served as a director of the
Urban History Association, a trustee
of the Filipino American National
Historical Society, and president of the
Illinois State Historical Society. She
is currently Vice President/President
Elect of the Immigration and Ethnic
History Society and will serve as the
Society’s president in 2009-12. Her
current book project, under contract with the University of Illinois
Press, examines Filipino migration to
and settlement in the Chicago area
between approximately 1900 and
1965. As she describes her subject,
“Transnationalism locates Chicago’s
Filipinos within a mental and physical
world encompassing both the United
States and the Philippines. Looking
at these Filipinos through the lens of
transnationalism clarifies the nature,
the intensity, and the limits of transnationalism, as well as how the concept
is bounded in practice by social and
governmental constraints.” Barbara
Posadas has been honored, among
others, by the VIP Gold Award of the
Filipino American National Historical
Society.
PAUL TAKAGI has been a stalwart
scholar and courageous advocate for
Asian American communities. Born
in California, he was incarcerated
at Manzanar during World War II
(where he served as medical orderly
and cared for wounded inmates after
the 1942 “riot”). Takagi served as a
member of the 442nd Regimental
Combat team, and was transferred to
Military Intelligence, Fort Snelling,
Minnesota. He briefly attended college at the University of Illinois before
his experience of discrimination led
him to withdraw. A year or so later,
Takagi enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of California,
Berkeley. His experience working as
a parole officer for the California State
Department of Corrections caused
him to rethink his ideas on race and
social control. Takagi then returned
to Stanford, where he received his
doctorate in 1967. He was thereafter hired by UC Berkeley’s School
of Criminology and was the first
Asian American tenured professor at
Berkeley in the social sciences. Takagi
helped transform Berkeley’s school
into a center of the “crime and social
justice” approach of Radical criminology, which examined crime in the context of class and racial conflict. In lectures nationwide and in his writings,
which included the books Punishment
and Penal Discipline (1979) and Crime
and Social Justice (1981) Takagi examined the impact of racism and poverty
on attitudes towards the law, and
advocated for prisoners’ rights. As a
supporter of the Black Panther movement and of Wendy Yoshimura, and
an influential critic of systemic police
brutality, Takagi and a colleague alienated then-California Governor Ronald
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Reagan and state authorities so deeply
by their commitment to the rights of
nonwhite communities that the School
of Criminology was eliminated in
1976. Takagi then moved to the School
of Education, where he remained until
his retirement in 1989. On the occasion
of his retirement, he received the signal honor of a tribute by Rep. Ronald
Dellums, delivered on the floor of the
House of Representatives.
Takagi has also made a notable contribution to Asian American Studies. In
1969, as the first Asian American Dean
in the history of the University, Takagi
had the authority to approve the
first Asian American Studies class at
Berkeley, the experimental class Asian
Studies 200x. He brought in community figures such as labor leader Philip
de la Cruz and activist Karl Yoneda
to address students, and encouraged
them to connect with communities.
In particular, his community-centered
approach also sparked his central
involvement in the effort to save the
bachelor hotels in San Francisco’s
Little Manila. Takagi subsequently
was a pioneer in the field of comparative ethnic studies.
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Heart of Asian America
Community Awards
INDIVIDUALS
To be announced
ORGANIZATIONS
To be announced
2006 Book Award Winners
Cultural Studies 2006
Allen Punzalan Isaac, American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (University
of Minnesota Press)
Honorable Mention:
Grace Hong, Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color, Feminism, and the
Culture of Immigrant Labor (University of Minnesota Press)
Poetry and Prose 2006
James Janko, Buffalo Boy and Geronimo (Curbstone Press)
Patrick Rosal, My American Kundiman (Persea Books)
Social Science 2006
Monisha Das Gupta, Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South
Asian Politics in the United States (Duke University Press)
History 2006
Moon-Ho Jung, Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation
(Johns Hopkins University Press)
Linda Espana-Maram, Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles’s Little Manila: Working
Class Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s-1950s (Columbia University Press)
Honorable Mention:
Yuji Ichioka (eds. Gordon Chang and Eiichiro Azuma), Before Internment: Essays
in Prewar Japanese American History (Stanford University Press)
Anita Affeldt Graduate Student Travel Fund Winners
Linda Ho Peche
University of Texas, Austin
Ming-Jung Kwak
University of British Columbia
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Conference Announcements
R egistration
On-site registration will take place at the Hyatt McCormick Place Hotel:
Wednesday, April 16: 1:00PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, April 17: 8:00 AM - 5:00PM
Friday, April 18: 8:00AM – 5:00PM
Saturday, April 19: 8:00 AM – 12:00PM
You must be a member to present a paper or poster at this conference.
Membership forms will be available when you check in on-site. In addition to being a member, you must also register for the 2008 conference.
Registration forms will also be available on-site. Cash, personal check, and
credit cards (VISA, MC, American Express, Discover) are all accepted.
H otel
Conference proceedings will be held at the Hyatt McCormick Place Hotel,
2233 S. Martin Luther King Dr., Chicago, IL 60616 Tel: 312-567-1234.
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Exhibitors
The following presses and organizations will be exhibiting and selling books,
media material, and so forth, and providing information regarding their
organizations:
Bamboo Ridge Press
Center for Asian American Media
Duke University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Kaya Press
New York University Press
Pathfinder Press
Phoenix Publishing House International
Rutgers University Press
The Scholars’ Choice
Stanford University Press
Temple University Press
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
University of Hawa’i Press
University of Illinois Press
University of Minnesota Press
University of Washington Press
University of California Los Angeles Asian American Studies Center
Exhibit tables are located in the Conference Center 24 ABC.
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Committee and Caucus Meetings
THURSDAY, APRIL 17
6.1 | Caucus Meetings
East of California
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | CC 12 A
Committee on Institutional Cooperation
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | CC 12 B
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
15.1 | Caucus Meetings
Queer Asian American Issues
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | CC 12 A
Transnational Adoption
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | CC 12 B
Graduate Students
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | CC 12 C
Public Policy
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | CC 12 D
Education Studies/Information Studies
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | CC 11 B
SATURDAY, APRIL 19
23.1 Caucus Meetings
Filipino American
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | CC 12 A
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Korean American
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | CC 12 B
South Asian
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | CC 12 C
Mixed Race
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | CC 12 D
Southeast Asian
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | CC 11 B
At the time of program printing, we only received requests for caucus meetings
from the groups above. These groups have been scheduled space to meet in the
breakout rooms at the Hyatt McCormick hotel. If you require caucus meeting
space and did not notify the Secretariat or Program Committee, you may still
hold a gathering in an unofficial capacity in the hotel reception areas, or off-site.
AAAS offers a bulletin board at the registration desk for announcements should
you wish to host a meeting.
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SPEC I A L P R O G R AM S
T H U RSday , April 17, 2008
9.8 | Literary Reading: Linda Furiya, “Bento Box in the Heartland:
My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America” (Seal Press, 2006)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 23 C
9.11 | Book Signing: R. Zamora Linmark (Kaya Press)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Exhibitor Room (CC 24 ABC)
12.1 | Literary Reading: Don Lee, “Wrack & Ruin”
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | CC 23 A 14.1 | HIPHOPISTAN: South Asian Hip Hop Showcase and After
Party
9:00 PM – 1:00 AM | Pullman Room
friday, April 18, 2008
17.10 | Poet’s Corner with Bryan Thao Worra
10:15 AM - 11:45 PM | CC 12 C
18.5 | Visual Arts Showcase - Visual Identity: School of the Art
Institute of Chicago
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 11 B
18.7 | Poetry Reading: For a New Century: Emerging Voices in
Contemporary Poetry
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 23 B
18.8 | Round Table/Brown Bag: South Asian Hip Hop
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 23 C
18.9 | Community Roundtable:
Special Focus on the Heartland’s Center --- Chicago’s Asian
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American Communities
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Pullman Room
21. 1 | Theatre: A-Squared Theater Workshop presents a staged reading of excerpts from The Wind Cries Mary by Philip Kan Gotanda
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Pullman Room
S A T URday , A pril 19, 2008
26.5 | Literary Reading: Kali Plomin, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Sugi
Ganeshananthan and Desilit
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Pullman Room
26.9 | Special Program
Round Table/Brown Bag: Chicago Asian American Arts featuring
Tatsu Aoki’s Asian American Jazz Festival
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Field Room
REC E P T I O N S
T H URS day , April 17, 2008
13.1 | Committee on Institutional Cooperation / University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Reception
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM | Prairie Center Lobby
friday, April 18, 2008
21.2 | Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas,
Austin Reception
6:00PM- 7:30PM | Prairie Center Lobby
S A T URday , A pril 19, 2008
AAAS Awards Banquet
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Three Happiness Chinese Restaurant
2130 S Wentworth Ave, Chicago 60616
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FIL M S C R E E N I N G S
W ednesday, A pril 16, 2008
5.2 | Film Screening: Moral Debt: The Postwar Battle of the
Veteranos (Directed by Martin Rossetti)
Followed by Q & A from the Director
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Field Room
T H URSday , A pril 17, 2008
12.2 | Film Screening: Who Killed Vincent Chin?
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM | CC 12 D
Panel: Re-reading “Who Killed Vincent Chin?”: Voices From Detroit
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | CC 12 D
friday, A pril 18, 2008
18.10 | Film Screening: Center for Asian American Media presents
WET SAND
12:00PM-1:30PM | Field Room
S A T URday , April 19, 2008
26.6 | Film Screening: Films by filmmaker Eric Byler
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 23 A
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mega sessions
T hursday , April 17, 2008
8.1 | Faith in a Time of Empire: Religion and Asian America
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 12 A & B
11.1 | Guantánamo Bay and the Conscience of Asian American
Studies
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | CC 12 A & B
friday, April 18, 2008
20.1 | The Heart(land) of Asian American Studies: Approaches in
the Midwest
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | CC 12 A & B
S A T URday , A pril 19, 2008
28.1 |Beyond the Maiden Voyage: Exploring Queer Studies in Asian
America Now
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | CC 12 A & B
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Tours
AVAILABLE DAILY - APRIL 17-19
11:00 am -12:00 pm - Chinatown tour by the Chinatown Chamber of
Commerce. $5 per person.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16
Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago tour
11:30am – 2:30pm - Participants will enjoy a catered lunch at the
Japanese American Service Committee before joining a guided tour
of the “Origins of Now: Rebuilding Community” exhibit. The exhibit
portrays the historical experiences of Japanese Americans in the metropolitan Chicago area. In addition, tour participants will be able to
view a community mural just completed over the summer and learn
about the library and archives of the JASC Legacy Center. Founded
in 1945 and incorporated in 1946, the Japanese American Service
Committee of Chicago originally served the needs of the Issei and
Nisei who left World War II internment camps to resettle in Chicago
and start new lives. Today, the JASC is a multi-faceted communitybased organization, which offers quality social services, innovative
art and culture programs and public events to the Japanese American
and greater multicultural community in the Midwest. Seminar participants will consider the impact and relevance of internment history
to our contemporary social and political context. A bus will transport
conference attendees to and from McCormick Place. $25 includes
lunch. A minimum of 15 people is needed to run this tour.
THURSDAY, APRIL 17
Hyde Park/Archives tour
9:30 am – A bus will be available to take conference attendees to the
Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago’s
Regenstein Library. There, researchers will be able to examine the
library’s holdings that might be of interest to researchers of Asian
American history. Available for examination will be selections from
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the Ernest Burgess Papers, including research by Paul C.P. Siu and
others who studied Chicago’s Chinatown. While in Hyde Park,
visitors may also take a brief tour of the campus, visit Frank Lloyd
Wright’s historic Robie House, or browse the labarynthine rooms of
the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, the country’s largest academic bookstore. The bus will leave from 57th St. in front of the Regenstein
Library at 11:30 pm, returning to McCormick Place by 12 noon. $10.
A minimum of 15 people is needed to run this tour.
CBO & Neighborhood tour: Uptown/Argyle St. Area
12:00 pm – a bus will leave from McCormick Place to take conference
attendees up to the Argyle Street area, where participants will be
able to sample authentic Vietnamese food and visit two community
based organizations and see one of Chicago’s thriving ethnic neighborhoods. Sometimes known as Chicago’s “Northside Chinatown,”
Argyle Street is home to a wide variety of stores and restaurants,
many of them run by immigrants from Southeast Asia. The bus
leaves at 3:30pm to return to McCormick Place, but those wishing
to remain in the neighborhood and be on their own for dinner could
easily take the Red Line back to the Cermak/Chinatown stop near
the hotel. $25 includes lunch. A minimum of 15 people is needed to
run this tour.
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
CBO and Neighborhood Tour: Lawrence Avenue Area
10:00 am – a bus will take conference attendees to the Northside to
visit two community-based organizations and tour the Lawrence
Avenue area, which is known for its concentration of Korean shops
and restaurants. This tour will feature a visit to the Korean Resource
and Cultural Center, a stop at the Cambodian Association of Illinois
and its Museum (the only one of its kind in the country), and then a
stop for lunch at one of the area’s Korean restaurants. $25 includes
lunch. A minimum of 15 people is needed to run this tour.
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Chinese American Service League and Chinese American Museum
2:00 pm – Participants will be taken by bus to the heart of Chicago’s
Southside Chinatown, where they will have a chance to explore the
Chinese American Museum and visit the Chinese American Service
League, a social service agency in Chinatown. A community reception is being planned to follow this tour. $12 includes museum admission and snacks. A minimum of 15 people is needed to run this tour.
SATURDAY, APRIL 19
CBO & Neighborhood Tour: Rizal Center, Indo-American Center,
and Devon Ave.
10:00 am – a bus will take conference attendees to two community
based organizations on the Northside and end with a group lunch at
a South Asian restaurant on Devon Avenue, the bustling business district at the heart of Chicago’s South Asian community. The first leg
of the tour will include a stop at the Jose Rizal Hertiage Center, established in 1974 by the Chicago Filipino American community. From
there, visitors will be taken by bus to the Indo-American Center, followed by a tour of Devon Avenue and then lunch. The bus returns
to the Conference Center by 1:30 in time for the afternoon panels. $25
includes lunch. A minimum of 15 people is needed to run this tour.
Pilsen Neighborhood and Mural Tour
2:00 pm – a bus will take participants from the conference center to
the National Museum of Mexican Art in the nearby Pilsen neighborhood. From there, a guide will lead participants on a walking tour
of the neighborhood, which features a variety of murals depicting
scenes from the Mexican-American community. Returning to the
Museum, participants will have an opportunity to explore exhibitions
in this gem of a cultural institution, which is the only museum of
Latino art accredited by the American Association of Museums. $20.
A minimum of 15 people is needed to run this tour.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 20
Chinatown Tour and Dim Sum Lunch
10:30 am – participants will be taken by shuttle to Chinatown for a
tour by the Chicago Chinatown Chamber of Commerce. The tour
ends with a group meal at a dim sum restaurant in the neighborhood.
$20. A minimum of 15 people is needed to run this tour.
Asian American Chicago
1:00 pm - Participants wishing to participate in a lengthier tour of
Asian American Chicago may sign up for this tour. This tour will
take participants to various neighborhoods and sites, culminating
in a meal at a local Asian restaurant. The tour ends at 5pm. $25
includes meal. A minimum of 15 people is needed to run this tour.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16
Pre-conference workshops
1.1 | Japanese American Internment History and Chicago
Resettlement
Location: Japanese American Service Committee, 4427 North Clark
Street, Chicago
9:00 AM – 2:30 PM (includes lunch)
A special collaboration with the Newberry Library
This seminar for middle and high school educators provides a multifaceted opportunity to learn about Japanese American internment
during WWII with a special focus on the resettlement of Japanese
Americans in the Chicago metropolitan area after leaving the camps.
A tour of the Japanese American Service Committee (JASC) featuring the exhibit “Origins of Now: Rebuilding Community,” as well
as a community mural and archival material from the JASC Legacy
Center, will provide perspectives on community development today.
The JASC offers quality social services, innovative art and culture
programs and public events to the Japanese American and greater
multicultural community in the Midwest. Seminar participants will
consider the impact and relevance of internment history to our contemporary social and political context. In addition, they will engage
with broader theoretical concerns connected to the curricular inclusion of diverse Asian American histories and experiences. Credits
toward certification renewal are available for Illinois teachers (for the
morning session as well as the afternoon portion).
Presenters:
William Yoshino is the Midwest Director of the Japanese American
Citizens League, the oldest and largest Asian American civil rights/
education organization in the United States.
Kevin Kumashiro is an Associate Professor of Education and the
Coordinator of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, and the founding director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive
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Education. He is the author of editor of seven books, including
most recently, The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has
Framed the Debate on America’s Schools.
Jean Fujiu has been the Executive Director of the Japanese American
Service Committee since 1997. Ms. Fujiu holds a Masters degree in
Social Work and over 20 years of professional experience in special
education administration and clinical social work.
Debbie Mieko Burns, MA, MLIS, CA is the Archivist at the JASC
Legacy Center, a community-based archive and library. Prior to
the JASC, she worked in archives at the National Gallery of Art, the
University of Minnesota, and the Chicago History Museum.
Advanced registration required by March 1. $100 workshop fee
includes lunch. Teachers from the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) as
well as from Chicago area member schools of the Newberry Teachers’
Consortium (NTC) do not pay a fee. Credits toward re certification
are available for Illinois teachers (for the morning session as well as
the afternoon portion). Contact Karen Su (karensu@uic.edu) or 312413-7696 for more information or to register.
2.1 | Overcoming the Stigma of Disability and Mental Health in
Asian American Communities
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM | CC 12 A
This full-day pre-conference workshop is designed to give participants an opportunity to examine critical and complex issues in disability and mental health that face Asian American communities in
the United States. Participants will gain an integrated understanding
of cultural influences on disability/mental health and of the health
seeking behaviors and practices of various sub-groups of Asians
as well as various health models, health and risk behaviors, and
institutional barriers. This interactive session will help participants
to understand the gaps in provision that face unserved and underserved Asian American communities and the different constituency
groups (community leaders, service providers, advocates, spiritual
healers) who serve this group. We hope to bring together educators,
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researchers, practitioners, advocates, and family and community representatives engaged in various fields of disability and mental health
in Asian American communities. As a group, we hope to use this
workshop to generate ideas and strategies that bring disability and
mental health issues to the forefront, both locally and globally.
Presenters:
Rooshey Hasnain, Department of Disability and Human
Development, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jae Jin Pak, Community Counseling Centers of Chicago Quetzal
Center
Rahnee K. Patrick, Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
Yanling Li, University of Illinois at Chicago
Debjani Mukherjee, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
A representative from the Asian Suicide Prevention Coalition
3.1 | Engaging Muslim, Middle Eastern, Arab, and South Asian
American Images and Communities in the Chicago Area
9:00 AM – 11:30 AM | CC 12 B
This workshop is being organized for high school teachers who are
interested in engaging Muslim, Arab, Middle Eastern, and South
Asian American issues, histories and experiences in the classroom
and as part of the curriculum. The workshop organizers recognize
that these communities present unique challenges in today’s classrooms, challenges that are made more difficult without the tools to
address the stereotypes that students sometimes bring to our classes.
The half-day workshop brings together academics and educators
with expertise in these Asian American-related issues to present and
discuss material that greatly impacts high schools and student communities in the Chicagoland area. Additionally, the presenters will
address what is seen as a growing divide between Asian immigrant
students and Asian American students. The workshop will draw
attention to new arrivals, including Middle Eastern and Muslim
students, and work to demystify the belief that all Asian American
students are all alike. This portion of the workshop will focus on
Chicago’s Asian American populations, surveying the needs of Asian
and Asian immigrant students. Credit toward certificate renewal
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available for Illinois teachers.
Presenters:
Presenter TBA
Yvonne Lau, who has long studied the needs of Asian American
students for K-12 education in the Chicago area and is a pioneer of
Asian American studies in the Midwest
Manuel Medina, past officer of Language and Cultural Education for
Chicago Public Schools
4.1 | Adoptee Children’s Literature
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Field Room
Representations of transnationally/transracially adopted Koreans
began appearing in American children’s books in 1955, with at least
one new book appearing every few years since. This workshop provides an analysis of how American children’s books reflect transracial adoption from Korea, adult adoptees’ reactions to those stories,
and the ideological challenges of representing transracial adoption
within the conventions of children’s literature. We provide an overview of the children’s literature and one of our panelists suggests
what the children’s books should and must contain to help not only
the child, but also the families and other readers to better understand
the unique challenges in raising transracial children. Specifically, we
discuss who writes stories, who they address, and what kind of stories they tell through both text and illustrations. One of our panelists
also emphasizes that these books must and should address the realities - the “adoptee truths” - adoptees face as children and as adults:
that being an adoptee never stops; that transracial adoptees generally
have heightened experiences and perceptions around the intersections of race and family; that adoptees need to address these very
real feelings in child-accessible ways because this heightened awareness starts at a very young age. This presentation will help guide
readers to make critical choices in consuming children’s literature in
an effort to support vibrant, high quality, and socially just literature.
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Presenters:
Laura Ganarelli, a Korean adoptee, is the founder of Paper Lantern,
a Chicago-based resource center for all transracial adoptees and their
families.
Sarah Park is a PhD Candidate in the Graduate School of Library
and Information Science at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Her dissertation critically analyzes representations of
transracially adopted Koreans in American and Korean children’s literature <http://www.sarahpark.com>.
Sun Yung Shin is the author of Cooper’s Lesson (2005), an illustrated
bilingual (English/Korean) book for children, as well as a co-editor
of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (2006) and the
author of a collection of poems Skirt Full of Black (2007). She is a 2007
Bush Artist Fellow.
5.1 | Mixed Asians Workshop
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Pullman Room
The Mixed Asian Workshop will present an overview of key issues
for mixed Asian people in relation to both the Multiracial Movement
and to Asian American Communities. Issues to be covered include
authenticity/legitimacy, colorism, identity development, creation
of community through culture (i.e. “Anomaly,”Part Asian, 100%
Hapa, Hapa Soap Opera) and debates over language (should we use
“Hapa,” Eurasian, Afroasian, mestiza/o, etc.). Presenters will discuss
community organizing and activism, as well as the specific resources
of the Mavin Foundation’s Mixed Heritage Center website and a proposed professional association for Mixed Race Studies Scholars.
Presenters:
Wei Ming Dariotis is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies
at San Francisco State University, with emphases on Asians of Mixed
Heritage and Asian Pacific American Literature, Arts, and Culture.
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Eric Hamako is a Multiracial organizer and doctoral student in Social
Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Farzana Nayani is a multicultural educator and intercultural communication trainer. She is Vice President of MASC (Multiracial American
of Southern California) and is Director of Resource Development for
the Multiracial Family Resource Center (MFRC).”
The Mixed Asians Workshop is sponsored by The Asian/Pacific/American
Institute at NYU.
Portions of the AAAS pre-conference workshops have been made possible
by funding from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Asian
American Studies Consortium. The CIC brings together 12 world-class
research universities, advancing their missions by sharing expertise, leveraging campus resources and collaborating on innovative programs.
FILM SCREENING
5.2 Film Screening: Moral Debt: The Postwar Battle of the
Veteranos (Directed by Martin Rossetti)
Followed by Q & A from the Director
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM | CC 12 A
During World War II, over two hundred and fifty thousand Filipinos
were inducted into and fought on behalf of the United States armed
forces. Following the end of the war and the independence of the
Philippines, the United States Congress passed the Rescission Act
of 1946, effectively denying the Filipinos eligibility for naturalization in the U.S. Today, over sixty years later, the Filipino veterans
(Veteranos), are still struggling to be seen as equals in the eyes of the
U.S. government. Through interviews with politicians, activists, and
the Veteranos themselves, this documentary tells the story of sacrifices made, loved ones lost, and hardships endured by the Filipinos as a
result of their entanglement in WWII. We celebrate the pride and loyalty these men and women exhibit, even in the face of betrayal and
racism, and hope that by telling their story, we can move the country
to settle a debt overdue.
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Martín Rossetti grew up in the world of filmmaking and has worked
in many capacities, from production assistant to director, to writer
and producer. Working in both the television and film industries for
many years, he has been working on projects from around the world
including the United States, Argentina, Mexico, and South Korea.
Martín got his training from the prestigious school of Broadcasting
at San Francisco State University receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree
in 2007. In his final year of school, he got his big break with a grant
from SFSU to direct and produce his first documentary, “A Moral
Debt” which has received awards including a National Award of
Merit which will be given by the current Speaker of the House, Nancy
Pelosi of San Francisco in May 2008. SInce producing “A
Moral Debt,” it has been a non-stop roller coaster ride with the founding of a production company with four other partners; Vivo Media
Group, where they have been producing music and corporate videos
as well as writing for future political documentaries.
http://veteranosdoc.com/
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THURSDAY
APRIL 17
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THURSDAY, APRIL 17
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
6.1 | Caucus Meetings
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
East of California
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | CC 12 A
Committee on Institutional Cooperation
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | CC 12 B
THURSDAY, APRIL 17
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
7.1 | War Brides: Desiring Women on the Racial Edge
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 11 B
Chair: Hyeyurn Chung, Sung Kyun Kwan University
Hyeyurn Chung, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Department of English Love Across the Color Lines?: the Competing Hierarchies of Race and Gender
in Susan Choi’s The Foreign Student
Ju Yon Kim, Stanford University
Forced Dispersals and the Performance of Community in Itsuka and Tea
Masako Nakamura, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Bringing Home European “War Brides”: Marriages of Hawaii-born Japanese
American Soldiers and European Women in the Cold War
7.2 |
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Disciplining the Colonies: Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and
THURSday April 17th
the Philippines
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 12 B
Chair: Allan Isaac, Wesleyan University Paulette Feeney, University of Hawai’i at Manoa,
Imagining Hawai’i, the Paradise of the Pacific
Vernadette Gonzalez, University of Hawai’i at Manoa,
Cartographies of Violence and Pleasure: The American Tropics Keith Lujan Camacho, University of California, Los Angeles
“No offense had been established”: Criminalizing Sexuality in the Aftermath
of World War II
Faye Christine Caronan, University of California, Riverside
U.S. Imperialism and Transnational Social Imaginaries: Filipino American
and U.S. Puerto Rican Performance Poet Transnational Activism
7.3 | Romancing the Global Other: Representation, Racialization
and the Asian (American) Subject
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 12 C
Chair: Julietta Hua, University of Minnesota, Humphrey Institute
Jillian Sandell, San Francisco State University
Transnational Ways of Seeing
Jinah Kim, Northwestern University
The Gendered Circuits of the Pacific Rim Imaginary
Julietta Hua, University of Minnesota, Humphrey Institute
Gucci Geishas and Post-Feminists 7.4 | De - Constructing Media
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 12 D
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THURSday April 17th
Chair: Sunny Ching Hui Wang, Michigan State University
Jung-Eun Janie Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara
Marginalized Spectatorship and (Mis)Representations of Asian Languages in
Hollywood Films
Paul Niwa, Emerson College
Source Diversity within a reporter ’s in-group: Metropolitan Daily
Newspapers and Sourcing within Asian Pacific American Communities
Sunny Ching Hui Wang, Michigan State University
Location, Location. Location: Where is Asian American Art? 7.5 | The Poetics of Collaboration 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 12 A
Chair: Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, University of San Diego
Eric Hayot, Pennsylvania State University
Sand Grain, Atom, Haiku
Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University
The Queer GI: Orientalism, Homophobia, and Treason at Mid-Century
Josephine Nock-Hee Park, University of Pennsylvania
Impossible Enemies
7.6 | Imagining New Routes: Transnational Adult Adoptee Forms of
Agency
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 23 A
Chair: Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, University of Southern California
Discussant Mark Jerng, University of California, Davis
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Dana Leventhal, New York University
Subjectivity, Agency, and the Ethnic: Multi-Sited Negotiations of the Adult
Adoptee
Elise Prebin, Harvard University
Readjusting the Ethnographer’s Gaze: Intellectual Self-Representations of
Adult Adoptee Subjectivity
Nicky Schildkraut, University of Southern California
Of Immigrant Loss and Resistance: Representations of Adult Adoptee
Melancholia
7.7 | Asian American and American Multiethnic Theoretical
Intersections
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 23 B
Chair: Lingyan Yang, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Gary Y. Okihiro, Columbia University Lingyan Yang, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Comparative American Race and Ethnicity Theories: Possibilities for a New
Democratic Criticism
R. Radhakrishnan, University of California at Irvine
Race and Double-Consciousness
Juan E. Poblete, University of California at Santa Cruz
U.S. Latino Studies in a Global Context: Social Imagination and the
Production of In/visibility
7.8 | Increasing the Involvement Latino/a, African and Asian
American students in Study Abroad Programs: Strategies, Programs
and Results
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THURSday April 17th
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 23 C
Chair: Robert Johnson, St. Cloud State University
Dia Cha, St. Cloud State University
Increasing the Involvement of Asian American students in Study Abroad
Programs: Strategies, Programs and Results
Robert Johnson, St. Cloud State University
Increasing the Involvement of Students of Color on Study Abroad Programs Shahzad Ahmad, St. Cloud State University
Study Abroad Programs as Vehicle for Recruitment and Retention of
Students of Color 7.9 | Using Community Mobilization Approaches to Address
Violence Issues Among Asian Americans
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Pullman Room
Chair: Christina Fa, Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Violence Prevention
Center
Gregory Mark, California State University, Sacramento
Program Historical Development
Gregory Kim-Ju, California State University, Sacramento
Community-Mobilization Strategies
Stacey Saephanh, California State University, Sacramento
Program Impact upon the University Asian American Students
Julie Lopez Figueroa, California State University, Sacramento
Does It Work?
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THURSday April 17th
7.10 | Is there Passing in this lane? Asian Americans as Other and
Others as Asians | Field Room
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Chair: Greg Robinson, L’Université du Québec à Montréal
Discussant: Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware
Jennifer Ho, University of North Carolina
Who Passes for What?: Questions of Embodiment in Asian American
Literature
Charles Rzepka, Boston University
Behind Eastern Eyes: Geishas from Massachusetts, Charlie Chan in
Chinatown
Steven Doi, San Diego State University
Milton Izaki: A Life in Mystery
THURSDAY, APRIL 17
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
8.1 | Megasession
Faith in a Time of Empire: Religion and Asian America
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 12 A & B
Chair: Pawan Dhingra, Oberlin College
Moustafa Bayoumi, Associate Professor of English, Brooklyn College
Prema Kurien, Associate Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University
Paul Spickard, Professor of History, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Religion is a central issue in the cultural lives, in the public discourses,
and in the national and transnational politics regarding Asian America.
Yet, it remains under-theorized relative to other social issues on the
community. These panelists represent various perspectives, across the
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humanities and social sciences and across religious groups, and will
further the conversation on how to analyze the role of religion within
Asian America.
8.2 | Beyond the Balikbayan Box: Consumption in Filipino America
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 23 B
Chair: Anna Guevarra, University of Illinois at Chicago
L. Joyce Mariano, University of Minnesota
Corporate Philanthropy and “Giving Back” in Filipino America
Anna Guevarra, University of Illinois at Chicago
Worker-Consumer-Citizen: Reconceptualizing Immigrant Filipinos IdentityFormation
Marie-Therese Sulit, Mount Saint Mary College
Locating the Philippines and the United States in the Work of the Philippine
Study Group of Minnesota
8.3 | Re/Situating the Educational Experiences of Asian Americans at
Home, School and Beyond
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 12 D
Chair: Viveka Kudaligama, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Benji Chang, University of California, Los Angeles
“Chinatown Is In My Heart”: Critical Approaches to Organizing/Teaching
with Multiethnic/Multilingual Families in L.A.
Rachel Endo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Asian Americans and Educational Inequities: The Case of Post-1965 Japanese
American Immigrant Families in Urban Nebraska’s K-12 Schooling Milieu
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THURSday April 17th
Oiyan Poon, University of California, Los Angeles
We’re the Awkward Turtle”?: Asian American College Students and
Educational Equity Debates
Heekyong Teresa Pyon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Learning English as a Second Language: The Case for the 1.5 generation
Korean American Adolescents
8.4 | Vietnamese Diasporic Performances: The Beautiful, the Living,
and the Dead
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 11 B
Chair: Linda Võ, University of California, Irvine
Linda Peché‚ University of Texas, Austin
Ancestors in Exile: Popular Religious Practice in the Construction of
Vietnamese America
Nhi Lieu, University of Texas, Austin
Beauty Queens of the Diaspora: Discourses of “Social Progress” and the
Commercialization of Vietnamese Ethnicity
Roy Vu, North Lake College
Retaining the Home, Not the Homeland: Ethnic and National Identity Crises
in Houston’s Vietnamese American Community
Lan Duong, University of California, Riverside
Embodying the Nation: Corpulence and Cross-Dressing within the
Vietnamese American Popular Imagination
8.6 | Ad(Dressing) Fashion and Art
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 12 C
Chair: Anna Gonzalez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Yuniya Kawamura, Fashion Institute of Technology/State University
of NewYork
Fashion as an Eastern Concept:Asian/Asian-American Designers as
Tastemakers of Fashion Eric Estuar Reyes, California State University, Fullerton
Community Cultural Development: Fil-Am Arts and ‘Why We Gather”
Christina Moon, Yale University
Designing Daughters: Korean American Designers in the U.S. Fashion
Industry
THURSDAY, APRIL 17
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
9.1 | Roundtable
The Great Third Coast: How Teaching in the Midwest and South
Challenges Asian American Studies
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 12 A
Chair: Janet Carlson, Macalester College
Nina Ha, Creighton University
Paul Lai, University of St. Thomas
Huping Ling, Truman State University
Krystyn Moon, University of Mary Washington
Joseph Ponce, Ohio State University
Jasmine Kar Tang, University of Minnesota
9.2 | Roundtable
A Village Called Versailles: Tools for Educators
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 11 B
Loan Dao, University of California, Berkeley
Replanting the Uprooted Tree: An Anthology of Vietnamese American Voices
In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
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Leo Chiang, Walking Iris Films
A Village Called Versailles: A Documentary of the Viet American
Community Post-Hurricane Katrina
9.3 | Roundtable
The Relationship between Studies Programs & Cultural Centers:
Conflict or Collaboration?
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 12 C
Chair: Angela Rola, University of Connecticut Angela Rola, University of Connecticut
Roger N. Buckley, University of Connecticut Jeffrey Alton, University of Georgia
Vu T. Tran, University of Michigan
9.4 | Roundtable
Poetry, Community, Activism: A Roundtable on Asian American
Poetry in the Midwest
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 12 D
Chair: Timothy Yu, University of Toronto
Timothy Yu, University of Toronto
Asian American Poetry in the Midwest: Past, Present, Future
Ray Hsu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
What Is Poetry’s Public? Asian American Poetry and Activism in the
Midwest
Dorothy Wang, Williams College
Teaching Asian American Poetry in the Midwest
Helene Achanzar, University of Iowa
Asian American Poetry and Community in Chicago
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9.5 | Roundtable
EOC: Across Ethnic Studies: A Change of Heart? Renewing our
Commitment to Comparative Racial Studies
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 12 B
Chair: Nitasha Sharma, Northwestern University
Ana Aparicio, Northwestern University
Jinah Kim, Northwestern University
Helen Jun, University of Ilinois, Chicago
Lisa Marie Cacho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9.6 | Roundtable
EOC: Surviving in Academia: From First Year Graduate Student to
Tenured Faculty Member
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 23 A
Chair: Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut, Storrs
JoAnnaPoblete-Cross, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
MonicaChiu, University of New Hampshire
Lan Dong, University of Illinois at Springfield
Jim Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara
9.7 | Roundtable
A Longtime Coming: The University of Illinois Chicago’s Asian
American Studies Program
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 23 B
Chair: Mark Chiang, University of Illinois, Chicago
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Aaditi Dubale, University of Illinois, Chicago
Student activism from the undergraduate perspective
Charlyne Sarmiento, University of Illinois, Chicago
The Role of Graduate Students
Heather De Guia, University of Illinois, Chicago
The Longterm Perspective of AAS at UIC
Karen Su, University of Illinois, Chicago
The Role of the Cultural Center and Student Services
9.8 | Literary Reading: Linda Furiya, “Bento Box in the Heartland:
My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America” (Seal Press, 2006)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 23 C
While growing up in Versailles, an Indiana farm community, Linda
Furiya tried to balance the outside world of Midwestern America
with the Japanese traditions of her home life. As the only Asian family in a tiny township, Furiya’s life revolved around Japanese food
and the extraordinary lengths of her parents went in gathering the
ingredients needed to prepare the meals. As immigrants, her parents
approached the challenges of living in America---and maintaining
their Japanese diets----with optimism and gusto. Furiya, meanwhile,
was acutely aware of how food set her apart from her peers: She
spent her first day of school hiding in the girls’ restroom, examining her rice balls and chopsticks and long for a PB&J. Author Linda
Furiya will read excerpts from her book and discuss her experiences
with assimilation and racism. Her reading will be followed by a
Q&A, and book signing. Her book will be available for purchase.
Learn more about her at http://www.lindafuriya.com.
9.9 | Asian Americans in Politics: Money and Influence
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Pullman Room
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Frank Wu, Asst. Professor, former Dean, Wayne State University Law
School
Phil Tajitsu-Nash, CEO of Campaign Advantage and Nash Interactive,
Inc
Courtni S. Pugh, Statewide Assistant Area Director, SEIU-California &
former Deputy Political Director for John Edwards
Konrad Ng, Asst. Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa & Obama
Advisor
Aziz Haniffa, National Affairs Editor and Chief Diplomatic and
Political correspondent of India Abroad
Moderated & Sponsored by: Asian American Policy Council of Illinois,
Japanese Americans Citizen’s League, Organization of Chinese AssociationChicago & South Asian American Policy & Research Institute.
9.10 | Asian American Studies Directors’ Workshop
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Field Room
Chair: Karen J. Leong, Arizona State University
This special workshop is for directors and chairs of Asian American
and Asian American/Pacific Islander studies programs. Many directors and chairs face similar structural issues at respective institutions,
and are asked to participate in development, faculty mentoring, personnel actions, and community outreach-and often without sufficient
resources. Furthermore, the developmental and historical trajectory
of Asian American and Asian American/Pacific Islander Studies programs has necessitated that junior and newly-associate faculty to take
on leadership roles within their institutions without significant administrative experience.
This workshop, which some directors have suggested might become
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a regular feature of annual meetings of the Association for Asian
American Studies, seeks to provide a space for directors to meet
together and discuss the intellectual and pragmatic challenges of
directing Asian American and Asian American/Pacific Islander programs, centers, and initiatives at their respective institutions.
9.11 | Book Signing: R. Zamora Linmark (Kaya Press)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Exhibitor Room (CC 24 ABC)
Author R. Zamora Linmark of Rolling the R’s, Prime-time Apparitions,
and The Evolution of a Sigh will be available for a book signing at the
Kaya Press booth in the exhibitor room. THURSDAY, APRIL 17
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
10.1 | Becoming and Contesting the Model Minority
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | CC 12 D
Chair: Kevin Lam, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rosalind Chou, Texas A & M University
The Great Imposition: Asian Americans Living in the White Racial Frame Eunai Shrake, California State University, Northridge
A New Wave of Student Empowerment Kevin Lam, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Political Economy of Migration: The Formation of Vietnamese American
Youth Gangs in Southern California
Xiaolei Wu, University of California, Los Angeles
An Ethnographic Examination of Middle-class Chinese Parents in China and
the U.S.
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10.2| Dimensions of Transnational Adoption
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | CC 12 C
Chair: Jiannbin Lee Shiao, University of Oregon
Jenny Hei Jun Wills, Wilfrid Laurier University
Humour, Racial Parody and Transnational Asian Adoption in Gish Jen’s The
Love Wife and Anne Tyler’s Digging to America
MarinaFedosik, University of Delaware
Autobiographical Narratives of Transnational Adoptees: Jane Jeong Trenka’s
memoir The Language of Blood and Deann Borshay’s documentary First
Kit Myers, University of California, San Diego
A Critique of the Universal Subject in Transracial Adoption Discourse: The
Specters of Anti-miscegenation Laws
Sung-Ae Lee, Macquarie University, Australia
From Difference to Identity and Back Again: National and Personal Anxieties
in Korean Adoptee Narratives
10.3 | Global Heartland, Gendered Diasporas: The Midwest in
Filipino/a American and South Asian American Fiction
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | CC 12 A
Chair: Anantha Sudhakar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Victor Mendoza, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bulusan Was in the Heartland
Joseph Ponce, Ohio State University
Between the Homeland and the Heartland: Her Wild American Self and
Filipino Diaspora Discourse
Vanita Reddy, University of California,
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Davis Strange(r) Beauty in Baden: Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine
10.4 | Beyond the Enclave: Ethnic Suburbs in NY and LA
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | CC 12 B
Chair: Angie Chung, State University of New York at Albany
Emily Margulies with Angie Chung, State University of New York at
Albany
Conceptualizing the Ethnic Suburb: The Case of Bergen County, NJ.
Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles
Rethinking Residential Assimilation through the Case of the Chinese
Ethnoburb in San Gabriel Valley, CA
Linda Trinh Võ, University of California, Irvine
Asian American Spatial Communities in Orange County: Redefining Ethnic
Suburbs and Liminal Spaces
Sookhee Oh, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Suburban Korean Enclaves in New York and Los Angeles
10.5 | Moving DC: Oral Histories of Asian Americans in Federal
Government
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | CC 23 A
Chair: Thomas Szymanek, University of California, Los Angeles &
Department of Veterans Affairs
Thomas Szymanek, University of California, Los Angeles &
Department of Veterans Affairs
Don’t Leave My Asian American Organization Behind: How Asian American
Community Based Organizations Respond to the NCLB Policy
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Soo-BinYou, Rutgers University
Immigrants, Political Incorporation and Homeland Politics
Juyeon Son, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Limitations of National Health Interview Survey in the Study of Asian
American Health
10.6| EOC: Re-Centering Asian American Narratives
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | CC 23 B
Chair: Anita Mannur, Dennison University
Leslie Bow, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Anxieties of the ‘Partly Colored’: Reading Social Status in Asian American
Narratives about the South
Anita Mannur, Dennison University
Puritanism and the Space of Asian America: A Reading of Bharati
Mukherjee’s Holder of the World
Jolie Sheffer, Bowling Green State University
I am a fucking American!: Asian American Identity and Left-of-Center
Narrative Strategies in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats
Julia Lee, University of Texas, Austin
A New Kind of Frontier Myth: The Politics of Location in May-lee Chai’s
Hapa Girl
10.7| Pedagogies
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | CC 23 C
Chair: Wei Ming Dariotis, San Francisco State University
Wei Ming Dariotis, San Francisco State University
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Teaching Edith Eaton: Asian American Literature and/or Mixed Heritage
Asian American Studies
Nobuko Chikamatsu, DePaul University
Where Language and History Meet: A Collaborative Approach to Teaching
Japanese American History and Language
Seongho Yoon, Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea
Transnational “Who”: Teaching Korean American Literature to Korean
Students
Alma Trinidad,University of Washington
Collective Empowerment among Young Adults: Utilizing Critical Pedagogy
of Place & Hawaiian Epistemology
10.8| Memoir as Criticism, Criticism as Memoir
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | CC 11 B
Chair: Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern California
Min Song, Boston College
Genealogy of a Detroit Childhood
Traise Yamamoto, University of California, Riverside
The Pleasures of (Re)Reading: Taking Critical Memoir Seriously
James Kyung-Jin Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara
Letter to My Daughter
10.9| Empire in the Heart of America: Power, Racialized
Communities, and Forms of Resistance
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | Pullman Room
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Chair: Rick Bonus, University of Washington
Discussant: Augusto Espiritu, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
Genevieve Clutario, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shifting Racisms: Examining Racist Discourse during the U.S. Occupation
of the Philippines
Aide Acosta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Labor Migration, Activism and Empire: A Comparative Analysis of the
Intellectual Contributions of Ernesto Galarza and Carlos Bulosan
Constancio Arnaldo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Filipino/American Martial(ing) Plan:The Promises of Cultural Memory
through the Art of Eskrima
THURSDAY, APRIL 17
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
11.1 | Mega Session: Guantánamo Bay and the Conscience of Asian
American Studies
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | CC 12 A & B
Chair: Rajini Srikanth, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Anant Raut, Counsel, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of
Representatives
Defending Detainees: Why, How, and For How Long?
Gitanjali Gutierrez, Center for Constitutional Rights
Guantánamo Detainees at the Edges of Law
Marc Falkoff, Northern Illinois University College of Law
Poems from Guantánamo: The Uses of Empathy
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There is remarkably little coverage of the continued questionable
detention of over 300 men of Muslim heritage in the legal no-man’s
land of Guantánamo Bay. Occasionally, the American public reads
of the military tribunals that are held there, legal hearings in which
many fundamental and basic principles of law are ignored. These are
men whose existence is used symbolically to discipline the nation into
accepting the overreaches of executive power and submitting to the
arbitrary authority of the state. But what of the men themselves—their
complex identities, their truncated lives? The presenters on this panel,
all of whom serve as defense counsel for different groups of detainees,
will illuminate for us the netherworld of Guantánamo Bay and, in the
process, chart the conscience of Asian American studies: What are the
possibilities and limits of our responsibility as scholars, educators, citizens, and Asian Americanists?
11.2 | ON BECOMING FILIPINA/O AMERICAN: Research and
Response to the Issues of the Next Generations
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | CC 11 B
Chair: Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, San Francisco State University
Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, San Francisco State University
Beyond the Numbers: Context and Response to Filipina/o American Student
Issues
Jeffery Ponferrada, University of California, Los Angeles
Beyond the Numbers: Context and Response to Filipina/o American Student
Issues
Tracy Buenavista, California State University, Northridge
Activism Rearticulated: Pilipina/o Student-Initiated Educational Strategies
Mark Bautista, University of California, Los Angeles
Beneath the Surface: Uncovering Filipino Male Experiences in America’s
Educational System
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MelissaNievera, San Francisco State University
The Dream Divide: Pin@y Artists, Activists, Academics and
Intergenerational Conflict
11.3 | Transnational Sports, Nationalisms, and Empire
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | CC 12 C
Chair: Rachael Joo, Middlebury College
Stan Thangaraj,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Playing”Desi”: Leisure spaces, Expressive Practices, and Consumptive
Patterns of”Desi” Masculinity in South Asian American Community
Formation
Rachael Joo, Middlebury College
Sporting Affects, Transnational Love, and Neo-liberal Fantasies: Korean/
American Athletes
C.L. Cole, University of Illinois
11.4| Pacific Commutes: Transnational Politics, Gender
Negotiations, and Job Markets
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | CC 23 C
Chair: Madeline Hsu, University of Texas, Austin
Discussant: Carolyn Chen, Northwestern University
Madeline Hsu, University of Texas, Austin
Rethinking “Brain Drains”: Migration between the United States and
Taiwan, 1950-1995
Pei-te Lien, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chinese Americans and Homeland Democratization: A Comparison Among
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Immigrants from Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong
Suching Huang, East Carolina University
Gender Negotiation in Taiwanese American Literature: Reading Yu Lihua’s
Fiction
11.5 | Asian Adoptee Representation, Narrative and Oral History:
Exploring the “Imaginary” and the “Real”
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | CC 23 A
Chair: Sarah Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mark Chia-YonJerng, University of California, Davis
Claiming Reality: Writing Transnational Adoption Across Law and
Literature
Eleana Kim, University of Rochester
Producing Missing Persons: Adoptee Artists Imagining (Im)Possible Lives
Sarah Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
De-centering America’s Transnationally Adopted Korean Childhoods: a
Study of Korean and American Children’s Literatures
Kim Park Nelson, University of Minnesota
An Adoptee for Every Lake: Multiculturalism, Minnesota, and the Korean
Transracial Adoptee
11.6 | On BrAngelina, Silence, Religion, and Martyrdom:
Reinventing Mothering in Vietnamese and Filipino Communities
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | CC 23 B
Chair: Nina Ha, Creighton University
Nina Ha, Creighton University
The Art of Sacrifice: Vietnamese Mothers and their Roles as Martyrs
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Theresa Suarez, University of California, San Diego
Militarized Filipino Motherhood and the Divine Kumare
Tracyann Williams, The New School
Motherhood: Angelina Jolie and the 21st Century
THURSDAY, APRIL 17
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
12.1 | Literary Reading: Don Lee, Wrack & Ruin
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | CC 23 A
Don Lee will read from his new novel, a farcical comedy called Wrack
and Ruin (April 2008, W.W. Norton). It returns to Rosarita Bay, the
town in his first book, Yellow, and is about two brothers, Lyndon and
Woody Song. Lyndon was once a famous sculptor in his youth, but
walked away from the art world to become a Brussels sprouts farmer.
Woody was once a financial planner, but squandered all of his clients’
money, including their parents’, and is now a fledgling movie producer. He visits his brother over Labor Day weekend and wreaks havoc on
his life. Don Lee is the author of the novel Country of Origin, which
won an American Book Award, and the story collection Yellow, which
won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. He recently received
the Fred R. Brown Literary Award from the University of Pittsburgh.
Formerly the editor of the literary journal Ploughshares, he now teaches creative writing at Macalester College in St. Paul.
12.2 | Film Screening: Who Killed Vincent Chin?
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM | CC 12 D
A screening to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the landmark
documentary by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña chronicling
the brutal killing of a Chinese American by two white men in the
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Detroit area. Who Killed Vincent Chin? has served as a foundational
text for Asian American Studies and has played a central role in raising
awareness of the problem of anti-Asian violence. Through its documentation of the national Justice for Vincent Chin movement, the film
has introduced thousands of student and community activists to the
concept of panethnic community organizing.
Panel: Re-reading Who Killed Vincent Chin?: Voices From Detroit
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Chair: Scott Kurashige, University of Michigan
Discussant: Renee Tajima-Pena, Independent Filmmaker
Frank H. Wu, Wayne State University
Detroit and the Death of the American Dream
Grace Lee Boggs, Independent Scholar
From Civil Rights to a New Concept of Citizenship
Scott Kurashige, University of Michigan
The Chin Case and the Politics of Urban Space
Touching the lives of thousands of viewers and inspiring a generation
of Asian American activists, Who Killed Vincent Chin? demonstrates in
powerful fashion the Asian American community’s relationship to the
struggle for civil rights. This panel featuring three presenters who live
in Detroit, study the city, and are connected to a range of multiracial
political organizing activities will highlight how greater attention to
the issue of place can enhance the meaning of the Vincent Chin case
for scholars and activists in the twenty-first century. While Detroit
often functions as a symbol of American economic woes and racial
scapegoating, this panel will deepen our perspective of Detroit’s multiracial history and politics. To link our campaigns for racial justice to
a movement for social transformation, Asian Americans must understand and confront the social crises stemming from deindustrialization,
extreme racial segregation, and urban abandonment that have ravaged
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Detroit and other “rust belt” cities.
Frank H. Wu is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black
and White and co-author of Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the
Japanese American Internment. Wu is completing his service as Dean
of Wayne State University Law School this academic year. He is currently working on a book about the Vincent Chin case and its place in
Detroit history.
Scott Kurashige is the author of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black
and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles.
He is an associate professor of History, American Culture, and Asian/
Pacific Islander American Studies at the University of Michigan and
will be a research fellow at Harvard University’s Charles Warren
Center in 2008-09.
Grace Lee Boggs is a Detroit-based activist, writer, and speaker whose
more than sixty years of political involvement encompass the major
U.S. social movements of this century. Recipient of a 2007 AAAS lifetime achievement award, she is the author of numerous works, including Living for Change and Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth
Century (with James Boggs). Copies of Boggs’s writings and speeches
can be found at: http://www.boggscenter.org
Renee Tajima-Peña has become a chronicler of the American scene
with the Academy Award-nominated Who Killed Vincent Chin? and
the Sundance Film Festival award-winning MY AMERICA...or Honk
if You Love Buddha. Her new work, Calavera Highway, is slated for
PBS’s “P.O.V.” series in 2008. Tajima-Peña is on the founding faculty
of the Masters Program in Social Documentation at the University of
California, Santa Cruz.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 17
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
13.1 | Committee on Institutional Cooperation / University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Reception
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM | Prairie Center Lobby
The reception co-hosted by University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
has two goals. The first goal is to celebrate the ongoing progress being
made in the Asian American Studies Program at the university and to
help disseminate information about these developments. The second
goal is to welcome conference participants from across the country to
the midwest, which is often stereotypically seen as a cradle of mainstream convservatism (read white). However, this conference and the
growing Asian American Studies Programs in this region will attest
to the contrary - there is a vibrant critical ethos that is emerging and
circulating. Hopefully, this critical ethos will provide new models and
alternative formation for the development of the field.
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is a consortium
of 12 research universities, including the 11 members of the Big Ten
Conference and the University of Chicago. The CIC-Asian American
Studies Consortium would like to celebrate the accomplishments of its
faculty, staff, and students working in Asian American Studies, and to
welcome our colleagues and friend to the annual meeting of AAAS in
Chicago.
14.1 | HIPHOPISTAN: South Asian Hip Hop Showcase and After
Party
9:00 PM – 1:00 AM | Pullman Room
HIPHOPISTAN, a showcase featuring national and international South
Asian hip hop artists, highlights new diasporic expressions of politics,
art, and community that emerge across linguistic, national, and ethnic
boundaries. Asian youth across the globe have adopted this particular expression of black popular culture to voice their understandings
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of their world and to locate themselves within it. The hip hop show
features six MCs representing Los Angeles (Chee Malabar), New York
(Abstract/Vision), Boston, and Malaysia, followed by an afterparty
with DJ Rekha spinning hip hop, bhangra, and reggae music. The
show and afterparty, held at the McCormick Center, are open to the
public.
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7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
15.1 | Caucus Meetings
Queer Asian American Issues
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | CC 12 A
Transnational Adoption
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | CC 12 B
Graduate Students
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | CC 12 C
Public Policy
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | CC 12 D
Education Studies/Information Studies
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | CC 11 B
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
16.1 | Do Labels Matter? Identity Choices of Asian American
College Students
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 12 A
Chair: Corinne Kodama, University of Illinois at Chicago
Discussant: David Chih, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Angela Ebreo, University of Michigan
Asian American College Students’ Civic Involvement: Relationships between
Identity Choice, Group Consciousness, Racial Identity Attitudes, Public
Policy Opinions, and Political Behavior
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Sandhya Krishnan, Girls On The Run
The Relationship between Student Involvement and Identity Choice: Ethnic
vs. Pan-Asian
Corinne Kodama, University of Illinois at Chicago
Attitudinal and Behavioral Correlates of Ethnic and Racial Identity Choices
among Asian American Undergraduates
16.2 | Looking for Religion?
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 11 B
Chair: Larry Shinagawa, University of Maryland
Yan Jiang, Western Michigan University
Religion in Amy Tan’s Kitchen God’s Wife and Gish Jen’s Mona in the
Promised Land
Julie Park, University of California, Los Angeles
When God Meets Race in College: Examining Asian American Student
Experiences in a Multiracial Campus Fellowship
Ju Hui Judy Han, University of California, Berkeley
The Neighbor and the Unreached: Spatio-temporal Politics of Korean “Shortterm Missions”
Shilpa Dave, Brandeis University
New Love Indian American Style: Family, Love and Spirituality in Chutney
Popcorn and the Guru 16.3 | Moving Bodies: Asian America and Dance
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Pullman Room
Chair: Warren Liu, Bryn Mawr College
Peggy Myo-Young Choy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Another Self: Towards a Liberated History of the Asian American Moving
Body
Joy Takako Taylor, Orange Coast College
Come on in, Join in?: Bon Dance Events in California’s Central Coast
erin Khue Ninh, University of California, Santa Barbara
Shall We Dance: Questions of Power and Desire in Irrawaddy Tango and
Shanghai Dancing
16.4 | Japanese America: Internment and Beyond
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 12 D
Chair: Karen Leong, Arizona State University
Sachiko Takita-Ishii, Stanford University
Limits of Citizenship: Remembering Tule Lake Segregation Center Daisuke Ito, Georgia State University
How Experience in Concentration Camps Changed Japanese Americans’
Attitudes toward Other Racial Minorities
Dana Nakano, University of California, Irvine
Claiming Japanese America: Scott Fujita, Ehren Watada, and the Dilemma of
Grand Narrative
16.5 | From Theory to Practice: Building Competencies in
Intercultural Encounters in Asian America
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 12 B
Chair: Erika Muse, Albany College of Pharmacy
Wilson Kent, Albany College of Pharmacy
In Times of Crisis: Competencies in Delivery of Health Care and Asian
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American Health
Ray Chandrasekara, Albany College of Pharmacy
Teaching Cultural Competency: Curricular Models for Students in Pharmacy
Erika Muse, Albany College of Pharmacy
Encounters with the Law: Constructing Cultural Defense in the Case of Dr.
Chin
16.6 | Racialized Bodies and Performative Practices
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Field Room
Chair: Yutian Wong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Grace Wang, University of California, Davis
“Bittersweet Symphony”?: Musical Figurations in Karen Tei Yamashita’s
The Tropic of Orange
Priya Srinivasan, University of California, Riverside
Performing Multiple Citizenships: Indian Dance Classrooms in California
Glen Mimura, University of California, Irvine
Lives and Legends of Bruce Lee
Adria Imada, University of California, San Diego
Modern Desires and Counter-Colonial Tactics: Some Performances from
Hawai’i
16.7 | Containment, Hybridity and Expression: Mixed Race Asian
Americans and the Popular Imagination
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 23 B
Chair: Allan Isaac, Wesleyan University
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Daniel Lee, University of California, Los Angeles
Representations of Mixed Race Asian Americans, 1945-1965
Justin Leroy, New York University
Modeling Difference: Mixed Race Fashion Models and the Emergence of a
New Humanity
Tara Fickle, University of California, Los Angeles,
Cyborg Identities: Mixed-Race Asian Americans and Progressive Modernity
in Science Fiction
Jeffrey Santa Ana, Dartmouth College
Racial Feeling in the “Heartland”: Emotion, Multiracial Asian Americans,
and Globalized Whiteness of the Midwest
16.8 | Globalization and Asian Pacific Islander Worker Organizing
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 23 A
Chair: Kim Geron, California State University, East Bay
Jennifer Chun, University of British Columbia
Building Grassroots Leadership for Social Change: Case Study of Asian
Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA)
Robyn Rodriguez, Rutgers University
Globalization and the New Challenges of Im/migrant Professional Workers: A
Case Study of Filipina Nurses
Jin Young Park,Indiana University
International Solidarity of Women Workers in Asia
Raahi Reddy, University of California, Los Angeles
South Asian H-2B Workers and the post-Hurricane Katrina Reconstruction
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16.9 | Labor and the Economy
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 12 C
Chair: Pensri Ho, University of Hawai’i
Nancy Yan, Ohio State University
The Model Minority Chinese Restaurant: Citizenship, Diversity, and
Cultural Narratives
Thao Ha, MiraCosta College
Troubled Waters: The Gulf Coast Vietnamese Shrimping Industry
Min-Jung Kwak, University of British Columbia
Globalizing Canadian Education from Below: A case study of transnational
immigrant entrepreneurship between Seoul, Korea and Vancouver, Canada
Kornel Chang, University of Connecticut
Transnational Japanese Labor Contracting and the Formation of the U.S.Canadian Boundary
16.10 | American Power in Korea
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 23 C
Chair: Edward Chang, University of California, Riverside
Henry Em, Korea University
A Not-So Civil Affair: American Civil Affairs Officers in southern Korea,
1945-1948
Seung Hye Suh, Scripps College
The Poetics and Politics of Criminalization: Incarceration in North Korea and
the U.S.
MonicaKim, University of Michigan
Making the Interrogation Room: Japanese American Interrogators, Korean
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POWs, and U.S. Imperialism during the Korean War
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
17.1 | Re-fashioning the Heartland and Community through Literary
Activism and Collaborations
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 12 A
Chair: Purvi Shah, Sakhi for South Asian Women
Purvi Shah, Sakhi for South Asian Women
Re-envisioning the Heartland: Fashioning Home through Cross-region and
Media Collaborations
Sun Yung Shin,Color Theory for the 21st Century: Beyond the Pure
Readings
Interrogating Asian American Identity to Foster New Communities: The
Power of Literary Activism on Transnational Adoption and Cross-minority
Collaborations
17.2 | Art Criticism Now
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 12 D
Chair: Sarita See, University of Michigan
Margo Machida, University of Connecticut
Placing Cultures: Contemporary Asian American and Hawaiian Artists of
Hawai’i
Jan Bernabe, University of Michigan
Beyond the Black: Interstitial Visual Politics in Stephanie Syjuco’s Black
Market Photographs
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Sarita See, University of Michigan
Racial Trembling and the Object of Possession: Video Works by Angel Shaw,
Paul Pfeiffer, and Patty Chang
Marie Lo, Portland State University
Illegal Aliens and the Visible Subject of Asian North American Cultural
Critique
17.3 | Yellow Futures: Interrogating Asian America’s Final Frontier
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 12 B
Chair: Victor Bascara, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Victor Bascara, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Looking Backward, from 2019 to 1882: Reading the Dystopias of Future
Multiculturalism in the Utopias of Asian Exclusion
Lisa Nakamura, University of Illnois, Urbana-Champaign
Yellow Fever: Artificial Asian Woman and the War on Terror in Battlestar
Galactica
Betsy Huang, Clark University
Orientalist Science Fictions
Stephen Hong Sohn, Stanford University
Asian American LesBionic Futurity: Homosexual Outlaws in Larissa Lai’s
Salt Fish Girl
17.4 | Memories of Non-Alignment: Post-Cold War Challenges to the
New World Order
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 11 B
Chair: Grace Hong, University of California, Los Angeles
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Jodi Kim, University of California, Riverside
An ‘Orphan’ with Two Mothers: Transnational Adoption, the Cold War, and
Contemporary Asian American Cultural Politics
Cynthia Tolentino, University of Oregon
In a Special Sense: Intersections of U.S. Neo-Colonialism, Benevolent
Assimilation, and the Cold War
Grace M. Cho, City University of New York, Staten Island
The new global threat: U.S. imperial war and the subject of Korean transnational activism
17.5 | Reproducing Praxis: Critical Filipina/o American Studies
Pedagogy
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 23 A
Chair: Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, San Francisco State University
Nicollette Magsambol, San Francisco State University
Beyond Ethnic Representation: A Study on San Francisco State University’s
Asian American Studies Professor’s Pedagogy
Jonell Molina, San Francisco State University
Labor of Love: Confronting Notions, Contradictions, & Ambiguities of Pinay/
Pinoy Educators
Jocyl Sacramento, San Francisco State University
Reproducing Resistance: A Study on Pinayist Pedagogical Praxis
Catherine Avedano, Stanford University
de-COLUMNizing Education: A Case Study of Agency and Filipino Studies
High School Students
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17.6 | Alternate Spaces for Asian American Representation
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 23 B
Chair: Rick Bonus, University of Washington
Robyn Tasaka, Michigan State University
The Web: Asian/Asian American “Objects” in Personal Profiles
Vanessa Au, University of Washington
The mall: Racist Abercrombie Shirts and the People who Liked Them
Jessi Gan, University of Michigan
Cyber-commerce: ‘Asian Shemales,’ Their Customers, and Negotiations of
Queer Fantasy”
17.7 | Cultural Production and Memory in Vietnam and the
Diaspora: Analyzing Vietnamese Idol, Tet Festivals, and Tran Anh
Hung
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 23 C
Chair: Lan Duong, University of California, Riverside
Long Bui, University of California, San Diego
Globally Hip: Vietnamese Idol and Diasporic Struggles over Cultural
Hegemony
Thuy Vo Dang, University of California, San Diego
Memory and the Diasporic Imagination: Reading Vietnamese
Anticommunism in “Cultural” Spaces
Cam Vu, University of Southern California
Diasporic Aesthetic, Memory, and Emotion: Reading the Visual in the Films
of Tran Anh Hung
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17.8 | Struggles for Citizenship
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | Field Room
Chair: Monisha Das Gupta, University of Hawai’i
Lynn Fujiwara, University of Oregon
The Politics of Removal: The Cambodian Repatriation Agreement, Forced
Deportations, and Family TraumaWomen’s and Gender Studies
Hummy Song, Harvard University
Beyond the Pale: Rethinking American Concepts of Whiteness Through
Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922)
Estella Habal, San Jose State University
The Filipino “Organic Intellectual” In San Francisco’s International Hotel
and Gran Oriente Masonic Lodge
Ma Vang, University of California, San Diego
The Refugee Soldier Figure: Toward a Critical Perspective on Hmong
Refugees
17.9 | Circum-pacific Mobilizations and Countermobilizations: from
Chicago and the Delta South to the Asia Pacific
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | Pullman Room
Chair: Lok Siu, New York University
Discussant: Gayatri Gopinath, New York University
Tammyko Robinson, San Francisco Art Institute
The New Deal for the Asia Pacific Region
Terry Park, University of California, Davis
Endangered Acts, Dangerous Species: Michael Joo’s Salt Transfer Cycle
Sudarat Musikawong, Willamette University
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Thai Linkages: Diasporas in the US
17.10 | Midwest Writers Showcase
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM | CC 12 C
Readings by Midwest writers Susan T. Layug, Bryan Thao Worra, and
Timothy Yu
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
18.2 | Roundtable
Reflections on the Virginia Tech Shootings: One Year Later
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 12 B
Chair: Sylvia Chong, University of Virginia
Larry Hajime Shinagawa, University of Maryland
Yoonmee Chang, George Mason University
Douglas Lee, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
18.3 | Roundtable
Teaching Race, Seeing Race: Using Popular Culture as Pedagogical
Tool - A Roundtable Discussion
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 12 C
Chair: Lynn Itagaki, University of Montana-Missoula
Jinny Huh, University of Vermont
Crystal Anderson, University of Kansas
June Chung, DePaul University
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18.4 | Roundtable
Double Roundtable--Asian American Studies in the Big Ten and
Beyond: CIC Collaborations in Research, Program-building, and
Teaching
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 12 D
Chair: Josephine Lee, University of Minnesota
Judy Wu, Ohio State University
Andrea Louie, Michigan State University
Ji-Yeon Yuh, Northwestern University
18.5 | Special Program
Visual Arts Showcase - Visual Identity: School of the Art Institute of
Chicago
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 11 B
The multimedia performance and installation, organized by Korean
students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will explore the
comprehensive identity of participants by presenting conceptual and
experimental new media artworks. The concept of identity can be
viewed and characterized by the notions of territory and boundaries,
which can be figuratively translated into visual objects of lines and
strings. This show provides the internally and externally or domestically and internationally divergent perspectives of ethnic identity
defined by and exhibited in diverse media such as TV, film, and video,
while questioning various Asian and American viewpoints.
18.6 | Roundtable
Empowering Communities through Documentary Video: Using
Digital Media to Record Asian American Experience, Educate
Students, and Close the Academic/Community Divide
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 23 A
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Chair: Keith Camacho, University of California, Los Angeles
William Gow, Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
James Lee, University of California, Los Angeles
Vivian Wong, University of California, Los Angeles
Preeti Sharma, University of California, Los Angeles
18.7 | For a New Century: Emerging Voices in Contemporary Poetry
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 23 B
Jennifer Chang, University of Virginia
Lee Herrick, Fresno City College
Joseph O. Legaspi, Co-Founder of Kundiman
Purvi Shah, Executive Director of Sakhi for South Asian Women
Sun Yung Shin, College of St. Catherine
Curated by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, University of Southern California
18.8 | Round Table/Brown Bag: South Asian Hip Hop
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 23 C
Chair: Nitasha Sharma, Northwestern University
South Asian Hip Hop artists from the previous night’s event,
Hiphopistan, will be on hand to discuss their music, art, and craft.
Meet these artists and hear their views on how they see themselves,
their politics, and their chosen form of expression.
18.9 | Community Roundtable
Special Focus on the Heartland’s Center --- Chicago’s Asian
American Communities
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Pullman Room
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Organizer/Moderator: Yvonne Lau, DePaul University
Given the unique history and demographics of Chicago’s Asian
American populations, community-based social service and advocacy
organizations have taken a strong lead in empowering local ethnic
enclaves. Leaders from Chicago’s diverse Asian American communities will be highlighting their strategies and goals in building coalitions
and serving their constituencies amidst the politics of race and class
in Chicago. Invited organizations include: Asian American Institute,
Asian Human Services, Cambodian Association of Illinois, Chinese
American Service League, Chinese Mutual Aid Association, Filipino
Civil Rights Advocates, Indo-American Center, Japanese American
Citizens League, Japanese American Service Committee, Korean
American Community Services, South Asian American Policy Research
Institute, South-East Asia Center, and Vietnamese Association of
Illinois.
18.10 | Film Screening
Center for Asian American Media presents WET SAND
12:00PM-1:30PM | Field Room
Filmmaker Dai Sil Kim-Gibson explores the aftermath of the 1992 LA
Civil Unrest in her film WET SAND. Her groundbreaking 1993 documentary SA-I-GU stands as one of the crucial texts to offer a Korean
American perspective on the events surrounding the Los Angeles
riots – an invaluable discussion tool for promoting better understanding of the socio-political factors that played into one of the grimmest
moments in United States race relations. With WET SAND, KimGibson revisits Los Angeles to learn what changes have occurred since
then, only to discover that living conditions have deteriorated and that
few remedies have been administered to the communities most stricken. Through interviews with a multi-ethnic set of first-hand witnesses,
this essential follow-up probes deeper into the racial and economic
issues that not only shaped the climate of 1992 Los Angeles, but continue to affect all Americans today.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 18
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM
19.1| Asian Americans in the Midwest and South
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | CC 12 A
Chair: Daniel Bronstein, Georgia State University
Daniel Bronstein, Georgia State University
Two Generations of Chinese American Women in Augusta, Georgia, 19151970
Huping Ling, Truman State University
Voices of the Heart: Asian American Women on Immigration, Work, and
Family
John Jung, California State University
Isolated Chinese Boys And Their White Mentors: Letters From John Jung
(1929-1936) and To John Jung (1952-1956)
19.2 | Asian American Legalities
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | CC 11 B
Chair: Diana Yoon, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Diana Yoon, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Law’s Exclusions: War, Migration, and Structures of Rightlessness
Neil Gotanda, Western State University College of Law
Examining Legal Categorizations of Asian Americans
Victor Jew, University of Wisconsin Madison
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The U.S. Immigration Service in the Midwest and its Handling of New
Exclusion Subjects: White Women who Married Chinese, 1920s-1940s
19.3 | Filipino American Nationalisms
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | Field Room
Chair: Emily Ignacio, University of Washington
Hee-Jung Serenity Joo, University of Manitoba
America Is in the Heart, or Kalamazoo, Michigan: The Country and the City
in the Works of Bienvenido Santos
Arleen de Vera, State University of New York, Binghamton
Diaspora Politics: Filipino American Nationalists Critique the Cold War
Audrey Wu Clark, University of California at Berkeley
Bursting the Heart of Democracy: The Politics of Nonlinear Temporality in
Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart
Gina Velasco, University of California at Santa Cruz
Embodying the Nation: Gendered Narratives, Heteronormativity, and
Diasporic Nationalisms
19.4 | Asian American Curricular Initiatives on Urban Campuses:
Impact on Student Consciousness
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | CC 23 C
Chair: Sandra Yamate, American Bar Association, Polychrome
Publishing
Madhulika Khandelwal, Queens College, CUNY
Asian American Identity Formation on Diverse College Campuses
Yvonne M. Lau, DePaul University
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Searching for Self and “Asian American” Urban and Heartland
Jean Wu, Tufts University
Community-based Asian American Curriculum, Pedagogy and Research:
Opportunities, Challenges and Effective Practices
19.5 | Asian American Males: Memes and Masculinities
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | CC 23 A
Chair: Valerie Soe, San Francisco State University
Discussant: Lawrence Hashima, California State University, Long
Beach
Valerie Soe, San Francisco State University
Snapshot: Six Months Of The Korean American Male
Mitchel Wu, San Francisco State University
Contemporary Golden Warriors: The Racial Formation and Masculine
Affirmation of Asian and Asian American Male Athletes
Margaret Rhee, San Francisco State University
Man Made: Seung-Hui Cho and the Deconstruction of Asian American
Masculinity and Violence
19.6 | Asian American Avant-gardism
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | CC 12 D
Chair: Dorothy Wang, Williams College
Joseph Jeon, University of San Diego
I Heart Yoko Ono: The Avant Garde, Hatred, and the New Yellow Peril
Warren Liu, Bryn Mawr College
The ‘’Unclassifiable’’ Text: Shanxing Wang’s Mad Science in Imperial City
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Mayumi Takada, Bryn Mawr College
The Japanese Heart in the Modern: Politicizing Yone Noguchi’s The
American Diary of a Japanese Girl
19.7 | Asian America Performs/ Performing Asian America
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | CC 23 B
Chair: Jeffrey Santa Ana, Dartmouth College
Jennifer Chan, San Francisco State University/Sonoma State University
The Fantastic Return of the United Brothers: Chang and Eng Bunker Perform
Asian America
Dom Magwili, California State University, Long Beach
Filipinos in New Orleans: From History to Pirate Musical to Mythos’ Har!
Miho Matsugu, DePaul University
Kawakami Sadayakko: Reconstructing Geisha in Chicago at the Turn of the
19th Century
Mark Villegas, University of California, Los Angeles
Hip Hop Mestizaje: Racialization, Resonance, and Filipino American
Knowledge of Self
19.8 | Postwar Japanese Americans: Surviving Incarceration,
Surviving Resettlement
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | CC 12 B
Chair: Greg Robinson, L’Université du Québec à Montréal
Mae Ngai, Columbia University
Postwar Japanese Americans: Surviving Incarceration, Surviving
Resettlement
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Greg Robinson, L’Université du Québec à Montréal
The First Redress? Nisei Activists and the Evacuation Claims Act
Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center,
CUNY, Emerita
Recovery and Hidden Injuries: Wartime Incareration and Japanese American
Lives
Mike Masatsugu, Towson State University
Japanese American Resettlement and Articulations of Interracial Solidarity
and Hierarchy in Postwar Chicago
19.9 | Gendered Concerns: Women and Feminisms in Asian America
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | CC 12 C
Chair: Judy Wu, Ohio State University
Karen Kuo, Arizona State University
US Feminisms within a Transnational Asian Imaginary: Baroness Ishimoto
Shidzue’s Facing Two Ways
Kyoko Kishimoto, St. Cloud State University
Critiquing the Rhetoric of Safety in Feminist Pedagogy: Women of Color
Offering an Account of Ourselves
19.10 | EOC: Alternative Spaces in Asian America
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | Pullman Room
Chair: Jennifer Ho, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Paul Lai, University of St. Thomas
Vienna Teng, Anime Music Videos, and Asian American Audiovisual
Identities on YouTube
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C. N. Le, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Virtually Asian: The Social Construction of Identity Through Internet Media
Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Constituting Cambodia America: Virtual Memorials and Genocidal
Remembrance
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
20.1 | Mega Session
The Heart(land) of Asian American Studies: Approaches in the
Midwest
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | CC 12 A & B
Chair: Pawan Dhingra, Oberlin College
Victor Jew, University of Wisconsin Madison
Asian American Studies and Critical Regionalism: The Midwest as the Site of
Racialized Governmentalities
Erika Lee, University of Minnesota
Making Asian American History in the Midwest
Mark Chiang, University of Illinois at Chicago
Asian American Studies Among the Cornfields: From Community Control to
Cultural Capital
The role of geography within Asian American Studies has been problematized at least since the founding of the “East of California” consortium. Yet, the “Heartland” often remains represented as a homogenous space. The panelists discuss how the growth in the number of
both Asian Americans and Asian American Studies programs in the
Midwest impacts the dominant paradigms and teachings of the field at
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20.2| Emerging from Neglect: Asian American Art History
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | CC 23 C
Chair: Gordon H. Chang, Stanford University
Gordon H. Chang, Stanford University
Asian American Art and Asian American History
Mark D. Johnson, San Francisco State University
Asian American Visual Art and Culture in San Francisco, 1850-1940
Sharon Spain, Stanford University
The Asian American Artists Biographical Survey Project
20.3| Filipin@” is in the Heart: Filipin@ Scholars/hip Activism at
the Turn of the 21st Century
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | CC 23 B
Chair: Rowena Robles, Loyola Marymount University
Evelyn Rodriguez, University of San Francisco
Kritikal!: Possibilities for Filipin@ Studies in the New Millennium
Eleonor Castillo, Filipino American Educators’ Association of
California
Local and Global Communities, Educators, and the Filipino Language
Movement in California
Dina Maramba, State University of New York at Binghamton
No classes about us….we aren’t given any respect!’: Filipin@ American
College Students’ Reflections on Curriculum, Faculty and Identity
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20.4| Routes of Asian American Literature
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | CC 11 B
Chair: Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota
Xiwen Mai, University of Michigan
An Inspiration for New Asian American Poetry?
Misun Dokko, University of Maryland
Limits and Margins of Asian American Critique: A Reading of Lyotard and
Tropic of Orange
Hongmei Sun, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Monkey King and the Performance of Racial Identity in Gene Yang’s
American Born Chinese
Gina Gemmel, The Ohio State University
“People Know Me Here:” Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life and Reader
Empathy
20.5| Cold War Crossings
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | CC 23 A
Chair: Madeline Hsu, University of Texas
Meredith Oda, University of Chicago
Orienting San Francisco: Japanese Americans Bring Japan Across the Pacific
Arissa Oh, University of Chicago
GI Joes and the Kids of Korea
Ellen Wu, Indiana University
The Cold War, Hawaiian Statehood, and the Construction of the Model
Minority
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20.6 | Specters of Colonialism
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | CC 12 D
Chair: Rhacel Parrenas, University of California, Davis
SimeonMan, Yale University
Postcolonial Hauntings and the Burden of Rights: The Case of Filipino
Veterans and their Struggle for Redress
Jose Capino, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Not) Searching for My Father: Amerasians and Myths of Decolonization
in Philippine Cinema
Susan Moynihan, State University of New York, Buffalo
Colonial Hauntings and Affective Displacement: Heinz Insu Fenkl’s
Memories of My Ghost Brother
Michael Oishi, University of Washington
Colonizing Contagion: Literary Containment and Imperial Biopolitics in
Narratives of Kaluaiko’olau
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
21. 1 | Theatre: A-Squared Theater Workshop presents a staged
reading of excerpts from “The Wind Cries Mary” by Philip Kan
Gotanda
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Pullman Room
A reworking of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, The Wind Cries Mary
explores timeless themes of power and gender politics set against
the backdrop of San Francisco’s rock scene and the Civil Rights
Movement. Philip Kan Gotanda transforms Ibsen’s “Hedda” into
“Eiko,” a Japanese American woman of vast gifts and intelligence
burdened by the constraints of gender and tradition in 1968.
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A-Squared Theatre Workshop is a new Chicago-based collective
which aims to create an artistic environment of risk taking and
growth for Asian-American theater artists. A-Squared will produce
The Wind Cries Mary in the summer of 2008. For more information,
visit: http://myspace.com/asquaredtheaterworkshop.
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
21.2 | Center for Asian American Studies at the University of
Texas, Austin Reception
6:00PM- 7:30PM | Prairie Center Lobby
Join us in celebrating the stabilization and growth of the Center for
Asian American Studies at UT Austin and explore the institutional
and intellectual possibilities of locating Asian American Studies in
Texas and the south. We will be honoring the AAS pioneers, Him
Mark Lai and Sucheng Chan, with a brief ceremony heralding the
publication of Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture
(Temple University Press, 2008) which was co-edited by Sucheng in
honor of Him Mark. We will also be congratulating Patrick Rosal,
a lecturer in English at UT, for receiving the AAAS Poetry Award
for My American Kundiman (Persea Books) and Eiichiro Azuma, for
receiving a Harrington Fellowship to conduct research at UT during
2008-09.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 19
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
23.1 Caucus Meetings
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
Filipino American
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | CC 12 A
Korean American
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | CC 12 B
South Asian
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | CC 12 C
Mixed Race
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | CC 12 D
Southeast Asian
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | CC 11 B
SATURDAY, APRIL 19
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
24.1 | Fashioning Globalization/Globalizing Fashion
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 12 A
Chair: Nhi Lieu, University of Texas, Austin
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Cornell University
Mao Chic, or Fashion and Orientalism in an Age of Globalization
Minh-ha Pham, New York University
How Red, White, and Blue Became the New Black: The Fashion Industry as
an Agent of Liberal Democracy
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Mimi Nguyen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Fashioning “Women’s Rights as Human Rights” in a Time of War and
Terror
24.2 | Working in the “fields” of Filipina/o and Asian American
Studies: FANHS, Public History, and Academia
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 12 B
Chair: Lily Mendoza, University of Denver
Discussant: Therese Monberg, Michigan State University
Joan May Cordova, Drexel University
The Impact of a FANHS Intergenerational Oral History Project
Emily Lawsin, University of Michigan
pre-SERVING Oral HERstories: Filipina/os in Michigan, 1900-1955
Dawn Mabalon, San Francisco State University
Working in the “fields” of Filipina/o and Asian American Studies:
FANHS, Public History, and Academia
24.3 | Korean American Immigration, Family, and Communities:
Integrating Theories, Community-Based Research, and the
University to Influence Practice and Policy Approaches
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 12 C
Chair: Barbara Kim, California State University, Long Beach
Gabriel Oh, California State University, Long Beach
Bioimmigration: A method to explaining the Korean American Wealth Gap
Hyepin Im, Korean Churches for Community Development
Understanding Korean Americans and the Wealth Gap: Developing
Community Partnerships for Research and Policy Changes
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Ellie Hong, California State University, Long Beach
Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Intergenerational Expectations, and
Retirement Planning
24.4 | Multiracial Studies: From the Margins to the Mainstream
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 12 D
Chair: Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara
Rudy P. Guevarra, University of California, Berkeley
Teaching Multiplicity at UCSB: Asian American Studies
Rasmia Kirmani, Milano New School for Social Research
Don’t Be Moved: Overcoming Opposition to Mixed Race Research in the
Academy
Lily Anne Y. Welty, University of California, Santa Barbara
Isolated and Empowered: Mixed Race People, Konketsuji, in Post-War
Japan
24.5 | Through Thick and Thin: Asian American Arts, Chicago
Style
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 11 B
Chair: Laura Kina, DePaul University
Discussant: Camilla Fojas, DePaul University
Laura Kina, DePaul University
Art, Audience, Activism and Identity: Asian American, Hapa, or Mixed
Heritage?
Larry Lee, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Grassroots in the Backyard: From DestinAsian to FAAIM, Asian American
visual arts and film in Chicago
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Anida Yoeu Ali (Esguerra), School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Cultural Resistance thru Collective Creations: I Was Born With Two
Tongues, Mango Tribe, YAWP!, and the Asian American Artists
Collective - Chicago
24.6 | The Politics of Photography
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 23 A
Chair: Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, Rutgers University
Marites Mendoza, University of Washington
Picturing the Philippine National Subject
Malini Schueller, University of Florida
Challenging White Space Through Ethnic Performance: The photographs
of Tseng Kwong Chi
Seo-Young Chu, Harvard University
The DMZ and Other Ghostly “Heartlands” of Korean America
24.7 | Asian American Political Activities
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 23 B
Chair: Jaya Soni, University of Texas, Austin
Darrell Hamamoto, University of California, Davis
Foreign Money: Campaign Finance & the Strange Death of Ron Brown
Vincent Pham, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Real Americans, Imagined Communities: YouTubing Asian American
Political Empowerment”
Kristen Lee, Michigan State University
Media’s Raciailzation of Democratic Presidential hopeful and Hawai’i
native Senator Barack Obama: A Quantative Analysis of Michigan and
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Hawaiian Print and Radio Media
24.8 | Teaching about Social Problems in Asian America: Bringing
Together the Community and the Classroom
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | CC 23 C
Chair: Edith Chen, California State University, Northridge
Mai Nhung Le, San Francisco State University
Hurricane Katrina and Vietnamese Americans: Community Service Learning
in the Gulf Coast
Loan Dao, University of California, Berkeley
Media Action! Connecting Classroom & Community Through Film
Grace Jeanmee Yoo, San Francisco State University
Working with those Formerly Incarcerated: Educating Students, Scholars
and Community on Incarceration Issues Impacting Asian Americans
24.9 | Rethinking the “Immigrant” in Asian America
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Field Room
Chair: Chandan Reddy, University of Washington, Seattle
Seema Sohi, University of Colorado, Boulder
Anti-Colonialism, Anti-Radicalism, and the “Hindu Menace” in the San
Francisco and Chicago “Conspiracy” Trials, 1917-8
Ji-Young Um, University of Washington, Seattle
Imperial Graveyards and Florentine Gardens: The Incomplete Narrative of
the Nisei Soldier
Caroline H. Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The “Oriental” and the American Race Problem in Gunnar Myrdal’s The
American Dilemma and Asian Drama
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24.10 Shifting Selves, Forming Identities
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Pullman Room
Chair: Junaid Rana, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Meaghan Kozar, Michigan State University
Inauthentically Authentic: Deconstructing Representations of “Real”
Asian Americans in Shawn Wong’s American Knees
Brian Lam, California State University, Long Beach
Does Self-Consistency Matter? An Examination of Self-consistency and
Sense of Community among Vietnamese Americans
Manashi Ray, Michigan State University
I can talk Baseball with an average American and Cricket with an Indian!!
The Construction of Symbolic Identity by Asian Indian Immigrants in the
United States
SATURDAY, APRIL 19
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
25.1| New Dimensions in Religion and Asian American Studies
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | Field Room
Chair: Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University
Talaya Sin, San Francisco State University
Cambodian American Parenting, Religion, and Educational Attainment
Regina Lagman, UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center/San Francisco
State University
Spiritual Healing and Religious Practice of Filipina Immigrant Breast
Cancer Survivors
Mimi Khuc, University of California, Santa Barbara
Buddhism in (Asian) America: Race, Metaphysical Religion, and Thich
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Nhat Hanh
ChrissyLau, University of California, Santa Barbara
Asian American Caucus Movement: No More Bananas in the Church!
25.2| From the Far East to the Midwest: Asian Adoptees in the
Heartland and Beyond
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 23 A
Chair: Jiannbin Lee Shiao, University of Oregon and Dartmouth
College
Discussant: Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara
Kathleen Leilani Ja Sook Bergquist, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The Color of Desire: Race, Gender, and Sexuality for Asian Adoptees
AndreaLouie, Michigan State University
Consuming Culture: Creating Birth Cultures for Chinese American Adoptees
Jiannbin Lee Shiao, University of Oregon and Dartmouth College
I didn’t think it would start a new chapter: Ethnic Explorations in Adulthood
among Korean Adoptees
25.3| Performing Race, Troubling Place
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 12 B
Chair: Sean Metzger, Duke Univeristy
Sean Metzger, Duke University
Fashioning Home Through the Many Worlds of Suzie Wong
Josephine Lee, University of Minnesota Asian American Moments of Infelicity: A Meditation on “Acting” and
“Covering”
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Emily Roxworthy, University of California, San Diego
Kabuki Girls in Arkansas: Interculturalism and Segregation at the Rohwer
Internment Camp
25.4| At the Heart of the Asian American Movement: Third World
Radicalism, Internationalism, and Interracialism
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 12 D
Chair: Daryl Maeda, University of Colorado
Discussant: Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington
Diane Fujino, University of California, Santa Barbara
Does Anyone Study the Asian American Movement Anymore? A
Historiographical Analysis
May Fu, Colorado State University
The Intersectionality of Asian American Radicalism
Daryl Maeda, University of Colorado
“Fighting Side by Side with other Third World People”: Gidra and the
Emergence of Asian American Identity
25.5| Global Heartlands: Narratives of Desire and
Disidentification
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 11 B
Chair: Karen Inouye, Indiana University
Iyko Day, Mount Holyoke College
Heartlands of Desire: Melancholic Citizenship in Tseng Kwong Chi’s and
Nikki S. Lee’s Photography
Chris Lee, University of British Columbia
The Shame of Diaspora
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Asha Nadkarni, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Reproducing Feminism in The Yellow Wallpaper and Jasmine
Wendy Allison Lee, Brown University
Return to Gender: Troubling “Asian American” Identity in Gish Jen’s
Mona in the Promised Land
25.6| The Chicago School: Out of the Heartland and into Hawai’i
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 12 C
Chair: JonathanOkamura, University of Hawai’i
Discussant: Henry Yu, University of California, Los Angeles
Davianna McGregor, University of Hawai’i
Un-melting 20th Century Myths of the Chicago School about Hawai’i
Ibrahim Aoude, University of Hawai’i
From Assimilation to Ethnic Reality: The Chicago School and the Hawai’i
Experience
Jonathan Okamura, University of Hawai’i
Uchinanchu, Ilchom Ose, Kanaka Maoli, and Local: Constructing
Difference in Hawai’i
Anthony Shiu, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Behind Our Masks: The Chicago School and Asian American Futures
25.7| New Frameworks for Community Organizing in Asian
American Studies
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 23 B
Chair: Soo Ah Kwon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Eric Tang, Harvard University
New Immigrants/Radical Traditions
Soo AhKwon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Culture of Politics of Asian American Youth
Tuyet Le, Asian American Institute of Chicago
Organizing and Advocacy in Chicago’s Asian American Community
25.8| Mapping the Asian Body through American Cultural Media
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 23 C
Chair: Eun Joo Kim, University of Minnesota
Eun Joo Kim, University of Minnesota
The Technologies of Racial Passing in Die Another Day
Na-RaeKim, University of Minnesota
Challenging the Racialized Body in American Media
Tim August, University of Minnesota
Heartland’s Habeas Corpus: Shaping the Vietnamese American Body in
Stealing Buddha’s Dinner
25.9 | Activisms and Experiences: Asian American Youth and
Students
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | CC 12 A
Chair: Shalini Shankar, Northwestern University
Sean Arayasirikul, University of California, Los Angeles
Holding the Line: Queering Asian America
Michelle Samura, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dilemmas of Race & Space for Asian American Students in Higher
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Education
Jean-Paul deGuzman, University of California, Los Angeles
“We’re not just going to sit in the background and pick rice!”:
Counternarratives, Resistance, and Asian Americans at Suburban Catholic
High School
Jennifer Chung, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sighting Asian/American Student Activisms in the “Heartland”
25.10 | Theorizing the Heart: Tropes for Asian American
Methodologies
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM | Pullman Room
Chair: Gary Okihiro, Columbia University
Elda Tsou, St. John’s University
Reading the Heart in Okada’s No-No Boy: A Trope for an Asian Americanist
Methodology
Jean J. Kim, Dartmouth College
Citizen’s Quarters, Boarding Houses, and Family Homes: The Gendered and
Racial Architecture of Plantation Labor, 1918-1938
Alia C. Y. Pan, University of California, Berkeley
Wasted Labor and Wanton Desire: The Absent Mother in Lois-Ann
Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging
SATURDAY, APRIL 19
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
26.1 | Roundtable
After the Killing Fields: Rebuilding & Renewal
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 23 C
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Chair: Charles Daas, Cambodian American Heritage Museum
Charles Daas, Cambodian American Heritage Museum
Leon Lim, Cambodian American Heritage Museum
26.2 | Roundtable
What’s Asian America got to Do With It”: Teaching and Program
Building in the Heartland and Beyond
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 12 B
Chair: Denise Cruz, Indiana University-Bloomington
Karen Inouye, Indiana University, Bloomington
Shelley Lee, Oberlin College
Lynn Itagaki, University of Montana-Missoula
Julia Lee, University of Texas, Austin
Mimi Nguyen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Teresa Swartz, University of Minnesota
26.3 | Roundtable
The Southeast Asian American Community in Sacramento, California
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 12 C
Chair: Gregory Mark, California State University, Sacramento
Farm Saelee, California State University, Sacramento
Jeanine Her, California State University, Sacramento
Sue Her, California State University, Sacramento
Chao Vang, California State University, Sacramento
Doug Tran, California State University, Sacramento
26.4 | Roundtable
Asian American Studies in the Big Ten and Beyond: CIC collaborations in Research, Program-building, and Teaching
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 12 D
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Chair: Erika Lee, University of Minnesota
Cindy I-Fen Cheng, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Mai Na Lee, University of Minnesota
Bich Minh Nguyen, Purdue University
26.5 | Literary Reading: Kali Plomin, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Sugi
Ganeshananthan and Desilit
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Pullman Room
DesiLit is pleased to present three South Asian diaspora stories of love
and marriage. Sugi Ganeshananthan will be reading from her debut
novel, Love Marriage.
26.6 | Film Screening: Films by Eric Byler
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 23 A
26.7 | Roundtable
The Chinese American Museum of Chicago - A New Asian American
Museum
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 11 B
Chair: John Rohsenow, Chinese American Museum of Chicago
Joseph Chiu, Chinese American Museum of Chicago
Andrea Stamm, Chinese American Museum of Chicago
Soo Lon M. Moy, Chinese American Museum of Chicago
Kim K. Tee, Chinese American Museum of Chicago
26.8 | Roundtable
Building a rights-based grassroots organization
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 12 A
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Chair: Jerry Clarito, Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and
Empowerment
Angela Mascarenas, Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and
Empowerment
Arnold deVilla, Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and
Empowerment
26.9 | Special Program
Round Table/Brown Bag: Chicago Asian American Arts featuring
Tatsu Aoki’s Asian American Jazz Festival
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Field Room
26.10 | Roundtable
Filipino Americans in Cinema and Media
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | CC 23 B
Chair: Jonathan Laxamana, Chicago Filipino American Film Festival
SATURDAY, APRIL 19
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM
27.1| Global Communities, CBOs, and the State
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | CC 12 A
Chair: Nadia Kim, Loyola Marymount University
Discussant: Edward Park, Loyola Marymount University
Barbara Kim, California State University, Long Beach
Rowena Robles, Loyola Marymount University
Khmer Girls in Action: Linking the Welfare Reform and Reproductive Health
Disparities in the Cambodian Community through the Participatory Action
Research Model
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Sharmila Rudrappa, University of Texas, Austin
Talking like the state: Cultural testimony and the problem of autonomy
Nadia Kim, Loyola Marymount University
Imperialist Racialization: South Korea, Korean Immigrants, and the US State
27.2| Intersections of US Empire: Asian Americans and Indigeneity
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | CC 23 A
Chair: Dean Saranillio, University of Michigan
Discussant: Andrea Smith, University of Michigan
Sora Han, University of California, Irvine
The New and Non of U.S. Bound Immigration
Manu Vimalassery, New York University
Race, Gender, and Railroad Colonialism: Chinese and Pawnee Wage Labor in
a Comparative Perspective
Dean Saranillio, University of Michigan
Conquest through Representation: Hawai’I at the 1893 Chicago World’s
Columbian Exposition
Karen J. Leong, Arizona State University
Intersections of US Empire: The Gila River Indian and Japanese American
Experiences of Relocation and Internment
27.3| Students Learning Through Teaching: Pedagogies of ASAM
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1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | CC 12 D
Chair: Sarah Park, Pomona College
Jessica Lee, Pomona College
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Shelly Song, Pomona College
Logan Narikawa, Claremont McKenna College
Lee Ann Wang, University of Michigan
27.4| Placing War at the Heart of Asian America: the Cultural
Politics of a Militarized Pacific Rim
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | CC 11 B
Chair: Daniel Kim, Heidi Kim, Northwestern University
Heidi Kim, Northwestern University
“We eat too much” Policies of Americanization in East of Eden and the Far
East
Daniel Kim, Brown University
Black Korea, 1950-1953
Christine Hong, UC Berkeley
“Texas Town”: U.S. Extraterritoriality and Trans-Pacific Literature of the
Camptown
Viet Nguyen, University of Southern California
On the Dead’s Own Terms: Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Visual Culture
27.5| Hmong American Cinema, Cinema in Hmong America:
Transnational and Transcultural Production and Consumption in
Diaspora
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | CC 23 C
Chair: Dia Cha, Saint Cloud University
Discussant: Ly Chong Thong Jalao, University of California, Santa
Barbara
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Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota
Bollywood, Not Hollywood: Alternative Globalities, Gendered Media, and
Hmong American Possibilities
Louisa Schein, Rutgers University
Situated Politics: Whistle-Blowing in Midwestern Hmog Media
Mitchell Ogden, University of Minnesota
Generation(s) of Diasporic Masculinities: Male Construction in Hmong
American Movies
27.6 | Mediating Genders
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | CC 23 B
Chair: Grace Yeh, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis
Obiso
John Labella, Princeton University
“Across the Pacific”: Masculinity and Hysteria in Charles Blaney’s
Melodrama of Empire
Grace Yeh, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
“A Perfect Comradeship”: Public and Queer Intimacies in Susan Choi’s
American Woman
Diem-My Bui, University of Illinois at Chicago
Discovering Vietnamese Womanhood: Heaven and Earth’s Journey to a
Mythic Past
Jim Okutsu, California State University, East Bay
Pop Rice Guys: Asian American Maleness in Popular Culture
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27.7| Learning Race in the United States: Immigration,
Transnationalism and Citizenship Politics
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | CC 12 B
Chair: Nitasha Sharma, Northwestern University
Shanshan Lan, Northwestern University
“Racism, that Big Word!”: How Chinese Immigrant Workers Learn about
Race in Bridgeport
Shuji Otsuka, Northwestern University
“He Stands Between Black and White”: Japanese Fulbrighters Navigate the
Color Line, 1949-1964
Hyunhee Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Making of Korean American Citizenship in New York City
Chuo Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Politics of Race and Space: An Inquiry into the Spatial Order of San
Francisco’s Chinatown
27.8| Where Do I Belong? Identity & Representation in Asian
American Literature for Youth
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | CC 12 C
Chair: Sarah Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lorraine Dong, San Francisco State University
Leaving Home, Finding Home: Asian New Kids on the Block in Children’s
Literature
Karla Lucht, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Finding Ourselves: Hapa Characters in Young Adult Fiction
Sarah Okner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Children of Internment: Representations of Japanese American Internment
in Children’s Fiction
Minjie Chen, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Chinese Dragons, World War II, and Identity
27.9| Terms of Engagement: Immigrants and Refugees Confront
the Political Arena
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | Pullman Room
Chair: Michael Liu, University of Massachusetts
Shauna Lo and Michael Liu, University of Massachusetts
Image in the Mirror: A Survey on Asian American Attitudes toward
Immigrants and Immigrant Rights
Carolyn Wong, Carleton College
Civic Engagement and Ethnic Political Culture in the Hmong American
Community
Mai Na M. Lee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
The Dragon Princess and the Orphan Boy: Setting the Foundation for
Assessing Hmong Women’s Political Role in History
SATURDAY, APRIL 19
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
28.1 | Mega Session
Beyond the Maiden Voyage: Exploring Queer Studies in Asian
America Now
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | CC 12 A & B
Chair: Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois at Urbana-
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Champaign
Dana Takagi, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa
Cruz
Gayatri Gopinath, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies,
New York University
It has been more than 15 years after embarking on a journey to establish queer studies research agenda within the field of Asian American
Studies. From Amy Ling convening a panel in the Ithaca conference
in the early nineties to pioneering anthologies by Rusell Leong, David
Eng and Alice Hom, Asian American Studies has been a hospitable
place for a systematic and sustained queering of knowledge formations. This mega-session/plenary is an attempt to take stock and look
back at the accomplishments, sift through the existing gaps and promising works, and chart a critical future for scholars in both fields.
28.2 | Racialized Spaces: City, State and Nation
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | CC 23 B
Chair: Mary Yu Danico, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona
Hannah Kim, University of Delaware
Death in Philadelphia, 1958: The Murder of In-Ho Oh and the Politics of
Cold War America
Gwen D’Arcangelis, University of California, Los Angeles
Bio-geographies of Asian/American Identity in a Post-9/11 Climate Robert Hayashi, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Whose Woods These Are: Hmong Hunters and the Wisconsin Land Ethic
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28.3 | Questioning Ethnicity: Contextualizing Korean American
Adoptees’ Narratives from a Korean Perspective
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | CC 12 D
Chair: Hyungji Park, Yonsei University
So-Hee Lee, Hanyang Women’s College
The Comparison of “Out-of-Place” Subjectivity in The Language of Blood
and First Person Plural
Duckhee Shin, Millersville University
Issues of Grief and Loss in First Person Plural and Somebody’s Daugther
Eunsook Koo, Cheongju University
Motherhood, History and Trauma in Korean American Adoptee Narrative
Seiwoong Oh, Rider University
Images of Korea in Korean Adoption Narratives
28.4 | Negotiating Identities: Ethnographic and Autoethnographic
Explorations of Race, Family, and Others
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | CC 11 B
Chair: Miki Crawford, Ohio University Southern Campus
Ayaka Yoshimizu, Simon Fraser University
Hello, War Brides: Heteroglossia, Counter-Memory, Auto/biographical Work
of Japanese War Brides
Stephanie L. Young, Ohio University
Half and Half: An (Auto)ethnography on Hybrid Identities in a KoreanAmerican Mother-Daughter Relationship
Sukanya Madana
Family Secrets, Cultural Silences: Examining Domestic Violence’s Impact on
South Asian-American Immigrants
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28.5 | Racialized Asian American Health and Mental Health
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | CC 23 A
Chair: Eliza Noh, California State University
Eliza Noh, California State University, Fullerton
Suicide and Depression among Asian American Women
Seunghye Hong, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Living in Ethnic Residential Enclaves: Is it Bad or Good Medicine for Asian
Americans’ Mental Health?
Chikako Nagai, California State University, Long Beach
Cultural and Spritual Competency: Working with Asians and Asian
Americans
28.6 | Collaborative Research for Community Empowerment
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | CC 12 C
Chair: Theresa Mah, University of Chicago
Padma Rangaswamy, South Asian American Policy & Research
Institute
The Oral History Project: Storytelling as a Tool for Community
Empowerment
K. Sujata, South Asian American Policy & Research Institute
Health Care for All: Common Concerns & Special Needs
Ann Kalayil, South Asian American Policy & Research Institute
Devon Avenue: Redefining Community & Revitalizing a Neighborhood
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SATURDAY, APRIL 19
5:15 PM – 6:00 PM
29.1 | AAAS General Business Meeting | Pullman Room
SATURDAY, APRIL 19
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
30.1 | AAAS Awards Banquet
7:00 - PM - 10:00 PM | Three Happiness Restaurant
The Association for Asian American Studies invites you to the closing banquet and awards ceremony. Community, Lifetime, and Book
Awards will be given. Please join us at Three Happiness Chinese
Restaurant, 2130 S. Wentworth Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616.
END OF CONFERENCE
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Index of
Participants
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A
Accapadi, Mamta
Achanzar, Helene
Acosta, Aide
Ahmad, Shahzad
Almiron, Johanna
Alton, Jeffrey Anderson, Crystal
Aoude, Ibrahim
Aparicio, Ana
Arayasirikul, Sean
Arnaldo, Constancio
Au, Vanessa
August, Tim
Avedano, Catherine
16.1
9.5
10.9
7.8
8.5
9.3
18.3
25.6
9.5
25.9
10.9
17.7
25.8
17.5
B
Bascara, Victor
Bautista,Mark
Bayoumi, Moustafa
Bergquist, Kathleen Bernabe, Jan
Boggs, Grace Lee
Bonus, Rick
Bow, Leslie
Bronstein, Daniel
Buckley, Roger N.
Buenavista, Tracy
Bui, Diem-My
Bui, Long
Burns, Debbie Mieko
17.3
11.2
8.1
25.2
17.2
12.2
10.9, 17.6
10.6
19.1
9.3
11.2
27.6
17.7
1.1
C
Cacho, Lisa Marie
Camacho, Keith Lujan Capino, Jose
Carlson, Janet Caronan, Faye Christine Castillo, Eleonor
9.5
7.2, 18.6
20.6
9.1
7.2
20.3
Cha, Dia
Chan, Jennifer
Chandrasekara, Ray
Chang, Benji
Chang, Edward
Chang, Gordon H.
Chang, Jennifer
Chang, Kornel
Chang, Yoonmee
Chen, Carolyn
Chen, Edith
Chen, Minjie
Cheng, Cindy I-Fen
Chiang, Leo
Chiang, Mark
Chikamatsu, Nobuko
Chiu, Joseph
Chiu, Monica
Cho, Grace M.
Chong, Sylvia
Chou, Rosalind
Choy, Peggy Myo-Young
Chu, Seo-Young
Chun, Jennifer
Chung, Angie
Chung, Brian Su-Jen
Chung, Hyeyurn
Chung, Jennifer
Chung, June
Clarito, Jerry
Clark, Audrey Wu
Clutario, Genevieve
Cole, C.L.
Cordova, Joan May
Crawford, Miki
Cruz, Denise
7.8, 27.5
19.7
16.5
8.3
16.10
20.2
18.7
16.9
18.2
11.4
24.8
27.8
26.4
9.2
9.7, 20.1
10.7
26.7
9.6
17.4
17.4
10.1
16.3
24.6
16.8
10.5
8.5
7.1
25.9
18.3
26.8
19.3
10.9
11.3
24.2
28.4
26.2
D
Daas, Charles
Danico, Mary Yu
26.1
28.2
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Dao, Loan
D’Arcangelis, Gwen
Dariotis,Wei Ming
Das Gupta, Monisha
Dave, Shilpa
Day, Iyko
De Guia, Heather
de Vera, Arleen
de Villa, Arnold
deGuzman, Jean-Paul
Desai, Jigna
Dhingra, Pawan
Doi, Steven
Dokko, Misun
Domingo, Ligaya R.
Dong, Lan
Dong, Lorraine
Dubale, Aaditi
Duong, Lan
24.8
28.2
5.1, 10.7
17.8
16.2
25.5
9.7
19.3
26.8
25.9
20.4, 27.6
8.1, 20.1
7.10
20.4
19.8
9.6
27.8
9.7
8.4, 17.7
E
Ebreo, Angela
Em, Henry
Endo, Rachel
Espiritu,Augusto
16.1
16.10
8.3
10.10
F
Fa, Christina
Falkoff, Marc
Fedosik,Marina
Feeney, Paulette
Feng, Theodric
Fickle, Tara
Figueroa, Julie Lopez
Fojas, Camilla
Fu,May
Fujino, Diane
Fujiu, Jean
Fujiwara, Lynn
Furiya, Linda
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7.9
11.1
10.2
7.2
10.6
16.7
7.9
24.5
25.4
25.4
1.1
17.8
9.8
G
Gan, Jessi
Ganarelli, Laura
Gemmel, Gina
Geron, Kim
Gonzalez, Anna
Gonzalez, Vernadette
Gopinath, Gayatri
Gotanda, Neil
Gotanda, Philip Kan
Gow, William
Guevarra, Anna
Guevarra,Rudy P.
Gutierrez, Gitanjali
17.7
4.1
20.4
16.8
8.6
7.2
17.10, 28.1
19.2
21.1
18.6
8.2
24.4
11.1
H
Ha, Nina Ha, Thao
Habal, Estella
Hamako, Eric
Hamamoto, Darrell
Han, Ju Hui Judy
Han, Sora
Haniffa, Aziz
Hashima, Lawrence
Hasnain, Rooshey
Hayashi, Robert
Hayot, Eric
Hee-Jung, Joo
Her, Jeanine
Her, Sue
Herrick, Lee
Ho, Jennifer
Ho, Pensri
Hong, Christine
Hong, Ellie
Hong, Grace
Hong, Seunghye
Hsu, Madeline
11.6, 9.1
16.9
17.8
5.1
24.7
16.2
27.2
9.9
19.5
2.1
28.2
7.5
19.3
26.3
26.3
18.7
7.10, 10.7, 19.10
16.9
27.4
24.3
17.4
28.5
11.4, 20.5, Hsu, Ray
Hua, Julietta
Huang, Betsy
Huang, Suching
Huh, Jinny
Huping,Ling
Hye, Seung
21.2
9.5
7.3
17.3
11.4
18.3
9.1
16.10
I
Ignacio, Emily
Im, Hyepin
Imada, Adria
Inouye, Karen
Isaac, Allan
Itagaki, Lynn
Ito, Daisuke
19.3
24.3
16.6
25.5, 26.2
16.7, 7.2
18.3, 26.2
16.4
J
Jalao, Ly Chong Thong
Jeon, Joseph Jonghyun
Jerng, Mark
Jerng, Mark Chia-Yon
Jeung, Russell
Jew, Victor
Jiang, Yan
Johnson,Mark D.
Johnson, Robert
Joo, Hee-Jung Serenity
Joo, Rachael
Jun, Helen
Jung, John
Jung, Moon-Ho
27.6
7.5, 19.6
7.6
11.5
25.1
19.2
16.2
20.2
7.8
19.3
11.3
9.5
19.1
25.4
K
Kalayil, Ann
Kawamura, Yuniya
Kent, Wilson
Khandelwal, Madhulika
Khuc, Mimi
28.6
8.6
16.5
19.4
25.1
Kim, Barbara
Kim, Daniel
Kim, Eleana
Kim, Eun Joo
Kim, Hannah
Kim, Heidi
Kim, Hyunhee
Kim, Jean J
Kim, Jinah
Kim, Jodi
Kim, Ju Yon
Kim, Monica
Kim, Nadia
Kim, Na-Rae
Kim-Ju, Gregory
Kina, Laura
Kirmani,Rasmia
Kishimoto, Kyoko
Ko Robinson, Tammy
Kodama, Corinne
Koo, Eunsook
Kozar, Meaghan
Krishnan, Sandhya
Kudaligama, Viveka
Kumashiro, Kevin
Kuo, Karen
Kurashige, Scott
Kurien, Prema
Kwak, Min-Jung
Kwon, Soo Ah
Kwon Dobbs, Jennifer
24.3, 27.1
27.4
11.5
25.8
28.2
27.4
27.7
25.10
7.3, 9.5
17.4
7.1
16.10
27.1
25.8
7.9
24.5
24.4
19.9
17.9
16.1
28.3
24.10
16.1
8.3
1.1
19.9
12.2
8.1
16.9
25.7
7.6
L
Labella, John
Lagman, Regina
Lai, Paul
Lam, Brian
Lam, Kevin
Lan, Shanshan
Lau, Chrissy
27.6
25.1
9.1, 19.10
24.10
10.1
27.7
25.1
119
Lau, Yvonne
Lawsin, Emily
Laxamana, Jonathan
Layug, Susan T.
Le,C.N.
Le,Mai Nhung
Le,Tuyet
Lee, Chris
Lee, Daniel
Lee, Don
Lee, Erika
Lee, James Kyung-Jin
Lee, Jennifer Lee, Jessica
Lee, Jim
Lee, Josephine
Lee, Julia
Lee, Jung-Eun Janie
Lee, Kristen
Lee, Larry
Lee, Mai Na M.
Lee, So-Hee
Lee, Shelley
Lee, Sung-Ae
Lee, Wendy Allison
Legaspi, Joseph
Leong, Karen Leroy, Justin
Leventhal, Dana
Li, Chuo
Li, Yangling
Lien, Pei-te
Lieu, Nhi
Lim, Leon
Ling, Huping
Linmark, R. Zamora
Liu, Michael
Liu, Warren
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3.1, 18.9, 19.4
24.2
26.10
17.10, 18.1
19.10
24.8
25.7
25.5
16.7
12.1
20.1 , 26.4
10.8, 18.6
26.2
27.3
9.6
18.4, 25.3
10.6, 26.2
7.4
24.7
24.5
26.4, 27.9
28.3
26.2
10.2
25.5
18.7
16.4, 27.2
16.7
7.6
27.7
2.1
11.4
8.4, 24.1
26.1
19.1
9.11
27.9
16.3, 19.6
Lo, Marie
Lo, Shauna
Louie, Andrea
Lucht, Karla
17.2
27.9
18.4, 25.2
27.8
M
Mabalon, Dawn
Machida, Margo
Madana, Sukanya
Maeda, Daryl
Maeda, Wayne
Magsambol, Nicollette
Magwili, Dom
Mah, Theresa
Mai, Xiwen
Malabar, Chee
Man, Simeon
Manalansan IV, Martin F.
Mannur,Anita
Maramba, Dina
Margulies, Emily
Mariano, L. Joyce
Mark, Gregory
Masatsugu, Mike
Mascarenas, Angela
Matsugu, Miho McGregor, Davianna
Medina, Manuel
Mendoza, Lily
Mendoza, Marites
Mendoza, Victor
Metzger,Sean
Mimura,Glen
Mitchell, Cho Grace
Molina, Jonell
Monberg, Therese
Moon, Christina
Moon, Krystyn
Mortel, Darlene Marie E.
Moy, Soo Lon M.
Moynihan, Susan
24.2
17.2
28.4
25.4
7.9
17.5
19.7
28.6
20.4
14.1
20.6
28.1
10.6
20.3
10.4
8.2
7.9, 26.3
19.8
26.8
19.7
25.6
3.1
24.2
24.6
10.3
25.3
16.6
17.5
17.5
24.2
8.6
9.1
8.5
26.7
20.6
Mukherjee, Debjani
Muse, Erika
Musikawong, Sudarat
Myers, Kit
2.1
16.5
17.9
10.3
N
Nadkarni, Asha
Nagai, Chikako
Nakamura, Lisa
Nakamura, Masako
Nakano,Dana
Narikawa, Logan
Nayani, Farzana
Ng, Konrad
Ngai, Mae
Nguyen, Bich Minh
Nguyen, Mimi
Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Nievera,Melissa
Ninh, erin Khue
Nishi, Setsuko
Niwa, Paul
Noh, Eliza
25.5
28.5
17.3
7.1
16.4
27.3
5.1
9.9
19.8
26.4
24.1, 26.2
10.8, 27.4
11.2
16.3
19.8
7.4
28.5
O
Oda, Meredith
Ogden, Mitchell
Oh, Arissa
Oh, Gabriel
Oh, Seiwoong
Oh, Sookhee
Oishi, Michael
Okamura, Jonathan
Okihiro, Gary Y.
Okner, Sarah
Okutsu, Jim
Otsuka, Shuji
20.5
27.5
20.5
24.3
28.3
10.5
20.6
25.6
7.7, 25.10
27.8
27.6
27.7
P
Paik, A. Naomi
16.4
Pak, Jae Jin
2.1
Pan, Alia C Y
25.10
Park, Edward
27.1
Park, Hyungji
28.3
Park, Jin Young
16.8
Park, Josephine Nock-Hee7.5
Park, Julie
16.2
Park, Sarah (UIUC) 4.1, 11.5, 27.8
Park, Sarah (Pomona)
27.3
Park, Terry
17.9
Park, Nelson Kim
11.5
Parrenas, Rhacel
20.6
Patrick, Rahnee K.
2.1
Peché, Linda
8.4
Perillo, Jeffrey Lorenzo
8.5
Pfaelzer, Jean
7.10
Pham, Minh-ha
24.1
Pham, Vincent
24.7
Poblete, Juan E .
7.7
Poblete-Cross, JoAnna
9.6
Ponce, Joseph
9.1, 10.4
Ponferrada, Jeffery
11.2
Poon, Oiyan
8.3
Prebin, Elise
7.6
Pugh, Courtni
9.9
Pyon, Heekyong Teresa 8.3
R
Radhakrishnan, R.
Rana, Junaid
Rangaswamy, Padma
Raut, Anant
Ray, Manashi
Reddy, Chandan
Reddy, Raahi
Reddy, Vanita
Rekha, DJ
Reyes, Eric Estuar
Rhee, Margaret
7.7
24.10
28.6
11.1
24.10
24.9
16.8
10.4
14.1
8.6
19.5
121
Robinson, Greg
Robles, Rowena
Rodriguez, Evelyn
Rodriguez, Robyn
Rohsenow, John
Rola, Angela
Rossetti,Martin
Roxworthy, Emily
Rudrappa, Sharmila
Rzepka, Charles
7.10, 19.8
20.3, 27.1
20.3
16.8, 24.6
26.7
9.3
5.2
25.3
27.1
7.10
S
Sacramento, Jocyl
Saelee, Farm
Saephanh, Stacey
Samura,Michelle
Sandell, Jillian
Santa Ana, Jeffrey
Saranillio, Dean
Sarmiento, Charlyne
Schein, Louisa
Schildkraut, Nicky
Schlund-Vials, Cathy
Schueller, Malini
See, Sarita
Shah, Purvi
Shankar, Shalini
Sharma, Nitasha
Sharma, Preeti
Sheffer, Jolie
Shiao, Jiannbin Lee
Shibusawa, Naoko
Shilpa, Dave
Shin, Duckhee
Shin, Sun Yung
Shinagawa, Larry
Shiu, Anthony
Shrake, Eunai
Sin, Talaya
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17.5
26.3
7.9
25.9
7.3
16.7, 19.7
27.2
9.7
27.5
7.6
9.6, 19.10
24.6
17.2
17.1, 18.7
25.9
9.5, 18.8, 27.7
18.6
10.6
10.3, 25.2
7.5
16.2
28.3
4.1, 17.1
16.2, 18.2
25.6
10.1
25.1
Siu, Lok
Smith, Andrea
Soe, Valerie
Sohi, Seema
Sohn, Stephen Hong
Son, Juyeon
Song, Hummy
Song, Min
Song, Shelly
Soni, Jaya
Spain, Sharon
Spickard, Paul
Srikanth, Rajini
Srinivasan, Priya
Stamm, Andrea
Su, Karen
Suarez, Theresa
Sudhakar, Anantha
Suh, Seung Hye
Sujata, K.
Sulit, Marie-Therese
Sun, Hongmei
Sun, Yung Shin
Swartz, Teresa
Szymanek, Thomas
17.9
27.2
19.5
24.9
17.3
10.5
17.8
10.8
27.3
24.7
20.2
24.4, 25.2
11.1
16.6
26.7
9.7
11.6
10.4
16.1
28.6
8.2
20.4
4.1, 17.1, 18.7 26.2
10.5
T
Tajima-Pena, Renee
17.3
Tajitsu-Nash, Phil
9.9
Takada, Mayumi
19.6
Takagi, Dana
28.1
Takita-Ishii, Sachiko
16.4
Tang, Eric
9.7, 25.7
Tang, Jasmine Kar
9.1
Tasaka, Robyn
17.6
Taylor, Joy Takako
6.3
Tee, Kim K.
26.7
Teves, Stephanie Nohelani8.5
Thangaraj, Stan
Tintiangco-Cubales,
Allyson
Tajima-Pena, Renee
Tolentino, Cynthia
Tran, Doug
Tran, Vu T.
Trinidad,Alma
Tsou, Elda
Tu, Thuy Linh Nguyen
11.3
11.2, 17.6
17.3
17.4
26.3
9.3
10.7
25.10
24.1
U
Um, Ji-Young
24.9
V
Vang, Chao
Vang, Ma
Velasco, Gina
Villegas, Mark
Vimalassery, Manu
26.3
17.8
19.3
19.7
27.2
Võ, Linda Trinh
Vo, Dang Thuy
Vu, Cam
Vu, Roy
8.4, 10.4
17.7
17.7
8.4
9.9, 12.2
19.4
18.4, 19.9
19.5
10.1
19.3
Y
Yamamoto, Traise
10.8
Yamate, Sandra
19.4
Yan, Nancy
16.9
Yang, Caroline H.
24.9
Yang, Lingyan
7.7
Yeh, Grace
27.6
Yoeu, Ali (Esguerra)Anida24.5
Yoo, Grace Jeanmee
24.8
Yoon, Diana
19.2
Yoon, Seongho
10.7
Yoshimizu, Ayaka
28.4
Yoshino,William
1.1
You, Soo-Bin
10.6
Young, Stephanie L.
28.4
Yu, Henry
25.6
Yu, Timothy
9.4, 17.10
Yuh, Ji-Yeon
18.4
Z
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Wang, Chih-ming Wang, Dorothy Wang, Grace
Wang, Lee Ann Wang, Sunny Ching Hui
Welty, Lily Anne Y.
Williams, Tracyann
Wills, Jenny Hei Jun
Wilson, Kent
Wong, Carolyn
Wong, Vivian
Wong, Yutian
Worra, Bryan Thao
Wu, Ellen
Wu, Frank H.
Wu, Jean
Wu, Judy
Wu, Mitchel
Wu, Xiaolei
Wu, Clark Audrey
7.3
19.6
16.6
27.3
7.4
24.4
11.6
10.3
16.5
27.9
18.6
16.6
17.10
20.5
Zhou, Min
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KAYA PRESS
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artwork by Rich Hahn
THIS IS A BUST by Ed Lin “Take a risk, read this detective story...” — Shawn Wong
MOUTH by Lisa Chen “...wild, gorgeous, weird, often hip...” — Linh Dinh
AMERICA & OTHER POEMS by Ayukawa Nobuo
Come by our table to find out about conference discounts, events
with authors, forthcoming projects, and volunteering at Kaya.
R. Zamora Linmark will be signing books.
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MCCORMICK CONVENTION
CENTER CONFERENCE DINING
OPTIONS
Food Court
The Plate Room Food Court, located at
level 2.5 of the South building, offers an
interesting array of items available to
take on the run or to be enjoyed in the
adjacent seating area. Six food concepts
are available at this location, including
Little Italy, Antipasto Bar, Pacific Rim,
the American Grill, The Carvery, and
Fiesto Bravo.
Starbucks
Two full service Starbucks are located
in the Grand Concourse level 2.5 and
in Hall B (North Level Three). Cne
Starbuck’s ‘we proudly brew’ is located
on the 2nd floor of the Lakeside building.
Connie’s Pizza, located on level 2 of the
North building, provides a variety of
pastas, salads, and pizzas for carry-out,
dine-in, or delivery.
McDonald’s is located directly across
from Connie’s Pizza on level 2 of the
North building. This is a full service
operation, offering a wide selection for
dine-in or carry-out.
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