Asian American Studies (AAS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign was founded in 1997. It is currently one of the largest AAS programs in the Midwest, with 15 core and 10 affiliated faculty members. The program offers a minor in AAS and has proposed an interdisciplinary major (click here for more information about the proposal). The program has hosted such national conferences as the all-state conference on Asian American Studies in Illinois in conjunction with the Office of the Governor (Fall 2001), the East of California Conference (Fall 2002), the New Directions in Asian American Studies Symposium (Spring 2003), the Asian Americans and the Law Conference (Fall 2004), the Asian Diasporas Conference (Summer 2005), the Asian Pacific American Graduate Students Organization Conference (Spring 2006), and Bodies & Spectacles: a Conference on Asian American Performance (Fall 2006). We welcome you to come visit us and hope you will take advantage of what this exciting program offers.
PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS/NEWS
Tuesday, April 7, 2009. Balgopal Lecture on Human Rights and Asian Americans
7:00 - 9:30 PM, Alice Campbell Alumni Center Ballroom (West). Shamita Das Dasgupta public lecture and reception.
Thursday, April 9, 2009. Bianca Isaki public lecture
11:30 AM -12:30 PM, AACC Lounge. Title: What’s Right about Asian America?: “Colorblind” Conservatives and Asian Settler Colonialism in Hawai‘i
Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Shalini Shankar public lecture
12 noon - 1:00 PM, AACC Lounge. Title: Translating Lives, Translating Brands: Creating Asian American Advertising
Thursday, April 16, 2009. Anne Saw public lecture
12 noon - 1:00 PM, AACC Lounge. Tanaka Award Presentation. Title: Perceived Family and Community Contributors to Worry among Asian American College Students
Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Rebecca King-O'Riain public lecture
3:00 - 4:00 PM, AACC Lounge. Title: Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants
Thursday, April 30, 2009. Arissa Oh public lecture
12 noon- 1:00 PM, AACC Lounge. Title: A New Kind of Missionary Work: Christian Americanism and Korean Adoption
FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Spring 2009
Several AAS faculty have been recognized with fellowships for the 2009-2010 academic year. Soo Ah Kwon, Fiona Ngô, Mimi Nguyen, and Junaid Rana won the Humanities Research Board fellowships. Esther Kim Lee received the Illinois Program on Research in the Humanities Fellows. Martin Manalansan was awarded a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study.
Fall 2008
Kent Ono received the Charles H. Woolbert Research Award given by the National Communication Association for 2008. The award recognizes excellence in scholarship, specifically for a published essay that has continued to be influential and innovative over time. The award was given for his 1995 essay with John M. Sloop titled, “The Critique of Vernacular Discourse,” which was published in the journal, Communication Monographs, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 19-46.
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