FALL 2007

SEPTEMBER 2006

Thursday, September 7, 2006. 2:00-4:00 PM, 1208 W. Nevada Street in Urbana: Asian American Cultural Center and Asian American Studies Joint Open House. Programming beings at 2:30 PM. Refreshments provided.

Friday, September 15, 2006. 1:00-2:00 PM, Asian American Cultural Center Lounge, 1210 W. Nevada Street in Urbana: Dr. Larry H. Shinagawa will give a talk, "From California to East of California: Observations on Asian American and Ethnic Studies." Dr. Shinagawa is the Director of Asian American Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland.

OCTOBER 2006

Thursday-Saturday, October 26-28, 2006. Bodies & Spectacles: a Conference on Asian American Performance. Organized by Esther Kim Lee and Yutian Wong. Click here for website.

NOVEMBER 2006

Monday November 6, 2006.12:00 Noon-1:00 PM. AACC Lounge. Shelley Lee will present a public lecture on ""The Contradictions of Cosmopolitan: Consuming the Orient at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and the International Potlatch Festival, 1909-1934." Dr. Lee is a postdoctoral fellow with Asian American Studies.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006. 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM. AACC Lounge. Lisa Nakamura Lecture: "Mixedfolks.com: 'Ethnic Ambiguity,' Celebrity Outing, and the Internet". Open to the public. Dr. Nakamura is Associate Professor in Speech Communication and Asian American Studies.

SPRING 2007

FEBRUARY 2007

Friday, February 2, 2007. Public presentation by Dr. Leslie Bow, Director, Asian American Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Time 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM. Asian American Cultural Center. Topic: Anxieties of the 'Partly Colored': Racial Interstitiality in the Jim Crow South.

Monday, February 5, 2007. Asian American Poetry Seminar. 11:30-12:30PM. Asian American Cultural Center. Timothy Yu (University of Toronto) and Guicang Li. Asian American poetry studies is enjoying a rebirth in the new millenium. Critical work that examines masculinity and transnationalism, politics and form, and history and culture breathes new light into Asian American Studies scholarship. Guicang Li and Timothy Yu will present thir work and participate in a timely dialogue about the future of work on Asian American poetry.

Wednesday, February 15, 2007. Stan Thangaraj, Recipient of the 2005-2006 Jeffrey S. Tanaka Asian American Studies Grant. 2:00-3:00 PM, Asian American Cultural Center. Topic: "Out of Bounds": Indo-Pak Basketball, the basketball court, and the politics of location, space, and place for the South Asian Diaspora- POSTPONED due to school closing.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007. Public Presentation by Dr. Jung-Sun Park, Associate Professor, Asian-Pacific Studies, California State University-Dominguez Hills (includes a class visit to AAS 250 Korean Americans). Time (tentative) 2:00-3:00 PM, Asian American Studies Conference Room. Topic: Korean American Youths and Trans-Pacific Cultural Flows.

MARCH 2007

Friday, March 2, 2007. Tenth Anniversary Celebrations of the Asian American Studies Program. 1:00-6:45 PM. Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum.

• Two panel sessions on the history of the Program and vision for the future.

• Keynote speaker K.W. (Kyung Won) Lee, award-winning investigative journalist and UIUC alumnus (MA, Journalism, c/o 1955)

• Light reception to follow.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007. Public Presentation by Dr. Eleana Kim, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Center for Korean Studies (includes a class visit to AAS 450 Korean Americans). 2:00-3:00 PM, Asian American Studies Conference Room. Topic: Reckoning Kinship, Recasting Diaspora: Transnational Adoptees Of and In the Korean Nation.

Thursday, March 15, 2007. Stan Thangaraj, Recipient of the 2005-2006 Jeffrey S. Tanaka Asian American Studies Grant. 2:00-3:00 PM, Asian American Cultural Center. Topic: "Out of Bounds": Indo-Pak Basketball, the basketball court, and the politics of location, space, and place for the South Asian Diaspora

APRIL 2007

Thursday, April 19, 2007. Public Presentation by Teresa Pyon, Graduate Student, Educational Policy Studies. Recipient of 2005-2006 Jeffrey S. Tanaka Asian American Studies Grant. 2:00-3:00 PM, Asian American Cultural Center. Topic TBA

Friday, Apri 27, 2007. Public Presentation by Dr. Madeline Hsu, Director, Center for Asian American Studies, University of Texas-Austin. Details TBA.