September 25, 2008. Sunaina Maira public lecture.
Title: Missing: Muslim Youth, Dissenting Citizenship, and U.S. Empire
Co-sponsors: American Indian Studies Program, Department of African American Studies, Gender & Women's Studies Program, Department of Human & Community Development, Latina/Latino Studies Program, Department of Religion, Department of Sociology

September 24, 2008.
Martin Manalansan (Anthropology and Asian American Studies) was a panelist for “Enchiladas, Dim Sum and Apple Pie: Immigration and Food.” This event was part of the Center for Advanced Study’s campus-wide initiative, Immigration: History and Policy. Other panelists include Chancellor Richard Herman, Jorge Chapa (Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society and Sociology), and Amy Gajda (Journalism and Law).

September 18, 2008. Mary Yu Danico public lecture.
Title: Riding the Hallyu (Korean Wave): The Global impact of Korean pop culture on migration to and from Korea

Wednesday, September 3, 2008. Asiantation.

FEBRUARY 2009

Thursday, February 5, 2009. Arissa Oh public lecture
12 noon - 1PM. AACC Lounge. Title: GIs, Missionaries and the Kids of Korea

Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Camilla Fojas public lecture
3 - 4 PM. AACC Lounge. Title: Multiraciality in Hollywood Film and Media Culture: Mixed Race or Post-Race?

MARCH 2009

Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Rachel Endo public lecture
3:00 - 4:00 PM, AACC Lounge. Tanaka Award Presentation. Title: A Part/Apart of Japanese America: The Multiple Contexts of Shin Nisei Education

Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Kevin Kumashiro public lecture
12 noon – 1:00 pm, AACC Lounge. Title: The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right has Framed the Debate on Race and America's Schools

Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Genevieve Clutario public lecture
12 noon - 1PM. AACC Lounge. Tanaka Award Presentation. Title: Woman Enough?: Constructing Filipina Womanhood, Filipino Nationalism, and Empire

Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Jean Ju Kim public lecture
3:30 PM. Location TBA. Title:TBA (Primary sponsor: History)

APRIL 2009

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