Council Meetings are held regularly throughout the year to engage the campus community in the development of the program.
The Spring 1998 Council Meeting took place on March 31, 1998 and included presentations by UIUC faculty on their research and teaching interests in Asian American Studies. Presenters included:
Nancy Abelmann, Associate Professor of Anthropology Clark Cunningham, Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus David Desser, Professor, Cinema Studies Rajeshwari Pandharipande, Professor, Religious Studies

Lectures

The AASC also sponsored a lecture series in the Spring of 1998. Lectures presented were:

"Beyond the Immigrant Paradigm: The Situation of Asian Americans and the Filipino Diaspora," a lecture by E. San Juan, Bowling Green State University, March 2, 1998.

In this lecture, Professor San Juan addressed the ways in which Filipinos articulate their community identities in ways that not only respect their separate cultural traditions but also commit to the shaping of a just, democratic, and egalitarian order in the United States. Using excerpts from the documentary film "Savage Acts: Wars and Fairs," San Juan approached the situation of Filipinos in the United States as the product of a long historical process that began with the colonization of the Philippines at the turn of the century and the entry of Filipinos into a labor market in Hawaii and the West Coast long inhabited by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean workers.

The lecture was sponsored by the MillerComm program of the Center for Advanced Study, in conjunction with Asian American Awareness Month.

"Redefining America: Asian Americans and Asian American Studies in the University," a lecture by Kenyon Chan, California State University, March 11, 1998.

Professor Chan addressed how Asian Americans and Asian American Studies helped shape the cultural landscape called "America." Chan examined and interrogated "Asian American" as a social and political construction and its contributions in defining the new American terrain. The lecture situated Asian American Studies within the university and defined how this relatively new field of scholarship broadens and deepens our understanding of life in the United States.
The lecture was sponsored by the AASC and the Office of the Dean of Students- Asian Pacific American Affairs. It was also co-sponsored by the School of Social work; Departments of Anthropology; Educational Policy Studies; English; History; Political Science; Spanish, Italian and Portuguese; Student Affairs Program Coordinating Council; and the Asian Pacific American Resource Committee.

Brown Bag Seminars

"Asian Americans and Politics," by Wendy Tam Cho, Assistant Professor of Political Science, April 1, 1998.

"Coping and Adaptation Processes to Growing Old for Indo-Americans," by Pallassana R. Balgopal, Professor of Social Work, April 16, 1998.