All meetings will be held on campus at the CSREA building from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, with dinner served. Check back here for updates and additional details about each meeting. We will also send updates to the email list serve and on the diASIApora Instagram.
UPCOMING
February 23, 2026: Afro-Asia
Led by Lucas Joshi (Comparative Literature). An event description and location information to come soon.
March 9, 2026: Settler Colonialism and the Environment
Led by Lizzy Wong (American Studies) and K Yin (American Studies)
April 13, 2026: Urban Studies
Led by Carolyn Lau (American Studies)
May 4, 2026: End of Year Celebration of New Publications and Accomplishments
PAST MEETINGS
September 15, 2025: Welcome back!
Join us for the first meeting of diASIApora in 2025-26. We’ll say hello to new and old friends and kick off the year with a panel discussion about Asian American studies and its relationship to adjacent and related fields such as Asian studies, postcolonial studies, global studies, and feminist studies.
October 6, 2025: Workshop with Prof. Grace Talusan (English, Brown)
This session will include a workshop led by Grace Talusan (English), in which attendees are invited to participate in practices of memoir, essay, and creative nonfiction. Professor Talusan is the author of the critically acclaimed, The Body Papers: A Memoir and teaches in the English Department at Brown.
November 10, 2025: Getting your first article published!
Panel discussion with authors and editors in Asian American studies on steps and strategies for publishing your first journal article. This session will be geared especially for PhD students but published authors are also encouraged to attend to share their experience and wisdom.
December 12, 2025 (Friday): New directions in Queer Asian American Studies.
Note: Change to regular schedule
Led by K Yin (American Studies) and Alex Chun (American Studies)
12-2pm: DiASIApora lunch with Chris Eng
Location: Nicholson House, Conde Room (first floor)
4pm: Chris Eng, Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America
(Book talk, co-sponsored with Pembroke Center)
Location: Pembroke 305
