Keep checking back here for updates and more details about each meeting. We will also send updates to the email list serve and on the diASIApora Instagram.
UPCOMING
Monday, February 24, 6-8, Nicholson House, Conde Room: Pain, Pleasure, and Desire. Led by Alex Chun with Professor Takeo Rivera.
Takeo Rivera (Assistant Professor of English, Boston University) will join us in-person to discuss his book, Model Minority Masochism (Oxford University Press). Meeting will be led by Alex Chun (Graduate Student, American Studies).
Monday, March 17, 6-8, Nicholson House, Conde Room
Details TBA
Monday, April 7, 6-8, Nicholson House, Conde Room
Details TBA
Monday, April 21, 6-8, Nicholson House, Conde Room: A Celebration of New Publications
Details TBA
PAST EVENTS
Monday, September 16, 6-8, Nicholson House Conde Room
We officially launch the Asian Pacific American and Diaspora Studies working group! Join us!!
Monday, October 21, 6-8, Nicholson House Conde Room: Pacific Islander studies
This session will coincide with the week of Prof. Vicente Diaz’s (UCLA) residency at Brown to deliver a keynote lecture launching the Mellon Sawyer Seminar in Global Indigenous Studies (co-organized by Evelyn Hu-DeHart and Kevin Escudero). Prof. Diaz is a leading scholar of Pacific Islander Studies and Native American Studies, recently served as the President of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and in his current work, explores connections between Native Pacific Studies and Native American Studies through canoe making/building.
We will read Prof. Diaz’s 2004 article, “To ‘P’ or Not to ‘P’?” as a way to spur a conversation about Pacific Islander studies and its relationship with Asian American studies.
We also encourage you to attend the following, in connection with Diaz’s visit for the Sawyer Seminar:
October 24th from 12-1:30pm, location TBD: Graduate Student Mentoring Lunch with Prof. Diaz
October 25th from 6-7:30pm, Andrews House: Prof. Diaz’s Keynote Lecture
Monday, November 4, 6-8, Nicholson House, Conde Room: Asian America and Palestine
Discussion of Evyn Le Espiritu’s Ghandi’s recent book, Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine (UC Press, 2022). The book is available for free via open access at the UC Press website. The author will join us via zoom for the last portion of the meeting.
Monday, December 9, 6-8, Nicholson House, Conde Room: Asian America and Empire. Led by Rick Baldoz.
At our December 9th meeting we will be discussing Jane Hong’s Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion (UNC Press 2019). Prof. Hong (Occidental College) will be joining us via Zoom for a Q&A session about her monograph. We have ordered ten copies of the book so please contact Rick Baldoz (richard_baldoz@brown.edu) if you want a hard copy (while copies last). The Brown library also owns a digital version of the book, so it is accessible to all members of the Brown community.
Monday, January 27, 6-8, Nicholson House Conde Room: Indo-Caribbean Perspectives. Led by Meena Venkataramanan and Tarika Sankar.
At our January 27th meeting, we will discuss the journal article “Elusive mother country: The literature of the Indian-Caribbean Windrush” (open access) by Maria del Pilar Kaladeen. We will put the article in conversation with the importance of recognizing Indo-Caribbean histories of the UK Windrush migration period and the value of shedding light on Indo-Caribbean transnational perspectives and their role in the broader Asian diasporic studies movement.
