Month September 2014

Asians in the Americas, October 1-3, 2014

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Join me for the 2014 Asians in the Americas annual symposium, October 1 – 3, 2014.

To view information for the entire conference visit: https://sites.google.com/site/asiansintheamericas2014/program

I will be moderating the “Comparative Ethnic Studies” Panel. Join me for what will be an exciting conversation.

PANEL 4:  COMPARATIVE ETHNIC STUDIES 

Moderator: Annie Fukushima (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)

Julia H. Lee (University of California, Irvine)
Transnational Anna (intersection of Asian American subject formation and U.S. histories of empire in Asia in the figure and writings of Anna Chennault)
Kavitha Ramsamy (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)
Anti-Asianism in the United States: The ‘Dotbuster’ Attacks of the 1980s in Jersey City
K. Kale Yu (Nyack College)
Outside of Evangelical Mainstream: Jeremy Lin and Asian American Evangelicalism
Sayu Bhojwani (Rutgers University-New Brunswick) South Asian Panethnicity: Resonant Identity and Organizing Tool

December 4th: Rethinking the Asia “Pivot”

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Save the date and follow this website. I am organizing with faculty at Rutgers a symposium that takes place on December 4th.

Rethinking the Asia “Pivot”: Challenging Everyday Militarisms & Bridging
Communities of Women
December 4th, 2014
Alexander Library, 4th Floor
Rutgers University, New Brunswick

An international symposium with a digital exhibit, international webinar, drumming, and speakers

Time/Space: Histories & Technologies of Militarism
Kornel Chang, Annie Isabel Fukushima, Chie Ikeya, Moderated by Suzy Kim

Visuality/Narrativity: Representations of Everyday Militarism
Dalida Maria Benfield, Michelle Dizon, Jane Jin Kaisen, Kakyoung Lee, Tammy Ko Robinson, moderated by Theodore Hughes

Strategy/Policy: Organizing against Militarism & Violence
Kozue Akibayashi, Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Ko Youkyoung, Suzuyo Takazato, moderated by Gloria Bachmann

Keynote Speaker, Cynthia Enloe, Ph.D., author of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (2000), Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (2004), The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in The New Age of Empire (2004) and Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link (2007).

And an event preceding the symposium on November 25, International Webinar featuring Kozue Akibayashi (Japan), Corazon Fabros (Philippines), Lisa Natividad (Guam), Suzuyo Takazato (Okinawa), and Sunghee Choi (South Korea). Details coming soon.

https://rethinkingasiapivot.com