2017‐2018 marks 20 years of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois. As part of the ongoing celebration of this milestone, we have invited three scholars to present in their own unique ways on the topic of Refugees, Race, and Resistance. 4:00 pm “water in/on my body, seeping...

Colonial Pasts and Conditional Futures Speaker:  Dr. Lisa Lowe Professor of English and Humanities Director, Center for Humanities Tufts University Wednesday, November 8, 2017 5:00pm, 180 Bevier Hall 905 S. Goodwin Ave, ...

The Department of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presents a multi-panel discussion highlighting the specific intellectual and pedagogical routes, new research agendas and the community and activist formation that created and continues to form the field of...

“I shall always remember the STUDENTS  who continued to fight for Asian American Studies since 1974 all the way through the struggles of the early to mid-1990s, when the activists would be threatened with disciplinary action. Finally, the year 1996 saw a turning...