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Refugees, Race and Resistance: A Symposium in Three Parts
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...
Asian American Studies Welcomes Lisa Lowe
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, ...
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Asia Unbound: 20 Years of Asian American Studies at Illinois and the Transnational Midwest
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...
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20 Years of Asian American Studies at Illinois
“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...