Rubab Hyder is a History major and student in Asian American Studies. She has spent several semesters conducting independent study sessions with AAS professors Dr. Fiona Ngo and Dr. Junaid Rana, and has also worked as a research assistant with Dr. Rana. I sat down with her for a quick interview to ask about her experience in Asian American Studies and her plans for after graduation....
The Illinois News Bureau wrote an article on the Abolition and Immigrant Justice Panel happening tonight (2/6/2020) as part of the CAS Abolition initiative. The initiative is headed by AAS's Naomi Paik and GWS's Toby Beauchamp.- Amerasia Journal has issued a call for papers for a special issue, entitled “Critical Refugee Studies.” The issue will be co-edited by Illinois AAS Assistant Professor Lila Sharif and UC San Diego Professor Yen Le Espiritu. Full details of the issue and submission requirements can be found here. Paper submissions are due by June...
Courses in AAS that fulfill the US Minority Cultures General Education Requirement in Spring 2020: AAS 100: Intro to Asian American Studies Lecture course: M/W 12:00-12:50 pm | Friday discussion sections Lecture/discussion courses T/R 12:30-1:50 pm T/R 9:30-10:50 am...
This Fall and Spring, AAS Professor Naomi Paik and GWS Professor Toby Beauchamp are spearheading the Abolition initiative in CAS, involving a series of talks in the fall and a graduate seminar course in the spring. From the CAS Initiatives page: Abolition examines the interconnected power dynamics across prisons, police,...
On March 4, 2019, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences presented AAS Admin Aide Christine Lyke with one of three Staff Awards in recognition of her hard work and commitment to the Department of Asian American Studies and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In presenting her award, the college cited Christine's "positive and creative" methods of keeping departmental operations running...
“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 point. That struggle is what should be celebrated. The university only relented when activism...
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 Asian American Studies. Friday, April 6, 2018 Opening Remarks...- In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Department of Asian American Studies at Illinois, three scholarships of $1000 each are being made available to outstanding students in Asian American Studies. These scholarships have been established through the generosity of an illustrious Asian American alumnus, Mr. Horace Wu, and his wife Kate King Wu in honor of Horace Wu’s father, Ying...
February 3, 2018 STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR THE GRADUATE EMPLOYEES’ ORGNIZATION We, the faculty in the department of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, write to express our support for the Graduate Employees’ Organization in their effort to bargain a fair contract with the University. Graduate employees at UIUC have...
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, Urbana- 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 through my bones” | Patricia Nguyen In this artist talk Patricia...
The annual Balgopal Lecture was established 10 years ago by a generous endowment from Pallassana R. Balgopal and Shyamala Balgopal in 2007. Over the ten years the department has been hosting this lecture series, many renowned scholars and activists have been welcomed to our campus to speak on the subject of human rights and Asian Americans. Professor Balgopal is a Professor...
Administered through the College of Letters and Arts, the goal of the Conrad Humanities Professional Scholar Award is to recognize exceptional achievement in humanists between the initial promotion to associate professor through the promotion to professor, with the aim of enhancing retention of our strongest scholarly leaders. These awards are designed to recognize tenured faculty members...
What does the rising popularity of the olive mean for global consumers, producers, and resisters? How do our intimate connections with food build memories and notions of place? In Episode 39 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach and guest Lila Sharif discuss the role of food in both transnational settler...