Verge is delighted to be sponsoring the following panels at the upcoming Association for Asian American Studies conference (Long Beach, CA, April 6–8). We hope you’ll join us for some of these events!
The Relational Methodologies of Global Asias Cultural Production: (Re)envisioning Social Justice and Accountability
Session T22 | Thursday, April 6 | 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Venue: Barcelona
Presenters:
Kylie Ching, University of California, Irvine
Stitching Together Empires, Migration, and Memory: Reimagining Korean and Korean Diasporic History in Yong Soon Min’s Mother Load (2014)
Haider Shahbaz, University of California, Los Angeles
Afro-Asian Worldmaking: Shahzia Sikander’s X
Christine Vicera, The Hong Kong University of Science and Teaching
Storytelling as Decoloniality in/as Praxis: (Auto)ethnographic Reflections on Literary and Cultural Production by Ethnically-Diverse Communities in Hong Kong
Jinah Kim, California State University, Northridge
Rhizomatic Feminisms: Organizing Against Forgetting Gender Based Violence Across the Transpacific
Co-Discussants: Kylie Ching, University of California, Irvine and Hentyle Yapp, University of California, San Diego
Hidden Histories of Migration in Global Asias: Rethinking Sustainable Publics, Envisioning Change
Session S38 | Saturday, April 8 | 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Venue: Casablanca
Participants:
Kavita Daiya, George Washington University
Immigration, Internment, Inter-Asia (Im)Mobilities
Shalini Shankar, Northwestern University
The Necessary Violence of language, Caste, and Race
Bakirathi Mani, Swarthmore College
Albums of Diaspora: Family Photography in Asian/America
Falu Bakrania, San Francisco State University
We Got Us: Asian American Artists and Visions of Justice in Oakland’s 2020 Mural Movement
Chair: Kavita Daiya, George Washington University
Discussant: Bakirathi Mani, Swarthmore College
The Orientalist Complex and Public Imagination in the Age of Global Contemporary Art
Session S52 | Saturday, April 8 | 2:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Venue: Casablanca
Presenters:
Herb L. Fondevilla, Rikkyo University, Japan
Borrowed Nostalgia and Orientalist Fantasies in Contemporary Art
Ekalan Hou, Yale University and Yechen Zhao, Yale University Art Gallery
Right to Rodeo: Cowboy Orientalism in Asian American Art
Clare S. Kim, University of Illinois at Chicago
Art, Craft, Code: American Orientalism and the Politics of Algorithmic Forms
Jessie Taieun Yoon, Cornell University
Ways of “Doing” Orientalism: Comparative Reflections on Sin Wai Kin and Eiko Otake’s Performances
Co-Chairs & Co-Discussants: Nina Horisaki-Christens, Columbia University and Chaeeun Lee, City University New York Graduate Center