[Asianam] Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and other Asian American Studies Spring Events

[Benson, Krista L.]

Join us this spring for events celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and other exciting spring events.

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Jan. 8, 7 p.m., The Mulitcultural Center Great Room, Ohio Union
Premiere of “Asian Americans in the Heartland:  A Community Oral History and Mapping Project"
Please join us for a celebration and the inaugural launch of the Asian American community oral history project.  Interviews conducted by OSU students with central Ohio student and community leaders will be shown.  Refreshments will be provided.  For more information, please contact Prof. Lynn Itagaki (itagaki.5 at osu.edu<mailto:itagaki.5 at osu.edu>) and see http://asianamericanstudies.osu.edu/oral-historymapping-project. Co-sponsored with the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives and the Multicultural Center.

Jan. 15, 7 p.m., Cartoon Room, Ohio Union
Talk:  "Becoming Miss America: South Asians, Beauty Pageants, and Cultures of Citizenship"
Baki Mani, Associate Professor of English, Swarthmore College, author of Aspiring to Home (Stanford 2012), a study about South Asian Americans, diaspora, and belonging.   http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/bmani1/book.html
Description of Talk:  What does it mean to be Miss America?  In this talk, I examine the central role that beauty pageants hold for first- and second-generation South Asian Americans.  For young South Asian women onstage, pageants are a means to proclaim their sense of belonging - as racial minorities and as women - to normative ideals of U.S. citizenship.  For first-generation South Asian audience members and pageant sponsors, these young women represent the class mobility of an established immigrant group.  I discuss the iconic figure of the beauty queen in relation to the annual Miss India U.S.A. pageants in New York and California, as well as in relation to the Miss India pageants in India. Delineating these transnational networks of beauty, culture and capital enables us to understand why Miss America 2013, Nina Davuluri, is celebrated and condemned for her embodiment of what it means to be American.
Refreshments will be served.

Jan. 16, noon-1:30 168 Dulles
Workshop and Discussion with Prof. Baki Mani
To receive the reading and to rsvp for lunch, please email aas at osu.edu<mailto:aas at osu.edu> by Jan. 13.
Prof. Baki Mani’s visit to OSU is co-sponsored with the Multicultural Center, Department of English, the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the South Asian Studies Program.

Jan. 27, 6 p.m., Campbell 209
Screening of Somewhere Between, a documentary about transracial adoptees, and discussion with Kimberly McKee, Visiting Professor Grinnell College.  Co-sponsored with Kappa Phi Lambda Sorority and the Multicultural Center.

Jan. 29, 7 p.m., Traditions Room, Ohio Union
"What Going in Asian America?: An Interdisciplinary Showcase"
Featuring a conversation with Shelley Lee, Associate Professor, Oberlin College, author of A New History ofAsian America (Routledge, 2013), and a panel of OSU faculty and students presenting on their research.
Co-sponsored with GradPAC, the Multicultural Center, and Department of History

Feb. 6, 4 p.m., Traditions Room, Ohio Union
“What does the Korean Diaspora have to do with Korean History”
Richard Kim, Associate Professor, University of California, Davis. Sponsored by the Institute for Korean Studies

Feb. 12, 12-1:30, Museum Room, 143 University Hall
Panel Discussion on Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Radicals on the Road:  Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism (Cornell 2013).
Hasan Jeffries, Associate Professor of History, and Cricket Keating, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Sponsored by the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Feb. 27, 12-1:30, 168 Dulles
Daniel Kim, Associate Professor, Brown University
Manuscript workshop of Lynn Itagaki, “Racial Burnout:  The 1992 Los Angeles Crisis and the Cultural Politics of the Post-Civil Rights Era.”
To receive the reading and to rsvp for lunch, please email aas at osu.edu<mailto:aas at osu.edu> by Feb. 24.

Feb. 27, 4-5:30, The Multicultural Center Great Room, Ohio Union
Talk:  “Neocolony or Model-Minority Nation?:  The Case of South Korea and Empire”
Daniel Kim, Associate Professor, Brown University
Co-sponsored with the Institute for Korean Studies

 March 3, 4 p.m., The Multicultural Center Great Room, Ohio Union
 What’s Your Story?: Faculty Lecture Series
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Radicals on the Road:  Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism (Cornell 2013)
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center


April 10, 5:30-6:50, Hagerty Hall 180

Talk:  “K-Pop and the Spread of the Korean Wave”

Mark Russell, Cultural Editor of Joong Ang Daily (Seoul, South Korea).

Sponsored by the Institute for Korean Studies and the Multicultural Center


For more information about the OSU Asian American Studies Program, please contact Prof. J. Wu (wu.287 at osu.edu<mailto:wu.287 at osu.edu>)
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