<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><div><div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Distinguished Lecture in Asian American Studies</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font></div></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Professor Min Hyoung Song</b></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>"What Is a Child? Asian Americans and Comics"</b></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font></div></div><div><font size="4"><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Tuesday, March 31, 4:00 p.m.<br></span></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><font size="4">Ohio Staters, Inc. Founders Room (2nd floor, Ohio Union)</font><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br></font></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:center"></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font></font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Despite some efforts to be more racially
inclusive toward Asians and Asian Americans, films and television shows
continue to uphold damaging racial norms that shape our collective visual
field. In contrast, both popular and more serious comic books are now actively
unraveling such norms. Asian American comic book artists in particular have
grown in number and influence, and in the process exhibit a strong tendency to
reveal the grey areas between childhood and adulthood. As a result, their works
ask us, What is a child?
<br clear="all"></font></span><div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br></font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font></font></span><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/english/faculty/facalpha/song.html" target="_blank"><b>Min Hyoung Song</b></a> is Professor of English at Boston College where he
specializes in Asian American, ethnic American, and twentieth-century American
literature, with a special interest in cultural studies and literary theory. He
is the author of <i>Strange Future:
Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots</i> (Duke, 2002) and <i>The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not
Writing, as an Asian American</i> (Duke, 2013), which won the Association for
Asian American Studies (AAAS) Prize in Literary Criticism, the Alpha Sigma Nu
Award in Literature and Fine Arts, and was named Honorable Mention for the
Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present (ASAP) Book Prize. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>Sponsored by the <a href="http://asianamericanstudies.osu.edu/" target="_blank">Asian American Studies Program</a> and the Graduate Pan-Asian Caucus. Light refreshments will be served.
<p style="text-align:center" class="MsoNormal"> </p>Contact: Joe Ponce (<a href="mailto:ponce.8@osu.edu" target="_blank">ponce.8@osu.edu</a>)
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