Using the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS) and Amerasia Journal as common texts for review, reflection, and discussion, undergrads, graduate students, faculty, staff, and community are called upon to gather and share their appraisals of the state of the field, i.e., of recent research and advancements in scholarship, methodology, theory, and knowledge in the field of Asian American Studies (AAS).
The state of Asian American Studies also means a time when we take stock and collectively share our experiences, academic and beyond, here at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, when we acknowledge our diversity, the diversity of our pursuits, what happens to us on campus, and our collective needs.
And beyond UIUC, we are concerned about the “state,” or the institutional apparatus of AAS nationally and internationally, including the Association of Asian American Studies, the departments, programs, periodicals, archives, philanthropic foundations, grants, etc, that concern themselves with AAS. Why? Because we are not an island: AAS today is a transpacific, translocal, and global happening that affects us and that we in turn influence by our words, conversations, actions, images, and postings.
- Note: Our text in common will be JAAS Vol. 25, No. 2, June 2022 Special Issue: Reckoning with the Interdiscipline, edited by Cathy Schlund-Vials, Lily Anne Welty Tamai, and Paul Spickard. The contents can be found online at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48142. Articles are available to UIUC students, staff, and faculty through the UIUC Main Library, https://muse-jhu-edu.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/issue/48142.
- Titles of Select Articles from this issue of JAAS: “The Why and Whither of Asian American Studies: Toward a Reckoning,” “Critical Refugee Studies and Asian American Studies,” “Asian Americans Challenge the Official Racial Nationalism of the United States,” “AAAS Forty Years OnThe Boycott, Internationalism, and West Asian American Critique,” “To Be Hybrid Anticipates the Future: Multiracial and Multiethnic Community and Activism,” “Contingent Labor and the Contradictions of Asian American Studies,” “The Privilege of South Asian American Studies,” “Unwelcome Truths: On Chinese International Students and Asian American Studies,” “Defamiliarizing Asian American Studies,” “Getting Over Ourselves,” “Un-American Geographies: Transpacific Thinking and Asian American Studies.”
Refreshments will be provided.
