Asian American Studies
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
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From the atomic bomb to artificial intelligence used in military targeting systems, the technology we design harbors very real, material consequences for people globally. T talk examines the history of napalm—an incendiary weapon used across US wars in the Pacific, Korea, and Vietnam—to discuss how technological innovation shaped escalating forms of war and violence.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
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Elaborating on camp as a cultural strategy for contesting accounts of Asian American history that overly rely on terms of abjection, Chris Eng reassesses narratives that construe the Japanese American incarceration as an experience of hitting the bottom, a violation akin to sodomy.
