Asian American Studies

Author Curtis Chin is coming to Urbana-Champaign to discuss his latest publication, "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant." Has has multiple speaking occasions throughout the day, so please check out this flyer for details!

Dr. Maha Hilal will be presenting her lecture "Islamophobia, The War on Terror, and the Rhetorics of State Violence". See flyer for more details. Q&A and reception to follow.

This event is part of the Interseminars series for "Improvise and Intervene," supported by the Mellon Foundation. Silvia Federici is a feminist activist, teacher and writer. Silvia Federici is Emerita Professor at Hofstra University.

Grounded in a criminalized tradition of Black radical analysis, this lecture reframes “mass incarceration” as carceral war. In doing so, it demystifies the U.S. prison system as a modality of counter-insurgency.

Taylor Masamitsu (they/he) is a PhD student studying Social Sciences and Education Policy with a graduate minor in Queer Studies. They are presenting their talk "Applying Gestures in Educational Research: Some Methodological Musings".

Undergrads: Please remember to register for convocation!

This year's Tanaka Talk will be given by second-year Ph.D. student, Qiaoyi Nie. Nie's research focuses on political behavior and race and ethnicity politics, particularly the sociological causes and psychological roots of individuals' political behavior in the American context.