Friday, October 11, 2019 | 9am to 5pm
City University of New York
395 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014
Celebrate the launch of WSQ: Asian Diasporas, co-sponsored by WSQ and the Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY. Join us for a free full-day event with engaging plenary panels and poetry reading to celebrate the launch of this special issue by WSQ. Breakfast, lunch and refreshments will be available.
WSQ: Asian Diasporas
Volume 47, Numbers 1 & 2: Spring/Summer 2019
An interdisciplinary exploration of Asian diasporas as gendering spaces that host uneven movements of bodies, identities, histories, and hegemonies.
Edited by Lili Shi & Yadira Perez Hazel, this issue of the award-winning academic journal decenters the Global North. It foregrounds gender in varied inquiries of Asian diasporas as comparative times and spaces. Scholars engage interdisciplinary approaches to examine the under-visited Asian diasporas, against the dominant narratives of identity, agency, migration, settlement, and Black-and-White notions of race.
Program
9:00-9:30am
Registration and breakfast
9:30-9:45am
Welcome
9:45-10:00am
Opening remarks
10:00-11:15am
Panel 1 Diasporic Geographies
Panelists: Anita Baksh, Diane Wong, Sonja Thomas, Sokunthary Svay
11:30-12:45pm
Panel 2: Diasporic Materialities and Critique
Panelists: Natassja B Gunasena, Rupa Pillai, Peggy Lee, Silas Moon Cassinelli
12:45-1:30pm
Lunch
1:30-2:15pm
Keynote: Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut
2:30-3:45pm
Roundtable Plenary: “Feminism as a way of Diasporic Life”
4:00-4:30pm
Panel 4: Readings of Creative Works by:
JinJin Xu, Tanya Ko Hong, Nancy Kang, Minal Hajratwala
4:30-5pm
Closing Remarks & Reception
Keynote
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials is Professor of English and Asian/Asian American studies at the University of Connecticut (Storrs); she is also Associate Dean for Humanities and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Prior to this appointment, she served as the Director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute (2009-2018). In addition to published book chapters, articles, reviews, and edited collections, she is the author of two monographs: Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing and War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work. She has edited and co-edited a number of anthologies and collections, which include Disability, Human Rights, and the Limits of Humanitarianism, Keywords for Asian American Studies, Interrogating the Perpetrator: Violation, Culpability, and Human Rights, Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the Twenty-First Century, Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, and Asian America: A Primary Source Reader, among others. She is a co-editor for Temple University Press’s Asian American History and Culture series and was the president of the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS, 2016–2018).
Available for pre-order, www.feministpress.org/books-n-z/wsq-asian-diasporas
