Fall 2019 – Spring 2020 – Page 2 – Asian American / Asian Research Institute

Blurred Lines: The Pursuit of Superiority in the Vietnamese Diaspora

July 6, 2020November 8, 2019 By Hung Cam Thai

Focusing on microlevel social interactions in the homeland, this lecture explores the projection and achievement of superiority within the context of Vietnamese diasporic and transnational repertoires. As a country undergoing dramatic economic transformation for more than two decades, Vietnam is a site of contradictory new hierarchies with the increasing return of overseas migrants who encounter a growing new monied class. Prof. Hung Cam Thai examines the formation of these hierarchies in situations where individuals seek to establish themselves as “social betters” in determining criteria of worthiness.

Freedom From Fear/Yellow Bowl Project

July 6, 2020October 25, 2019 By Setsuko Winchester

Setsuko Winchester, Japanese American ceramic artist, photographer and journalist will discuss her conceptual art work, Freedom from Fear/Yellow Bowl Project. The FFF/YBP is an attempt to shine a new light onto an old aspect of America’s history with race and ethnicity, prejudice and bias and how they shaped this country’s ideas of freedom, justice and citizenship.

Asian-American Social Workers’ Career, Stress, and Well-Being

October 29, 2019October 18, 2019 By Kenny Kwong

Research on Asian-American career choice, career experience, work-related stress, and well-being has been extremely limited. Based on a comprehensive online survey with a total of 208 Asian-American social work administrators, supervisors, practitioners, and graduate social work students, Prof. Kenny Kwong will present on the career choices, barriers and prospects, work-related stress, and professional quality of life Asian-American social workers.

Asia, Art History, and Climate Change: The Challenges of Eco–Art History

July 6, 2020October 11, 2019 By De-nin D. Lee

Based on her 2019 edited anthology, Eco–Art History in East and Southeast Asia, Prof. De-nin Lee will discuss the challenges of eco–art history in the age of climate change.

A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History (Book Talk)

July 6, 2020October 4, 2019 By Seth Berkman

Two weeks before the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, South Korea’s women’s hockey team was forced into a predicament that no president, ambassador or general had been able to resolve in the sixty-five years since the end of the Korean War. Against all odds, the group of young women were able to bring North and South Korea closer than ever before. In ‘A Team of Their Own,’ Seth Berkman goes behind the scenes to tell the story of these young women as they became a team amid immense political pressure and personal turmoil, and ultimately gained worldwide acceptance on a journey that encapsulates the truest meanings of sport and family.