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TIER 1  |  1:45 PM - 2:30 PM


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Bring the Revolution to a "Bunch of Asians in a Room"
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with Timothy Chen
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"In this workshop, we will explore the disappearance of APIA awareness workshops at UIUC and the role that the economics of RSOs enable the consumer-producer relationship between members and the officer board of large APIA RSOs. By examining the way in which the RSO converts members and officers into currency, both figurative and literal, we can deduce how the structure of the RSO favors and inevitably produces a “Bunch of Asians in a Room.” The workshop will include a discussion session on reimagining the relationship between student leaders and their members."

2.

Mobilizing "Queer" in Asian America

with Chris Eng
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"Against state-sanctioned silence and death during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, activists reclaimed the shameful term "queer" to elucidate and protest how issues of sexuality remain unseen and unheard by the state and dominant culture. For the last few decades, organizers and scholars have mobilized queer varyingly to emphasize the centrality of sexuality to racial justice movements and reinsert concerns of race and class into mainstream LGBT activism. This workshop will provide an introduction into the characteristics of queer, its political and theoretical uses, as well as how and why it plays a vital role to the formation of Asian America."

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ORIENTALISM IN A POST-9/11 CONTEXT: Intersecting Struggles and Solidarities from Palestine to the Pacific

with Lila Sharif
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"In this workshop, professor Sharif will discuss the connections between seemingly distinct struggles across Asia and its diasporas. Linking the relationship between communities to their shared histories of Orientalism, imperialism, colonialism, and racism, she ends with an open discussion about the possibilities for joint struggle within our campus and beyond, with attention to the occupation of Palestine."

4.

Yuri Kochiyama and the Legacy of Solidarity​

with Junaid Rana
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"Junaid Rana is an associate professor of Asian American Studies with appointments in the Department of Anthropology, the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. His interests include transnational cultural studies, diaspora studies; community organizing and social movements; critical and comparative race studies, political economy, the postcolonial state; South Asia/Pakistan/US."

TIER 2  |  3:00 PM - 3:50 PM


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STEM

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Business

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Arts​

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Humanities

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M E E T   T H E   S P E A K E R S

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Keynote: Maryam Kashani 

Maryam Kashani is an Assistant Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin where she was also a lecturer in Asian American Studies. Her research is concerned with the lived experience of Muslims in the United States through the lenses of epistemology, gender, race, visual culture, and political economy. Her book project is based on ethnographic research and filmmaking conducted amongst Muslim communities in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and at a Muslim liberal arts college in Berkeley, California. The related film works, Our Look Was As If Two Lovers Or Deadly Enemies and Signs of Remarkable History premiered at the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates in March 2015. Her films and videos have been shown at film festivals, universities, and museums internationally and include “things lovely and dangerous still” (2003), Best in the West (2006), and “las callecitas y la cañada” (2009).
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Soo Ah Kwon

Soo Ah Kwon is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research interests include youth culture, transnational youth movements, and race and higher education. She is author of Uncivil Youth: Race, Activism and Affirmative Governmentality (Duke University Press, 2013) ​
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Chris Eng

Chris A. Eng is a Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Asian American Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center, City University of New York with a certificate in American Studies. As an undergraduate, Chris co-founded the Coalition for the Revitalization of Asian American Studies at Hunter (CRAASH) to advocate for the institutional support for ethnic studies. His research and teaching explore the interconnections between Asian American cultural production, critical ethnic studies, performance studies, and queer of color critique.
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Timothy Chen

Tim is a first year graduate student at Princeton University in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department. He recently graduated from UIUC with a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Asian American Studies. As an undergraduate, Tim was a student leader in the APAC community in which he served as Co-President of Asian American Association, Co-Director of Paradox Platform, Co-Director of APAC, and Undergraduate Representative for the Asian American Studies Advisory Committee. At UIUC, he advocated for the standalone U.S. Minority General Education requirement and the Asian American Studies major. In his spare time, Tim enjoys watching Korean dramas with his girlfriend and lamenting the inferiority of Princeton’s bus system compared to CUMTD.
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Lila Sharif

Professor Lila Sharif is in the Department of Asian American Studies at UIUC. earned a dual Ph.D. in Sociology and Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego in 2014. She is the first Palestinian to earn a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies. Her research focuses on the relationships between food, colonial violence, memory, and environmental issues. You should definitely take her Race and Empire class in the fall.
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Junaid Rana

Junaid Rana is an anthropologist who writes about global capitalism, diaspora, racism, and social protest movements. He is the author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora (Duke, 2011), winner of the 2013 Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in the Social Sciences. Recently he has written about academic boycott with Diane Fujino in the journal American Quarterly, and on academic freedom in the Journal of Asian American Studies.


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