Conference: Re/Siting Asian American Studies

Here is an upcoming conference on the East Coast that I wish I could attend (official website with more info):

Re/Siting Asian American Studies
connecting critical approaches in the field
A One-Day Conference at Rutgers
Friday, February 19, 2010
9 AM - 6 PM


PLENARY SPEAKERS & PANELS


CONNECTIVE & COMPARATIVE HISTORIES

MARTIN F. MANALANSAN IV
Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The House We Live In: The Crises of Race, Class, and Queer Habitations in the 21st Century

MOON-KIE JUNG
Sociology and American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Constituting the U.S. Empire-State and White Supremacy


VISUAL & PERFORMATIVE CULTURES

KAREN SHIMAKAWA
Performance Studies, New York University
Singing the Moving Map: Operatic Performance of Chinese/America

ANNA PEGLER-GORDON
American Studies, Michigan State University
Envisioning Chinese Americans During World War II


TRANS-REGIONAL ASIAN AMERICAS

LOK C. D. SIU
Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Hemispheric Asian America: Rethinking Migration, Sociality, and Racialization

SARITA ECHAVEZ SEE
English and American Culture, University of Michigan
Hair Lines: Filipino American Art and the Uses of Abstraction


RE/SITING ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES:
INSTITUTIONS WITH A GLOBAL REACH

EVELYN HU-DEHART
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University
Asian American Studies as Global Studies

JACK (JOHN KUO WEI) TCHEN
Asian / Pacific / American Institute, New York University
Critique, New Knowledges, and Organizing