Mar
12
2025
AASP x LLSP Winter Quarter Study Break!
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join the Asian American Studies Program and the Latina & Latino Studies Program for our quarterly study break! We will...
Past Events
Mar
6
2025
Biopower, Genre, and the ‘Muslim American’ Form | AASP Winter Speaker Series
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Muslim cultural production in the United States predates the nation’s settler formation, yet the mass circulation and canonization of “Muslim...
Mar
6
2025
Student Lunch with Dr. Najwa Mayer
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Come have lunch with Dr. Najwa Mayer! Food provided with RSVP. Najwa Mayer is an interdisciplinary scholar and teacher of Asian...
Feb
27
2025
America’s Ethnic Weapon: The Racial Scientific Imaginary of Napalm | AASP Winter Speaker Series
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
TALK BY Dr. Keva X. Bui: America’s Ethnic Weapon: The Racial Scientific Imaginary of Napalm This talk traces the racial history...
Feb
27
2025
Student Lunch with Dr. Keva X. Bui
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Come have lunch with Dr. Keva X. Bui! Food provided with RSVP. Keva X. Bui is a scholar of Asian American...
Feb
21
2025
Author Talk with R.F. Kuang
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join the Asian American Studies Program for an engaging conversation with award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Rebecca F....
Feb
20
2025
The Making of the American Calorie and Metabolic Metrics of Empire | AASP Winter Speaker Series
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
TALK BY Dr. Athia Choudhury: The Making of the American Calorie and Metabolic Metrics of Empire The calorie is everywhere. Its...
Feb
20
2025
Student Lunch with Dr. Athia Choudhury
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Come have lunch with Dr. Athia Choudhury! Food provided with RSVP. Athia N. Choudhury is a writer, cultural theorist, and feminist...
Feb
13
2025
The Boat of No Smiles: A Counterhistory of the Vietnamese Refugee Diaspora | AASP Winter Speaker Series
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
TALK BY Ann Ngoc Tran: The Boat of No Smiles: A Counterhistory of the Vietnamese Refugee Diaspora This talk interrogates the...
Feb
13
2025
Student Lunch with Ann Ngoc Tran
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Come have lunch with Ann Ngoc Tran! Food provided with RSVP. Ann Ngoc Tran is a PhD Candidate in the Department...
Apr
14
2024
Korean Adoption and Its Global Legacies: 70 Years and Beyond
All day, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Korean Adoption and Its Global Legacies: 70 Years and Beyond is a two-day conference that reflects on the origin and...
Apr
13
2024
Korean Adoption and Its Global Legacies: 70 Years and Beyond
All day, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Korean Adoption and Its Global Legacies: 70 Years and Beyond is a two-day conference that reflects on the origin and...
Feb
29
2024
Liquor Store Dreams
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
LIQUOR STORE DREAMS offers an intimate portrait of the lives of Korean American liquor store owners and their second-generation ‘liquor...
Jan
5
2024
MENA | Palestine 101 | Palestine Lives: A Story of Survival
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
MENA welcomes Dr. Nour Joudah (University of California, Los Angeles) to speak in the Palestine 101 event series. In the last...
Nov
16
2023
“We Are Waiting For You: Grief and Loss in the Korean Diaspora” by Dr. Jinah Kim (CSU, North Ridge)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Part of the One Book, One Northwestern event series surrounding Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart, this talk examines the...
Nov
11
2023
HANA Center Field Trip
10:30 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by One Book One Northwestern
Join One Book and the Asian American Studies program to visit HANA Center in Chicago. HANA Center is a Chicagoland...
Jun
3
2023
New Directions in Asian American Studies
8:00 AM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Dear Asian American Studies Program community members and supporters of Asian American Studies in the Chicago area, Please join us for...
May
10
2023
"Absolute Apology, Absolute Forgiveness”: A Talk with David L. Eng
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
“Absolute Apology, Absolute Forgiveness” comes from the final chapter of Eng’s forthcoming book, “Reparations and the Human,” which examines how...
Apr
21
2023
"Crossings": International Feminist Peace Activism in Korea
2:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join us for a film screening and panels on Deann Borshay Liem’s “Crossings” (2021), which documents the peace activism of...
Apr
13
2023
A Conversation with Phil Yu
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join us for an interactive discussion on Asian American pop culture with Phil Yu, an award-winning author, blogger, podcaster, and...
Apr
11
2023
LACS, NAO Lecture | The Chee Kung Tong: A Chinese Sworn Brotherhood in Latin America and the Caribbean
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
In this talk, Dr. Fredy González will give the history of the Chinese sworn brotherhood, the Chee Kung Tong, one...