UIUC Asian American Studies 10th Year Anniversary Celebration

Please join us for the UIUC ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES 10th YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION on Friday, MARCH 2, 2007 at the SPURLOCK MUSEUM. The 10th Anniversary recognizes those who have helped build us into the premier AAS program in the Midwest with over 14 core faculty, 10 affiliated faculty, and dozens of new and recurring courses investigating various aspects of Asian American issues each semester. We value your participation in celebrating this honor with us.

Our keynote speaker is an alumnus of the University of Illinois. Kyung Won Lee (MS, Journalism, 1955), also known as K.W. or K-dub, is an award-winning investigative journalist/activist and a passionate, inspirational mentor to Asian American college students across the nation. In addition to the keynote talk, panels discussing the history and future of the Asian American Studies Program, as well as a reception, will be part of the festivities.

We sincerely wish for your presence at the 10th Anniversary. This is a momentous occasion for Asian American students, faculty, and the University as a whole. Please distribute this invitation widely among your membership and friends, and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

http://www.aasp.uiuc.edu/10thAnniversaryWeb/index.html

Best,
Sarah Park (AAS Graduate Assistant)
sypark2@uiuc.edu

BGSA/APAGSO game night

Thanks to all who came out for our first BGSA/APAGSO social! I can't say for sure who won at Taboo but I can say for sure that we all had a really goood time. Here are some pictures:

Stay tuned for upcoming events!

March 16-17, 2007 UI-Chicago APAGSO Conference

Our sister organization at the University of Illinois-Chicago has been working diligently on the 2007 APAGSO graduate student conference: Immigration, Transnationalism, Diaspora: Issues for Asian/American Communities.

Click here to register.

UI Urbana Champaign participants
Lisa Cacho (AAS faculty)
Genevieve Clutario
Kevin Lam
Sarah Park
Vincent Pham
Heekyong Teresa Pyon
Junaid Rana (AAS faculty)
Stanley Thangaraj

Keynote speaker Vijay Prashad

Featured Performer Ed Bok Lee

22 Feb 2007 BGSA/APAGSO Game Night!

Please join the Black Graduate Students Association (BGSA) and the Asian Pacific American Graduate Students Organization (APAGSO) for GAME NIGHT at the Asian American Cultural Center Activity Room (1210 W. Nevadat St., 2nd floor) on Thursday, Feb 22, 2007 @ 7-9PM.

AAS Talks & APAGSO Luncheons with Guests

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Dr. Jung-Sun Park, Associate Professor, Asian-Pacific Studies, California State University-Dominguez Hills
APAGSO Lunch with Dr. Park @ 1200-100PM (AAS Conference Room)
Talk @ 200-300PM (AAS Conference Room)
Presentation Topic: Korean American Youths and Trans-Pacific Cultural Flows

s globalization and technological development have enabled rapid and extensive borderless cultural flows, cultural contacts and exchanges have taken on a new form, departing from Western culture's hegemony over non-Western culture. In recent years, for example, the visibility and popularity of Asian popular culture such as animation and films have noticeably increased in the West and new types of inter-Asian cultural flows, such as "Korean waves," have emerged in the Asian region, signifying more complex and multidirectional cultural flows. Through their multiple national and cultural affiliations and active transnational cultural
consumption, transnational (im)migrant youths, in particular, play a significant role in the contemporary transmission of cultural information and products across borders. Drawing on ethnographic accounts of Korean American youths' consumption of South Korean/Asian popular culture, this lecture explores the role of (im)migrant youths in the trans-Pacific cultural flows and its ramifications.

The foci of Dr. Park's inquiries are as follows: 1) How young Korean Americans consume, disseminate and construct popular culture across the Pacific; 2) How Korean American youths' consumption of South Korean/Asian culture is interrelated with their search for identity and community; 3) How the trans-Pacific cultural flows are affected by the interplay of various structural forces including the market and the state and how they signify the changing global cultural landscape and power relationships.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Dr. Eleana Kim, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Center for Korean Studies
APAGSO Lunch with Dr. Kim @ 1200-100PM (AAS Conference Room)
Talk @ 200-300PM (AAS Conference Room)
Presentation Topic: Reckoning Kinship, Recasting Diaspora: Transnational Adoptees Of and In the Korean Nation

8 February 2007 APAGSO Meeting Agenda @ the AACC Conference Room

Please bring ca$h for pizza.

Here's a summary... for a fuller description, please email Sarah:

- APAGSO logo
- President-Elect
- UIUC AACC' AA Grad Student Leader Award
- UIUC AAS 10th Year Anniv Celebration & Memory Book
- MAASU
- AAAS
- BGSA Social
- Chime Asonye - 15 min presentation @ 645 PM
- Debrief "Forum on Racism, Power and Privilege at the U of I"
- Position Statement re: Chief Illiniwek

LLS Grad Student Conference - Aqui Luchamos, Aqui Estamos: Reaffirming our Commitment to Activism and Resistance through Scholarship.

The Latino and Latina Studies Program of UIUC will host its third biennial graduate student conference on February 23-25, 2007 entitled Aqui Luchamos, Aqui Estamos: Reaffirming our Commitment to Activism and Resistance through Scholarship. The goal is to contribute to the understanding of Latina/o communities in the U.S. by promoting interdisciplinary analyses of shared social, political, and cultural histories, and educational realities of Latina/os. Click here for program.

To pre-register, please email back the registration form by Feb 15, 2007 to latuest2@uiuc.edu or send it by fax or mail to:
Alicia Rodriguez, Associate Director
Latina/Latino Studies Program
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
510 E. Chalmers, MC-495
Champaign, IL 61820
fax (217) 244-4526