Notable Events: 2002 – 2003
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June 2-3, 2003
International Conference on Trauma and History
The Project for Critical Asian Studies addresses the question of how we understand trauma, defined as unread or unspoken injustice. We want to know what happens when mass injustice is deeply felt but seemingly inexpressible. The International Conference on Trauma and History questions the ways that the objects and subjects of 20th-century traumatic injustice are written, read, and thought about in the face of 21st-century economic and social transformation.
Recasting Asia America Lecture Series
- October 21, 2002
Karen Shimakawa (Asian American Studies, UC Davis) & Kandice Chuh (English, University of Maryland)
"Dislocating National Biases: A Conversation on Asian American Culture(s) Critique"
- November 19, 2002
Muneer Ahmad (School of Law, American University)
"Resignifying Arab Racial Formations in Asian America"
- February 7, 2003
Michael Bennett (English, Long Island University) & Nayna Jhaveri (Geography, University of Washington)
"Eco-Criticism and Asian American Critique: Notes Towards and Intersection"
- March 10, 2003
Takashi Fujitani (History, UC San Diego) & Lisa Yoneyama (Literature, UC San Diego)
"Internment, Inscription, Militarism and Race Across the Asia/Pacific"
- May 5, 2003
Gary Pak (Creative Writing, University of Hawai'i Manoa) & Amy Stillman (American Cultures, University of Michigan)
"Colonialism, Dispossession, Racism: Critical Pacific Islander Cultures"
- May 12, 2003
Nayan Shah (History, UC San Diego) & Mary Lui (American Studies & History, Yale University)
"Urban Sexualities, Asian Racialization and the Critique of Historicism"\
- May 19, 2003
Martin Manalansan (Anthropology, University of Illinois) & Gayatri Gopinath (Women & Gender Studies, UC Davis)
"Diaspora, Globalization, and the Rethinking of Asian 'American' Studies"
Okinawa Lecture Series
- October 29, 2002
Linda Angst (Harvard University)
"Reversion": Women and the Politics of Culture in Okinawa"
- January 31, 2003
Alan Christy (History, University of California at Santa Cruz)
"Profiteering Women and Primitive Communists: Propriety and Scandal in Interwar Japanese Studies of Okinawa"
Other Co-Sponsored Lectures/Events
- January 23, 2003
Rey Chow (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities, Brown University)
"Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Biopower"
- February 6, 2003
Gail Hershatter (History & Cultural Studies, UC Santa Cruz)
"Forget Remembering: Gender in China's Rural Collective Past"
- February 6, 2003
War, Peace, and Reconciliation: A Conversation among Writers from Three Sides of the Vietnam Warwith internationally award-winning Vietnamese filmmaker, Tran Van Thuy
- April 27 & 28, 2003
Feminisms X Fundamentalisms: A Symposium on Politics, Religion, and Culture in Contemporary South Asia
Keynote Speaker: Professor Tanika Sarkar (Jawarhar Lal Nehru University)
Paper Presenters: Shelley Feldman (Cornell University), Amina Jamal (University of Toronto) Anita Weiss (University of Oregon), and Keri Olsen (Syracuse University)
