Organized by Heyang Julie Kae (English), Marites Mendoza (English), Matthew Nicdao (English), Su Ching Wang (English), Jon Olivera (History)

(dis)Orienting Asian American Studies is a year long project of the Asian American Studies Research Collective. This project seeks to map how Asian American Studies is presently transforming the boundaries of the field’s domain of study. Pursuing an inquiry into what presently constitutes “Asia” and “America” for the field, this group of graduate students from acress disciplines seeks to denaturalize the joining of these two terms that continue to animate institutional research in the field. This year's activities thematize two specific paradigms, “Comparative Racializations” and “Asia America(s)” which will undergird the activities of the graduate student working group, the speaker/film series and UW faculty roundtable to address new methods and domains for conceiving Asian Americanist scholarship.