AIA2014

Third Symposium on Asians in the Americas

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

New Brunswick, NJ

October 1-3, 2014

Description

This symposium aims to explore the multifaceted lives and representations of Asians in the Americas, past and present, and their intersections with borders, race, gender, nationality, geopolitical power, homeland, identity, and culture. We emphasize the presence of Asians in the Americas since at least the sixteenth century and their relevance for contemporary diaspora, globalization, and transnational studies.

The Third Symposium on Asians in the Americas builds on conversations and cutting-edge work presented in previous symposiums at Southeast Missouri State University in 2012 and Pepperdine University in 2013. Paper presentations will focus on Asians in the Americas from multidisciplinary perspectives such as history, anthropology, sociology, religion, art, education, literature, film, music, and popular culture. To date, scholarship in Asian American Studies has focused on East Asians—more so than South, Southeast, Central, and Western Asians—in North America. We especially encourage work-in-progress, new perspectives, and comparative and connective approaches that can bring research on Asians in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean into dialogue. While topics may focus on a specific group, country, or region, they will provide a general context to the hemisphere as a whole.

The events, free and open to the public, will take place at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in New Brunswick over three days: a film screening/discussion on Wednesday, October 1 from 6-8 p.m. (Livingston Student Center) and the academic symposium on Thursday, October 2 and Friday, October 3 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. (Alexander Library Teleconference/Lecture Hall).

Presented by the Departments of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and American Studies

Sponsors

Asian American Cultural Center

Center for Latin American Studies

Center for Latino Arts and Culture

Center for Race and Ethnicity

Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs (GAIA Centers)

Collective for Asian American Studies

Critical Caribbean Studies

Department of American Studies

Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

Department of History

Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Rutgers University Libraries

SAS Office of the College Avenue Campus Dean

SAS Office of the Dean of Humanities

SAS Office of the Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences

South Asian Studies Program

Organizers

Kathleen López, Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies / History, Rutgers University (kmlopez@rci.rutgers.edu)

Co-organizers

Rick H. Lee, Rutgers University (rick.lee@rutgers.edu)

Zelideth María Rivas, Marshall University (rivasz@marshall.edu)

Alejandro Lee, Central Washington University (Alejandro.Lee@cwu.edu)