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NYTIMES: What This Wave of Anti-Asian Violence Reveals About America

Photo Credit: Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times What This Wave of Anti-Asian Violence Reveals About America Too often, attention to nonwhite groups is only as pressing as the injuries that they have suffered. By Anne Anlin Cheng Ms. Cheng is a comparative race scholar and author of “The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief” and “Ornamentalism.” Feb. 21, 2021
Not-So-Crazy Rich: Elite Asians & the Re-Worlding of American Racial Hierarchy (MARCH 14 @ 4:00pm)

In an age of unsurpassed mobility, the meaning of "Asian" is mutating within global mediascapes that entangle images, narratives, and normas. Presented by Aihwa Ong, Professor and Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley March 16, 2021 at 4:00 pm
Translation and the Virus: COVID-19, Cyber Politics, and Fang Fang's Wuhan Diary

Keynote Lecture by Professor Michael Berry during SILC Graduate Student Virtual Conference.
"What Times are These?": Confronting Crisis with Literature During the Taiping War

Keynote lecture by Dr. Katherine Alexander during SILC Graduate Student Conference.
Asia Matters For America Matters For Asia

Did you know that Arizona export $9.5 billion worth of goods and services to Indo-Pacific Region? Or that 73% of international students in the State of Arizona are from the Indo-Pacific? According to the 2020 Report by EAST-WEST Center, Arizona and Asia has very strong connection.
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