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Proximities: An Asia/America Studies Symposium

The symposium will run from 10 am to 4:30 PM on Saturday, May 18th. Keynote talks will be given by Kandice Chuh and Mimi Thi Nguyen.

Saturday, May 18, 2019
10:00am – 5:00pm
Carpenter 201C
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Conferences, Lectures & Seminars

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To conceive of Asia/America is to work through the co-constitution of the rise of global Asia, the history and present of U.S. empire, histories of Asian racialization, and the ever-shifting racial formation known as “Asian America.” Interdisciplinary inquiry into Asia/America is timely as the relationship between the U.S. and Asia and the Pacific shifts; as the debate about the place of Asian Americans on U.S. campuses and in affirmative action policies has re-surfaced to thicken public discourse around Asian Americans as a racial minority or majority; and as massive migrations of Asians within Asia reshape notions of Asian and Asian American ethnicity and nationality.

The inaugural theme for the Asia/America Studies Symposium, “Proximities,” names our interest in expanding the imagined bounds of Asian American studies by engaging with promiscuous sites of study otherwise seen as in contact with, beside, or in relation to it. We turn toward the spatial implications of the proximal to take up modes of Asian Americanist critique and inquiry wherein, as Roy Pérez writes, “proximity gives us closeness without becoming and nearness without arriving; approximation gives us work without completion and semblance without fidelity” (281). The symposium will bring together scholars across various departments and programs in the Dartmouth community, as well as guest keynote speakers Kandice Chuh (CUNY Graduate Center) and Mimi Thi Nguyen (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).

Cited Work

Pérez, Roy. “The glory that was wrong: el ‘Chino Malo’ approximates Nuyorico,” Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 25, no. 3 (2015): 277-297

Proximities is sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Office of the Provost, and the following Department and Programs: Art History; Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages; Comparative Literature; English; Film and Media Studies; History; Sociology; The VOICES Program of the Department of Theater; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

 

 

 

For more information, contact:
Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies

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