FALL 2003 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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FALL 2003 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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SEPTEMBER
NYU Community of Color Reception• Wednesday, Sept. 3 - 5:00 to 7:00pm Through Windows: One-Woman Performance by Susana Lei'ataua • Thursday - Saturday, Sept. 11 - 13 Brown Bag Lunch Series: Thuy Linh Tu - "Asian American Popular Culture" • Wed., Sept. 17 - 12:00 to 2:00pm Asian Americans and 9/11 - Call to Media Action and Tribute & Remembrance • Wed., Sept. 17 - 7:00 to 9:00pm Screening and Panel Discussion: Matters of Race: The Changing Face of America • Thurs., Sept. 18 - 6:30 to 8:00pm Korematsu vs. United States, September 11th, War & Civil Rights - A Lecture with Dale Minami • Mon., Sept. 22 - 6:00 to 7:30pm A/P/A Studies Gallery Exhibition Opening - Fresh Talk Revisited: New York Artists from Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes • Friday, Sept. 26 - 6:00 to 8:00pm |
OCTOBER
A/P/A Studies Gallery Artists Talk - Fresh Talk Revisited: New York Artists from Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes• Thurs., October 2 - 6:00 to 8:00pm Film Screening and Discussion: Two Bells, Two Worlds • Saturday, October 4 - 6:00 to 8:00pm A/P/A Studies 2004 Artist-in-Residence Kickoff Celebration • Friday, October 10 - 6:00 to 8:00pm Pan Asian Dialogue: Queer Asian/Pacific American Activism • Thursday, October 23 - 5:30 to 7:30pm Brown Bag Lunch Series: Jasbir Puar - "Race, Nation, & The Queer War on Terrorism" • Friday, October 24 - 12:30 to 2:00pm |
NOVEMBER
Launch & Discussion: Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art• Friday, November 7 - 7:00 to 9:00pm Dissertation Series: San San Kwan - "Choreographing Chineseness: Global Cities and the Performance of Ethnicity" • Tues., November 11 - 12:00 to 2:00pm Book Series Launch & Discussion: Jessica Hagedorn's Dream Jungle • Tuesday, November 11 - 6:30 to 8:30pm Brown Bag Lunch Series: May Joseph - "Migrancy, Citizenship, & New York City" • Wed., November 19 - 12:00 to 2:00pm Community Health Forum - Walking the Bicultural Tightrope: Psychoanalytic and Literary Perspectives on the New American • Sat., November 22 - 9:00am to 5:00pm |
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EVENT DESCRIPTIONS
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NYU Community of Color Reception
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A/P/A Studies opens the new academic year by welcoming all faculty, staff and students of color for a special reception. Get to know one another over food and refreshments and find out what this dynamic community has to offer.
Co-sponsored with the NYU Office for African American, Latino and Asian American Student Services (OASIS), Africana Studies Program & Institute for African-American Affairs, and Latino Studies R.S.V.P. by Monday, September 8th: apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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Through Windows: One-Woman Performance by Susana Lei'ataua
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A woman in a giant unnamed city comes home after a night at work. She lives alone in an apartment "my insides shaped externally in lines and corners." Through Windows is one woman's dialogue in the hours she has to herself between shifts as a coat-check in a restaurant. This piece is written and performed by Susana Lei'ataua, New Zealander actress, writer, and performance artist. Through Windows challenges our notions of Pacific Island environments, notions of home, and personal and social diasporas. Performance followed by Q&A with the artist.
RSVP by Monday, Sept 15 apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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Brown Bag Lunch Series: Thuy Linh Tu - "Asian American Popular Culture"
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Professor Thuy Linh Tu (PhD in American Studies, New York University) is a faculty member of the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. Her teaching and research interests are in American Studies with a focus on urban studies and Asian American visual and popular culture. Her work analyzes how the forces of contemporary Asian immigration and the cultural processes that emerge in response have altered the boundaries of American citizenship. She is co-editor, with Alondra Nelson and Alicia Headlam Hines, of Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life (New York University Press, 2001).
RSVP by Monday, September 15th apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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Asian Americans and 9/11 - Call to Media Action and Tribute & Remembrance
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Join A/P/A Studies, Third World Newsreel (TWN), and the Asian American Federation of New York (AAFNY) in commemorating the 2nd anniversary of September 11 with a screening of short films created as immediate alternative media & community response in the days following the tragedy.
Co-sponsored with Third World Newsreel, Asian American Federation of New York, and supported by Asian CineVision RSVP by Friday, September 15th: apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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Screening and Panel Discussion: Matters of Race: The Changing Face of America
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Using community stories as well as interviews, autobiographies and memoirs of leading authors, this series challenges audiences to reconsider the architecture of race, its role in our democracy, and its relationship to power in America. A panel discussion will follow a screening of clips from the series. Panelists include John Kuo Wei Tchen (A/P/A Studies), Orlando Bagwell (Roja Productions) and others.
Matters of Race: The Changing Face of America is a four-part series by Roja Productions, 2003. PBS national broadcast will air September 22-23, 2003. Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Media, Culture and History and the Department of Art and Public Policy at Tisch School of the Arts RSVP: RSVP to NYU Center for Media, Culture and History: (212) 998-3759 ->> back <<- |
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Korematsu vs. United States, September 11th, War & Civil Rights - A Lecture with Dale Minami
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Dale Minami, an accomplished attorney and partner with Minami, Lew and Tamaki in San Francisco has been involved in significant litigation involving the civil rights of Asian/Pacific Americans and other minorities. With a critical eye on the progress of civil rights in the U.S., Minami will discuss how racial profiling has historically been used to justify national security during times of war from the Executive Order 9066 which allowed for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to the present day Homeland Security Acts which excuse the detainment of thousands of South Asians, Arabs, and Muslims in the U.S. Introduced and moderated by Diane Yu, Chief of Staff and Deputy to the President at NYU.
RSVP by Thursday, September 18th: apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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A/P/A Studies Gallery Exhibition Opening - Fresh Talk Revisited: New York Artists from Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes
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In celebration of the newly released and groundbreaking anthology Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art co-edited by Elaine H. Kim, Margo Machida (A/P/A Studies Research Scholar) and Sharon Mizota, A/P/A Studies is proud to exhibit in its gallery new works by select New York City-based artists featured in the book. Artists include Tomie Arai, Ken Chu, Michael Joo, Shahzia Sikander, Do Ho Suh, Mitsuo Toshida, Lynne Yamamoto, and Zarina. The exhibition is open to the public from September 2, 2003 to January 9, 2004.
RSVP by Wednesday, Sept 24: apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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A/P/A Studies Gallery Artists Talk - Fresh Talk Revisited: New York Artists from Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes
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Moderated by Elaine H. Kim, Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Berkeley and co-editor of Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes, this discussion explores the depths of visual arts and provides a rare opportunity to meet and hear some perspectives from these well-known and influential artists featured in the Gallery and book. Exhibitors' previous works can also be viewed in the anthology Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art, co-edited by Elaine H. Kim, Margo Machida (A/P/A Studies Research Scholar) and Sharon Mizota, and published by UC Press. The exhibition is open to the public from September 2, 2003 January 9, 2004.
RSVP by Monday, September 29th: apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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Film Screening and Discussion:
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Two Bells, Two Worlds explores the little known history of the Philippine-American War through the lens of a contemporary controversy over the return of war booty, the Bells of Balangiga. Taken by the American military after an attack on a marine garrison on the island of Samar in 1901, this one-hour documentary film examines the controversy over who "owns" the bells as a way of telling the untold story of that war and its legacy. Screening introduced by filmmaker Bernard Stone and followed by a panel discussion with Angel Shaw and Luis H. Francia (co-editors of Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream 1899-1999), Dorotea Mendoza (GABRIELA Network), and other special guests.
RSVP by Wednesday, October 1st: apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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A/P/A Studies 2004 Artist-in-Residence Kickoff Celebration
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A/P/A Studies is proud to announce its 2003-04 Artist-in-Residence, Fay Chiang, the noted New York poet, visual artist, and community and cultural activist. Author of two volumes of poetry, In the City of Contradictions, and Miwa's Song, Ms. Chiang's poetry and prose have been published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. To kick off her residency at A/P/A Studies, Ms. Chiang will reunite with her creative partner and legendary folk singer, "Charlie" Chin for an evening of performance and personal poetry.
RSVP by Tuesday, October 7th: apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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Pan Asian Dialogue: Queer Asian/Pacific American Activism
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A panel of locally and nationally recognized LGBT Asian/Pacific American activists will discuss queer A/PA activist histories and examine current issues that disproportionately impact LGBT A/PA's. Find out more about trans activism, youth organizing, international and global movements, legislative actions, and strategies for future advocacy and organizing. Panelists include Ariel Herrera (Amnesty International), Ananya Mukherjea (PhD candidate, CUNY Graduate Center), Pauline Park (NY Association for Gender Rights Advocacy), and peer educators from APICHA youth program. Moderated by Christine Bacareza Balance (PhD candidate, New York University).
Co-sponsored with the Office for African American, Latino and Asian American Student Services (OASIS) and Pride Month at NYU RSVP by Monday, October 20th: apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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Brown Bag Lunch Series: Jasbir Puar - "Race, Nation, & The Queer War on Terrorism"
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Jasbir Puar is an Assistant Professor in Women's Studies at Rutgers University who completed her PhD in Ethnic Studies from University of California at Berkeley in December 1999, with an emphasis on women, gender, and sexuality. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the relationships between globalization, gender and sexuality, specifically doing fieldwork in Trinidad on the relationships between Afro and Indo Trinidadians within gay and lesbian communities. Last year she was awarded a Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship at the CUNY Graduate Center through the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, where she began a new project on queer tourism. Her teaching and research interests include queer theory, transnational feminisms and sexualities, South Asian diaspora studies, and tourism studies. She has published several articles on queer diasporas and South Asian diasporic cultural productions.
Co-sponsored with Pride Month at NYU RSVP by Wednesday, October 22nd : apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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Launch & Discussion: Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art
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Come celebrate the launch of this anthology on Asian American art with its New York-based co-editor and A/P/A Studies Research Scholar Margo Machida, local artists and contributors. The book features commentaries by writers, artists, and cultural activists that examine the work of 24 contemporary Asian American visual artists such as Pacita Abad, Albert Chong, Y. David Chung, Allan deSouza, Michael Joo, Yong Soon Min, Manuel Ocampo, Carlos Villa, and Martin Wong. Also featured in the book are prominent artists and critics such as Homi K. Bhabha, Enrique Chagoya, Gina Dent, Ellen Gallagher, Arturo Lindsay, Kobena Mercer, Griselda Pollock, Jolene Rickard, Faith Ringgold, Ella Shohat, Lowery Stokes Sims, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Deborah Willis offering thought-provoking reflections on each artist.
Books will be on hand for sale and signing. RSVP by Monday, November 3rd ->> back <<- |
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Dissertation Series: San San Kwan - "Choreographing Chineseness: Global Cities and the Performance of Ethnicity"
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"This dissertation examines the performance of 'Chineseness' what it means to be Chinese across transnational space through the global circulation of culture. I am interested in the ways in which the idea of Chineseness is both highly contested in different local contexts and, paradoxically, fiercely maintained as a collective consciousness across national borders. Not definable by national boundaries, biological essences, or even shared cultural norms, Chineseness is a mobile yet abiding idea. Using choreography literally, the writing of movement I mark the way 'being Chinese' acquires shifting layers of meaning in its movement across and through four global cities: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, and New York. My texts are both actual performance for example, a dance company in Taipei and the kinesthetic performativity of practices such as political protest in Hong Kong, retail fashion in New York, and urban design in Shanghai. I use dance not only as a subject, but also as a methodology, employing what I call 'ethno/choreography': a coming into knowledge of culture through the lived experience of the body in motion through space. The question driving this project is: what are the emergent forms of community, or even subjectivity, made possible through an increasingly transnational imaginary?"
-San San Kwan, Performance Studies (NYU) RSVP by Friday, November 7th: apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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Book Series Launch & Discussion: Jessica Hagedorn's Dream Jungle
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Novelist and playwright Jessica Hagedorn (Dream Jungle), and writer and memoirist Robin Hemley (Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday) talk about the 1970s "discovery" of the so-called "Stone Age" Tasaday tribe in the Philippine rain forests, which features in both of their works. At once sensual and razor-sharp in its depiction of identity, class and the impacts of colonialism, Dream Jungle evokes the desperate beauty and corruption of the Philippines from the height of the Marcos era to the end of the 20th century. In Invented Eden, Hemley unravels a dense snarl of romantic notions, political agendas, scientific rivalries and rampant misperceptions to disclose a far stranger tale. Both authors will read excerpts from their books. Moderated by James Hamilton-Paterson (novelist and reviewer for the London Review of Books). Reception and book signing follow.
Co-sponsored with Asia Society and Museum RSVP by Friday, November 7th: apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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Brown Bag Lunch Series: May Joseph - "Migrancy, Citizenship, & New York City"
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May Joseph, an A/P/A Studies Visiting Scholar, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Management at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Her primary interests include 20th-century colonial and postcolonial literatures; Black and Asian Diaspora cultural production, particularly in the U.S., Britain and the Caribbean; Pan-African cultural studies; theories of representation, feminist theory, film; modern and contemporary theatre and performance; and critical theory. Selected works have been featured in publications including Bodies Outside the State: Black British Women and the Limits of Citizenship (NYU, 1998) and Soul, Transnationalism, and the Imaginings of Revolution: Tanzanian Ujamaa and the Politics of Enjoyment (NYU, 1997).
RSVP by Monday, November 17th: apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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Community Health Forum - Walking the Bicultural Tightrope: Psychoanalytic and Literary Perspectives on the New American
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As part of A/P/A Studies' ongoing commitment to exploring community health issues, this conference draws links between the psychoanalytic and literary perspectives on cultural selves.
Held in conjunction with the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, this all-day conference with well-known psychoanalysts, scholars, and writers from diverse cultures including South Asia, East Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, will explore what it means to be a new American. Panel and roundtable discussion topics include:
This provocative conference will interest mental health service providers, community workers, as well as scholars and students of psychoanalysis, literature, community studies, theory, history, philosophy, and other concerned individuals. For registration fees and program schedule, please visit www.apa.nyu.edu. Payment and registration forms should be submitted to the NPAP (www.npap.org) or call (212) 243-1452 Co-sponsored with the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis RSVP by Monday, April 6th : apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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Annual Holiday Party
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An annual tradition filled with good food and music to celebrate the holidays with NYU students, staff, faculty, and the NYC community. Don't miss capping off the year at reputedly the best party at NYU!
Co-sponsored with Africana Studies Program & Institute of African-American Affairs. RSVP by December 8th: apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or call 212.992.9653 ->> back <<- |
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