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Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Creating New Paradigms and Mentoring in the Academy

Gendering the Trans-Pacific World:  Creating New Paradigms and Mentoring in the Academy
May 12, 12-1:30, HIB 135
Please rsvp to robledj1@uci.edu by May 9 for lunch.
Please join us for a roundtable discussion featuring the editors and authors of a new anthology, Gendering the Trans-Pacific World  (http://www.brill.com/products/book/gendering-trans-pacific-world:  Brill 2017).  The conversation will explore the significance of a Pacific World framework and the importance of gendered analysis for understanding empire, migration, and cultural circulation.  The speakers also will discuss how collaborative publishing projects offer opportunities for mentoring and share strategies for navigating the academy.
Featured speakers:

• Catherine Ceniza Choy (professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley) is the author of Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (Duke University Press, 2003) and Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America (New York University Press, 2013).
• Lan Duong (associate professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside) is the author of Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism (Temple University Press, 2012) and co-editor of Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora: Troubling Borders in Literature and Art (University of Washington Press, 2013).
• Fang He (doctoral candidate in history at University of California, Santa Barbara) specializes in the histories of gender, Chinese America, and American immigration.
• Kimberly McKee (the director of the Kutsche Office of Local History and an assistant professor in liberal studies at Grand Valley State University) serves as the assistant director of KAAN (the Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family  Network).
• Gladys Nubla (independent scholar) received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and has published her scholarship on Filipina/o American literature and film in MELUS, positions: east asia critique, and LIT.
• Stella Oh (associate professor and chair of the Department of Women’s Studies at Loyola Marymount University) specializes in Asian American literature and visual cultures. Her research has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, AJWS: Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, MOSAIC: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, and Amerasia as well as several anthologies.
• Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (professor and chair of Asian American studies at the University of California, Irvine) is the author of Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards:  The Life of a Wartime Celebrity (University of California Press, 2005) and Radicals on the Road:  Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era (Cornell University Press, 2013).

Co-Sponsors:  Asian American Studies, Center for Critical Korean Studies, Humanities Commons, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Literature,  English, Film and Media Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, and Viet Stories: the Vietnamese American Oral History Project