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4/14 - 4/15

8:30am - 6:00pm on 4/14 and 8:30am - 5:00pm pm 4/15

 MC 250

Asian American Philosophy Workshop

(Densho archive: https://densho.org/catalyst/gidra-now-available-online/)

A gathering of philosophers sharing and fine-tuning their work in progress on Asian American themes. This workshop explores aesthetic, political, and epistemological aspects of Asian American experience and the wider social landscape of the U.S.

Speakers:

  • Nicholas Whittaker (Wesleyan University) “Asian American Cinema” 
  • Hannah Kim (University of Arizona) “Asian American Experience and the Memoir” 
  • Meilin Chinn (Santa Clara University) “Other Orients: Music and Orientalism”
  • Falguni Sheth (Emory University) “Technologies of Race and South Asian American Identity”
  • Maya von Ziegesar (CUNY, Grad Center/Wesleyan University) “Asian Americans and the Epistemology of Ignorance in American Race Discourse”
  • Boram Jeong (CU, Denver) “The Temporal Politics of Asian America”
  • Alexander Pho (Hamilton College) “Asian Americans, Asian American Philosophy, and Asian Philosophy”
  • Yarran Hominh (Bard College) “Asian American Alienation and the Moral Psychology of Forced Cosmopolitanism”
  • Emily S. Lee (CSU, Fullerton) “On the Historico-Racial-Sexual Schema of Asian American Women”
  • David H. Kim (USF) “Anti-Imperialist Thought: Lessons from Early Amerasian Sources”

Sponsored by Fleishhacker Endowment, this event is free and open to the public