Immigration, Transnationalism, Diaspora: Issues for
Asian/American Communities
A National Conference by the UIC chapter of Asian Pacific American
Graduate Students Organization (APAGSO)
All are cordially invited. The conference is FREE and open to the public.
March 16th 3:00- 7:30 pm
March 17th 9am- 8pm
Student Center East (SCE)
University of Illinois at Chicago
750 South Halsted St.,
Chicago, IL 60607
Please visit our website
http://www2.uic.edu/stud_orgs/other/apagso/or see the attachment, for the full schedule of papers and panels:
FRIDAY RECEPTION:
Hull House
800 S.Halsted Street
March 16, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
FRIDAY KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Vijay Prashad
Trinity College
³Getting Polyculturalism: The Politics and Epistemology of Our Times²
March 16, 6:00- 7:30p.m., SCE 302
Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Professor of South Asian
History and Director of the International Studies Program at Trinity
College. His most recent books are _The Darker Nations: A People¹s History
of the Third World_ and _Dispatches from Latin America: Experiments
Against Neoliberalism_ (coedited with Teo Ballve). He is the author of ten
other books, including two selected by the Village Voice as books of the
year: _Karma of Brown Folk_ (2000) and _Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting:
Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity_ (2001). He is on
the board of the Center for Third World Organizing (Oakland), United for a
Fair Economy (Boston) and National Priorities Project (Northampton). He
writes a monthly column for Frontline (India), ZNET and Counterpunch.
SATURDAY FACULTY PANEL:
Innovations and Transitions: Emergent Paradigms in Interdisciplinary and
Comparative Research
March 17, 3:30-5:00 p.m., SCE 302
Moderated by Helen Jun, Assistant Professor of African American Studies
and English, UIC
€ Junaid Rana, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Asian American
Studies; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
€ Lisa Cacho, Assistant Professor of Latina/Latino Studies, Asian American
Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and the Department of English;
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
€ Barnor Hesse, Professor of African American Studies, Political Science,
and Sociology; Northwestern University
€ Camilla Fojas, Director and Associate Professor of Latin American and
Latino Studies; DePaul University
SATURDAY PERFORMANCE:
Ed Bok Lee
Spoken Word Poet
March 17, 6p.m., SCE 302
Author and spoken word artist Ed Bok Lee is winner of the 2006 PEN/Beyond
Margins Award for his volume of poetry, _Real Karaoke People_. He has
studied Russian and Central Asian Languages and Literatures at the
Universities of California‹Berkeley, Minnesota, Kazakh State‹Almaty,
Indiana University, and holds an MFA from Brown University.
³Immigration, Transnationalism, Diaspora: Issues for Asian/American
Communities² a graduate-student organized program of events, is made
possible by the generous support of Institute for Research on Race and
Public Policy; Asian American Resource and Cultural Center; Department of
African American Studies, UIC; Department of English, UIC; Chicago
Organizational Fund; Chancellor¹s Committee on the Status of Asian
Americans; Graduate College; Student Activities Funding Committee; and Jane
Addams Hull-House Museum.
