Global Asias Cyber Chat: Gendering Social Movements across Global Asia and Asian America (4/17/23)

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Global Asias Cyber Chat: Gendering Social Movements across Global Asia and Asian America (4/17/23) Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 04/17/2023 - 16:54

The Spring 2023 Global Asias Cyber Chat focuses on the role of women in social movements across Asia and Asian America.

This event was originally set to take place on March 7, 2023, and was rescheduled for April 17, 2023. This virtual panel will feature 3 scholars in conversation, roundtable style. Please note we are not recording this webinar.

Speakers and Topics

Professor Miliann Kang, PhD, teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the College of Humanities & Fine Arts. Dr. Kang will discuss the role of mothers in social movements, especially Asian American activism, from Lily Chin, mother of Vincent Chin, who galvanized nationwide organizing after her son's murder, to Patsy Mink, first woman of color elected to Congress who is known as the "mother of Title IX," to contemporary maternal activism against anti-Asian racism. Dr. Kang studies Asian American feminisms, immigrant women’s work and labor issues, race and reproductive politics, and gender, work and family issues in transnational contexts.

People often refer to 1990s Japan as the “lost decade” because of the economic malaise that set in after the bubble burst at the end of the 80s. Dr. Petrice Flowers, Associate Professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, will focus on how this decade and the following were a renaissance of activism, often led by women. Her research focuses on Japan in an international context and investigates the global-local connections between Japan and the world.

Dr. Deepti Misri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her areas of interest span South Asian literary and cultural production, transnational feminist studies, and feminist theory and criticism. Dr. Misri will consider women-led forms of activism and art in the context of Kashmir, also examining instrumentalist state mobilizations of “women’s rights” discourses, and reflecting on avenues for transnational solidarity with Kashmiri women.

ADA Accomodation

We will work with ADA Compliance to attempt to fulfill any disability requests for ASL interpreting for this event. Requests received less than 48 hours prior to the event cannot be guaranteed. To make a request, please email the Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) at cu-cha@colorado.edu.

Event Hosts

Co-Sponsored by CU Boulder's Center for Asian Studies and the Global Asias Initiative.

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