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To introduce students, faculty, and staff to the current scholarship in the
field, a conference, "Crossings and
Crossroads: Critical Intersections in Asian American Studies," will be
held on campus from Friday, May 5 through Sunday, May 7. According to one of
the organizers, Nora Yasumura, assistant dean of student life and advisor to Asian and Asian American
students, the series of lectures, panel discussions, and other events will
feature noted scholars and invited representatives from 11 colleges and
universities in the northeast.
Gary Okihiro
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Assistant Professor of History Jean Kim, a
member of the conference planning committee, says that the conference is
intended "to broadly introduce the rest of the campus to Asian American
Studies through research that both presents and critically interrogates the
scope of the field, its primary subjects of study, as well as its intersections
with other fields." She adds, "We will bring together junior and
senior scholars from a number of disciplines working at colleges and
universities across the country to share their research, and scholars to act as
consultants in a discussion of how Asian American Studies can grow at
Dartmouth."
On Friday, May 5 at 5 p.m. in Collis Commonground President James Wright will
welcome attendees and Gary
Okihiro, professor of international and public affairs at Columbia
University, will deliver the opening keynote address, "Our Ethnic Studies:
Critical Intersections of Race, Gender, Culture, and Nation." The lecture
will be followed by a reception in the Hopkins Center Faculty Lounge. Okihiro,
an award-winning author, is director of Columbia's Center for the Study of
Ethnicity and Race. His research focuses on Asian American studies and southern
Africa. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American
Studies Association, and is a past president of the Association for Asian
American Studies.
David Palumbo-Liu, a
professor of comparative literature at Stanford University, will deliver the
closing keynote address, "Race, Modernity, and America," on Saturday,
May 6 at 5 p.m. in Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall. Palumbo-Liu helped establish
Stanford's Asian American Studies Program and currently serves as its director.
He is the author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial
Frontier (1999).
The conference will also include several panel sessions, all of which are
open to the public. Saturday's events will include panels on "Empire,
Global, Capital, and Asian American Studies," "Mapping Race and
Interethnic Relations," and "Performing Gender and Sexuality."
For more information, e-mail nora.yasumura@dartmouth.edu or
call 646-0123.
"Crossings and Crossroads" is cosponsored by many departments and
offices, including African and
African American studies, anthropology, Asian and Middle Eastern
studies, English, geography, history, Jewish studies, Native American studies, sociology, women's and gender studies, the
Collis Governing
Board, the Office
of Asian and Asian American advising, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership,
the Dean of the Faculty office, Provost's office, and the Pan
Asian Council.
By GENEVIEVE HAAS
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