Events

"A conversation on healthcare access, quality, and disparities in Asian American communities"

ASAM Fellows Spring 2021 Symposium: "The Foreign Body" 

The ASAM Program is hosting a spring colloquium with the undergraduate recipients of this year’s ASAM Fellowship: Claire Nguyen, Julci Areza, Tiffany Tieu, Erin Jin Mei O’Malley, Jaywon Kim, and Neelu Paleti. Each Fellow conducted and presented independent research projects that related to Asian American Studies, with a recurring theme of “The Foreign Body.” The Fellows will engage with scholars, professionals, and activists from around the country to examine how the state and greater geopolitical forces have politicized and controlled the foreign body: the Asian American body. These conversations will investigate how Asian American bodies are featured in mental and maternal health, science fiction, decarceration and deportation, and political engagement. Together, their works question the meaning of foreign bodies as they exist in the US and what this signifies for Asian Americans. 

Spring Colloquium Events:

March 19th at 1pm: "Representing Asian Americans in Philadelphia: Education and the Census" Moderated by Julci Areza and Jaywon Kim

March 26th at 1pm: "The Alien Asian / Asian Alien" Moderated by Claire Nguyen and Erin Jin Mei O’Malley

April 2nd at 1pm: "Healthcare Access, Quality, and Disparities in Asian American Communities" Moderated by Neelu Paleti and Tiffany Tieu

Asian America Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2021 presents Family, Generations, and Korean Americans in conversation with Im Ja Choi, Exec. Dir., Penn Asian American Senior Services.

Im Ja Choi MS is the Founder and current CEO of Penn Asian Senior Service (PASSi) and its subsidiaries. Additionally, she serves as a council member for the Pennsylvania Department of Aging Cultural Diversity Advisory Council and a commissioner of the Pennsylvania Commission on Women. Ms. Choi received her MS degree in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania, and her B.A. degree from Korea University in Seoul.

Hosted by ASAM and ASAM 104-401Asian American Communities.

Racism and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America: Cultural and Media Systems

Panelists:

Herman Beavers, Professor of English and Africana Studies; Faculty Director of Civic Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania

Margo Natalie Crawford, Professor of English, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excellence, University of Pennsylvania

Guthrie Ramsey, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music

Deborah Thomas, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

Tukufu Zuberi, The Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, Sociology Department, University of Pennsylvania

The 22nd year of Kelly Writers House Fellows will feature poet/activist Hilton Als. During the visit a reading will take place on Monday at 6:30 PM. On Tuesday at 10 AM the Writers House will host a brunch followed by a one-hour interview/conversation; attendance for both programs is by rsvp only.

Asian America Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2021 presents "Combating Islamophobia: Between Throwing Data at the Problem and "You'd Love Us if Only You Knew Us" by Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu, Ph.D. Outreach and Education Director, CAIR-Philadelphia.

Professor Ahmet Selim is a Turkish-American academic and organizer. His research focuses on American Muslim history and identity. He is the Education and Outreach Director at the Philadelphia Chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR-Philadelphia. Dr. Tekelioglu directs the digital Islamic Studies project themaydan.com at George Mason University where he is a research fellow at the Center for Global Islamic Studies. He serves on the boards of POWER Interfaith and JACL-Philadelphia. 

In this lecture with Dr. Selim we will contextualize Islamophobia/ anti-Muslim racism in the US in our current historical moment. Next, we will analyze its different manifestations and examine various tactics employed to counter it. With a specific focus on my experiences from the ground as an organizer in Philadelphia, I will invite us to think around how we could develop a critical perspective on anti-Muslim racism as it impacts AAPI, African, African-American, and other Muslim-Americans.

Hosted by ASAM and ASAM 110-301 Asian American Activism

In America 2020 has been a defining moment. To date the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed over 400,000 lives. With the economic shutdown millions of Americans lost their jobs. Protesters took to the streets denouncing systemic racism and demanding change. Feelings of grief, anger, fear, loss, and uncertainty have marked these unprecedented times.

Many Voices, Many Visions presents over 40 works of art drawn from Penn’s Art Collection that resonate with these contemporary issues. The paintings, prints, sculpture, and photographs on view are insightful, compassionate, and at times provocative. From William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress, 1735, to Honoré Daumier’s Les Gens de Justice, 1845 to Shirin Neshat’s Ghada, 2013 these artists reveal the moral, social, or political issues of their time.

Students, Staff & Faculty: Share Voices.

Opening Remarks by Beth Winkelstein, Ph.D., Deputy Provost, and Eduardo D. Glandt
President's Distinguished Professor Keynote Vijay Kumar, Ph.D., Nemirovsky Family Dean, Penn Engineering.

Organized by the Vice Provost For University Life and the Office of Affirmative Action & Equal Opportunity Programs.

Dr. Ramani Durvasula is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Santa Monica and Sherman Oaks, CA and Professor of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, where she was named Outstanding Professor in 2012, and a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg. She was also the national recipient of the American Association of University Women Emerging Scholar Award. The focus of Dr. Durvasula’s clinical, academic and consultative work is the etiology and impact of narcissism and high-conflict, entitled, antagonistic personality styles on human relationships, mental health, and societal expectations. She has spoken on these issues to clinicians, educators and researchers around the world. Her work has been featured at SxSW, TEDx, and on a wide range of media platforms including Red Table Talk, the Today Show, Oxygen, Investigation Discovery, Bravo, and she is a featured expert on the digital media mental health platform MedCircle.

Asian America Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2021 presents  Asian American Activism; Pan-Ethnicity; Education in conversation with Wei Chen, Civic Engagement Coordinator at Asian Americans United.

Wei Chen, Civic Engagement Coordinator at Asian Americans United.

Since 1985, Asian Americans United exists so that people of Asian ancestry in Philadelphia exercise leadership to build their communities and unite to challenge oppression. AAU sees the right to culture as a human right. AAU’s arts and culture work creates social change through engaging community members in realizing community members’ inherent artistic and creative potential and building pride in cultural heritage.

Hosted by ASAM and ASAM 104-401Asian American Communities.