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Our websites may use cookies to personalize and enhance your experience. By continuing without changing your cookie settings, you agree to this collection. For more information, please see our University Websites Privacy Notice . UConn University of Connecticut school of University of Connecticut Search University of Connecticut Search UConn A to Z Index UConn A to Z Index College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Asian and Asian American Studies Institute Search this Site Search in https://asianamerican.uconn.edu/ Search Toggle navigation Asian and Asian American Studies Institute Home Our Profile Mission Statement Message from the Director Undergraduate AAAS Courses: Spring 2023 Minors Asian Studies Minor Asian American Studies Minor India Studies Minor Student Spotlights LJ Karam: Life as an Asian American Studies Minor Ryan Verano: Alumni Spotlight Internships Illustrated Profiles News & Events Events Faculty Core Faculty and Staff Courtesy Faculty Michael M. 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On March 8, 2021, AAASI and AAAFS released a joint statement. Read the full statement in our posts on the home page. Na-Rae Kim, assistant professor-in-residence of Asian and Asian American studies, teaches AASI 2030: Art, Politics, and Propaganda in the Asian American Cultural Center on October 16, 2018. (Bri Diaz/UConn Photo) Analysis of state data shows that 1 in 4 Asian Americans in the state are women who recorded no income and their numbers are growing, but why? Andrew Rebatta, Associate Curator @mocanyc conducting research on the Fred Ho Collection at the UConn Dodd Center AASI 2030: Art, Politics, and Propaganda in the Asian American Cultural Center on October 16, 2018. (Bri Diaz/UConn Photo) AAASI Faculty Member, Alexis Dudden, presenting her summer research at AAASI Faculty Research Slam on September 3rd, 2019. A map of Asian American populations throughout Connecticut, dated 2015-2017 Current President of the Association of Asian American Studies, Jennifer Ho, speaking at the East of California Summit Exhibit in the School of Nursing showcasing the works of Filipino nurses. AAASI is Hiring! The UConn English Department and the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute are seeking a jointly appointed tenure-track assistant professor in twentieth- to twenty-first-century Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies. Further areas of focus might include American Studies; Southeast Asian Studies; critical refugee studies; diaspora and migration; transnational, transhemispheric, and transpacific studies; graphic narrative and […] Posted on October 10, 2023 Upcoming UConn Reads Events: Light From Uncommon Stars Join UConn Reads for two weeks of wonderful events in honor of the 2022-2023 selection, Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki. Posted on April 3, 2023 AAASI’s Illuminating Resilience Project Want to see the work some students have done with the mental health and arts initiative involving the COVID-19 pandemic? See this page, linked here! Academic Integrity at Stake: The Ramseyer Article – Four Letters” edited by Alexis Dudden Alexis Dudden is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. Her most recent book, Troubled Apologies, interrogates the interplay between political apology and apologetic history among Japan, Korea, and the United States.She is currently working on a project examining Japan’s territorial disputes. [...] Visit https://apjjf.org/2021/5/ToC2.html to read more! Asian Americans are not silent. So many of us in the community are actively fighting injustices and anti-racism. However, historically, we have always been silenced, which gives the incredibly false interpretation that all Asian Americans are passive & do not care. Let’s talk. Join UConn Faculty, Staff, Graduate, Undergraduate, and Alumni Asian Americans to unlearn and relearn about each other. Recording of the event We thank the over 800 attendees for coming to this event! Resources to continue the conversation: Immigrant History Initiative - S trategies for talking to children about racial identity, bullying, and anti-Asian racism | click here. Asian American and Pacific Islander Authors and Books #iamnotavirus #makeusvisible | list of Asian American books Connecticut specific Facebook group | #MakeUsVisibleCT Announcing the First Vorasane Scholarship Awards With great excitement, we are proud to announce the inaugural winners of the Nom and Boulieng Vorasane Scholarship – Lynna Vo and Georgia Mikan. Lynna is a Sophomore in Human Development and Family Sciences with an Early Childhood Development Specialization applying to the School of Education. Georgia is a Junior in the Pre-Teaching Elementary Education program in the School of Education specializing in teaching History and Geography in Social Studies. Read more… Announcing the Spring 2022 Artist-in-Residence: Ali Asgar Tara Ali Asgar Tara (they/them/she/her) is a Bangladeshi transgender artist currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Tara combines video, text, drawing, and community performance to create political, site responsive, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Twitter @aliasgarart Tara’s scholarship and art are reflective of their past & present experiences in a very different social, cultural, political, and educational environment. Tara’s current research-based art practice looks at the narratives of queer liberation in the context of the global north and juxtaposes it with their experience and understanding of queerness from the global south and argues how the neoliberal global market economy depoliticizes queerness as an Identity. This semester, they will lead regular encounters through the Decolonial Critic Lab , a bi-weekly meeting/discussion, designed to provoke critical discussion among the student and the faculty community of UConn which aim to examine the connection between decolonial methods and how Asia has been constructed, represented, mediated, and conceptualized by artists and curators across the globe at the end of the 20th century and early 21st century. Please email jason.o.chang@uconn.edu for information on Spring 2022 AAASI Artist in Residence virtual attendance. The AAASI Activist-In-Residence Program Adds Another Member We welcome JHD (Jennifer Heikkila Díaz) as the 21-22 Activist in residence. JHD (she/her or they/them) identifies as Korean American, Asian American, and biracial. For over two decades, she/they has worked in coalition with students, families, and school-based staff, pursuing educational equity–most of those years as a teacher, in school administration, and...