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Location: Terrace Room | Cohen Hall | 246 36th St.
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The Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania would like to invite you to Faces of Asian America: The First Undergraduate Research Forum on Asian American Studies on March 17, 2012. The Research Forum is a scholarly exploration of the issues surrounding the Asian American experience with the goal of promoting a more profound understanding of Asian America. The conference welcomes students, professors, and professionals to discuss areas of research important to our community. Themes that will be considered are Race and Ethnicity, Activism and Representation, and The “Model Minority” and the “Other Asians.”
Faces of Asian America welcomes research from all disciplines including but not limited to History, Literature, Sociology, and Cinema. All students are invited to enter their work such as papers from current or past academic courses or independent study. All submitted research will be reviewed by a panel, and twelve outstanding papers will be selected to participate at the Forum. One exceptional work will be selected for an award of $300.
We are also honored to be inviting Dr. Elaine Kim as our Keynote Speaker for the event.
Complete Schedule:
9:00-9:45- Breakfast/ Registration
9:45-10:00: Welcome Remarks
Dean DeTurck, Welcome from the University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Josephine Park, Welcome from ASAM Program
10:00-11:30 Panel 1 | Model Minority and Asian American Identity
Moderator: Dr. Josephine Park
Facilitator: Cindy Ju
Amerasians in “Multicultural” South Korea: Race, Gender, and National Belonging
Yuri Doolan, Ohio State University
Queer Asian American Masculinities?
Steve Pan, University of Missouri, Columbia
A Closer Look at the Model Minority Stereotype: The Experience of Low Achieving Asian American Students
Martha Lee, University of Pennsylvania
San Francisco Chinatown’s Path of Resistance: Challenging Health Measures in Federal Court During the Plague Outbreak of 1900
Rachel Shuen, Wellesley College
Chinese American Elderly and the Search for Community Space
Anthony Tran, University of Pennsylvania
11:30-12:00 Lunch
12:00-12:30 Film Screening
12:30-1:30 Keynote Speech Elaine Kim
1:45-3:15 Panel 2 | Race and Ethnicity
Moderator: Dr. Grace Kao
Facilitator: Jenny Xiang
An Untold Story: The Chinese-American Experience during Boston’s Desegregation Busing
Lorrayne Shen, Tufts University
Adoption and Aesthetics: The Centrality of Whiteness as Aesthetic on Transnational Adoptee Racial Melancholia
Lily E. Kim, University of Pennsylvania
What Explains Asian American Political Participation? The Effect of Co-Ethnic Candidates on Voter Turnout in New York City
Diane Wong, SUNY Binghamton
Bilingualism and Identity Construction of Second-Generation Asian Americans
Quan Nguyen, University of Pennsylvania
3:30-5:00 Panel 3 | The Other Asians
Moderator: Dr. Fariha Khan
Facilitator: Nicky Singh
Notions of Homeland and Citizenship Among Bhutanese Refugees
Divya Mishra, University of Pennsylvania
Anti-Communism as a Cultural Identity of Vietnamese Americans
Binh Nguyen, University of Pennsylvania
The South Asian Diaspora: Retirement
Shubhangi Agrawal, University of Pennsylvania
To Be Seen and Heard: Youth Voice and Visibility in a Southeast Asian Youth Organization
Vivian Truong, Brown University
5:00 Closing Remarks: Dr. Fariha Khan