Events

In partnership with the Undergraduate Advisory Board (UAB) and the Graduate Asian American Students Association (GASAM), ASAM hosts special events, programs, conferences, and workshops including academic lectures, book talks, community-based internships, film screenings, cultural performances, and reading groups. Among these events are three ongoing series: our formal scholarly lectures in the Asian America Across the Disciplines  program our informal Food for Thought program, and our annual Yoonmee Chang Memorial Lecture.


CLALSES in conversation with Jengishbek Karagulov

Sep 27, 2023 at

McNeil Building 473

The Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies External Speaker (CLALSES) Series presents Jengishbek Karagulov, who will be serving as a guest in the course: Global Human Rights and US Immigratio


Asian America Across the Disciplines in conversation with Ali Zaker and Najneen Kabita, Moder Patshala

Sep 28, 2023 at

COHN 203

Ali Zaker and Najneen Kabita from Moder Patshala will join Dr. Fariha Khan's "South Asians in the US" course. 


Food for Thought with ASAM Fellows: David Deng

Sep 29, 2023 at

McNeil Building 473

Please join us for the Food for Thought Talks Fall 2023 with the ASAM Fellows 2023-2024. ASAM Fellow David Deng presents: Exploring Zoning Policy in Austin and How it Affec


Food for Thought with ASAM Fellows: Khue Tran

Existence as Resistance

Oct 20, 2023 at

McNeil Building 473

Please join us for the Food for Thought Talks Fall 2023 with the ASAM Fellows 2023-2024. ASAM Fellow Khue Tran presents: "Asian American Participation in Climate Adaptation


Food for Thought with ASAM Fellows: Simran Rajpal

Existence as Resistance

Oct 27, 2023 at

McNeil Building 473

Please join us for the Food for Thought Talks Fall 2023 with the ASAM Fellows 2023-2024. 


Food for Thought with ASAM Fellows: Steven Chen

Existence as Resistance

Nov 3, 2023 at

McNeil Building 473

Please join us for the Food for Thought Talks Fall 2023 with the ASAM Fellows 2023-2024. ASAM Fellow Steven Chen, presents: 


Food for Thought with ASAM Fellows: Eva Nee

Existence as Resistance

Nov 10, 2023 at

McNeil Building 473

Please join us for the Food for Thought Talks Fall 2023 with the ASAM Fellows 2023-2024. ASAM Fellow Eva Nee presents: "Evaluating current lung cancer scr


Asian America Across the Disciplines in conversation with Mohan Seshadri

Nov 16, 2023 at

Cohen 203 

Mohan Seshadri, Co-Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance, will join Dr.


Asian America Across the Disciplines Series in conversation with Lingxiao Chen and Xueqia Zhang

Nov 16, 2023 at

McNeil 473

Join us for the Asian America Across the Disciplines Series hosted by Dr.


ASAM UAB Conference

Nov 17, 2023 at

Arch 108

Stay connected for more details.


Food for Thought with ASAM UAB

Dec 1, 2023 at

McNeil Building 473


Second Sunday Culture Films

Feb 11, 2024 at

Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum
3260 South Street, Philadelphia

Second Sunday Culture Films presents Pili Ka Mo‘o and Standing Above the Clouds.


1924: Asian Exclusion and the Making of Immigrant America Symposium

Feb 23, 2024 at

TBD

The ASAM program and Department of History invite you to a conference to mark the centennial of the Immigration Act of 1924 titled "1924: Asian Exclusion and the Making of Immigrant America," which


Reading with Mira Jacobs

Apr 8, 2024 at

Kelly Writers House

Celebrating South Asian women in conversation with Mira Jacobs, novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic.