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 Series with Dr. Denise Berte Ziya, Clinical Psychologist specialized in Trauma and Refugees

Mar 26, 2025 at

McNeil 473

CLALSES present Dr. Denise Berte Ziya, Executive Director - Peaceful Families Project, Clinical P


The Yoonmee Chang Memorial Lecture 2025 with Curtis Chin, Author, Filmmaker and Activist

Mar 26, 2025 at

Widener Lecture Hall at Penn Museum
3260 South Street. Philadelphia, PA 19104

Entrance through the Warden Gardens to the building on South Street

The Yoonmee Chang Memorial Lecture welcomes author, filmmaker and activist


Asian American Across the Disciplines with Curtis Chin, author, filmmaker and activist

Mar 27, 2025 at

PSC COMMONS

Asian American Across the Disciplines presents Curtis Chin, author, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin.


Screening of Chinatown Cha-Cha Exploring the History of Chinese-American Women Nightclub Performers

Exploring the History of Chinese-American Women Nightclub Performers

Join Cinema Studies at Public Trust for Chinatown Cha-Cha, a film screening exploring the history of Chinese-American women nightclub performers and their lasting cultural legacy, on


Asian American Across the Disciplines with Rahim Ullah, RahimRedTruck, Halal Food Truck

Apr 1, 2025 at

COHN 337

Asian American Across the Disciplines presents Rahim Ullah, Rahim


Asian American Across the Disciplines with Nikil Saval, Pennsylvania State Senator

Apr 2, 2025 at

College Hall Room 319

Asian American Across the Disciplines in conversation with Nikil Saval, Pennsylvania State Senator.


Book Talk by Sameer Pandya, Author and Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Apr 2, 2025 at

PSC COMMONS

Join us on April 2, 2025, for a co-sponsored event featuring Sameer Pandya, author of the novel 


Asian American Across the Disciplines with Lan Dinh and Duong Ly, VietLead

Apr 8, 2025 at

COHN 337

Asian American Across the Disciplines presents Lan Dinh, VietLEAD Farm & Food Sovereignty Projects Director and Duong Ly,  VietLead Youth Projects Directo


Asian American Across the Disciplines with Lan Dinh, VietLead

Apr 8, 2025 at

McNeil 473

Asian American Across the Disciplines presents Lan Dinh, VietLEAD Farm & Food Sovereignty Projects Director.


Towards Our Collective Liberation Symposium

Hosted by ASAM Undergraduate Research Fellows

Apr 11, 2025 at

PSC COMMONS

The Asian American Studies Program (ASAM) invites you to join the ASAM Undergraduate Research Fellows (2024-2025) as they host:  


Asian American Across the Disciplines with Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law

Apr 16, 2025 at

COLL 319

Asian American Across the Disciplines Series presents The Precarity of Immigrant Workers in conversation with 


The United Minorities Council (UMC) Annual Intercultural Fair

Apr 16, 2025 at

The United Minorities Council (UMC) is excited to host the annual Intercultural Fair on April 16th at Houston Hall.


Asian American Across the Disciplines with Nok Suntaranon, Chef and owner of Kalaya

Apr 22, 2025 at

COHN 337

Asian American Across the Disciplines presents Chutatip “Nok” Suntaranon, chef and owner of Kalaya


Asian American Across the Disciplines with Mckayla Warwick, Executive Director of Collective Climb

Apr 22, 2025 at

COHN 203

Join us for the Asian American Across the Disciplines Series in conversation with Mckayla Warwick, Co-Founder and Executive Director of 


ASAM Undergraduate Advisory Board Book Club

Food for Thought

Apr 25, 2025 at

McNeil 473

ASAM March Book Club


ASAM - PAACH End of Year Celebration

Apr 29, 2025 at

Bodek Lounge, Huston Hall


Reflections on the Wars: Then and Now, Roundtable Discussion

Apr 30, 2025 at

PSC COMMONS

Reflections on the Wars: Then and Now

A roundtable discussion with:


PAACH -ASAM Friends and Family Graduation Lunch

May 19, 2025 at

Arch 108 and Lobby