Program News
Check out our exciting spring 2024 calendar!
January 17, 2024
Read MoreCheck the New Spring 2024 Courses!
January 6, 2024
Read MoreASAM Memory Booklet Fall 2023
December 18, 2023
Read MoreWelcome New UAB Co-Chairs
December 15, 2023
Read MoreTransforming Asian American Studies
November 30, 2023
Read MoreThe Asian American studies program doubles in size
October 30, 2023
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Welcome to the University of Pennsylvania’s Program in Asian American Studies (ASAM).
ASAM aims to prepare students intellectually as well as socially for the opportunities and challenges of their future careers whatever industry or area they choose. ASAM was established in Fall 1996 as a result of collective student, faculty, and alumni action. We are one of a handful of Ivy League institutions with a course of study in this dynamic and growing field, and we recently celebrated our 25th Anniversary!
Events
Existence as Resistance: ASAM Fellows 2024 Spring Symposium
The Asian American Studies Program (ASAM) would like to invite you to participate in the event "Existence as Resistance: ASAM Fellows Spring 2024 Symposium,” which will take place on Saturday, March 30th from 10 am to 4 pm EST.
Asian America Across the Disciplines with Councilmember Nina Ahmad
Join us for the Asian American Across the Disciplines Series in conversation with Councilmember Nina Ahmad.
Asian American Across the Disciplines with with Jennifer Lee, Professor of Law at Temple University, and Samuel Jones, Eastern Regional Director Restaurant Opportunities Centers
SNF Paideia Program and Asian America Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2024 present Race and Labor with
Reading and conversation with Mira Jacob, Author of Good Talk
Celebrating South Asian women in conversation with Mira Jacob, novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic.
Monday, April 8, 6:00 PM
Kelly Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk
Talk-Story Leadership: On Global Asias And Taboo Subjects with Christine Yano, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii
Center for East Asian Studies invites you to join Christine Yano, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii for the presentation: "Talk-Story Leadership: On Global Asias And Taboo Subjects"
Asian American Across the Disciplines with Stephen Damianos, president and founder of Penn Undergraduates for Refugee Empowerment
SNF Paideia Program and Asian America Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2024 present Health and Sex Work in Greece with Stephen Damianos, president and founder of Penn Undergraduates for Refugee Empowerment (PURE), founder of United Nations “Together.”
Grad Student Lunch hosted by GASAM
The Graduate Asian American Students Association (GASAM) in collaboration with ASAM invite you to join us for a Lunch & Learn gathering with Weirong Guo, PhD, Penn’s Panda Express Postdoctoral Fellow, Asian American Studies.
Documentary screening of “Taking Root: Southeast Asian Stories of Refugee Resettlement in Philadelphia"
Please join APSC, Civic House, and ASAM in watching a documentary screening of “Taking Root: Southeast Asian Stories of Refugee Resettlement in Philadelphia.” Vietlead, a grassroots Southeast Asian organization in Philadelphia, will be leading us in engaging with
Asian American Across the Disciplines with Dean Antonia Villarruel, Professor and Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at Penn
SNF Paideia Program and Asian America Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2024 present Race and Healthcare with Dean Antonia Villarruel, Professor and Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at Penn,
Asian American Across the Disciplines with Dian Dian, Activist
Asian American Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2024 present "The (Grassroot) Feminist Activism in (Mainland) China: From the 4th UN Conference on Women to #MeToo and Digital Feminism(s)" by Dian Dian, Ph.D.