Event


ASAM Fellows Spring 2022 Symposium: Reclaiming Narratives

Apr 2, 2022 at

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We invite students, faculty, and the community at Penn to join us for the ASAM Fellows Spring 2022 Symposium: Reclaiming Narratives.

This symposium will explore the power dynamics that shape and marginalize Asian American narratives and will take place

April 2nd, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM

Location ARCH 108

 

Join us in person, please RSVP in advance here!

You can also join the morning session by Zoom, please register here!

Program:

10:00 - 12:00 PM Panel "The Unraveling of the American Dream across Korean Migration Narratives"

Panelists: Seungsook Moon, Minju Bae and Jiyeon Yuh  

Minju Bae is an activist, scholar, and educator. Her work examines Asian diasporas and American histories. Minju is a member of Nodutdol for Korean Community Development.

Seungsook Moon is Professor of Sociology at Vassar College where she served as Resident Director of London Program for Media and Culture,  Chair of Sociology Department, and Director of Asian Studies Program. She is the author of Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea (2005) and a co-editor, co-author and contributor of Over There: Living with the U.S. Military Empire from World War II to the Present (2010). Both books were published by Duke University Press and translated into Korean. As a political and cultural sociologist and scholar of gender studies specializing in South Korea, she has published numerous articles in major scholarly journals and has been also consulted by news media, including CNN, the Economist, El Pais, El Periodico (Spain), Korea Herald (South Korea), South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), and Weekendavisen (Denmark). Currently, she is finishing up a book manuscript that examines the relationship between neoliberalism and democracy through the lens of civic activism in South Korea.

Ji-Yeon Yuh (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999) teaches Asian American history, Asian diasporas, race and gender, and oral history at Northwestern University. Her current projects include Asian Diasporas Digital Archive, a digital oral history repository at the Northwestern Library; “Performing History: Documenting and Enacting the Asian American Midwest,” an oral history and performance project with scholars at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by the Humanities Without Walls consortium; Memories of War, an undergraduate research seminar and oral history project on the life narratives of Vietnamese and Korean Americans; and a book on Korean diasporas in China, Japan, and the United States. Active in community organizations, she is a co-founder of the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea, a board member of Korea Policy Institute, and former board president of KANWIN, a Korean American women's organization focusing on domestic violence. She is a native of Seoul and Chicago, a former journalist, and a fan of genre fiction.

1:00 - 2:30 PM- Workshop: "Creative Storytelling: A Screenprinting Workshop on Migration & Urban Narratives"

Maria Dumlao works with combined media, including film, video, animation, sound, photography, embroidery and installation. Her work explores individual and collective history as mediated experience. Dumlao combines images of history, mythology and folklore, landscapes, and creatures to propose alternatives to the systemic representations ordered by colonial narratives. Born Tagalog in the Philippines, Dumlao immigrated to the US mainland, where she currently lives and works in the traditional homelands of the Lenape in Philadelphia. Dumlao received a BA in Studio Art & Art History from Rutgers College and MFA in Studio Art at Hunter College-CUNY; has exhibited, screened and performed both nationally and internationally; and recently was awarded 2021 Velocity Fund, the 2020 Leeway Transformation Award, the 2020-21 Philadelphia Photo Art Center Artist-in-Residence, the 2019 Independence Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship, and the 2019-21 Center for Emerging Visual Artist Fellowship. This past year’s (2021) exhibitions include, Pearlstein Gallery (Philadelphia), Michener Art Museum (Doylestown), Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (Philadelphia), and TCNJ Art Gallery (Trenton). Upcoming projects include Mas Masarap Magkasama (more delicious together), a public and interactive 2-season project in collaboration with Bahay215 at The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education (Philadelphia, 2022), residencies at Interlude Art Residency (Hudson, NY 2022) and Portside Arts Center (Philadelphia, 2022), and a solo exhibition at Rowan University Art Gallery (Glassboro, 2023).

Rodney Camarce returns to the Asian Arts Initiative after serving multiple arts organizations throughout Philadelphia as a visual artist, a facilitator, the Youth Development Manager for the Mural Arts Program and a graphic recorder for the Bartol Foundation, Lenfest Foundation, and Ground Work USA. He has served as a Co-Ambassador for the Racial Equity Network for the National Guild for Community Arts, has been a Community Organizer in South Philadelphia and the International District in Seattle, works to build solidarity among all people in struggle, believes that we must subvert this cultural genocide by any means necessary, and practice radical optimism to imagine new possibilities.

Meet the ASAM Fellows 2021-2022

Join us in person, please RSVP in advance here!

You can also join the morning session by Zoom, please register here!