Baltimore AAPI Learning Community: A Visioning Session
Baltimore AAPI Learning Community: A Visioning Session
Monday, May 20, 6 – 8 p.m.
16 W North Ave
The Baltimore AAPI Learning Community, an emergent collaboration among Baltimore-based AAPI organizations, is committed to helping create stronger engagement between AAPI organizations and a deeper sense of place and belonging among AAPI folks in the Baltimore area. Come to our first visioning session, where we will chat in large and small groups about what it would take for AAPI individuals, organizations, and community to be seen, heard, and valued in Baltimore. Co-sponsored by Critical Responses to Anti-Asian Violence (CRAAV) and National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP). Dinner will be served.
This event is part of the Asia North 2024 annual community exhibition and celebration.
Community-Engaged Research on the Asian Diaspora in Baltimore: A Roundtable Discussion
Join Critical Responses to Anti-Asian Violence (CRAAV) for a roundtable discussion about the challenges and opportunities for collaboration when doing community-engaged research on the Asian diaspora in Baltimore! The event summary can be found here.
December 7, 2023, 6 - 8pm
Scotts-Bates Commons Salon A
10 E. 33rd Street, Baltimore 21218
Open to the Public. The event will begin with a dinner reception from 6-6:30pm. Please RSVP on Eventbrite by December 4.
Speakers:
Brian Gerardo (Founder, Baltimore Chapter of the National Association of Asian American Professionals)
Joanna Pecore (Director, Asian Arts & Culture Center at Towson University)
Jacqueline Shin (Independent Scholar)
Vanessa Han, (Undergraduate Class of 2026, Johns Hopkins University)
Suzy Schlosberg, (Undergraduate Class of 2024, Johns Hopkins University)
Moderated by Erin Aeran Chung (Professor, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University)
Sponsored by Critical Responses to Anti-Asian Violence (CRAAV) and The Chloe Center for the Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. Questions? Contact craav@jhu.edu
Racism and Repair at Johns Hopkins and Beyond
Symposium on New Research into the History of JHU
Over the past three years, research teams funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and composed of leading experts have been excavating how academic departments in the medical sciences, social sciences, and humanities at Johns Hopkins University both created racist forms of knowledge and expertise and were reshaped by anti-racist and desegregation struggles in the twentieth century.
Join us for a symposium that will mark the first public presentation of the findings of these research teams. This presentation will contextualize segregated knowledge production in the history of Baltimore City and propose forms of reparation, while also inviting community feedback.
Among the academic departments to be discussed are: Archaeology, Emergency Medicine, Hematology, History, Sociology, and Surgery.
Location: Eubie Blake National Jazz and Cultural Center, 847 Howard St.
Free and open to the public. Lunch will be served.
This event will also be livestreamed (here) for those who cannot attend in person.
Community-Engaged Research in Critical Diaspora Studies
Please join the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship for a conversation about community-engaged learning, research, and internships for undergraduate students. This event will feature brief presentations by Dr. Erin Aeran Chung, Dr. Shawntay Stocks, and Vanessa Han (’26), Angela Tracy (’25), and Ethan Tan (’25), moderated by Kobi Khong (’24). Speakers will emphasize their own experiences with community-engaged learning, how it has shaped their intellectual development, and why it has been crucial to their educational experience.
This is the first of two events planned for the fall ’23 semester concerning community-engaged learning in the Baltimore-DC region as part of the launch of the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship’s new undergraduate major, Critical Diaspora Studies (CDS).
The CDS major is the result of an undergraduate student movement that began in 2021 and advocated for an activism-oriented academic program that enables students to study the connections, solidarities, and dissonances between geographical and cultural areas of study—from Asian American Studies and the African diaspora to Indigenous and Latinx Studies—that are usually considered separately from one another, but are in fact connected through entangled histories of migration, colonialism, and social movements. The major will include a required community-engaged learning and research that focuses on these entangled histories and contemporary social movements.
The second event will take place at the new 555 Penn building on Saturday, Nov. 4. Students who are interested in attending should pre-register by e-mailing gcho2@jhu.edu. Travel costs and lunch will be provided.
Reflections on Focus Group Interviews with AAPI in Baltimore
Students in Professor Erin Chung's Comparative Racial Politics course will present their analysis of a pilot focus group interview with AAPI residents that they conducted earlier this spring. Topics of discussion include experiences living as AAPI residents in the Baltimore area, relationships with community organizations, and community issues that affect AAPI residents.
Panelists: Erin Aeran Chung, Matt Arcillo, Shekinah Carroll, Vanessa Han, Kaitlyn Jung, Angela Tracy
Open to the Public
Author Workshop with Susan Choi on 'The Foreign Student'
Presented by Susan Choi, a novelist and instructor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
Please come having read the book!
Email tbarkaw1@jhu.edu to RSVP.
The Politics of Racism and Antiracism in Japan
Presented by Dr. Michael Sharpe, a professor of Political Science at York College/CUNY.
Located in Mergenthaler 266 on the Homewood Campus.
* Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies, International Studies, and Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC) Program and the Political Science department
Panel discussion with Cori Dioquino on her one-person show, Crisis Mode: Living Filipino in America
In this one-person piece, Cori Dioquino explores the complexities of her own identity as she navigates through the three major identity crises of her life. “Crisis Mode'' weaves Dioquino’s personal history with that of her motherland - The Philippines - and its complicated relationship to the United States through dance, movement, music and art. With each crisis, she shares her experiences growing up an immigrant in the “Land of the Free”, coping with hidden mental health issues, and her gradual transition from “Proud Pinoy” to “Generic Asian”.
Located at The Strand Theater (5426 Harford Rd, Baltimore, MD 21214)
* Co-sponsored by the Asian Pasifika Arts Collective
The 'Mixed Blood' Problem in Cold War South Korea
Presented by Dr. Laura Reizman, a postdoctoral fellow in Korean Humanities at Johns Hopkins University.
Located in Mergenthaler 266 on the Homewood Campus.
Open Event: No registration required
*Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies, International Studies, and Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC) Program, and the Anthropology department
Racial Profiling and the China Initiative: Challenges Facing Academics of Chinese Descent and Those Who Collaborate with Scientists in China
Presented by Professor Xiaoxing Xi, a Laura H. Carnell Professor of Physics at Temple University.
Located in the Bloomberg Building’s Schafler Auditorium on the Homewood Campus.
Open Event: No registration required
* Co-sponsored with the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship
History Lab Undergraduate Student Presentations
Presented by the students in Professor Yumi Kim’s History Lab course with Dr. Maria Paz G. Esguerra, Assistant Professor of History at Bridgewater College, as the discussant.
Located in Gilman 217 on the Homewood Campus.
Click here to register for this event.
The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography of Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing’s Koreatown
Presented by Dr. Sam Vong, Curator of Asian Pacific American History at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Located in Gilman 217 on the Homewood Campus.
Dr. Vong is a former history professor at the University of Texas-Austin. He was formally trained as a historian of 20th century US History, but his current specialties include US immigration history, global migration and refugee studies, US gender and women’s history, and the history of Southeast Asia.
Click here to register for this event.
Using US Census Data to Trace Local Histories of Asians in Baltimore: A Methods Workshop
A workshop presentation by Professor Ian Shin from the University of Michigan.
Located in Gilman 217 on the Homewood Campus.
Professor Shin specializes in Asian American history and the US in the Pacific World from 1850-1950. His current projects include researching the history of interracial adoption of white children by Chinese parents during the Exclusion Era and the development of Asian ethnoburbs in the Metro Detroit area. Professor Shin also hosts a podcast that welcomes authors in Asian American studies as guests, which you can find here!
Click here to register for this event.
Chinese Pasts and Presents in Baltimore: A Community Conversation
A conversation with longtime Chinese American and Chinese-descended Baltimore community leaders Vincent Liu, George Yung, and Rockwood E. Lee about life in Baltimore’s former Chinatown and more.
Located in Gilman 217 on the Homewood Campus.
Click here to register for this event.
Fall 2022 Series: A Department of Reparations? New Directions in the Study of Racism, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Presented by Adom Getachew from Chicago and Lisa Lowe from Yale in conversation with Nathan Connolly from JHU and Joyce Wang.
Located in Gilman 50 on Homewood Campus.
Open Event: No registration required
* Affiliate event sponsored by CRAAV & the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship
WYPR/NPR On the Record: What is Asian American Identity?
On WYPR’s On the Record, CRAAV Co-founder Professor Yumi Kim speaks with Filipino American actor and educator Cori Dioquino and psychologist Natalie Hung, laying out the decades of history and policies that fueled anti-Asian sentiment in the U.S.:
“Not only is Anti-Asian violence not trans-historical, meaning it doesn’t stay the same across time. It takes on different meaning and different significance, and that's part of the reason it persists. Because it evolves, it adapts.”
Listen to the conversation HERE.
Critical Diasporic Studies Roundtable with Student and Faculty Speakers
Register HERE
The purpose of the Critical Diasporic Studies initiative is to propose the creation of a new academic space that connects various existing academic fields at Hopkins under the central theme of diaspora, with goals to create focus areas in Asian American/API Studies, LatinX Studies, and more. We hope that courses offered through and cross-listed with CDS can study diasporic communities from a transnational, as opposed to a geographically constrained and US-centric perspective. Courses might study the history, social experiences, and arts/culture of a specific diasporic community, for example.
This panel will serve as both an intellectual discussion for the need for diverse, comprehensive curricula and a space to promote CDS's goal and proposal.
Panelists:
Sheharyar Imran, Graduate Student of Political Science and Assistant in the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC)
H. Yumi Kim, Co-founder of CRAAV and Assistant Professor of History
Stuart Schrader
Christy Thornton, Co-director of Latin America in a Globalizing World and Assistant Professor of Sociology
Joyce Wang, Class of 2022, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Natalie Wang, Class of 2024, Neuroscience
Moderator: Kobi Khong, Class of 2024, Public Health Studies
Artist Q&A with Gina Kim, Professor, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Theater, Film, and Television
Register here
TEARLESS (2021)
BLOODLESS (2017)
Gina Kim, Professor, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Theater, Film, and Television
VR Films by artist/filmmaker Gina Kim
Virtual Reality Films by artist/filmmaker Gina Kim
TEARLESS (2021)
BLOODLESS (2017)
WORKSHOP: Reverberations: Aesthetics and Memories in the Times of Displacement
Reverberations: Aesthetics and Memories in the Times of Displacement
Community of Parting: Opening, Panelist Discussion, Artist Q&A
Reserve seats HERE
OPENING: Community of Parting
Special Feature: Jane Jin Kaisen
Screening of Community of Parting (2019)
Panelist discussion
Artist Q&A with Jane Jin Kaisen, Professor at the School of Media Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and JHU-CAMS Media Artist-in-Residence
Special Feature: Jane Jin Kaisen, Community of Parting
CRAAV welcomes Jane Jin Kaisen as artist-in-residence at the Center for Advanced Media Studies (CAMS).
In collaboration with CAMS, CRAAV has organized:
Special Feature: Jane Jin Kaisen
Viewing of selected artworks including: Apertures/Specters/Rifts (2016), Strange Meetings (2017), and The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger (2010)
Community of Parting, 2019. Photo Sang-tae Kim. Courtesy: Art Sonje Center
Jane Jin Kaisen (born 1980 in Jeju Island, lives in Copenhagen) is a visual artist, filmmaker, and Professor at the School of Media Arts, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Photo by Daniel Zox
Spanning the mediums of video installation, narrative experimental film, photographic installation, performance, and text, Kaisen’s artistic practice is informed by extensive interdisciplinary research and engagement with diverse communities.
She is known for her visually striking, multilayered, performative, poetic, and multi-voiced feminist works through which past and present are brought into relation. Her works negotiate and mediate the means of representation, resistance, and reconciliation, thus forming alternative genealogies and sites of collective emergence.
Engaging topics such as memory, migration, borders, and translation, she activates the field where lived experience and embodied knowledge intersect with larger transnational political histories, among others the Korean War and division, the Jeju April Third Massacre, gender marginalization, and transnational adoption.
Kaisen has exhibited and screened her works in a range of contexts internationally. She represented Korea at the 58th Venice Biennale with the film installation Community of Parting which traces a different approach to borders and aesthetic mediation through the Korean shamanic myth of the Abandoned Princess Bari and has participated in the biennials of Liverpool, Gwangju, Anren, Jeju, among others. She was awarded “Exhibition of the Year 2020” by AICA - International Association of Art Critics, Denmark for the exhibition Community of Parting at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and awarded the Montana ENTERPRIZE at Kunsthallen Brandts in Denmark in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include Parallax Conjunctures at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2021), Community of Parting at Art Sonje Center (2021) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2020), and Of Specters or Returns, Gallery damdam (2020).
SCHEDULE OF VIEWINGS AT THE SNF PARKWAY
March 4 - April 10 (Thursdays-Sundays)
APERTURES | SPECTERS | RIFTS, 2016 and STRANGE MEETINGS, 2017, installed artworks in the SNF Parkway building. Open during Parkway operating hours.
April 7 at 7PM
COMMUNITY OF PARTING 2019 will be screened as a single-channel film (Theatre 1). The screening will be followed by an artist Q&A and discussion.
April 8, 9, 10
Experience the installed artworks and the screening of two films as part of the Asia North Arts Festival 2022. Featuring single-channel film screenings of The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger, 2010 (Theater 3) and Community of Parting, 2019 (Theater 2).
Theatre 2 - Community of Parting
Friday, April 8: 4 pm, 7 pm
Saturday, April 9: 4 pm, 7 pm
Sunday, April 10: 1 pm, 4 pm
Theatre 3 -The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger
Friday, April 8: 4:15 pm, 7:15 pm
Saturday, April 9: 4:15 pm, 7:15 pm
Sunday, April 10: 1:15 pm, 4:15 pm
For seat reservations, please go to: mdfilmfest.com
Fall Speaker Series: Dylan Rodríguez (UC Riverside)
Listen to the recording of this talk here.
Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, writer, and scholarly activist. He was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars in 2020 and recently served as President of the American Studies Association (2020-2021). He has worked as a Professor at the University of California, Riverside since 2001, and was the faculty-elected Chair of the UCR Division of the Academic Senate (2016-2020). Prior to his Senate leadership, he was the Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies (2009-2016). Dylan’s work addresses the normalized proliferation of oppressive violence in everyday state, cultural, and social formations. He conceptualizes abolitionist and other forms of movement as part of the historical, collective genius of rebellion, survival, and radical futurity. He is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021), and is co-editor of Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader (Duke University Press, 2016). Dylan can be reached by email at dylanrodriguez73@gmail.com as well as on Twitter (@dylanrodriguez), Instagram (dylanrodriguez73), and Facebook (www.facebook.com/dylanrodriguez73).
Roundtable: Ji-Yeon Yuh (Northwestern), Fariha Khan (University of Pennsylvania), Heidi Kim (UNC Chapel Hill)
Listen to the recording of this talk here.
Ji-Yeon Yuh is the founding faculty member of the Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern University, where she teaches Asian American history, Asian diasporas, race and gender, and oral history. Her book, Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America, was the first substantive work to examine the consequences of U.S. militarism for Korean migration and diaspora.Her current projects include a digital oral history repository focused on Asian diasporas, an oral history project on the Midwest as an Asian American space, a book on Korean diaspora in China, Japan, and the United States, and a study of reunification and Korea peace activism in the Korean diaspora. She has been a consultant for numerous public history, media, and education projects, including Still Presents Pasts, an exhibit on Korean Americans and the Korean War, Crossing East, a radio documentary on Asian Americans, and Pollyanna’s forthcoming high school racial literacy curriculum. She is a longtime advocate for Korea peace and reunification and is a co-founder and former steering committee member of the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea. She currently serves on the boards of Women Cross DMZ and the Korea Policy Institute. She is a co-founder and board president of the Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago and a former board president of KAN-WIN, an Asian American women’s anti-gender-violence organization. She is a native of Seoul and Chicago, a fan of pungmul, a taekwondo black belt, a science fiction reader, and the mother of three children.
Fariha Khan is the Co-Director of the Asian American Studies program at the University of Pennsylvania where she also teaches courses on South Asians in the U.S, Asian American Communities, Asian American Food, as well as Muslim Identity in America. She received a Master's degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Yale University and a PhD in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. Her current research focuses on South Asian American Muslims, Pakistani American culture, and the Asian American folklore. Dr. Khan was appointed in 2015 to the Pennsylvania Governor’s Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs and served until 2019. Actively involved in the Philadelphia community, Dr. Khan is Vice Chair of the Board of the Samuel S. Fels Fund and serves on the Board of the American Folklore Society, the Philadelphia Folklore Project, the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, and the James Brister Alumni Society.
Heidi Kim is Director of the Asian American Center at UNC Chapel Hill and a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Her research ranges through nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and Asian American studies. Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities: The Cold War of Chinese American Literature, forthcoming from Temple University Press, sheds new light on the writing of and about Chinese Americans, who were dogged by the stigma of illegal immigration and paranoia about Communist infiltration. Her first monograph Invisible Subjects: Asian Americans in Postwar Literature (Oxford UP, 2016) resituates the work of Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and the Melville Revival critics through recent advances in Asian American studies and historiography. She also researches and speaks extensively on the literature and history of the Japanese American incarceration, including the edited volume Taken from the Paradise Isle (UP Colorado, 2015), which won a Ka Palapala Po’okela Award from the Hawaiian Book Publishers Association.
Fall Speaker Series: Eileen Chow (Duke University)
Listen to the recording of this talk here.
Eileen Cheng-yin Chow 周成蔭 is Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, and one of the founding directors of Duke Story Lab; at Duke, she is also a Core Faculty member of the Asian American and Diaspora Studies, and the Critical Asian Humanities graduate program.
Eileen is Director of the Cheng Shewo Institute of Chinese Journalism at Shih Hsin University in Taipei, Taiwan, and co-directs the Biographical Literature Press and its longstanding Chinese-language history journal, Biographical Literature 傳記文學. She also serves on the executive board of the LA Review of Books, and as co-editor of the Duke University Press book series, Sinotheory.
Eileen’s research and teaching center around all manners of transcultural storytelling: serial narratives, press practices and publics, fandoms and media technologies, Asian popular culture, Republican-era China literary and cultural history, as well as on the origins and articulations of Chinatowns around the world. Find her on Twitter: @chowleen.
Fall Speaker Series: Kandice Chuh, Ph.D.
Listen to the recording of this talk here.
Kandice Chuh is a professor of English, American studies, and Critical Social Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is also a member of the M.A. in Liberal Studies faculty, and affiliate faculty to the Africana studies program. She is currently Executive Officer of the PhD Program in English. The author of The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities ‘After Man’ (2019) and Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique (2003), Chuh is co-editor, with Karen Shimakawa, of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora (2001). President of the American Studies Association from 2017-18, Chuh is a member of the Association for Asian American Studies and the Modern Language Association. She is at work on a collection of essays titled The Disinterested Teacher, and her current research tentatively titled Studying Asia focuses on Asian racialization in the era of globalization. Chuh teaches courses on aesthetic theory, queer of color critique, women of color feminisms, decolonial studies, and Asian and Asian American racialization.