Speaking at UCONN - Transpacific Imaginations & Unsettled Visions Contemplating and Celebrating Margo Machida

Lecture:

University of ConnecticutTranspacific Imaginations & Unsettled VisionsContemplating and Celebrating Margo Machida (Professor Emerita, AAASI)

April 13-14, 2018

This two-day symposium, which opens with an evening keynote address by Professor Lisa Yoneyama (University of Toronto), is inspired by Margo Machida’s foundational work within the fields of Asian American art, diasporic Asian visual culture, and transpacific studies. As the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute celebrates its 25th anniversary, this symposium considers, contemplates, and celebrates one of its own.

All talks will take place in the Humanities Institute Reading Room, located on the 4th Floor of Homer Babbidge Library.369 Fairfield Way, Unit 1005
Storrs, CT 06269

April 13, 2018 / 630 PMKeynoted Address: Lisa Yoneyama (University of Toronto)

April 14, 2018 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM (SYMPOSIUM)

1030 – 1130 AM

HAWAI’I, TRANS-PACIFIC LABOR FLOWS, AND HISTORIES OF PLACE
Franklin Odo, Amherst College 

1130 – 1230 PM         LUNCH 

1230 – 130 PMQUEERING CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN ART:  The Optics of Queer Studies and Critical Mixed Race Studies
Laura Kina, DePaul University

130 – 145 PM COFFEE BREAK

 145 – 245 PMWAR, GENOCIDE AND JUSTICE: MEMORY WORK IN ASIAN AMERICAN ART
Cathy Schlund-Vials, UConn 

245 – 3 PM                 COFFEE BREAK

3 – 4 PM PACIFIC ITINERARIES: ISLANDS, OCEANIC IMAGINARIES, AND SITES OF CONVERGENCE IN CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN ART
Margo Machida, UConn

4 – 430 PM                 FINAL THOUGHTS