THURSDAY, APRIL 17
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
13.1 | Committee on Institutional Cooperation / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Reception
The reception co-hosted by University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign has two goals. The first goal is to celebrate the ongoing progress being made in the Asian American Studies Program at the university and to help disseminate information about these developments. The second goal is to welcome conference participants from across the country to the midwest, which is often stereotypically seen as a cradle of mainstream conservatism (read white). However, this conference and the growing Asian American Studies Programs in this region will attest to the contrary - there is a vibrant critical ethos that is emerging and circulating. Hopefully, this critical ethos will provide new models and alternative formation for the development of the field.
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is a consortium of 12 research universities, including the 11 members of the Big Ten Conference and the University of Chicago. The CIC-Asian American Studies Consortium would like to celebrate the accomplishments of its faculty, staff, and students working in Asian American Studies, and to welcome our colleagues and friend to the annual meeting of AAAS in Chicago.
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
21.2 | Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin Reception
Join us in celebrating the stabilization and growth of the Center for Asian American Studies at UT Austin and explore the institutional and intellectual possibilities of locating Asian American Studies in Texas and the south. We will be honoring the AAS pioneers, Him Mark Lai and Sucheng Chan, with a brief ceremony heralding the publication of Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture (Temple University Press, 2008) which was co-edited by Sucheng in honor of Him Mark. We will also be congratulating Patrick Rosal, a lecturer in English at UT, for receiving the AAAS Poetry Award for My American Kundiman and Eiichiro Azuma, for receiving a Harrington Fellowship to conduct research at UT during 2008-09.
SATURDAY, APRIL 19
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
30.1 | Association for Asian American Studies Awards Ceremony and Banquet
Featuring Tatsu Aoki and the MIYUMI ensemble
http://www.miyumiproject.com/
Location: Three Happiness Restaurant
2130 S Wentworth Ave
Chicago, IL 60616
(312) 791-1228
7:00PM-10:00PM
Cost: $5/person for 10-course banquet
The Association for Asian American Studies invites you to the closing banquet and awards ceremony. Community, Lifetime, and Book Awards will be given. Tickets will be available at on-site throughout the duration of the conference.