Book Announcement:

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN KOREAN AMERICA
David K. Yoo and Ruth H. Chung, editors
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008)

Religion and Spirituality in Korean America examines the ambivalent
identities of predominantly Protestant Korean Americans in
Judeo-Christian American culture. Focusing largely on the migration of
Koreans to the United States since 1965, this interdisciplinary
collection investigates campus faith groups and adoptees and probes how
factors such as race, the concept of diaspora, and the improvised
creation of sacred spaces shape Korean American religious identity and
experience. In calling attention to important trends in Korean American
spirituality, this volume highlights a high rate of religious
involvement in urban places and participation in a transnational
religious community.

Contributors include Ruth H. Chung, Jae Ran Kim, Jung Ha Kim, Rebecca
Kim, Sharon Kim, Okyun Kwon, Sang Hyun Lee, Anselm Kyongsuk Min, Sharon
A. Suh, Sung Hyun Um, and David K. Yoo.

Professor David K. Yoo is an associate professor of history at Claremont
McKenna College and a core faculty member of the Asian American Studies
Department at The Claremont Colleges. He is the author of Growing Up
Nisei and editor of New Spiritual Homes. His current research focuses on
early Korean American history.

The Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies (IDAAS) was
established in 1998 and currently has a core of thirteen faculty who
teach and research in Asian American Studies. At the heart of its
program, IDAAS offers an array of classes each academic year that
addresses Asian Pacific American issues and populations. The
department’s curriculum in the humanities and social sciences includes
courses in the arts, ethnic studies, history, literature, psychology,
sociology, and a number of interdisciplinary areas of study. For more
information, please visit the website at http://www.idaas.org.

The Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at The
Claremont Colleges is proud to announce that Dr. Kathleen S. Yep
published a young adult novel with her uncle, Dr. Laurence Yep, the
recipient of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Lifetime Achievement in Children’s
Literature and two-time Newbery honor winner.

Distributed by HarperCollins, Dragon’s Child tells the story of a father
and son from rural China immigrating to San Francisco in 1922. The Yeps
draw on family stories, immigration records, ship blueprints and
memories of Laurence’s own conversations with his father to tell the
story of Chinese immigration and Angel Island. The American Library
Association’s Booklist describes Dragon’s Child as a “stirring narrative
” and a “dramatic blend of fact and fiction.” The novel also includes
family photos, a historical note, a bibliography, and web resources on
Angel Island. Dragon’s Child resonates with current examples of
immigration interrogations, detentions and deportations.

Professor Kathleen S. Yep is an assistant professor of Asian American
Studies and Sociology at Pitzer College. After completing her doctorate
from the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California at
Berkeley, Yep was a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral
Fellow at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research
interests include cultural politics, social movements, feminist and
anti-racist pedagogies, and oral historiography. Yep has published in
the Sociology of Sport Journal, the Journal of Asian American Studies,
and the Asian American Policy Review.

The Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies (IDAAS) was
established in 1998 and currently has a core of thirteen faculty who
teach and research in Asian American Studies. At the heart of its
program, IDAAS offers an array of classes each academic year that
addresses Asian Pacific American issues and populations. The
department’s curriculum in the humanities and social sciences includes
courses in the arts, ethnic studies, history, literature, psychology,
sociology, and a number of interdisciplinary areas of study. For more
information, please visit the website at http://www.idaas.org.

The Korean American caucus has set up a list to help establish a
virtual community for members in AAAS and for those interested in
Korean American related issues/topics. We are in the process of
discussing our groups’ role in the upcoming 2009 AAAS conference in
Hawaii. But we also want to provide a site to post information,
exchange ideas, and share information with our colleagues. If you are
interested in subscribing to the group, please go to the group http://groups.google.com/group/aaas-ka?hl=en
and request an invitation to join.

Mary Yu Danico, Ph.D
Cal Poly Pomona
Associate chair of Psychology and Sociology Department
Associate Professor of Sociology
Psychology and Sociology Department
3801 Temple
Pomona, CA 91768
(909) 869-3895

The Call for Papers for the 2008 East of California Conference has been
extended to Monday, June 30, 2008. Please do consider sending in an
abstract–if you have any questions, feel free to contact one of the EOC
co-chairs (contact information listed below in the CFP).

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2008 East of California Conference: A Movement to Look Back To
October 31, 2008 – November 1, 2008
The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

ABSTRACTS DUE: Monday, June 30, 2008

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Transnationalism & Cosmopolitanism
• Demographic Shifts
• Border studies
• Cross-ethnic/racial collaborations and coalitions
• Multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary collaborations and coalitions
• Scholar-activist work, within and outside the academy
• Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, before and after 9/11
• Teaching in the 21st century
• The state of “Asian America”
• Asian American methodologies and epistemologies
• Asian American visual cultures
• The Asian American archive: what is it and where is it?

Requirements for Submission:

• Roundtable: 1 page curriculum vitae; 1 page outline for 5-7 minute remarks
• Panel: 1 page curriculum vitae per participant; 1 page panel abstract
(500 words)
• Individual paper: 1 page curriculum vitae; 1 page panel abstract (250
words)

Please send electronic copies of all materials to both Cathy
Schlund-Vials (schlundvials@gmail.com) and Jennifer Ho
(hojennifer@earthlink.net) by June 30, 2008.

ASIAN AND ASIAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, TORRINGTON

The History Department at the University of Connecticut invites applications for a one-year lectureship in Asian and Asian-American history at its Torrington campus beginning spring 2009. The position is renewable annually. Specialization in Asian and Asian-American history, academic administrative experience, and an M.A. in history are required. Administrative responsibilities will include coordination of campus academic plan and oversight of first year programming. Ph.D. preferred.

Applicants should submit a letter of application, c.v., course syllabi, teaching evaluations, and three letters of recommendation by June 1, when screening will begin. Materials should be addressed to: Professor Shirley Roe, c/o Melissa Flaherty, University of Connecticut, History Department, 855 University Drive, Torrington, CT 06790. Requested application materials may also be e-mailed to melissa@uconn.edu (subject of e-mail should reference the search number). We encourage applications from under-represented groups, including minorities, women, and people with disabilities. (Search # 2008423)