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Asian American Studies Department |
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University of California, Irvine |
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Greetings, and a warm welcome to you all. I am R. Radhakrishnan, the new kid on the block who has the pleasure and honor of succeeding Professor Ketu Katrak as the Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies. I come to UCI from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where I was Professor of English and Comparative Literature for 20 years; a position I hold here at UCI as well. The Asian American Studies Department at UCI became a department in 2002, thanks to the dedication and the passion of our faculty and staff, and the vision of Professor Katrak. We are now looking to consolidate, dream, and innovate both as a unit and in active coalition with other programs and disciplines. Our purpose as a department is to encourage academic excellence, intellectual integrity, and a nuanced and multilateral understanding of the discipline and its relationship to the world at large. We hope that the Asian American major will be an introduction not just to Asian America but also to global and relational realities. As a department committed to the highest standards of interdisciplinary learning, we are interested in making knowledge connections and coalitions based on shared interests and challenges. You, the students, are our primary pleasure and responsibility, and we invite you to make this department your own through your full, free, and creative participation. Looking forward to your questions and answers, your problems and resolutions as they resonate through the university and beyond. Cordially, R. Radhakrishnan |
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Message from the Department Chair |
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Winter Quarter 2005 |
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Past Events Highlights |
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October 25, 2004. Author Aimee Phan came to UCI for a reading and book signing for her new book We Should Never Meet at the Cross-Cultural Center. The event was made possible through the sponsorships of the Asian American Studies Dept. and the Cross-Cultural Center. January 28, 2005. The Asian American Studies Dept. and the Cross-Cultural Center hosted “Cultural Representations, Gender, and Asian America,” a part of the Featured Event Series. Panelists: Cindy Cheng (USC), Stella Oh (Loyola Marymount Univ.), and Lan Duong (UCI). Moderated by Linda Vo (UCI). February 3, 2005. Asian American Studies Dept. hosted “Religions in Asian America” (funded by the Humanities Center). Panelists: Jane Iwamura (USC & NYU); Duncan Williams (UCI); Shampa Mazumdar (UCI); David Yoo (Claremont McKenna College); Karen Leonard (UCI); and N. Gerald Barrier (Univ. of Missouri). Moderated by R. Radhakrishnan (UCI). February 11-13, 2005. The Asian American Studies Dept. co-sponsored the UCI 2005 Tet Festival Booth in Garden Grove Park. February 11, 15, & 17, 2005. Lecturer Beheroze Shroff screened her 22 min. documentary “We’re Indian and African,” a film about the Sidis—descendants of Africans in India—at the 2005 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles. February 25, 2005. The Asian American Studies Dept. and the Drama Dept. co-sponsored a performance and book signing by Denise Uyehara, one of the first performance artists to explore Asian American queer subjectivity through performance. Uyehara shared with the audience excerpts from her new book, Maps of City & Body, at the Nixon Theater, Claire Trevor School of the Arts. |
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The UCI Asian American Studies Department is pleased to launch our first quarterly electronic newsletter! Limited print copies are also available in our department’s office. We envision our e-news publication as a twenty-first century means to inform our students, faculty, the UCI community, alumni, and other institutions and organizations of relevant news and events pertaining to our department and to “Asian America.” Contributions and suggestions are welcomed. |
Department Launches E-newsletter
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E-Newsletter |
