Faculty member Laura Hyun Yi Kang featured in UCLA interview, panel at UC Berkeley, and FEM Magazine
Department: Gender and Sexuality Studies
Post Date: November 18, 2021News Details
To view her talk at UCLA, please click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM1O6tRc1aU&t=5s
RVHub Presents: 2021 Series Opening Event with Dr. Laura Kang
The first event in a Transnational Feminist Series of the Department of Gender Studies at UCLA and Opening Event of the 5th Annual Racial Violence Hub Workshop: Feminist Approaches to Theorizing Genocidal Violence, Wars and Occupations, a series of The Racial Violence Hub and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies.
In this series, we discuss the genocidal violence of everyday life. On the first Friday of each month from November to April (six sessions), in the spirit of collaboration, feminist scholars will gather to present virtually on works in progress on the theme of genocidal violence.
We are honored to have Professor Laura Hyun Yi Kang as our Opening Speaker in our series. Dr. Laura Hyun Yi Kang is Professor and former Chair of the Department Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Traffic in Asian Women (Duke University Press, 2020) and Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women (Duke University Press, 2002).
Music: "Ana (cinematrik's smooth dub)" by cinematrik;
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This talk was also covered by FEM Magazine. Please click here to read the article: https://femmagazine.com/genocidal-violence-the-japanese-military-comfort-system-and-our-futile-indignation/
To view her talk at UC Berkeley, please click here: https://gws.berkeley.edu/news-events/view-past-events/#after-atlanta
After Atlanta: A Roundtable on Race, Gender, and Anti-Asian Violence
The Atlanta spa shootings that took place in March and left eight people dead, horrified the nation yet they speak to a much longer history of racial terror and anti-Asian racism that has long marked Asian/Asian American communities as foreign, vulnerable and disposable. After Atlanta will bring together 3 scholars to reflect on how the historical legacies of US imperial intervention, militarism, white supremacy, nativism, and heteropatriachy inform contemporary forms of violence against Asian/Asian Americans, particularly women and queer people.
Panelists:
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California
Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Irvine
Mimi Thi Nguyen, Associate Professor and Chair, Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Moderated by: Laura C. Nelson, Associate Professor and Chair, Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley
Introduced by: Courtney Desiree Morris, Assistant Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley