Please join us for a Berkeley Conversations panel discussion on rising Anti-Asian violence in America. This timely panel will consider both the long history of Anti-Asian racism and present-day patterns linked to the pandemic and to cultural anxieties about Asian ascendancy and Western decline.
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsTtewn6Kg8
The panel will feature presentations by Professors Russell Jeung (San Francisco State University), Catherine Choy (UC Berkeley), and Kimberly Hoang (University of Chicago). Michael Lu, Dean of UC Berkeleys School of Public Health, will offer an introduction, and Raka Ray, Dean of the Division of Social Sciences in the College of Letters and Sciences, will moderate.
This event is presented as part of the Matrix On Point discussion series, which promotes focused, cross-disciplinary conversations on todays most pressing contemporary issues.
Co-sponsors include the UC Berkeley Social Sciences Division initiative Toward a Just Social Sciences," the Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD), the Asian American and Pacific Islander Standing Committee, the UC Berkeley Department of Sociology, the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, and Stop AAPI Hate.
Panelists
Russell Jeung, Professor of Asian-American Studies at San Francisco State University, the founder of Stop AAPI Hate, and the author of Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans (2019).
Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor of Ethnic Studies and an Associate Dean of the College of Letters & Sciences Division of Undergraduate Studies at U.C. Berkeley, and the author of Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America (2013).
Kimberly Hoang, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Global Studies at the University of Chicago, and the author of Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work (2015).
Michael C. Lu (Introduction), Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and MD, MS, and MPh.
Raka Ray (Moderator), Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Division of Social Sciences in the College of Letters and Science at UC Berkeley, and the author of Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity and Class in India (2010).
The link to this livestream event will be posted soon.
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