Asian America Otherwise Conference
May 6-7
Honors Room, I Hotel
1900 S 1st St, Champaign
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Department of Asian American Studies
Illustration by Marcos Chin
Illustration depicts a young Asian American woman in a face mask. Snakes are erupting from behind the mask, and a tattoo on her neck reads HATE IS A VIRUS.
Friday, May 6
9:00-9:15 am CT Opening remarks by Susan Koshy (UIUC) and Junaid Rana (UIUC)
9:15-11:00 am CT Session 1: Other Politics, Against Empire | Chair: Augusto Espiritu (UIUC)
Moon-Ho Jung (UW), “Why Loyalty Will Get Us Nowhere”
Maku Karuka (Barnard), “Imperialist Futures in the Asia-Pacific”
Bilal Nasir (Pomona), “Thinking About Critique from the Muslim Left: Terror, Suspicion, and Islam”
11:00-11:30 am CT Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 pm CT Session 2: Field Notes for Dangerous Times | Chair: Soo Ah Kwon (UIUC)
erin Khue Ninh (UCSB), “Feeling Attacked”
Ronak Kapadia (UIC), “Asian American Studies in a Moment of Danger”
1:00-2:30 pm CT Lunch
2:30-4:00 pm CT Session 3: Race, Science, and Ecocide | Chair: Lila Adib Sharif (UIUC)
Long Le-Khac (Loyola), “Hawaiian Sandalwood: A Racial Entanglement Story”
Keva X. Bui (UCSD), “Infrastructures of Race in America’s Napalm”
4:00-4:15 pm CT Coffee Break
4:15-5:45 pm CT Session 4: Technoracial Futurities | Chair: Trung Nguyen (UIUC)
Huan He (USC), “Racial Informatics”
Michelle N. Huang (Northwestern), “Racial Disintegration”
Saturday, May 7
9:00-10:30 am CT Session 5: Unsettling, Decolonizing | Chair: Yoon Kyung Pak (UIUC)
Quynh Nhu Le (USF), “Vietnamese Regugee Embodiments of an Asian America Otherwise”
Aimee Bahng (Pomona), “Unsettling Asian America: Toward a Decolonial Environmentalism”
10:30-11:00 am CT Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 pm CT Concluding Roundtable | Moderators: Susan Koshy (UIUC), Soo Ah Kwon (UIUC), and Junaid Rana (UIUC)
(closed session for participants)
12:30-2:00 pm CT Lunch
4:00-6:00 pm CT 14th Annual Balgopal Lecture: A Conversation and Performance with the Vijay Iyer Trio
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
