Conference Schedule

Kick-Off Performance
Room 129 Auditorium, Brody Hall

Anida Yoeu Esguerra, founding member of the critically acclaimed spoken word performance groups of Mango Tribe and I Was Born With Two Tongues, self-identifies as a "non hyphenated Cambodian Muslim American woman." Her performance entitled, "On the Cusp of Phoenix Rising" is a multi-media show incorporating spoken word and video.

Registration
Main Lobby of Kellogg Center

APA Midwestern Identity: From Adoption to Education
Room 106

Dr. Andrea Louie, Assoc. Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University
“Pandas, Lions, and Dragons, oh my!": How white adoptive parents in St. Louis construct Chinese culture”
Debrah Lee, Sophomore in Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy, MSU
“Asian Pacific Americans in Academic Governance”
Ging Cee Ng, Senior in Social Relations and Economics, Michigan State University
“Racialization and the Effects on Identity and Educational Attainment of the Asian American Experience in the Midwest”
Teresa Marchetti, Senior in Interdisciplinary Humanities, Michigan State University
“Trends in Asian Pacific American Immigrant College Students’ Career Decisions”

APA Cultural Representations: Images of Chinese Americans
Room 101

Kathleen Amor, Junior in Elementary Education, Michigan State University
“The Pigtail Has Got To Go” Puck Magazine Cover”
James Huston, Junior in Social Relations and Policy, Michigan State University
“Trade Card Advertisement”
Katina Petrou, Junior in International Relations, Michigan State University “Pennsylvania—War of Races in the City of Brotherly Love” Illustrated by Felix Régamey
Diana Schwab, Junior in International Relations, Michigan State University
“As the Heathen See Us – A Meeting of the Chinese Missions Society” Magazine Illustration”
Kevin Zayed, Senior in Social Relations and Policy, Michigan State University “Ein Bild Fur Arbeitgeber” Illustrated by Joseph Keppler
Martha Garces, Senior in Social Relations and Policy, Michigan State University “Representations & Visibility: Chinese Immigrants and Chinese Americans as Audience and Subject in U.S. Museums”

Lunch / Keynote Address

Dr. Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University

APA Women’s Issues, Moderated by Meghan Yamanishi
Room 106

APA Multi-Racial Crossings
Room 101

Dr. D. John Lee, Asst. Director of Multicultural Clinical Services and Outreach, MSU
Kristen Lee, Junior in Journalism, Michigan State University
“What are you?: Multiracial Experience Across Four Generations”
Nayantara Sen, Senior in English, Michigan State University
“The Young Blasian Experience: Socio-Political Investments and Motivations in the 21st Century”

A Workshop by Anida Yoeu Esguerra, Spoken Word Poet
Room 106

Asian American and Latin American Crossings
Room 101

Dr. Anna Pegler-Gordon, Asst. ProfessorJamesMadisonCollege, Michigan State University
“From Imaginary Line to Dividing Line: Chinese and Mexicans Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1907-1917.”
Jessica Jean, Senior in International Relations, Michigan State University
“Chinese Immigration, Coolie Labor, and anti-Chinese sentiment in Cuba and Peru, 1840s-1940s”

APA Histories of Culture and Colonialism in the Pacific Islands
Room 106

Dr. Sayuri Shimizu, Assoc. Professor of History, Michigan State University
“Japanese American Baseball in Hawaii and Cultural Identity, 1880-1930”
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran, PhD Student in American Studies, Michigan State University
“Sovereign Nation and Internal Colony: Kanaka Maoli International and Intranational Discourse”
Puspa Damai, PhD Student in American Culture and English, University of Michigan
“Melville’s Ambivalent Critique of Colonialism in Typee”

APA Race, Culture and Identity
Room 101

Vanessa Au, PhD Student in Communications, University of Washington
“Ladies of the import car scene: Selective acculturation and the second generation”
Sharon Lee, PhD Student in American Culture, University of Michigan
“Lessons from Around the World with Oprah: Korean Women, Plastic Surgery and Discursive Violence”
Amanda Grace Tigner, Phd Student in American Studies, Michigan State University
“Harvest Son: The Experience of Rural Asian Americans through the Writing and Farming of David Masumoto”