Spring 2012 Events

Asian Migration to Non-U.S. Destinations Lecture Series

"Producing a ‘New’ Indian Culture in the Diaspora: Views from the U.S. and South Africa"
Monday, February 13
4:15 - 5:30 pm in Hahn 108

Smitha Radhakrishnan
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Wellesley College

"Authenticity Paradigms and Intimate Recognition/Regulation: The Case of Chinese Marital Immigrants to Taiwan"
Monday, February 20
4:15 - 5:30 pm in Hahn 108

Sara Friedman
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies
Indiana University

"The Rise and Fall of Diaspora Ties: Return-Migration and the Transformation of the Japanese-Peruvian Community in Lima, Peru"
Monday, March 5
4:15 - 5:30 pm in Hahn 108

Ayumi Takenaka
Associate Professor of Sociology
Bryn Mawr College and the Center of Social Stratification and Inequality at Tohoku University, Japan

"Global Inequities and Diasporic Return: Japanese American and Brazilian Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland"
Monday, March 19
4:15 - 5:30 pm in Hahn 108

Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Arizona State University

"Asian Latin America: Tracing a Hemispheric Formation"
Monday, April 9
4:15 - 5:30 pm in Hahn 108

Lok Siu
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies
University of Texas at Austin

The 12th R. Stanton Avery Lecture

"The Strange and Curious History of the Illegal Alien" [pdf]
Tuesday, April 17
7:00 - 8:30 pm in Rose Hills Theatre, Smith Campus Center (170 E. Sixth St. Claremont, CA 91711)

Evelyn Hu-DeHart
Professor of History and Ethnic Studies
Brown University

Co-Sponsored Events

"Kayono: Shôjo Girls Comics in Action"
Wednesday, February 15
4:15 - 5:30 pm in Hahn 101

Kayono
Japanese Manga Artist

Japanese manga artist Kayono will do a lecture demonstration, discussing her creative process, how she comes to a story, how she builds them into a manga narrative, and how she draws and publishes her manga.

Oldenborg Luncheon Colloquium (OLC) Oldenborg Center, Pomona College

Lectures are part of the Oldenborg Luncheon Colloquium Series.

"Queering International Marriages"
Monday, February 27
12 - 1 pm in Oldenborg Southside

Rhacel Parrenas
Professor of Sociology
University of Southern California

"Latinos, Immigrants, and the Transformation of the 21st Century Suburb"
Tuesday, April 3
12 - 1 pm in Oldenborg Southside

Ana Aparicio
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Latino Studies
Northwestern University