THE

AFTERLIVES
OF
EMPIRE
Association for
Asian American Studies
Annual Conference

April 17-20,

2013
Westin Hotel
Seattle, Washington

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 Table of Contents
Conference at a Glance ....................................................................... 4
Association for Asian American Studies ................................................ 6
Purposes, Activities, & Membership.................................................... 6
Officers and Regional Representatives ................................................. 8
Welcome from the President ............................................................. 10
Program Committee Welcome Message .............................................. 11
Conference Committees..................................................................... 12
Program Committee ............................................................... 12
Site Committee...................................................................... 13
Book Award Committees ......................................................... 13
Honors and Awards ........................................................................... 14
Plenary Sessions .............................................................................. 24
Film Screenings ................................................................................ 29
Mega Sessions .................................................................................. 30
Professionalization Sessions ............................................................. 32
Drop-In Clinic .................................................................................. 33
Receptions ....................................................................................... 34
Wing Luke Museum Events ................................................................ 36
Section Meetings .............................................................................. 37
Tours ............................................................................................... 38
Exhibitors ........................................................................................ 41
2014 Call for Papers........................................................................... 42
Conference Schedule..........................................................................44
Thursday.........................................................................................44
Friday .......................................................................................... 68
Saturday..........................................................................................92
Map of Westin Hotel ......................................................................... 112
Index ............................................................................................. 114
Sponsors and Donors ........................................................................ 120
Advertisements ............................................................................. 122
Program Designed by:
Justin Gonzalez
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Conference at a Glance
Wednesday, April 17
12:00pm-5:00pm Registration
5:30pm-10:00pm AAAS Board Meeting
Thursday, April 18
7:00am-5:00pm Registration
7:30am-6:00pm Book Exhibits
7:30am-8:15am Welcome Coffee Break
8:15am-9:45am Sessions T1 - T11
10:00am-10:15am Conference Welcome
10:15am-11:45am Plenary Session I
10:15am-11:45am Sessions T12 - T15, T65
11:30am-1:00pm T16 - Film Screening
12:00pm-1:00pm Section Meetings T17 - T19
12:00pm-1:00pm Paper Presentations T20- T22
1:30pm-2:30pm Sessions T23 - T36
2:45pm-4:15pm Sessions T37 - T49
4:30pm-6:00pm Sessions T50 - T63
4:30pm-6:00pm VIP Reception (By Invitation Only)
6:00pm-7:30pm Welcome Reception
Friday, April 19
7:00am-5:00pm Registration
7:30am-6:00pm Book Exhibits
7:30am-8:15am Coffee Break
8:15am-9:45am Sessions F1 - F13
9:00am-11:00am Mentorship Committee Meeting
(By Invitation Only)
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10:00am-11:30am Sessions F14 - F26
11:45am-12:45pm Section Meetings F27 - F30
1:00pm-2:30pm Plenary Session II
1:00pm-2:30pm Sessions F31 - F38
2:45pm-4:15pm Sessions F39 - F50
4:30pm-6:00pm Sessions F51 - F64
4:30pm-5:30pm Coffee with AAAS Mentors
(By Invitation Only)
4:30pm-6:00pm University of Washington Press
Wine Reception
5:30pm-6:30pm University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Wine Reception
6:00pm-7:30pm 110th Year Anniversary of Korean
Immigration Reception
Saturday, April 20
7:00am-11:00am Registration
7:30am-8:15am Coffee Break
7:30am-9:00pm Journal for Asian American Studies (JAAS)
Board Meeting
8:00am-3:00pm Book Exhibits
8:15am-9:45am Sessions S1 - S11
10:00am-11:30am Plenary Session III
10:00am-11:30am Sessions S12 - S20, S55
1:00pm-2:30pm Section Meetings S21 - S22, S53
1:00pm-2:30pm Sessions S23 - S37
2:45pm-4:15pm Sessions S38 - S52
4:30pm-5:30pm General Membership Meeting
6:00pm-7:30pm Awards Reception
 Association for
Asian American Studies
The national Secretariat of the Association for Asian American Studies is
located at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 214 Social Sciences
Building, 267 19th Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN 55455. AAAS membership
is handled by The John Hopkins University Press. Information regarding
upcoming conferences may be obtained by contacting the Secretariat.
Information on membership and the Journal of Asian American Studies
(JAAS) may be obtained by contacting The John Hopkins University
Press.
Purposes
The Association for Asian American Studies was formed in 1979 for the
purposes of:
1. advancing the highest professional standards of excellence in
teaching and research in the field of Asian American Studies;
2. promoting better understanding and closer ties between and
among various sub-components within Asian American Studies:
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Hawaiian, Southeast Asian,
South Asian, Pacific Islander, and other groups;
3. sponsoring professional activities including conferences and
symposia, special projects and events;
4. facilitating increased communication and scholarly exchange
among teachers, researchers, and students in the field of Asian
American Studies;
5. advocating and representing the interests and welfare of Asian
American Studies and Asian Americans;
6. educating American society about the history and aspirations of
Asian American ethnic minorities.
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Activities
The Association has sponsored national conferences since 1980 in cities
such as Seattle, Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pullman, New York
City, Santa Barbara, Honolulu, San Jose, Ithaca, Ann Arbor, Boston, Salt
Lake City, Toronto, Washington, D.C., and Austin; publishes a newsletter and
journal; advocates for students, faculty, and programs through advice and
letters of support; advances Asian American Studies through its standing
committees, awards, advocacy, curriculum and library, publications,
professional ethics, and publicity; and serves as an information resource
on matters concerning Asian Americans.
Membership
The Association is open to any individual or organization with an interest
in the Asian American experience. The membership is composed of
researcher, teachers, and students in higher education. The membership
also includes individuals in government and private sector, and
professionals serving the needs of the ethnic community, as well as
members of the community.
Membership in the Association for Asian American Studies is based
on a calendar year, i.e., January 1st to December 31st. A member in
good standing will receive the quarterly AAAS newsletter, the Journal of
Asian American Studies, and reduced rates at the national conference.
The Directory of Asian American Studies Programs and Departments is
available on the Association website: http://www.aaastudies.org.
 Officers &
N. ENGLAND/CENTRAL & S. CALIFORNIA
Regional Representatives EASTERN CANADA Term: 2012-14
Term: 2011-13 Stella Oh
Officers Regional Representatives
Catherine Fung Department of Women’s Studies
Department of English and Media Loyola Marymount University
PRESIDENT INTERIOR WEST/SOUTH
Studies email: stella.oh@lmu.edu
Term: 2012-14 Term: 2011-13 Bentley University
Mary Yu Danico Jennifer Ho 175 Forest Street GRADUATE STUDENT
California State Polytechnic University, Department of English & Comparative Waltham, MA 02452 Term: 2012-14
Pomona Literature email: cfung@bentley.edu James Zarsadiaz
3801 West Temple Blvd. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Department of History
Pomona, CA 91768 Greenlaw Hall, CB#3520 N. CALIFORNIA/NEVADA Northwestern University
email: mkydanico@aaastudies.org Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
Term: 2011-13 email: jfzdiaz@u.northwestern.edu
email: Email: jho@email.unc.edu
Grace Yoo
PRESIDENT - ELECT
Asian American Studies
Term: 2013-14 MID-ATLANTIC/SOUTH
San Francisco State University
Linda Trinh Vo Term: 2012-14 1600 Holloway Avenue, EP 103
University of California, Irvine Jennifer Hayashida San Francisco, CA 94132-4252
Irvine, CA 92697 Asian American Studies Program email: grace.yoo.phd@gmail.com
email: volt@uci.edu Hunter College, City University of New
York
SECRETARY/TREASURER email: jennifer.hayashida@hunter.cuny. PACIFIC NORTHWEST, HAWAI‘I
edu AND PACIFIC ISLANDS, &
Term: 2007-14
Anna Gonzalez WESTERN CANADA
MIDWEST/MOUNTAIN
Lewis and Clark College Term: 2012-14
Portland, OR 97219 Term: 2011-13 Roderick Labrador
email: annakgonzalez@gmail.com Martin Manalansan Department of Ethnic Studies
Department of Anthropology University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign email: labrador@hawaii.edu
109 Davenport Hall
607 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
email: manalans@illinois.edu

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 Welcome
from the President
Welcome to the 2013 Association for Asian American Studies. Since 1979,
AAAS has welcomed a diverse body of members to critique, debate, and to introduce
emerging scholarship in our field. Inspired by the civil rights movements and the Ethnic
Studies movements in San Francisco and Berkeley, our members continue to express
through various venues the issues facing Asian American Studies today. The theme of
this year’s conference, THE AFTERLIVES OF EMPIRE challenges us to question “how
might we theorize or define empire in the 21st century.” Just in the 2012-2013 period,
we experienced how The Pew Report galvanized us to respond to the narrowed view
of Asian Americans in U.S. discourse and encouraged and challenged Think Tanks to
be more inclusive of all Asian American experience and to dispel the stereotypical
frameworks that dominate the mainstream; we witnessed the political strength of
our API community, as election results revealed that API votes made the difference in
election swing states; we faced the harsh reality that the attack on Ethnic Studies and
Asian American Studies impacted our friends, our colleagues, and our departments as
we began our battle against the “Empire” that now confronts us; we celebrated our Asian
American celebrity athletes, actors, and artists who helped debunk the Asian American
stereotypes that continue to haunt us; and we find strange pride in the record breaking
youtube video Gangnam Style. During this period, we realize how much has changed and
yet how much work is still left for us to fight. As we confront and challenge the Empire
that surrounds us in the Diaspora, we are reminded to take stock of our historical past
and really think about who we are as an association and what we stand for as members
of the Association for Asian American Studies. Our plenary sessions address the vibrant
Asian American in Seattle, the Empire that still remains, and how we can bridge the divide
in Asian American Studies. We have had a record number of submissions this year and
this only speaks to the investment and enthusiasm for AAAS. I am hopeful that you will
be stimulated, motivated, and encouraged by this year’s conference and look forward to
creating a space where we collaboratively build our association into one that is inclusive,
diasporic, advocacy oriented, and community based.
I look forward to seeing you in the exhibit areas, receptions, tours
and sessions throughout the week. AAAS is our intellectual home
and a space where mentoring and friendships flourish. I am
thrilled that you are a part of this wonderful community of
scholars and community leaders.
Warmest regards,
Mary Yu Danico,
President, Association for Asian American Studies
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Welcome Message
from the Program Committee
THE AFTERLIVES OF EMPIRE
“The Afterlives of Empire,” our theme for this year’s conference, generated close to 280
proposals and more than 700 conference registrants. Thank you for supporting and
participating in our association’s yearly venture!
Our conference is packed with diverse sets of presentations and activities. We have
scheduled 173 sessions consisting of traditional panels, paper workshops, roundtable
discussions, and film screenings. We organized three exciting plenaries that touch on the
specificity of Seattle in Asian American Studies, the relationship between war and empire,
and the multifaceted but intersecting dimensions of our field. Add to this list a host of
other events such as professional development workshops, section meetings, receptions,
local tours, and a much anticipated reunion concert of “A Grain of Sand” (to be held at
the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience in Seattle’s Chinatown/
International District).
We appreciate the work of our program committee members and we profusely thank
Anna Gonzalez and her staff for helping us organize this record-breaking conference.
We are also grateful for the work of our student assistants, volunteers, university
administrators, community partners, and all the officers and staff of AAAS that has made
our meeting in Seattle possible.
The extraordinary numbers of proposals and participants attest to the continuing
significance of “empire” in our scholarship and in our professional and community
activities. They also represent the steady growth of our association and the critical value
of intellectual exchanges at the heart of our annual meetings.
Welcome to Seattle, and may your visit here turn out to be generative, productive,
enjoyable, and memorable.
Rick Bonus
Moon-Ho Jung
Co-Chairs, Program Committee
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 Site Committee
Conference Committees CO - CHAIRS Fred Cordova
Filipino American National Historical
Gail M. Nomura
Program Committee University of Washington
Society (FANHS)
Shirley Hune
CO - CHAIRS Theodore Gonzalves Stephen H. Sumida University of Washington
Rick Bonus University of Maryland, Baltimore University of Washington Tracy Lai
University of Washington County Seattle Central Community College
Grace Hong MEMBERS Emily Porcincula Lawsin
Moon-Ho Jung
Third Andresen University of Michigan
University of Washington University of California, Los Angeles Charlene Mano Shen
University of Washington
Nazli Kibria Lorraine Bannai Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific
MEMBERS Boston University Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and American Experience
Daryl Maeda Equality, Seattle University School of Connie So
Vivek Bald
Law University of Washington
Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Colorado, Boulder
Dorothy Cordova Marie R. Wong
Stewart Chang Cynthia Marasigan Filipino American National Historical Seattle University
Whittier Law School Binghamton University Society (FANHS)
Gerardo Colmenar Lok Siu
University of California, Santa Barbara University of Texas
Hien Duc Do Thuy Linh Tu Book Award Committees
San Jose State University New York University FICTION/POETRY CULTURAL STUDIES
Linda Espana-Maram Leti Volpp Floyd Cheung Jose Bernard Capino
California State University, Long Beach University of California, Berkeley Smith College University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Kale Fajardo Sue Kim Camilla Fojas
University of Massachusetts, Lowell DePaul University
University of Minnesota
Purvi Shah Shilpa Dave
Hunter College Brandeis University

LITERARY STUDIES SOCIAL SCIENCE

Victor Bascara Angie Chung
University of California, Los Angeles University at Albany, State University of New York
Robert Ji-Song Ku Russell Jeung
Binghamton University, State San Francisco State University
University of New York Wei Li
Eleanor Ty Arizona State University
Wilfrid Laurier University
HISTORY
Judy Yung
University of California, Santa Cruz
Amy Sueyoshi
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 Honors & Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award
Stephen Sumida, Professor
Department of American Ethnic Studies - University of Washington
Stephen H. Sumida has published books and articles
on Asian/Pacific American literature and has served as
co-founder of Talk Story, Inc., a literary and cultural
organization in Hawai‘i in the late-1970s, as president of
the Association for Asian American Studies, and as
president of the American Studies Association, where
he called for a revisioning of internationalism in the
field. His latest major work is his acting in the role of
Mr. Lee, in the stage adaptation of the Chinese American
writer Jamie Ford’s Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and
Sweet. Its five-week run completely sold out by opening night. The play
was produced by Book It Theatre in the Center House Theatre of the Seattle
Center, September through October 2013.
Bob Suzuki, President Emeritus of California State Polytechnic University
Dr. Bob H. Suzuki was born in Portland, Oregon to
Japanese immigrant parents. During World War II, he was
imprisoned with his family in one of ten internment camps
established to incarcerate over 110,000 Japanese
Americans for the duration of the war. He received his
first three years of schooling in the Mindoka, Idaho
internment camp, finally learning English in the process.
Graduating from high school as class valedictorian, he
went on to earn his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in
Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. During
the late 1960s, in his first academic position as an assistant professor of
aerospace engineering at the University of Southern California, he became
deeply involved in civil rights and public and community affairs, including
serving as the vice chair of the community advisory committee for the
desegregation of the Pasadena public schools.
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As a result of his social activism in these and many other activities, he
decided in 1971 to change his professional field and joined the faculty in the
School of Education at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where
he served for a decade both as a faculty member and an administrator,
taught classes in Asian American Studies, and developed one of the first
multicultural studies programs in the country. He left UMass in 1980 to serve
as Dean of Graduate Studies & Research for 4-1/2 years at California State
University, Los Angeles, and then as Vice President for Academic Affairs for 6
years at California State University, Northridge, where he helped establish a
new Department of Asian American Studies.
In 1991, he was selected as the 4th president of California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona. During his 12-year tenure as president, he oversaw
the construction of over $200 million in new facilities, promoted numerous
initiatives to diversify the faculty, staff and administration to improve
services to a highly diverse student population, led efforts to establish the
very successful International Polytechnic High School on the campus, and
with the help of the organization, Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics
(LEAP), initiated the Leadership Development Program in Higher Education
to motivate and prepare Asian Pacific Americans to seek leadership positions
in higher education, an area in which APAs are severely under-represented.
While serving as president, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to
a 6-year term on the National Science Board, which governs the National
Science Foundation and advises the President and Congress on issues related
to science and technology. He was also appointed by Governor Grey Davis to
a 4-year term on the California Student Aid Commission.
Although Dr. Suzuki has been retired since July 2003, as President Emeritus,
he still serves on a number of boards and committees and serves as a
consultant to various organizations. He and his wife, Agnes, who grew up in
Hawaii and has a B.A. in Sociology from UC Berkeley, have 3 grown children
and 5 grandchildren.
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Excellence in Mentoring Award
Jigna Desai, Associate Professor
Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Asian American
Studies - University of Minnesota
Jigna Desai is an associate professor in the Department of
Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Asian American
Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. Her
research interests include transnational feminist, Asian
American, diasporic, queer, and disability cultural studies.
She is the author of Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural
Politics of South Asian Diasporic Films (Routledge, 2004)
and co-editor of The Bollywood Reader (Open University
Press, 2008), Transnational Feminism and Global Advocacy in South Asia
(Routledge, 2012), and Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the
South (University Illinois Press, forthcoming 2013).
Early Career Award
Cathy Schlund-Vials, Associate Professor
English and Asian/Asian American Studies - University of Connecticut
Cathy Schlund-Vials is Associate Professor of English
and Asian American Studies at the University of
Connecticut. She is also the director of the Asian American
Studies Institute and the faculty director for
Humanities House, a campus living/learning community.
She is the author of two monographs: Modeling Citizenship:
Naturalization in Jewish and Asian American Writing
(Temple University Press, 2011) and War, Genocide, and
Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work (University of
Minnesota Press 2012). In addition to book chapters in multiple collections,
Dr. Schlund-Vials has published and forthcoming essays in Life Writing,
Journal of Asian American Studies, MELUS, Modern Language Studies,
Amerasia, American Literary History, and positions. Dr. Schlund-Vials was the
2011 recipient of the
Association for American University Professors “Teaching Promise” Award.
She is currently co-editing three contracted collections: Keywords for Asian
American Studies (New York University Press, co-edited with Linda Trinh Vo
and Scott Wong), Asian America: A Primary Source Reader (Yale University
Press, co-edited with Scott Wong and Jason Oliver Chang), and Disability,
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Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism (Ashgate, co-edited with
Michael Gill). Lastly, Dr. Schlund-Vials is working on two book-length projects:
“Imperial Coordinates: U.S Militarization and America’s ‘Pacific Century’” and
“Quagmires: The Terrains of Southeast Asian American Literature.”
Jonathan H. X. Lee, Assistant Professor
Asian American Studies - San Francisco State University
Jonathan H. X. Lee, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Asian
American studies who specializes in Southeast Asian and
Sino-Southeast Asian American studies at San Francisco
State University. Lee received his PhD in religious studies
from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2009.
Lee is the Program Co-chair of the Religions of Asia, and
Chair of the Asian American religious studies sections for
the American Academy of Religion, Western Region (AAR/
WR) conference. Lee serves on the boards of the Chinese
Historical Society of America (CHSA), the South East
Asian Cultural Heritage & Musical Performing Acts (SEACHAMPA), and the
American Academy of Religion/Western Region Board of Directors. Lee
has served on the planning and steering committees of the National Asian
Pacific Islander American Historic Preservation Forum since its founding.
Lee’s work has been published in Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice;
Nidan: International Journal for the Study of Hinduism; History & Perspective:
The Journal of the Chinese Historical Society of America; Empty Vessel: The
Journal of the Daoist Arts; Spotlight on Teaching/American Academy of Religion;
Asia Pacific: Perspectives; Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist
Studies; Südostasien [Southeast Asia]; and other journals and anthologies,
both nationally and internationally. Lee is the editor of Cambodian American
Experiences: Histories, Communities, Cultures, and Identities (2010); co-
editor with Kathleen M. Nadeau of the three volumes Encyclopedia of Asian
American Folklore and Folklife (2011); co-author with the Center for Lao
Studies of Laotians in the San Francisco Bay Area (2012); editor of Southeast
Asian Diasporas in the United States: Memories & Visions, Yesterday, Today, &
Tomorrow (2013); and co-editor with Kathleen M. Nadeau of Asian American
Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life (2013). Lee
directed and produced a documentary film Happy Birthday Mazu—Empress of
Heaven, Goddess of the Sea 媽祖, 生日快樂! 天之后、海之神 (2008), based
on ethnographic field research in San Francisco, Taiwan, and China. Lee has
published widely on Chinese, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Chinese-Southeast
Asian, and Asian American histories, folklore, cultures, and religions.
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 Anita Affeldt Graduate Student and his M.A. and M.Phil. from Columbia.

Travel Fund Awardees Honorable Mentions for Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Timothy K. August, University of Minnesota
Vivian Huang, New York University

Vivian L. Huang is an ABD PhD candidate in the Stephen H. Chen, Morgan Kenndy and Qing Zhou, University of
Department of Performance Studies at New York California, Berkeley
University. She is completing a dissertation on strategic
redeployments of inscrutability in contemporary solo
Asian American performance art and photography. At the
Community Organization Award
conference, she will be presenting her paper “Feeling Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS)
Distance, Performing Alien: Tseng Kwong Chi, Singularity,
Infinity” in the panel Deploying Diasporic Disaffection.
Her interests include Asian Americanist critique, queer
of color critique, psychoanalysis and affect studies, and critical theory. She
holds a B.A. with honors in English and Theater & Performance Studies from
the University of California, Berkeley. Her teaching experience includes
recitation courses in the intersections of race, gender and sexuality for the
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She hails
from the San Francisco Bay Area and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Founded in 1973, the Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS) provides
a comprehensive range of culturally competent, multilingual, human ser-
Elena Shih, University of California, Los Angeles vices and behavioral health programs and community based social justice
advocacy. Servicing almost 27,000 people each year in 40 languages, ACRS
programs provide assistance with nutrition, mental health, aging and adult
Best Graduate Student Paper Award services, children, youth and families services, chemical dependency treat-
Ian Shin, Graduate Student ment, domestic violence batterers treatment, problem gambling treatment,
Department of History - Columbia University employment and training, legal aid, naturalization and citizenship education
and information, consultation and education, and information and referral
Ian Shin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History services. Feeding nearly 5,000 unduplicated individuals each month, the ACRS
at Columbia University. He specializes in the history of food bank is the only food bank in Washington that regularly provides food for
immigration to the United States and American contact API diets including Asian staples such as rice, ramen, and tofu. ACRS has won
with East Asia during the 19th and 20th centuries. His national recognition from the White House, American Psychological Associ-
dissertation will examine the significance of Chinese art ation, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
collecting in the United States for the rise of Chinese (SAMHSA).
cultural nationalism in the early 20th century. At
Columbia, his experience as a teaching assistant has
covered courses on U.S. history since 1865, the history
of New York City, American urban history, and the
international history and memory of World War II. Ian is also active in local
public history through the Museum of Chinese in America. Ian received his
B.A. magna cum laude in history and American studies from Amherst College
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 Community Leader Award
Diane Narasaki, Executive Director of Asian Counseling and Referral Service Lifetime Members
(ACRS)
Diane Narasaki is Executive Director of Asian Counseling
and Referral Service (ACRS), one of the oldest and largest
pan-Asian Pacific American community organizations Rick Bonus
in the country whose staff of over 200 and approximately Catherine Fung
700 volunteers serve 27,000 people a year with culturally Madeline Hsu
competent behavioral health and human services and Michelle Ko
social justice advocacy in nearly 40 languages. Under Janelle S. Wong
Narasaki’s leadership since 1995, ACRS has won local
Daniel Bronstein
and national recognition for promising practices,
culturally competent service delivery, innovative services, Faye C. Caronan
community service, exemplary service integration and agency excellence Clara M. Chu
and social justice advocacy for API communities. Narasaki is recognized Mary Yu Danico
locally and nationally for her outstanding, consistent, and sustained social Christopher Eng
justice leadership, advocacy, and community service, working for the political Augusto Espiritu
empowerment of API communities and bringing people together to address Anna K. Gonzalez
such issues as immigrant and labor rights, social issues of hunger and Jennifer Hayashida
healthcare, and racial profiling. Jennifer Ho
Allan Isaac
Raoul Kulberg
Josephine Lee
James Lee
Pei-te Lien
Gail M. Nomura
Anthony Ocampo
Kent A. Ono
Rhacel Parrenas
Jeff Sheng
Stephen Sumida
Donna Tong
Linda T. Vo
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

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 Book Awards (published in 2011) Book Awards (published in 2011)
Cultural Studies History

Subverting Exclusion

Chandan Reddy, Freedom with Andrea Geiger, Subverting Exclusion : Transpacific

TRANSPACIFIC ENCOUNTERS WITH

RACE , CASTE , AND BORDERS , 1885–1928

Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-
ANDREA GEIGER

US State. Duke University Press. 1928. Yale University Press.

Thuy Linh Tu, The Beautiful

Generation: Asian Americans
Honorable Mention:
and the Cultural Economy of Richard S. Kim, The Quest for Statehood: Korean Immigrant Nationalism
Fashion. Duke University Press. and U.S. Sovereignty, 1905-1945. Oxford University Press.

Poetry/Prose Literary Studies

Lee A. Tonouchi, Significant Moments in da Life of
erin Khuê Khuê Ninh, Ingratitude. New York
Oriental Faddah and Son: One Hawaii Okinawan
University Press.
Journal. Bess Press.

Social Science
Honorable Mentions:
Julia Lee, Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal
Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in
Representations in African and Asian American
the South Asian Diaspora. Duke University Press.
Literatures, 1896-1937, 1905-1945. New
York University
Press.
Rocio G. Davis, Relative Histories:
Mediating History in Asian American
Memoirs. University of Hawai‘i Press.
Honorable Mention:
Nazli Kibria, Muslims in Motion: Islam and National Identity in the
Bangladeshi Diaspora. Rutgers University Press.
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 Plenary Session
Thursday, April 18
Opening Plenary: Asian American Seattle
P1 Room: Cascade I
Chair: Gail M. Nomura, University of Washington
Discussant: Stephen H. Sumida, University of Washington
This panel will discuss the history of Asian American communities in
Seattle and discuss resources to document and interpret this history.
Plenary Speakers:
Ron Chew, International Community Health Services (ICHS) Foundation
Ron Chew works as executive director of the
International Community Health Services Foundation,
raising funds to support the largest non-profit health
care provider for Asian Pacific Americans in the Pacific
Northwest. He also serves as principal of Chew
Communications, a firm that specializes in the gathering
and presentation of oral histories and community stories.
From 1991 to 2007, Chew served as executive director
of the Wing Luke Museum, helping pioneer and create a new model of
exhibition and program development based on grassroots community
organizing and intergenerational collaboration. He is co-author of
Reflections of Seattle’s Chinese Americans: The First 100 Years and author of
the recently published: Remembering Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes: The
Legacy of Filipino American Labor Activism.
Dorothy Laigo Cordova, Filipino American National Historical Society
In 1971 Dorothy Laigo Cordova directed the Demonst-
ration Project for Asian Americans (DPAA) documenting
problems of Asian American youth, elderly, and new
immigrants. At the conclusion of her 1979-82 NEH grant,
Forgotten Asian Americans: Filipinos and Koreans, she
founded the Filipino American National Historical Society
(FANHS) which today has 28 chapters. Mother of 8, she is
the volunteer Executive Director of FANHS.
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Fred Cordova, Filipino American National Historical Society
Fred Cordova is a former public information officer for the
University of Washington. He founded the Filipino
Youth Activities in 1957 and created its famous FYA Drill
Team. Author of “Filipinos: Forgotten Asian American,”
Fred was founding president of the Filipino American
National Historical Society (FANHS). He created its
National Pinoy Archives in 1986 and is the volunteer
archivist. With his wife, Dorothy Cordova, he team-taught
Filipino American History for12 years for the Department of American Ethnic
Studies at the University of Washington. Fred is an ordained deacon for the
Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle.
Tom Ikeda, Densho, The Japanese American Legacy Project
Tom Ikeda is the Executive Director of Densho: The
Japanese American Legacy Project, which he helped start
in 1996. Densho is a virtual museum that teaches young
people about democracy through the stories of Japanese
Americans incarcerated during World War II. During the
last 17 years, Tom has conducted over 200 video-
recorded, oral history interviews with Japanese
Americans incarcerated during World War II, created
classroom curriculum from these materials, and helped
design Densho’s award winning website. Prior to Densho, Tom was a
General Manager at Microsoft in the Multimedia Publishing Group.
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 Friday, April 19
War and Empire
P2 Room: Cascade I
Chair: Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington
Discussant: Chandan Reddy, University of Washington
Plenary Speakers:
Lisa Lowe, Professor of English and American Studies, Tufts University
Lowe is the award-winning author of Critical Terrains: French
and British Orientalisms (1991) and Immigrant Acts: On Asian
American Cultural Politics (1996), one of the most widely read
and cited works in Asian American Studies. She is currently at
work on a book project titled The Intimacies of Four
Continents.
Nikhil Pal Singh, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and
History, New York University
Singh is the author of the award-winning Black Is a
Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
(2004) and editor of Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder: The Black
Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O’Dell (2010). His
current book project is titled Exceptional Empire: Race and
War in U.S. Globalism.
George Quibuyen (aka, Geologic and Prometheus Brown), Blue Scholars
Geologic is the MC of the Seattle-based hip hop duo, Blue
Scholars. With DJ Sabzi, Geo has been producing music with
politically vibrant and urgent messages since 2002—“talking
as a walking document of our struggle,” as he puts it in a
song. Blue Scholars’ most recent album is Cinemetropolis
(2011).
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Saturday, April 20
President’s Plenary: Bridging Divides in Asian
P3 American Studies
Room: Cascade I
Chair & Discussant: Paul Watanabe, Professor of Political Science,
University of Massachusetts
Watanabe is Chair of the U.S. Census Bureau’s National
Advisory Committee, a member of the Committee on
the Status of Asian Americans of the American Political
Science Association, President of the Board of Directors
of the Nisei Student Relocation Commemorative Fund,
a member of the Board of Directors of the American Civil
Liberties Union of Massachusetts, and a member of the Advisory Board
of the New Americans Integration Institute. His principal research and
teaching interests are in the areas of political behavior, public policy, ethnic
group politics, Asian Americans, and American foreign policy.
Plenary Speakers:
Leslie Bow, Mark and Elisabeth Eccles Professor of English and Asian
American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The author of the award-winning, ‘Partly Colored’:
Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated
South (New York University Press, 2010), and Betrayal
and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics,
Asian American Women’s Literature (Princeton
University Press, 2001). She is the editor of the
4-volume, Asian American Feminisms just out last year from Routledge and
her work has appeared in numerous academic journals and anthologies.
Richard Lee, Professor of Psychology, University of Minnesota
The current president of the Asian American Psychological
Association, Lee’s research focuses on the development,
well-being, and mental health of Asian American individuals
and families. His current research is on the cultural
socialization experiences of Korean Americans adopted
by White families and the development and implementation
of culturally sensitive evidence-based prevention programs for Asian
American families and youth.
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Renee Tajima-Peña, Professor Social Documentation, University of Film Screenings
California, Santa Cruz

An Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose work Thursday, April 18

focuses on Asian American and immigrant communities,
race, gender and social justice, Tajima- Peña is currently
at work on a documentary and transmedia project, No
11:30am-1:00pm, Olympic
Más Bebés Por Vida (No More Babies For Life) about the The Crumbles
sterilization of Mexican-origin women at Los Angeles
County-USC Medical Center during the 1960s and 70s, and an
interactive, online documentary history, Heart Mountain 3.0, using the Minecraft 4:30pm-6:00pm, Grand Crescent
multi-player game. Seeking Asian Females

Friday, April 19

4:30pm-6:00pm, Grand Crescent

The Chinese Gardens

Saturday, April 20

10:00am-11:30am, Blakely
Giving Voice

10:00am-11:30am, Grand Crescent

Mr. Cao Goes to Washington

1:00pm-2:30pm, Grand Crescent

Memory of Forgotten War

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Mega Sessions
Friday, April 19
2:45pm-4:15pm
Leadership Pipeline: Becoming a Dean, Vice-
President, and President with a Social Justice Vision
Room: Vashon II
Moderator: Bob Suzuki, President Emeritus, California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona
Dr. Suzuki was born in Portland, Oregon to Japanese Research and Perspectives in Identity, Leadership.
immigrant parents. During World War II, he was imprisoned
with his family in an internment camp in Minidoka, Idaho.
After serving many years as a faculty member and
administrator, Dr. Suzuki became President of Cal Poly
Pomona for 12 years retiring from that office in 2003.
Today, President Suzuki continues to be active in academe, community
service, and national discourse on issues affecting Asian Americans.
Participants:
Kenyon Chan, Chancellor, University of Washington, Bothell
Prior to his appointment at UW Bothell, Chan was Dean
of the College and Vice-President for Academic Affairs
at Occidental College and Dean of Bellarmine College
at Loyola Marymount University, Director of the Liberal
Studies Program, and Founding Chair of the Asian
American Studies Department at California State
University, Northridge. Chan has over 35 years of
teaching experience and his primary research interest is focused on
the effects of race on the emotional development of children and the
sociocultural factors that influence motivation, learning, and schooling.
Doris Ching, Vice President Emeritus, University of Hawai‘i
Dr. Doris Ching served the University of Hawai‘i for 36
years before retiring as Vice President of Student
Services. She was the first woman of color and first Asian
Pacific Islander to be elected president of the National
Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA)
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and NASPA Foundation, and is the recipient of numerous awards and co-
editor of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education Research
and Perspectives in Identity, Leadership.
Anna Gonzalez, Dean of Students, Lewis and Clark College
Prior to Lewis & Clark, Gonzalez, who has a Ph.D. in
higher education administration from Claremont Graduate
University, was at the University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign. since 2008. With 17 years of student affairs
experience, Gonzalez currently serves the National
Association of Student Personnel Administrators in two
capacities—as past-chair of its Undergraduate Fellows
Program Board and chair of one of its regional conferences. She is one of
the contributors to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education
Saturday, April 20
10:00am-11:30am
Engaging the Public Through the Press: How to
Speak to the Media about Asian Americans and
Pacific Islanders
Room: Adams
Presenter & Moderator: Bill Imada, CEO, IW Group
In recent years, various “newsworthy” events involving
Asian Americans surfaced yet there were only a handful
of AAPI who were seen to discuss our community. Our
association has the experts who could do this, yet the
press does not know who we are? Bill Imada is the
Chairman and Chief Collaboration Officer of IW Group and
has been one of the go to persons that the media
seeks out. He is offering his services to support our
associations efforts to advocate through the media.
Bill Imada is founder, chairman and chief collaboration officer of IW
Group, a minority-owned and operated agency focusing on the growing
multicultural markets. His areas of expertise include multicultural
communications, marketing, advertising, strategic public relations, cross-
cultural training and crisis management.
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 Professionalization Sessions Drop-In Clinic
Thursday, April 18 Friday, April 19
4:30pm-6:00pm 10:00am-12:00pm
Professionalization Panel #1: Nuts & Bolts of Publishing
Room: Vashon II “‘The Dr. is in’ Drop-in Clinic” sessions are back for the 2013 Annual
Meeting! Students and postdocs can sign up at registration for an assigned
Janet Francedese, Assistant Director & Editor-in-Chief, Temple time slot and meeting location to chat with established professors about
University Press professionalization advice. Come by if you want to spruce up your c.v., need
Masako Ikeda, Acquisitions Editor, University of Hawaii Press tips on job talks, or seek advice on polishing your dossier. Space is limited so
Arnold Pan, Associate Editor, Amerasia Journal sign up soon!
Min Hyoung Song, Editor, Journal of Asian American Studies
Eric Zinner, Assistant Director & Editor-in-Chief, NYU Press
DROP-IN CLINIC FACULTY
Publishing can be a daunting and stressful process whether you’re a graduate student
10:00am-10:30am 11:00am-11:30am
or a senior faculty member. This panel of experienced editors will share insights on
Carolyn Chen Floyd Cheung
what is expected when trying to publish journal articles and monographs. They will
Augusto Espiritu Allan Punzalan Isaac
provide candid and helpful advice for those seeking to write for academic audiences.
Anita Mannur Lisa Sun-Hee Park
Cathy Schlund-Vials Cathy Schlund-Vials
Friday, April 19 Nitasha Sharma
10:30am-11:00am Mary Yu Danico
2:45pm-4:15pm Carolyn Chen
Professionalization Panel #2: Beyond the Academy: Careers Anita Mannur 11:30am-12:00pm
Using Your Asian American Studies Background Cathy Schlund-Vials Floyd Cheung
Room: Vashon II Allan Punzalan Isaac
Karen Leong
Christine Chen, Executive Director, APIA Vote Lisa Sun-Hee Park
Ben deGuzman, Co-Director, National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Cathy Schlund-Vials
Alliance (NQAPIA) Nitasha Sharma
Bill Imada, CEO, IW Group
Michelle Ko, Board of Directors, Asian Pacific Community Fund and
Chair of the Board of Directors, Project by Project
David Odo, Bradley Assistant Curator of Academic Affairs, Yale
University Art Gallery

Asian American Studies is a dynamic scholarly field. While many researchers of the
Asian American experience secure positions in academia, there are other career paths
attractive and available for Asian Americanists ranging from non-profit work to the
realm of public history. This group of knowledgeable public and private sector Asian
American Studies allies will discuss how to use your Asian American Studies training
outside of the college or university setting.
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 Receptions Friday, April 19
7:30am-8:30am
Wednesday, April 17 Coffee Break (Cascade II)
Sponsored by the John Hopkins University Press
5:30pm-10:00pm
AAAS Board Meeting (Grand Crescent) 3:00pm-4:00pm
Book Award Winners Celebration Reception (Cascade II)
Sponsored by: Duke University Press, Bess Press, Yale University
Thursday, April 18 Press, New York University Press, University of Hawai‘i Press

7:30am-8:30am 4:30pm-6:00pm
Welcome Coffee Break (Cascade II) University of Washington Press Wine Reception (Cascade II)
Sponsored by the John Hopkins University Press

1:00pm-2:00pm 5:30pm-6:30pm
Coffee and Refreshments (Cascade II) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Wine Reception
Sponsored by the John Hopkins University Press (5th Avenue)

6:00pm-7:30pm
4:30pm-6:00pm 110th Year Anniversary of Korean Immigration Reception
VIP Reception (Cascade Foyer)
*Invitation Only Sponsored by: Center for Korean Studies, Binghamton University,
(Presidential Suite) English Department at Pomona College, The Research Center for
Korean Community, Queens College, Center for Korean Studies
University of California, Riverside, The Young Oak Kim Center for
6:00pm-7:30pm Korean American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles,
Welcome Reception (5th Avenue) Korea Times / Hankook-Ilbo Chair, Korean American Coalition of
Sponsored by University of Washington, Department of History, Washington
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Press, Office
of the Chancellor, University of Washington,Bothell and North Seattle Saturday, April 20
Community College
7:30am-8:30am
Coffee Break (Cascade II)
Sponsored by the John Hopkins University Press

6:00pm-7:30pm
Awards Reception (5th Avenue)
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 WING LUKE MUSEUM EVENTS SECTION MEETINGS
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
(719 S. King Street, in Chinatown/International District)
Thursday, April 18 Saturday, April 20
Saturday, April 20
12:00pm-1:00pm 12:00pm-1:00pm
Queer Community Filipino American
1:00pm-2:30pm St. Helens St. Helens
Richard Aoki and His Legacy: A Community Conversation
S23
Chair: Daryl Maeda, University of Colorado Multiracial Community Religion
Roundtable Participants: Vashon II
Diane Fujino, University of California, Santa Barbara Adams
Scott Kurashige, University of Michigan
East of California Asian Adoption Studies
Michael Tagawa, Community Activist
Adams Stuart

2:45pm-4:15pm
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Seattle’s Asian American Movement: Pan-Ethnicity, Afro-Asian
Solidarities, and Labor Organizing, 1960s-70s
Friday, April 19
Chair: Tracy Lai, Seattle Central Community College
Discussant: Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington 11:45am-12:45pm
Afro-Asian Solidarities in the Seattle Black Panther Party Southeast Asian American
and Beyond Olympic
Aaron Dixon, Community Activist/Black Panther Party
Shoulder to Shoulder: Brothers and Sisters in the Struggle South Asian American
for Human Dignity Stuart
Mike Tagawa, Community Activist
Asian American Student Movement in Seattle Korean American
Alan Sugiyama, Executive Development Institute Adams
Seattle’s King Dome Protest Revisited: Forty Years Later
Francisco Irigon, Community Activist Japanese American
Speaking for Ourselves: LELO, A History of Cross Racial, Whidbey
Cross Border Organizing
Cindy Domingo, Community Activist

*These events are FREE but attendees must have their badges present.
Attendees MUST be at Wing Luke 15 minutes prior to line up. Seating is
limited to the first 65 AAAS Conference Attendees.
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 Tours
Thursday, April 18
12:00pm-5:30pm
Bus Tour through Asian American Local History
This narrated bus tour includes brief stops at the gravesites of
Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee, the Japanese Cultural & Community
Center of Washington (the site of the historic Seattle Japanese
Language School and the Northwest Nikkei Museum and antique
store), Chinatown-International District, and the Eastern Hotel to
view the mural dedicated to Carlos Bulosan and labor union
activists. We’ll also point out the Nisei Veterans Committee Memorial
Wall, Little Saigon, the Chinatown Gate, and the Panama Hotel, made
famous by Jamie Ford’s national bestseller, Hotel on the Corner of
Bitter and Sweet. Local guides will be on hand to share stories of the
people and communities associated with these historical sites.
Bus tour ends at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American
Experience and includes time to view the gallery exhibits at The
Wing and a docent-led tour of the historic Yick Fung Company and local histories with their ancestors who came to the Americas,
Storefront and preserved Freeman Hotel rooms, home to the early
APIA pioneers.
Friday, April 19
2:30pm-6:30pm
Filipino American Historical Sites Tour
Narrated bus tour of Filipino American historical sites in Seattle and
workshop at the Filipino American National Historical Society and
National Pinoy Archives. FANHS Trustee and native “SHE-attle” poet
Emily Porcincula Lawsin (University of Michigan) and Third Andresen
(University of Washington) will serve as active guides for this
community bus tour. FANHS Founder Dorothy Cordova and FANHS
Archivist Fred Cordova will conduct a workshop on sources at the
National Pinoy Archives. A light snack and beverage is included.
Sites along the bus route (among a wide range of sites) include
Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Carlos Bulosan gravesite), Filipino
Community Center, Chinatown/International District (including the
Carlos Bulosan Memorial Exhibit), the International Longshoremen’s
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and Warehousemen’s Union Local 37, and Dr. Jose Rizal Park. The
last, major stop will be in the Central District, at the headquarters of
the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS), which
houses the National Pinoy Archives. Scholars registering for this
tour will be able to make arrangements with Dorothy and Fred
Cordova fanhsnational@gmail.com for appointments to research
material at the National Pinoy Archives.
(See http://www.fanhs-national.org for more information on FANHS)
6:30pm-9:00pm
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of A Grain of Sand: A Reunion
Concert Featuring Nobuko Miyamoto and Charlie Chin
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
In 1973, Chris Iijima (1948-2005), Nobuko Miyamoto, and Charlie
Chin released A Grain of Sand, an LP that coincided with the birth of
Asian American consciousness. Every social movement produces a
rich array of art and cultural work, and these three Asian Americans
paved the way for making politically progressive and socially
conscious statements through music. Connecting their family
the trio simultaneously drew ties to local and global struggles
against racism and imperialism.
This special reunion concert will feature Miyamoto and Chin
performing tracks from the legendary album as well as music from
their current projects. Miyamoto leads the Los Angeles-based
performance and media organization, Great Leap. Chin continues
his distinguished career as a story-teller, singer, and guitarist.
Excerpts from Tadashi Nakamura’s award-winning documentary, A
Song for Ourselves, will be included in the performance to feature
the life and music of Chris Iijima.
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 Saturday, April 20
11:30am-1:30pm 2013 Exhibitors
Sushi Demonstration

The program will feature a live sushi demonstration by Chef Shiro

The following presses and organizations will be exhibiting and selling
Kashiba of Shiro’s Sushi Restaurant in Seattle. Chef Shiro will books and media material and providing information about their
demonstrate and discuss the history, tradition, and culture of organizations:
Edomae sushi. A master of Edomae-style sushi, Chef Shiro continues
to find the freshest of local ingredients around the Pacific Northwest
to prepare for guests at his restaurant. Guests will be able to amply Bamboo Ridge Press
sample his omakase preparations utilizing Pacific Northwest Coffee House Press
ingredients.
Duke University Press
Chef Shiro Kashiba is the best known sushi master in Seattle, owner Hong Kong University Press
of Shiro’s Sushi Restaurant and author of Shiro: Wit, Wisdom and Johns Hopkins University Press
Recipes from a Sushi Pioneer. A two-time James Beard nominee, Kaya Press
Master Chef Shiro Kashiba has been profiled in every major cuisine New York University Press
periodical and newspaper including Bon Appetit, The New York Rutgers University Press
Times, and USA Today. His restaurants are permanent fixtures in
Stanford University Press
Zagat’s restaurant guides. Chef Shiro will be available to autograph
his book, Shiro: Wit, Wisdom and Recipes from a Sushi Pioneer, after Steven Doi Books
the event. Temple University Press
University of California, Los Angeles Asian American
Studies Center
University of Hawai‘i Press
University of Minnesota Press
University of Washington Press

The exhibitors will be located in the CASCADE II.

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Call For Papers
Building Bridges, Forging Movements:
Thirty-Five Years of Asian American Studies
2014 Association for Asian American Studies Conference
April 16-20, 2014, San Francisco, California
Submissions due by: October 15, 2013
The 2014 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Francisco provides a timely venue to
reflect upon the historical origins and growth of Asian American Studies, and
to envision how we can meet the contemporary challenges and opportunities
faced by our communities, disciplines, and professions. 2014 commemorates
the 35th anniversary of the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS),
which was founded in 1979, first, to forge the highest professional standard
of excellence in teaching and research in the field of Asian American Studies,
and second, to build bridges between various Asian American communities
and between Asian American activists, scholars, and artists. 2014 also
celebrates the 35th anniversary of President Jimmy Carter’s designation of
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week during the week beginning May 4, 1979,
to acknowledge the significant role that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
have played in helping shape a diverse and dynamic nation through our
contributions to American history, society, and culture. Finally, San Francisco
showcases our communities’ major contributions to US society as the port
of entry for generations of Asian migrants coming through Angel Island, the
battleground for landmark cases such as Yick Wo v. Hopkins and Lau v. Nichols,
the site of demonstrations such as the TWLF strikes and I-Hotel occupations,
and the home of institutions such as the Asian American Theater Company
and Kearny Street Workshop.
Given the historical location and milestones marked by our 2014 Meeting, we
invite submissions that critically ask and examine: Where and how has Asian
American Studies succeeded or struggled in the past 35 years? What threats
have we encountered, and how can we rise to meet our new challenges?
What promise does Asian American Studies hold for the twenty-first century,
and what bridges can we build in service to forging new movements in Asian
American studies?
We also recognize the increasingly collaborative, multidisciplinary, and
multiethnic work that has been the bedrock of Asian American studies. To that
end, we encourage and will give priority to panel submissions that include a
diversity of perspectives that cross disciplinary boundaries, professions, rank,
and regions (e.g., panels that present literary scholars with creative writers,
community activists with public policy scholars, social scientists with cultural
studies critics, and panels that incorporate graduate students along with full,
associate, and assistant professors from across the nation and from a variety
of institutions).
We invite submissions for panels, individual papers, posters, workshops,
roundtables, and creative work that explore and consider “bridges” between
and across:
• Disciplines
• Generations
• Regions
• Nations
• Ethnic and racial communities
• Movements
• Theory, pedagogy and practice
• Students and activists/ academics/ communities/ policy makers
• Communities and the academy
• Arts and the academy
• K-12 and the academy
• Activism and the academy
• Policy and the academy
• Asian American Studies’ past, present, and/ or future
We encourage submissions from individuals and groups engaged in political
and intellectual work outside the academy (e.g., politicians, artists, healthcare
practitioners, community activists, etc.), as well as from the range of disciplines
within Asian American Studies.
We look forward to bringing together individuals and groups from a range
of locations and sensibilities for a lively opportunity to discuss, debate, and
deliberate the past and current state of Asian American Studies, and our
possibilities for the future.
Committee Co-Chairs,
Cathy Ceniza Choy and Evelyn Rodriguez

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April 18, 2013

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 7:00am-5:00pm
Registration
Cascade Foyer
7:30am-6:00pm
Book Exhibits
Cascade II
7:30am-8:30am
Welome Coffee Break
Sponsored by The John Hopkins University Press
Cascade II
8:15am-9:45am
T1 Asian American Citizen-Subjects: Youth Identity, Cultural
Politics and Institutional Inequalities (St. Helens)
Chair & Discussant: LeiLani Nishime, University of Washington
Repositioning Woman as Agents of the Female Body
Ger Xiong, University of California, Los Angeles
Streetwise Model Minorty: Hip Hop and Asian-Black
(Dis)Associations in the Age of Neoliberalism
Daniel Woo, University of California, Los Angeles
Second-Generation Filipino Americans and Downward
Educational Mobility
Kate Viernes, University of California, Los Angeles
Roundtable Discussion: Contemporary Community Formation
T2 and Oral History Narratives (Blakely)
Participants:
Elizabeth Kopacz, University of California, Los Angeles
Mihiri Tillakaratne, University of California, Los Angeles
Jane Lee, University of California, Los Angeles
Examining Trauma: Methodological Considerations to Studying
T3 Violence Across Generations (Orcas)
Chair & Discussant: Asiroh Cham, University of Southern California
A Historical Genealogy of Transgenerational Trauma:
Making the Case for Cambodian Americans
Yvonne Kwan, University of California, Santa Cruz
Walking With the Ghost: A Feminist Explication of the
Ethical Politics of Work on Silence and Trauma
Lina Chhun, University of California, Los Angeles
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Studying Trauma Intergenerationally: Evidence of
Participant Agency in the Socialization of Second-
Generation “Insiders”
Phi Su, University of California, Los Angeles
Jane Le Skaife, University of California, Davis
T4 Chair:
Imperial and Counter-Imperial Cultures (Pike)
Dana Takagi, University of California, Santa Cruz
Reorienting Empires: Hanama Tasaki’s Long the Imperial
Way and Postwar American Culture
Edward Tang, University of Alabama
From Island Style to “Gangnam Style”: Cheesiness as
Neocapitalist Aesthetic
Erin Suzuki, Emory University
Dancing into Visibility: Asian American B-boys Coming to
a Screen Near You
Mina Yang, University of Southern California
“The White Man’s Bruce Lee”: Race and the Consolidation
of Normative Masculinity in David Fincher’s Fight Club
Brian Locke, University of Colorado, Boulder
The Legacy of a Forgotten Empire: Race, Gender, and the Impact
T5 of U.S. Militarism in South Korea (Vashon I)
Chair: Yaejoon Kwon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Nadia Kim, Loyola Marymount University
The Korean Problem: the U.S. Military Occupation in
Southern Korea, 1945-1948
Yaejoon Kwon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Production of Children: Tracing the Origins of
Transnational Adoption
Kimberly McKee, The Ohio State University
Race-ing towards the Real South Korea: The Cases of
Black-Korean Nationals and African Migrants
Nadia Kim, Loyola Marymount University
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 Of “Locals,” Role Models, Ilokanos, and Plantation Pigmentation:
T6 Re-Imagining “Filipino” in Hawai‘i (Cascade I)
Chair & Facilitator: Roderick Labrador, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
Discussant: Leighton Villa, Virginia Tech University
Local Identity as Navigational Capital: Forgoing an Ethnic
Identity to Navigate Racial Hierarchies in Hawai‘i Stella Oh, Loyola Marymount University
Daniel Eisen, Pacific University
Jane Yamashiro, University of Southern California
Challenging ‘Filipino’ Dominance: Narrating Ilokano/
American Voices, Stories, and Lives
Steve Ryan Badua, San Francisco State University
“Our Plantation Pigmentation Cracks Open Like Whips”:
Exploring Filipina/o American Identity in Hawai‘i Through
Spoken Word
Marie Antonette Ramos, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
Proper Document[Asian]/ Storytelling as Spectacle and Specter
T7 of Empire (Whidbey)
Chair & Discussant: Thea Quiray Tagle, University of California, San Diego I Resist, therefore I am: Mother in Dictée by Theresa Hak
“Nothing New on the Western Front”: On Jy-ah Min’s M/F
Remix and Life Inside Empire
Anthony Yooshin Kim, University of California, San Diego
“Eliciting Empathy, Evoking Empire”: A Critical Media
Literacy Case Study, or Contextualizing Sensational API
Social Issues to Non-API New York Audience
Theresa Navarro
Spectral Nationality: Thai (American) identity in ghostlife,
folklore, and double consciousness
Pahole Sookkasikon, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
Queer Horizons: Filipina/o/American Cultural Representations &
T8 Reoriented Visions of the Postcolonial (Vashon II)
Chair & Discussant: Martin Joseph Ponce, The Ohio State University
Liberatory Desires and the Hypersexuality of Philippine
Independence
Amanda Solomon, University of California, San Diego
Family Units and the Filipino/American Politics of Hiding
Josen Diaz, University of California, San Diego
The Queer Romance of Magno Rubio: Homosociality,
Homoeroticism, and the Midwestern Spectatorial Gaze
Thomas Sarmiento, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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Reclamations of Sound, Voice, and Identity in the Afterlives of
T9 Empire (Stuart)
Chair: Stella Oh, Loyola Marymount University
More than Meets the Eye: Transform(ers) of Affect and
Empire in American Born Chinese
“In a Coil of Tongues”: The Poetics of Redefining ‘Asian
American’ in Selected Anglophone Filipino/American
Poems
Donna Tong, Fu Jen Catholic University
Queer Narratives and Moral Imperialism in Han Ong’s The
Disinherited
Jeanne Sokolowski, Indiana University, Bloomington
T10
Transpacific Imperial (Re)education: Traces and Traversals
(Adams)
Chair & Discussant: Rahul K. Gairola, University of Washington, Bothell
& Seattle University
Kyung Cha
Nobuko Yamasaki, University of Washington
Postcolonial Creolized Subjectivity in the Works of
Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Lawrence Chua, and Lydia Kwa
Tzu-hui Celina Hung, University of California, Los Angeles
Learning to Unlearn: Remembering Imperial Lessons in
Aimee Phan’s The Reeducation of Cherry Truong
Long Bui, University of California, Riverside
T11
Unbound by Boundaries: Questioning the Boundaries of Empire
(Olympic)
Chair: Mercy Laurino, University of Washington
Discussant: Ilsu Sohn, University of Washington
“Local” in Hawai‘i: Meditations on Neoliberal Power
Leanne Day, University of Washington
The Permanent and Permeating Home: Reexamining
Boundaries and Space in Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge’s Nest
Jane Wong, University of Washington
Korean or American? Politics of the Korean-American in
South Korea
Peter Lee, University of Washington
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 10:00am-10:15am Wendy Cheng, Arizona State University
(Un)Settling Ethnographies: Becoming Anchored in Our
Conference Welcome Third Spaces/Genders as Methods for Resistance to
Cascade I Genocidal Knowledge Production
Josephine Lee, AAAS President Ren-yo Hwang, University of California, Riverside
Mary Yu Danico, AAAS President The Impact of American Feminism on Postwar Taiwan’s
Rick Bonus and Moon-Ho Jung Feminist Movement
2013 Program Committee Co-Chairs Doris Chang, Wichita State University
Gail Nomura and Stephen Sumida Networked States: 
Queer & Transgender Taiwanese New
2013 Site Committee Co-Chairs Media and the Convergence of Empires
Jian Chen, The Ohio State University
10:15am-11:45am

P1 PLENARY I: Asian American Seattle(Cascade I) T14

Chair: Gail M. Nomura, University of Washington
Discussant: Stephen H. Sumida, University of Washington
Participants:
Ron Chew, International Community Health Services (ICHS)
Foundation
Dorothy and Fred Cordova, Filipino American National
Historical Society (FANHS)
Tom Ikeda, Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project Rhommel Litz Lara Canare, San Francisco State University
10:15am-11:45am
T12
Ambivalent Imperialisms in the Philippines: Filipino Americans,
Pensionados, and Ethnographers (Vashon I)
Chair & Discussant: Robyn Rodriguez, University of California, Davis
The Imperial Drive to Archive: Towards a Filipino-American
Intellectual History of the Race Sciences
Sony Bolton, University of Michigan
The Filipino American in Spaces of Liberal Tolerance: Peter
Bacho’s Cebu
Christopher Patterson, University of Washington
Heroism: The New Imperialism?
Faith Karen, Northwestern University
T13 Taiwanese/America
Between Empires: Radical Politics and Cultures in Transnational
(Olympic)
Chair: Jian Chen, The Ohio State University
Discussant: Wendy Cheng, Arizona State University
Taiwan Revolution: Unearthing the Secret History of Leftist
Politics in Taiwanese America
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Beyond the Tiger Mom: Birthing Counternarratives of Asian
American Mothering (St. Helens)
Chair: Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano, University of California, Santa Cruz
Discussant: Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, San Francisco State
University
Asian American Women and Postpartum Experiences
Allyson Remigio, San Francisco State University
Labor of Love: Filipina Single Mothers Transforming
Motherhood
Teaching Multiraciality: Pedagogies of Mixed Heritage Asian
American Mothers
Brian DeGuzman, San Francisco State University
Critical Praxis: Counternarratives of a Community Engaged
Motherscholar
Arlene Daus-Magbual, Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP)
T65 Subconscious Imperialists: Case Studies of a Japanese Colonist,
a Japanese Expatriate, and a Japanese-American Nisei during
and after WWII (Vashon II)
Chair & Discussant: Catherine Fung, Bentley University
From Japanese Colonialism to American Imperialism: A
Discourse Analysis of Kazuko Kuramoto’s “Manchurian
Legacy”
Marie Orise, Meiji University
Between Japan and the U.S.: Transnational Neutrality and
Adaptation of the Historical Figure of Isamu Yuba in Karen
Tei Yamashita’s Brazil-Maru
Rie Makino, Nihon University
Among White Hunters on Safari Grounds: Watson
Yoshimoto’s Global Hunting Expeditions
Eri Kato, University of Tokyo
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T15 Race, Visibility, and Consumption: Asian American Cultural
Production in the Twenty-First Century (Blakely)
Chair & Discussant: Eleanor Ty, Wilfrid Laurier University
Imperial Fields of Gold: U.S. Cultural Empire and K-Pop
Crystal Anderson, Elon University
Both Animal and Robot: The Paradox and Persistence of
Asian American Racial Formation
Hee-Jung Serenity Joo, University of Manitoba
Challenging the Face of Hip Hop: An Exploration of Gender
and AAPI Representation in Hip Hop Culture
Eileen O’Brien, Saint Leo University
11:30am-1:00pm
T16 Presenter:
FILM SCREENING: The Crumbles (Olympic)
Gena Hamamoto, University of California, Los Angeles
12:00pm-1:00pm
T17 SECTION MEETING: Queer Community
(St. Helens)
T18 (Adams)
SECTION MEETING: East of California
T19 SECTION MEETING: Multiracial Community
(Vashon II)
12:00pm-1:00pm
WORKING PAPER PRESENTATION: US Empire and the
T20 Institutionalization of Environmental Knowledge (Adams)
Presenter: Keith Miyake, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Discussant: Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington
WORKING PAPER PRESENTATION: Rape Across Another Color
T21 Line: California Court Cases against Chinese Men, 1850-1915
(Stuart)
Presenter: Beth Lew-Williams, Northwestern University
Discussant: Robert G. Lee, Brown University
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WORKING PAPER PRESENTATION: The Future of World War II
T22 Filipino Veterans’ Movement in the Afterlife of U.S. Empire: An
Historical Assessment (Whidbey)
Presenter: Jason Gavilan, University of Michigan
Discussant: Richard S. Kim, University of California, Davis
1:00pm-2:30pm
The Afterlives of 9/11: South Asian Diasporic Writing and Empire
T23 (Vashon I)
Chair: Anantha Sudhakar, San Francisco State University
Cautious Self- Regulation: The Careful Construction of
Public Identity by American Muslims in the Post 9/11 Era
Karin Bashin, University of Michigan
Get to Know Me: Dramatic Monologue as Post-9/11
Narrative Strategy in Rohina Malik’s Unveiled and Mohsin
Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Teraya Paramehta, San Francisco State University
Viewing 9/11 Through a Caribbean Lens: Jan Lowe
Shinebourne’s Chinese Women
Anantha Sudhakar, San Francisco State University
T24
Beauty and Desire: Women’s Bodies Beyond Colonization
(Grand Crescent)
Chair: Nerissa Balce, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Body Dissatisfaction among South-Asian College Women:
Sociocultural Influences and Health Risk Outcomes
Mallory Dimler, Suffolk University
Dusky Desires: The Eroticization of Dark Indian Women’s
Sexual Identities in Film and Media
Hareem Khan, University of California, Santa Barbara
Skin Color Hierarchy: Colorism Beyond Black and White
Joanne Rondilla, Arizona State University
In the Cyber-Matrix of Asian Dominatrix: Beauty, Race, and
Pain as Commodities
L. Ayu Saraswati, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
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T25
Contestations and Collaborations: Creating Asian American
Archives and the Challenges of Representation (Stuart)
Chair & Discussant: Theo Gonzalves, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County
Representing Sindhi Histories: Whose Voices Matter and
How Will We Hear Them?
Nina Makhija, Sindhi Voices Project
Documentation and Distribution: Increasing Online Access
to Archives
Samip Mallick, South Asian American Digital Archive
From Observer to Insider to Observer: The Challenges and
Possibilities of Community Based Research
Amy Bhatt, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
T26
The Empire Strikes Back: The Wards Cove Case, Civil Rights, and
Multi-Racial Organizing (St. Helens)
Chair & Discussant: Cindy Domingo, King County, Seattle
The Dismantiling and Deconstruction of Civil Rights in the
Wards Cove Case
Nemesio Domingo, Legacy of Equality, Leadership and
Organizing (LELO)
Justice for Ward’s Cove Workers Movement and Multi-Racial
Organizing
Gary Owens, Legacy of Equality, Leadership and Organizing
(LELO)
Organizing a Broad-Based Movement to Save the
International Hotel
Estella Habal, San Jose State University
Forms of Afterlives/Afterlives of Forms (Cascade IC)
T27 Chair: Joseph Jeon, Pomona College
Asynchronous Empires: Science Fiction, Modernity, and the
Asian Future
Warren Liu, Scripps College
Spectral Horizons: Global Planes in Kim Jeong-joong’s
HERs
Joseph Jeon, Pomona College
Composting Whiteness: Cultural Trauma and New Diasporic
South Asian Conceptual Writing
Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Temple University
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T28
Gender, Sex, Work: Studies of Intimate Labor (Whidbey)
Chair & Discussant: Miliann Kang, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Risk, Race, and Sex in Southern California Massage Parlors
Anna Kim, Pomona College
Coercive Rescue: Women’s Work and the Anti-Human
Trafficking Movement in China and Thailand
Elena Shih, University of California, Los Angeles
Domestic Workers: Intellectuals of the Private Sphere
Anita Jain, Cal Poly Pomona
The Thread Between Them: Racialized and Gendered
Productions of Beauty in a Los Angeles South Asian
Threading Salon
Preeti Sharma, University of California, Los Angeles
T29
New Perspectives on Asian American Health (Vashon II)
Chair & Discussant: Grace Yoo, San Francisco State University
Assimilation, Asian Americans & Obesity
Edith Chen, California State University, Northridge
Environmental Justice and Its Impact on Asian American
Health
Mai-Nhung Le, San Francisco State University
Double Emasculation: Conceptualizing Rates of Domestic
Violence Perpetrated by Filipino American Men
Eric Pido, San Francisco State University
T30 Media
Online Lives of Asian America: Race, Gender, and Politics in New
(Adams)
Chair & Discussant: Christine Balance, University of California, Irvine
A Love Song to YouTube: Charting a ‘So-called Asian
Movement’ Online
Grace Wang, University of California, Davis
The Makeup Guru as Neoliberal Entrepreneur: Post-
feminism, Self-management, and Asian/American Women in
the DIY Age of YouTube
Nhi T. Lieu, University of Texas, Austin
“K-Town” and the Afterlife of Asian American Studies
Erin Khuê Ninh, University of California, Santa Barbara
angryasianman.com: Politics, Artists, and Media Publics
L.S. Kim, University of California, Santa Cruz
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 Palimpsestic Histories: The 1960s-1970s in Contemporary
T31 Memory (Blakely)
Chair: Anita Mannur, Miami University of Ohio
Discussant: Jolie Sheffer, Bowling Green State University
Cold War Coordinates: Militariazation, Memory, and
Vietnamese/American Literature
Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut
The Staging of Empires Past and Present: Jessica
Hagedorn’s Dream Jungle
Ri Magosaki, Chapman University
Infamy and the Margins: The Fugitive, the Japanese
American, and Susan Choi’s American Woman
Christina Solomon, University of Connecticut
T32 Communities
Pacific Borderlands: Empire, Migrations and Transnational
(Olympic)
Chair & Discussant: Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Migrations to the Boarder-Lands
Rudy Guevarra, Arizona State University
Linking East and West: The Challenges of Navigating the
Pacific
Andres Resendez, University of California, Davis
Seeing the Pacific in the West, Seeing the West in the
Pacific
Matthew Kester, Brigham Young University
(Re)articulating Migrant “Illegality” Through the Practice
of Insurgent Citizenship: Undocumented Immigrant Youth’s
Re-framing of Dominant Discourse
Kevin Escudero, University of California, Berkeley
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Rethinking the Roots and Routes of Asian American History
T33
(Cascade IA)
Chair: Shirley Hune, University of Washington
Discussant: Chris Friday, Western Washington University
An Unknown Historiography of Chinese Coolies in Peru-
Reading Ruthanne Lum McCunn’s God of Luck as a
Transnational Slave Narrative
Su Mee Lee, Dong-A University
Currents of Immigration and Colonialism: Pacific
Imperialism and Chinese Exclusion in the U.S. in
the Late 19th Century
Trevor Lee, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Race, Mobility, and the Geography of Puget Sound Hops,
1870-1880
Megan Asaka, Yale University
T34
Seeking Mobility & Power in Post-1965 Asian America (Cascade IB)
Chair & Discussant: Edward Chang, University of California, Riverside
Asian American Food Truck Business: Its Contributions to
American Multiculturalism
Eunai Shrake, California State University, Northridge
Exchanging Empires: South Asian Postcolonials Embrace
the American Dream
Uzma Quraishi, Rice University
Delayed Power Inheritance: Transnational Power Brokering
in the Vietnamese Diaspora
Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, University of California, Davis
Some But Not All: Displacement, Deferral, and Kinship in Asian
T35 America (Orcas)
Chair & Discussant: Chandan Reddy, University of Washington
“Those Lonely Pinoy Old-Timers”: Filipino Bachelorhood,
Family, and the Suburban Ideal in Los Angeles, 1945-1965
Joseph Bernardo, University of Washington
Can I Ever Retire?: The Plight of Elderly Caregivers in Los
Angeles
Jennifer Nazareno, University of California, San Francisco
Make Live, and Let Die: Freedom with Violence in the
Tydings-McDuffie Act (1934)
Nic Ramos, University of Southern California
The View from Up Here: Racial Reorientation in Chang-rae
Lee’s Aloft
Emily Raymundo, University of Southern California
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 Trans-regional Literatures (Pike)
T36 Chair: Patricia Chu, George Washington University
Discussant: Pin-chia Feng, National Chiao Tung University and
Academia Sinica
21st Century Asian Canadian Narratives and the Pursuit of
(Un)Happiness
Eleanor Ty, Wilfrid Laurier University
Orange Peril: Intercontinental Intimacies and Imperial
Anxieties in Tropic of Orange
Anne Jansen, The Ohio State University
“Uncle law was in force”: Chinese Masculinity and Jamaican
Nationalism in Kerry Young’s Pao
Tzarina Prater, Bentley University
Erupting from Histouricism: Revolt and Oceania in The
Grandissimes, Rolling the R’s, and Thirteen Ways of Looking
at the Bus
Kara Hisatake, University of California, Santa Cruz
2:45pm-4:15pm
T37 Chair:
The Afterlives of Empire in the Digital Age (Pike)
Konrad Ng, Smithsonian Institution
Gangnam Style: Asian American Studies in the Digital Age
Konrad Ng, Smithsonian Institution
Anger and Emotional Labor in the Asian American
Blogosphere
Lori Kido Lopez, University of Wisconsin
Imperial Media and its Digital Enclaves
Kent Ono, University of Utah
Vincent Pham, California State University, San Marcos
Screening Sadness: The Seattle Asian American Film Festival
and Narratives of Racial Melancholia
Vanessa Au, University of Washington
T38 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Asian American Studies Outside the
United States: Job Prospects, Research Questions, and Other
Academic Practices (Vashon II)
Participants:
Jo-Anne Lee, University of Victoria
Christine Kim, Simon Frasier University
Henry Yu, University of British Columbia
John Price, University of Victoria
Christopher Lee, University of British Columbia
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T39
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Critical Issues in Archival and Library
Practices: Empire, Knowledge, and Scholarly Communication
(Vashon I)
Chair: Gary Colmenar, University of California, Santa Barbara
Participants:
A. Noelle Brada-Williams, San Jose State University
Sine Hwang Jensen, University of Maryland, College Park
Paul Lai, St Catherine University
Charlotte Roh, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Molly Higgins, University of Washington, Seattle
Education, Access, and Identities (Grand Crescent)
T40 Chair: Rachel Endo, Hamline University
Easing the Sophomore Slump: Filipino American Students’
College Experiences
Leah Panganiban, University of Washington
Studying Overseas in Post-9/11 America: Students from
South Asia Negotiate Belonging in the U.S.
Susan Thomas, University of Pennsylvania
Queered Curriculum: Incorporating LGBTQ Concerns in
Classroom Pedagogy
Daniel Soodjinda, California State University, Stanislaus
Anthony Ocampo, Cal Polytechnic State University, Pomona
Empire States of Mind: Desire, Nation, Subjectivity (Olympic)
T41 Chair & Discussant: Omme-Salma Rahemtulla, York University
Asian-American Imperialism and the Crisis of Raciology
Laura Kwak, University of Toronto
Desire, Settler Colonialism and the Racialized Cowboy
Beenash Jafri, York University
Discourses of “Race,” Assimilation and Canadian
Multiculturalism in Maclean’s ‘Too Asian?’ Article
Elena Chou, York University
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T42
Multiracial Perspectives on U.S. Empire in the Philippines
(Cascade IB)
Chair & Discussant: Francisco Benitez, University of Washington
Hispanism and Asian Nationalism: The Education of Claro
M. Recto
Augusto Espiritu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Newspaper articles from The Manila American: Window to
U.S. Imperial Anxieties over the “Chinaman” Question
Richard T. Chu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Black Emigration Meets the American Colonial Project:
African American Veteran Settlers in the Philippines
Cynthia Marasigan, Binghamton University
T43 Work
Nineteenth Century Chinese Workers: Migration, Occupations,
(Cascade IA)
Chair: Sue Fawn Chung, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Chinese Women Workers in the West
Priscilla Wegars, University of Idaho, Moscow Discussant: Thang Dao, University of Southern California
Chinese Labor Contractors and North American Railways in After Operation Babylift: War and the Orphan-Refugee in
the Late Nineteenth Century: A Case Study of Class, Ethnic,
and Transnational Relations of the Lianchang Company
Zhongping Chen, University of Victoria, Canada
Chinese Contract Workers: A Comparison Between Cuba
and California
Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Brown University
Branching Out: The Chinese in the Woods
Sue Fawn Chung, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
T44
Race as Medium: Community and Self-making against the Post-
Racial Mythos (Adams)
Chair: John Labella, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Internal Diasporas: Theorizing Race for Children of War
Jennifer Huynh, Princeton University
Relational Closeness Across Racial/Ethnic Group
Boundaries: Effects on Metaperceptions and Responses to
Interracial Contexts
Jan Marie Alegre, Princeton University
“The Brightness of My Dark”: Doveglion and the Race
Concept
John Labella, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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T45 Revisiting the Sites of Japanese Wartime Incarceration
(St. Helens)
Chair & Discussant: Frank Abe, producer/director, Conscience and the
Constitution
Remembering Honouliuli: Uncovering the Meaning of
Hawai‘i’s Hidden Internment
Brian Niiya, Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
“A Degree of Justice”: The Nisei Diploma Project, 2007-2012
Karen Inouye, Indiana University Bloomington
“The Final Frontier:” Musically Remaking the Internment
Narrative
Larry Hashima, California State University, Long Beach
T46
Toward a trans-Vietnam Studies: The Memory-Work of Orphan-
Refugees, Female Communist Soldiers and Urban Artists in the
Age of Historical Amnesia (Blakely)
Chair: Lan Duong, University of California, Riverside
Aimee Phan’s We Should Never Meet
Mimi Khuc, University of California, Santa Barbara
Signs of the Times: Urbanization and the Culture of
Forgetting in Ho Chi Minh City
Long Bui, University of California, Riverside
When the Victims Become the Victors: Constructing
Transnational Vietnamese Feminism Through the Vector of
Incarceration
Jennifer Kim Anh Tran, University of Southern California
T47 Century
Transnational Circuits of Asian Migration in the Long Nineteenth
(Whidbey)
Chair & Discussant: Hsuan Hsu, University of California, Davis
“Cosa de Cuba!”: American Literary Travels to Cuba and the
Chinese Coolie in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edlie Wong, University of Maryland
Slavery and The Sovereign: Abolitionism and
Exceptionalism in U.S. and Thai Representations of King
Chulalongkorn
Ross Bullen, Mount Allison University
Sovereign Terrains: Plenary Power and Chinese Exclusion
Marie Lo, Portland State University
Smuggling as Art: Edith Eaton (“Sui Sin Far”) in the Chinese
Exclusion Era
Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia
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 Transnational Resistance to the Mechanisms of U.S. Empire:
T48
Interdisciplinary and Critical Analysis from the Philippine
Diaspora (Orcas)
Discussant: Valerie Francisco, The Graduate Center, City University of
New York
Transnational Family as Resource for Political Mobilization
Valerie Francisco, The Graduate Center, City University of
New York
Indigenous Culture for the People
Sherwin Mendoza, De Anza College
Rhyming, Researching, & Resisting Global Apartheid: W.E.B.
Du Bois’s “Guiding Hundredth” and
Hip Hop Educational
Exposures to the Philippines
Michael Viola, Antioch University, Seattle
T49
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Community and Workers’ Voices:
Revisiting the Roots of Asian American Studies (Cascade IC)
Chair & Moderator: Kim Geron, California State University, East Bay
Amy Leong, University of Washington
Jasmine Marwaha, UNITE HERE
Tracy Lai, Seattle Central Community College and Asian
Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA)
Local Workers Engaged in Organizing Efforts
4:30pm-6:00pm
T50
Concerning the Imperial and Transnational in the Locally
Produced Space of the Classroom (Vashon I)
Lifting the Imperial Crown from the APA Literature Course
John Streamas, Washington State University
Transnational Feminist Pedagogy and the Afterlives of “The
Veiled Women”
Marian Sciachitano, Washington State University
Teaching Empire’s Afterlives in the Upper Midwest
Kyoko Kishimoto, St. Cloud State University
Creating Community Media: Reclaim, Redefine, Revision (Stuart)
T51
Chair & Discussant: Renee Tajima-Peña, University of California,
Santa Cruz, & University of California, Los Angeles
Typhoon of Steel
Gena Hamamoto, University of California, Los Angeles
Queer, Undocumented, and Unafraid
Alexandra Margolin, University of California, Los Angeles
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Journey
Asiroh Cham, University of California, Los Angeles
500 Miles
Trung Nguyen, University of California, Los Angeles
T52 Culture
Crossroads: Rethinking the Flows of Transnational Popular
(Cascade IB)
Chair: LeiLani Nishime, University of Washington
Discussant: Shilpa Davé, Brandeis University
The Racial Eye: Circle Contact Lenses and Asian American
Women’s Beauty Culture
Linda Vo, University of California, Irvine
Queer Returns: The Balikbayan in R. Zamora Linmark’s
Leche and Gil Portes’ Miguel/Michelle
Robert Diaz, Wilfrid Laurier University
Mediated Transnationality: A Genealogy of Pakistani Radio
in Houston, Texas
Ahmed Afzal, State Universty of New York, Purchase College
Bruce Lee and the Transpacific Flow
Daryl Maeda, University of Colorado, Boulder
T53
Economic Narratives and Moral Subjects: Asians in Old and New
Capital Circuits (Olympic)
Chair: Kamala Visweswaran, University of Texas, Austin
Discussant: Lok Siu, University of California, Berkeley
Mobilizing Markets and Marginality: The Transnational
Moral Economy of Low Wage Women’s Work in the Anti-
Trafficking Movement
Elena Shih, University of California, Los Angeles
The Work of Cultural Production: Economic Narratives and
Indo-Caribbean Migrants
Leela Tanikella, Lesley University
Economies of Diaspora: The Indian State, Diasporic
Investment and the Creation of Entrepreneurial Morality
Linta Varghese, Hunter College, City University of New York
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T54
Radical Pedagogy, Radicalizing Students (Pike)
Chair & Discussant: Rick Bonus, University of Washington
“No Rest for the Weary”: Education, Organizing and Lessons
Learned From 12 Years of Protracted Struggle Against
Empire in Chinatown
Benji Chang, Columbia University
Cultural Night: The Contrary Narrative Against the Empire
Dom Magwili, California State University, Fullerton
Experiences of School Victimization and Peer Racial
Discrimination Among Asian American Students
North Cooc, Harvard University
Kevin Gee, University of California, Davis
T55 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: The Great Third Coast: How Teaching
in the Midwest and South Challenges Asian American Studies
(Adams)
Chair: Rachel Endo, Hamline University
Discussant: Pyong Gap Min, Queens College, City University of New York
Participants:
Monica Trieu, Purdue University
Michelle Janette, Kansas State University
Yvonne Lau, DePaul University
Janet Carlson, Macalester College
“Intimate Encounters”: Race, Culture, U.S. Empire in the Asia T60 Current Status and Implications for Educational Policy and
T56 Pacific (Orcas)
Chair: Na-Rae Kim, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Afro-Korean Comradeship in U.S. Military Intervention in
Korea
Jang Wook Huh, Columbia University
Re-staging Interracial Romances
Eunha Na, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
The Experience of Meaning in Yongsoo Park’s Boy Genius
Na-Rae Kim, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
T57
Left of Right of the Color Line? (Cascade IA)
Chair & Discussant: Daniel Martinez Hosang, University of Oregon
Discussant: Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley
Left or Right of the Color Line? Asian Americans and the
Racial Justice Movement
Scot Nakagawa, ChangeLab
Soya Jung, ChangeLab
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T58
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Linsanity: Media, Culture, Masculinity
(Cascade IC)
Chair: Timothy Yu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Participants:
Konrad Ng, Smithsonian Institution
Jeff Yang, Wall Street Journal
Phil Yu, Angry Asian Man
Lori Kido Lopez, University of Wisconsin, Madison
T59 Chair:
Philippines 2.0, Social Inequity Meets Social Innovation (Blakely)
Julius Paras, Gumption Studios
Discussant: L. Joyce Mariano, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Marketing the Philippines as “Home” and Business:
Solidifying the Diasporic Identity and Economic Security
through the Internet and Filipino Channel
Emily Ignacio, University of Washington, Tacoma
Social Innovation in Southeast Asia: Weekend Movement
and Gawad Kalinga
Glenn Fajardo, TechSoup Global
On Filamthropy: Fresh Perspectives on Filipino Diaspora,
Philanthropy, and Social Impact
Julius Paras, Gumption Studios
Asian American and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education:
Practice (Whidbey)
Chair: Dina Maramba, State University of New York, Binghamton
The Asian American and Pacific Islander Research Coalition
(ARC): Forging A National Agenda
Doris Ching, University of Hawai‘i
Asian American and Pacific Islander Men in Higher
Education: Current Status and Implications for Educational
Policy and Practice
Samuel D. Museus, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
Geographic Diversity and College Access among Asian
Americans and Pacific Islanders
OiYan Poon, Loyola University, Chicago
Southeast Asian American Students: What the Research
Tells Us and Implications for Educational Policy
Vichet Chhuon, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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 Nuts and Bolts of Publishing (Vashon II)
T61 Moderator: James Zarsadiaz, Northwestern University
Participants:
Janet Francedese, Editor-in-Chief, Temple University Press
Masako Ikeda, Acquisitions Editor, University of Hawai‘i Press
Arnold Pan, Associate Editor, Amerasia Journal
Min Hyoung Song, Editor, Journal of Asian American Studies
Eric Zinner, Assistant Director & Editor-in-Chief, New York
University Press
6:00pm-7:00pm
Welcome Reception (5th Avenue)
Sponsored by University of Washington, Department of History,
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Press, Office
of the Chancellor, University of Washington,Bothell and North Seattle
Community College.

T62 Presenters:
FILM SCREENING: Seeking Asian Female (Grand Crescent)

Celine Parreñas Shimizu, University of California, Santa

Barbara
Debbie Lum (if absent: Maikiko James), Center for Asian
American Media
Don Young, Center for Asian American Media

T63
Unstable Futures: Urban and Suburban Formations and Asian
American Visual Cultures (St. Helens)
Chair & Discussant: Theo Gonzalves, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County
Korla Pandit Hoodwinks America: Television and Racial
Impersonation in Mid-Century U.S.
Manan Desai, Syracuse University
Constructing “The Town” in the Blue Scholars Seattle
Cinemetropolis
Roderick Labrador, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
Spaces between Yesterday and Tomorrow: Site-Specific
Cultural Production as Filipino/American Decolonial Praxis
Thea Tagle, University of California, San Diego
The Monster in the Neighborhood: Regional Architecture,
California Living and the Visuality of Chinese Immigrants of
Silicon Valley
Brian Chung, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

4:30pm-6:00pm
VIP Reception
*Invitation Only
(Presidential Suite)

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 7:00am-5:00pm
Registration
Cascade Foyer

Friday 7:30am-6:00pm


Book Exhibits
Cascade II

April 19, 2013 7:30am-8:30am

Coffee Break
Sponsored by The John Hopkins University Press
Cascade II

8:15am-9:45am

Diasporic Narrations: Models, Myths, and Silences (Olympic)
F1 Chair: Sailaja Krishnamurti, University of Toronto, Mississauga
The Spectre of Terrorism and the Enactment of
Compassion: Tamil People and Community Building in
Canada
Sailaja Krishnamurti, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Caste-d Diasporas: Examining (In)Visibility of Caste within
South Asian Diaspora
Nishant Upadhyay, York University
Day Jams in Toronto: The Possibility of a Heterogeneous
Understanding of “South Asianness”
Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, York University
Reconfiguring National Identity: Al-Huda and the
Emergence of a Gendered Islamic Nationalist Identity in
Pakistan
Nadia Hasan, York University

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 Embracing the Feminine: U.S. Empire in the Philippines and
F2 Heteronormative Gender Roles Empowering Filipina
Nationalisms (Cascade IC)
Chair & Discussant: Nerissa Balce, State University of New York, Stony
Brook
Fashioning High Society: The Terno and Performing Elite
Filipina Identities, 1899 – 1940
Genevieve Clutario, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Daddy’s Girls: American Mestizo Negotiations of Belonging
in the Philippines, 1920 – 1935
Marie Tessa Winkelmann, University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign
Of Monsters and Medical Men: The Aswang in Colonial
Medical Discourse
Christine Peralta, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Asian American Literature
Embracing the Feminine: U.S. Empire in the Philippines and
Heteronormative Gender roles Empowering Filipina
Nationalisms
Nerrisa Balce, State University of New York, Stony Brook
The Imperialism of “Class”: Asian Americans and the Art of
F3 Respectability (Orcas)
Chair & Discussant: Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut
Raising Respectable Japanese American Daughters in the
1920s
Chrissy Lau, University of California, Santa Barbara
Measuring Success: The Importance of Social and Cultural
Capital in the Transition to Adulthood of Asian American
Youth
Joanna Wu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Tuesday Night Project “Beyond Talent”: The “Middling”
Respectability of Art-Making and Politics
Douglass Ishii, University of Maryland, College Park
Remaking Respectability Through Asian American Comedy:
Margaret Cho as Abject Outlaw
Caroline Kyungah Hong, Queens College, City University of
New York
Keywords in the Afterlives of Empire (from the Routledge
F4 Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature and
Culture) (Vashon II)
Chair: Rachel Lee, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant: Thuy Linh Tu, New York University
Internment, Concentration Camp, and Detention in Asian
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Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, Northwestern University
Late (Global) Capital
Laura Hyun Yi Kang, University of California, Irvine
Asian Americans and the Avant-Garde
Timothy Yu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Transpacific
Sean Metzger, University of California, Los Angeles
Literary Reckonings With Empire (Blakely)
F5 Chair: Michelle Janette, Kansas State University
Ghost Trains, Laughing Buddha and the Divine Emperor:
Traces of the Racial Other in Julie Otsuka’s Novels
Hsiu-chuan Lee, National Taiwan Normal University
Manifest Domesticity Reconsidered: Reading Postcolonial
Su-ching Wang, University of Washington
After the Empire of Signs: Bodies and Signs in David Henry
Hwang’s Chinglish
Joyce Lu, Pomona College
Melissa Fabros, University of California, Merced
Neocolonial Corruptions: Filipino American Literary Struggles
F6 with the “Return Home” (Vashon I)
Chair & Discussant: Melinda de Jesús, California College of the Arts
Unhappy Returns: Filipino Americans as Imperial Agents in
The Disinherited and Cebu
Randy Gonzales, University of Southern Mississippi
Pansies, Punks and Predators: Homophobia in Jessica
Hagedorn’s Dogeaters
Kent Quaney, University of Southern Mississippi
Sleeping with the Empire: Making Ika (In-)Visible in
American Son
Linda Pierce Allen, University of Southern Mississippi
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 Pedagogical Impulses and the Afterlife of America’s Asian Empire
F7 (Grand Crescent)
Chair: Rocio G. Davis, City University of Hong Kong
“A Pleasant Space”: Harriet Low’s Macao on the Eve of the
First Opium War
Monica Chiu, University of New Hampshire
John D. DeHuff’s Memories of Orient Seas and the
Revisioning of America’s Educational Project in the
Philippines
Rocio G. Davis, City University of Hong Kong
“We Were Thought to Be a Backward People”: American
Education and the Rise of Transnational Filipino Student
Activism
Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, University of Texas, Austin
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Perspectives on Critical Filipino and
F8 Filipina Studies (Cascade IA)
Facilitator: Amanda Solomon, University of California, San Diego
Participants:
Robyn Rodriguez, University of California, Davis
Joseph Ruanto-Ramirez, California State University, San
Marcos
Dean Saranillo, New York University
Sarita See, University of California, Davis
Gina Velasco, Keene State College
Reconfiguring Race, Politics, and Power (Pike)
F9 Chair & Discussant: Franklin Ng, California State University, Fresno
The Asian American Exception: Japanese American Political
Power in Blue Hawai‘i
Jonathan Okamura, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
An Exploratory Study on the Effects of the Foreclosure Crisis
on Asian Americans
Christina Aujean Lee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Managing Ambiguity: The Language of Community in a
Race-Based Organization
Kushan Dasgupta, University of Southern California
F10 Chair:
Representing Asian Americans in Popular Culture (Whidbey)
Rick H. Lee, Rutgers University
Transnational Empires of Neoliberal Safety: Sex Predators,
Race, and the Workings of Empire
Paul McCutcheon, University at Buffalo
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Shadows of Empire: Imperial Hauntings in the Works of
Heinz Insu Fenkl and Don Lee
Kyung-Sook Boo, Sogang University
Model Maternity: Amy Chua and Asian American
Motherhood
Julia Lee, University of Texas, Austin
Reimagining Cultural Nationalism in Asian American
Hip Hop
Christopher Ramos, Duke University
F65
State Violence and Social “Goods” in the Afterlives of Empire
(Cascade IB)
Discussant: Lisa Marie Cacho, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
On the Gift of Freedom (And Debt)
Mimi Nguyen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Youth Organizing and Affirmative Governmentality
Soo Ah Kwon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Performing Justice at Guantánamo
A. Naomi Paik, University of Texas, Austin
F11
Techno-Orientalism, Speculative Writing, and Alternative Visions
(Stuart)
Chair: Cynthia Current, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The New Techno-Orientalist Axis: Japan, China, and India in
the Contemporary Western Imaginary
Betsy Huang, Clark University
Racial Speculations: (Bio)Technology, Battlestar Galactica,
and a Mixed-Race Imagining
Jinny Huh, University of Vermont
How They Arc from the Body and the Sky: Re-Manifesting
Asian Bodies in Virtual Economies, A Speculative Poetics
Presentation
Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Temple University
The Video Spray of Lenny and Eunice: The Ethnic to the
Technic in Super Sad True Love Story
Cynthia Current, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Theoretical and Practical Approaches
to Digital Asian American/Pacific Islander Archives (Adams)
F15
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: The Afterlives of Forms (Vashon II)
Chair & Moderator: Sarita E. See, University of California, Davis
Participants:
Facilitator: Grace Yeh, California Polytechnic State University, San
Jason Magabo Perez, University of California, San Diego
Luis Obispo
C. Ree, Pacific Arts Movement
Participants:
Eunsong Angela Kim, University of California, San Diego
Grace Yeh, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis
Janice Lobo Sapigao, California Institute of the Arts
Obispo
Maya Mackrandilal, Independent Artist
Martha Chantiny, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
Geoff Froh, Densho
Asian American Adoption Stories (Pike)
Kenneth Klein, University of Southern California
Brian Niiya, Densho
F16 Chair: Eleana Kim, University of Rochester
Towards Finding Home: The Process of Identity Formation
Elnora Tayag, California State University, Channel Islands
of Amerasian Orphans in Aimee Phan’s We Should Never
Wei-chi Poon, University of California, Berkeley
Meet
Samip Mallick, South Asian American Digital Archive
Ai Binh Ho, University of Michigan
Anti-Sentimental Loss: The Stories of Transracial/
F13 Empire
Transnational Asian American Families and the Legacies of
(St. Helens) Transnational Asian American Adult Adoptees in the
Blogosphere
Chair & Discussant: Linda Trinh Vo, University of California, Irvine
Jennifer Ho, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Resistance and Accommodation to Asian American ‘Tiger
Reflections on Asian Adoption from an Asian American
Mothering’ as an Imperial Project
Father
Miliann Kang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
K.. Scott Wong, Williams College
A Different Mirror: Asian International Adoption Through
the Lens of Brillante Mendoza’s Foster Child


Catherine Ceniza Choy, University of California, Berkeley
The Embodied Lives of Empire: Black/Asian and Black/
F17 Imperialism, Racial Capitalism, and Asian Exclusion (Cascade IC)
Chair & Discussant: Karen Leong, Arizona State University
Model Minorities and the Racialization of Capital
Hawaiian Mixed Race Subjectivities in Hawai‘i
Iyko Day, Mt. Holyoke College
Nitasha Sharma, Northwestern University
Racial Anomalies of Land Settlement in Imperial Count
Stevie Ruiz, University of California, San Diego
10:00am-11:30am The Million-Dollar Hoax on Hawaii’s Tourism Industry:
Settler Capitalism and the Trickster Sammy Amalu
F14 Acts of Remembering: Commemoration and the Shaping of
National Identities in the U.S. and Vietnam (Blakely)


Dean Saranillo, New York University
The Prose of Counter-Sovereignty
Chair & Discussant: Lisa Yoneyama, University of Toronto Manu Vimalassery, Texas Tech University
Vietnamese American Refugee Spaces in Film and the
Museum Space
Lan Duong, University of Califoria, Riverside
The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion at the Golden Gate:
Remembering Angel Island in the Age of Multiculturalism
Haley Michaels Pollack, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Terminal Island as “Furusato”: Enemy Aliens and
Placemaking during the Cold War
Cindy I-Fen Cheng, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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The Lives of Empire: Oak Creek, Racialization, and Violence
(St. Helens)
Chair: Vivek Bald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussant: Sharmila Rudrappa, University of Texas, Austin
Racializing Gender, Historical Ramifications, and the Crisis
at Oak Creek
Nayan Shah, University of Southern California
1984: A Tale of Ghallughara in Diaspora
Kamala Visweswaran, University of Texas, Austin
The Neoliberal State and the Vicissitudes of Civilian Life
Anoop Mirpuri, Portland State University
F19 Hawai‘i
Loading Up the Lyric with Evidence: Documentary Literature in
(Olympic)
Chair & Discussant: Stephen H. Sumida, University of Washington
Poems and “Saving Grace”
Amalia Bueno, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
The Nanjing Massacre: Poems
Wing Tek Lum, Bamboo Ridge Press
Brothers Under the Same Sky
Gary Pak, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
F20
Neocolony or Model-Minority Nation?: The Case of South Korea
and Empire (Adams)
Chair: Josephine Park, University of Pennsylvania
“Show Me One Soul Who Wasn’t To Blame!”: American
Empire, the Korean War and the Model Minority Bystander in
Hwang Sok Yong’s The Guest
Daniel Kim, Brown University
Korean Studies and Re-thinking Global Korean Diaspora
and Global Diaspora in South Korea
Jin-Kyung Lee, University of California, San Diego
The Rights of Suffering, The Wrongs of Remembrance for
the Forgotten War
Lynn Itagaki, The Ohio State University
Brothers and Humans: Framing Narratives of North Korean
Defectors Across the Pacific
Jeehyun Lim, Dennison University
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F21
The “Other” Students: Filipino Americans, Education and Power
(Stuart)
Chair: Rick Bonus, University of Washington
Discussant: Dina Maramba, State University of New York, Binghamton
Filipino American Access to Public Higher Education in
California and Hawai‘i
Johnathan Okamura, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
Colonial Lessons: Racial Politics of Comparison and the
Development of American Education Policy in the
Philippines
Funi Hsu, University of California, Berkeley
Knowledge Construction, Transformative Academic
Knowledge, and Filipino American Identity and Experience
Third Andresen, University of Washington
Sexual Health and Responsibility: The Role of Public
Schools in Filipina American Teenage Mothers’ Lives
Charlene Bumanglag Tomas, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
F22 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Our Questions, Our Voices: Forging
the Way Ahead in Survey Research on Asian Americans (Cascade 1B)
Chair & Facilitator: Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley
Participants:
Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside
Ninez Ponce, University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel Ichinose, Asian Pacific American Legal Center
Janelle Wong, University of Maryland, College Park
Miriam Yeung, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
F23 Reconstructing Empire: Asian American Built Environments and
their Political and Cultural Legacies (Orcas)
Chair & Discussant: Mary Ting Yi Lui, Yale University
“Ah Him Must Go”: The Deportation of Charley Ah Him and
the Geary Act
Amy Johnson, Brown University
Burnham’s Baguio and the Labor of New Empire
Rebecca McKenna, University of Notre Dame
The Passaic Steam Laundry: Rediscovering Empire and
Labor in North New Jersey
Andrew Urban, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
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 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Remembering Silme Domingo and
F24 Gene Viernes: The Legacy of Filipino American Labor Activism
(Cascade IA)
Chair & Facilitator: Ligaya Domingo, University of Washington
Participants:
Ligaya Domingo, University of Washington
Ron Chew, International Community Health Services 1:00pm-2:30pm
Foundation
Terri Mast, Inland Boatmen’s Union
Space, Body, Politics: Circulations of Empire (Whidbey)
F25
Chair: Christen Sasaki, University of Hawai‘i, West O’ahu
Discussant: Vernadette Gonzalez, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
Finding “Home” in the U.S. Pacific Empire: Segregation and
Suburbia in the Marshall Islands During the Cold War
Lauren Hirshberg, University of California, Los Angeles
Baliktad: A Diasporic Aesthetic
Todd Honma, Pitzer College
Foes and Friends Here and There: Asian American
Internationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
Go Oyagi, University of Southern California
Sartorial Politics: The Militarization of Aloha Wear
Christen Sasaki, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
Subverting (and Enabling) the Cold War Racial Order
F26
(Grand Crescent)
Chair: Simeon Man, Northwestern University
Reverse Missions in the U.S. Neo-Colonial Empire
Rebecca Kim, Pepperdine University
Cold War America, “Little Magazines,” and the Fiction of
Hisaye Yamamoto
Nancy Cho, Carleton College
Wars, Orphans, and the U.S. Empire
Soh Yeun Kim, University of Washington
11:45am-12:45pm
SECTION MEETING: Southeast Asian American
F27 (Olympic)
SECTION MEETING: South Asian American
F28
(Stuart)
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SECTION MEETING: Korean American
F29 (Adams)
SECTION MEETING: Japanese American
F30 (Whidbey)
PLENARY II: War and Empire (Cascade I)
P2 Chair: Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington
Discussant: Chandan Reddy, University of Washington
Empire Way: Refashioned Resistance
George Quibuyen (aka, Geologic and Prometheus Brown),
Blue Scholars
Settler Sovereignty and U.S. Globalism
Nikhil Pal Singh, New York University
“Saltwater” Imperialism: Violence and Keeping the Peace
Lisa Lowe, Tufts University
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Anti-Imperialist Grrlz Raising
F31
Feminist Hapa Boyz (Stuart)
Chair & Facilitator: Melinda de Jesús, California College of the Arts
Participants:
Linda Pierce Allen, University of Southern Mississippi
Patti Duncan, Oregon State University
Reshmi Dutt, Linfield College
Melinda de Jesús, California College of the Arts
New South Asian Immigrants (Vashon I)
F32
Chair & Discussant: Philip Yang, Texas Woman’s University
New “Outsiders Within”: How New Asian Indian Immigrants
Navigate Racialization
Kavitha Koshy, Texas Woman’s University
Experiences of New Indian Immigrant Working Women: The
Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Shilpashri Karbhari, New Mexico Highlands University
Adaptation of the Nepalese in the United States: A Survey
Soni Thapa-Oli
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 Nowhere to Hide: Exploring the Colonization of the Chinese Soul
F33 (Olympic)
Chair: Stephen Jackowicz, Adelphi University
A Confusing Bi-Polarity: U.S. China Policy in the Nineteenth
Century
John Haddad, Penn State Harrisburg University
Free Trade and the Messianic Legacies of Protestant
American Printing in Nineteenth-Century China
Kendall Johnson, University of Hong Kong
Mark Twain in China: A Posthumous Adventure
Selina Lai, University of Hong Kong
Rewriting the Body: The Impact of Medical Revision on
Chinese Thought
Stephen Jackowicz, Adelphi University Recent History
Palimpsests of Linguistic and Gender Imperial Fields: Examples
F34 from Chinese Diasporic Communities in the U.S. (Blakely)
Chair & Discussant: Genevieve Leung, University of San Francisco
Shifts and Changes in Language policy and practice in
Chinese American families
Dana Ng, University of Cincinnati
Evolving Gender Roles in Chinese Communities
Tina Tan, University of California, San Diego
(Re)imaginings of Hong Kong: Voices from the Hong Kong
Chinese diaspora and their children
Winnie Tang, University of Pennsylvania
Historical displacement and shifts in the linguistic imperial
field: Chinese American elders in the San Francisco Bay
Area
Genevieve Leung, University of San Francisco
The Power of Language (St. Helens)
F35 Chair: Pyong Gap Min, Queens College, City University of New York
Unraveling the Hidden Injury of Class in Korean Language
Brokers’ Lives
Hyeyoung Kwon, University of Southern California
The Rise of Chinese-Speaking Whites in Mass Media: Race,
Empire and Linguistic Performance in Contemporary
America
Fan Yang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Mandarin Offensive: Teach Chinese - Conquer the
World
Yvonne Lau, DePaul University
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The Power of Words: Coming to Terms with American
F36 Concentration Camps and the Japanese American WWII
Experience (Vashon II)
Chair: Stanley Shikuma, Seattle Japanese American Citizens League
(JACL)
Whoever controls the vocabulary controls the narrative:
Nikkei Imprisonment during WW II
Tetsuden Kashima, University of Washington
Words Do Matter: Euphemism, Disinformation, and
Confusion About the Incarceration of Japanese Americans,
1942-2013
Roger Daniels, University of Cincinnati
BIG BOOST: JACL Involvement in the Terminology Issue – A
Mako Nakagawa, Seattle Japanese American Citizens
League (JACL)
Tule Lake Segregation Center - Misperceptions and
Misnomers Surrounding Resistance to JA Incarceration
Stanley Shikuma, Seattle Japanese American Citizens
League (JACL)
“Rememory” Studies: A Critical Approach to the History and
F37
Memory after the Vietnam War (Whidbey)
Chair: Ma Vang, University of California, Riverside
Discussant: Long Thanh Bui, University of California, Riverside
The Afterthought: The Appendix of Trauma, Memory and
Experience
Davorn Sisavath, University of California, San Diego
Recalling the Refugee: Racial Melancholia in Daughter from
Danang Experiences
Linh Thuy Nguyen, University of California, San Diego
Remembering Ho Ngoc Can: Cultural Memory and Official
History
Evyn Le Espiritu, Pomona College
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 Mapping Life Chances: Inventories of Filipina/o American
F38 Rationalities Under Empire (Pike)
Chair & Discussant: Victor Bascara, University of California, Los Angeles
Retention is Racialized: Administering Life Chances for
Filipina/o American College Students
Edward Curammeng, University of California, Los Angeles
Spectacular Embodiments: Filipina Trans Women and the
Biopolitics of Performance
Jonathan Magat, San Francisco State University
Just Say No to Bare(backing) Life: Gay Filipino Men and
Viral Prophylaxis
Raymond San Diego, University of California, Irvine
2:45pm-4:15pm
Struggling For Love and Home in the American West (Westlake)
F39 Chair & Discussant: Gail Nomura, University of Washington
Building Pan-Asian Seattle: Life in the Single-Room
Occupancy Residential Hotels
Marie Wong, Seattle University
Filipino Love Stories in San Luis Obispo and Northern Santa
Barbara Counties, 1920-1970
Grace Yeh, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis
Obispo
An Intimate Empire: Interracial Marriage and Japanese
American Men’s Claims to Americanness in the American
West before 1945
Eunhye Kwon, Hanyang University Yale University Art Gallery
F40 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Leadership Pipeline: Becoming a
Dean, Vice President, and President with a Social Justice Vision
(Vashon II)
Moderator: Bob Suzuki, President Emeritus, California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona
Participants:
Kenyon Chan, Chancellor, University of Washington, Bothell
Doris Ching, Vice President Emeritus, University of Hawai‘i
Anna Gonzalez, Dean of Students, Lewis and Clark College
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Asian American Sporting Cultures: Exploring the Connections
F41
between Hoops, Race, Gender, Citizenship, and Community
Formations (Blakely)
Chair: Christina Chin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Linda España-Maram, California State University, Long
Beach
Filipina American Sporting Life: Circumventing and
Challenging the Gendered Space in Sporting Cultures and
Practices
Constancio Arnaldo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“I was not a ‘good Indian,’ I was not a typical Indian”: South
American Women and Basketball
Stanley Thangaraj, Vanderbilt University
JA Team Spirit: Japanese American Basketball League as a
new Ethnic Community
Christina Chin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Beyond the Academy: Careers Using Your Asian American Studies
F42 Background (Vashon I)
Moderator: James Zarsadiaz, Northwestern University
Presenters:
Christine Chen, Executive Director, APIA Vote
Ben deGuzman, Co-Director, National Queer Asian Pacific
Islander Alliance (NQAPIA)
Bill Imada, CEO, IW Group
Michelle Ko, Director, Asian American Community Fund
David Odo, Bradley Assistant Curator of Academic Affairs,
Empire and the Afro-Asian Analogy (Adams)
F43 Chair & Discussant: Colleen Lye, University of California, Berkeley
“But what has it to do with the question of slavery?”: Race
and Empire after Reconstruction
Hoang Phan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Imperative to Compare and the History of the
Incomparable: An Imperial Demonology
Vince Schleitwiler, Williams College
Comparative Novels, Comparativist Reading Practices: Nina
Revoyr’s Southland and Toni Morrison’s Home
Caroline Yang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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 The Enduring Spirit of Place - Seattleʻs I.D., Wapato-Yakima,
F44 Kanaloa Kahoʻolawe - Beyond Imperial Design (Orcas)
Chair & Discussant: Ligaya Domingo, University of Washington Different Flavors: Experience, Food, and Art in Sita Kuratomi
A Powerful Spirit of Place: The Filipino-American
Community of Yakima Valley And Gene Viernes
Ermena Vinluan
Revitalizing a “Sacred” Landscape: Kanaloa Kaho’olawe,
Hawai‘i
F48 and the Consequences of Republishing Nagahara Sh • son’s
Davianna McGregor, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
Reflections of the Space of Seattle’s International District
From the Time of Bulosan to Now
Peter Bacho, Evergreen College
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Lyrics of Love, Songs of the Struggle:
F45 Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the release of A Grain of
Sand (St. Helens)
Facilitator: Theodore Gonzalves, University of Maryland at Baltimore Kaya Press
County
Participants:
Nobuko Miyamoto, Great Leap
F49
Charlie Chin, Musician, Storyteller, Community Historian
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Mixed is the New Massive: How
F46
Mixed Race Offers New Models for Digital, Global, and Cross-
Disciplinary Education (Whidbey)
Facilitator: Lawrence-Minh Davis, University of Maryland
Participants:
Juliana Pegues, Macalester College
F50 Chair: Stewart Chang, Whittier Law School
Lily Welty, University of California, Los Angeles
Melissa Poulsen, University of California, Santa Cruz
Zelideth Rivas, Marshall University
Asha Nadkarni, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
New Trajectories in Asian American Art and Criticism (Stuart)
F47 Chair: Michelle Yee, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Discussant: Jan Christian Bernabe, Center for Art and Thought
Blackness and Desire Through Okinawan Eyes:
Photographer Mao Ishikawa’s “Life in Philly”
Laura Kina, DePaul University
Southeast Asian American/Diasporic Arts: Disciplinary
Genres, Legibility and Global Politics
Mariam Lam, University of California, Riverside
Queer Zen and the Networked Body: Abstraction,
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Assemblage and Identity in Works from the 1950s and 1960s
Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Florida International University
Bhaumik’s Art Practice
Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Recovering The Past: The Practice
Lament in the Night and H.T. Hsiang’s The Hanging on Union
Square (Olympic)
Participants:
Andrew Leong, Northwestern University
Floyd Cheung, Smith College
Eiichiro Azuma, University of Pennsylvania
Emily Anderson, Washington State University
Cherisse (Yanit) Nadal, University of California, Riverside &
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Rethinking Modernity/Coloniality
through the Lens of Asian America(s) (Pike)
Participants:
Lok Siu, University of California, Berkeley
Aisha Khan, New York University
John Blanco, University of California, San Diego
Kamala Visweswaran, University of Texas, Austin
Theorizing and Historicizing Asian America (Cascade I)
Riot Debris: Chinese Americans and the Augusta, Georgia
Race Riot of 1970
Phonshia Nie, Northwestern University
Mapping an Asian American Jurisprudence: Race, Identity
and Ethnicity
Neil Gotanda, Western State College of Law
America’s “New Asia”
Yu-Fang Cho, Miami University of Ohio
The “Asiatic Barred Zone”
John Cheng, Haverford College
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 3:00pm-4:00pm FILM SCREENING: The Chinese Gardens (Grand Crescent)
Book Award Winners Celebration Reception (Cascade II)
F54 Presenter:
Sponsored by: Duke University Press, Bess Press, Yale University Valerie Soe, San Francisco State University
Press, New York University Press, University of Hawai‘i Press
Defining and Defying Empire: Filipino American Youth
F55 Deployment of Hip Hop Music and Culture (Adams)
4:30pm-5:30pm Chair: Victor Viesca, California State University, Los Angeles
Coffee with AAAS MentorsBook Award Winners Celebration Discussant: Antonio Tiongson, University of New Mexico
Reception *By Invitation Only (Presidential Suite) Local Samples of Empire: Filipino Participation in 1980s
and 1990s Los Angeles Hip-Hop Culture
Sean Slusser, University of California, Riverside
4:30pm-6:00pm Asserting Control: Filipino Americans’ Unique Post-Empire
Connections to Hip Hop
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: APARRI Scholars Analyze and Discuss
F51 the Pew Research Forums (Cascade IB)
Ninochka McTaggart, University of California, Riverside
Imperial Vernacular: Hip Hop in Filipino American
Chair & Facilitator: Sharon Suh, Seattle University
Militarized Geographies
Participants:
Mark Villegas, University of California, Irvine
Janelle Wong, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
One Love in Seattle: Isangmahal Arts Kollective and
Jane Iwamura, University of the West
Resistant Voice
David K. Kim, Connecticut College
Bobby Gaon, Northwest Asian American Theater

Afterlives of Bruce Lee (Orcas)
F52 Chair & Discussant: Mariam Lam, University of California, Riverside F56 Eating Asian America: Food, Culture, History (Whidbey)
Chair & Discussant: Martin Manalansan, University of Illinois, Urbana-
With Intimate Knowledge of Ethical Manhood: Interrupting
Champaign
the Macho Legacy of Bruce Lee
“An Insatiable Appetite”: White American Women Devour
Celine Parreñas Shimizu, University of California, Santa Barbara
the Cold War Asia Pacific
Sidekicks and Sifus: The Green Hornet and Beyond
Mark Padoongpatt, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Peter X. Feng, University of Delaware
A Life Cooking for Others: the Experiences of Shuck Wing
Bruce Lee’s Fan Club
Chin in New York’s Chinese Restaurants, 1935-1946
Glen Mimura, University of California, Irvine
Heather Lee, Brown University
Post Asian American: Institutional History, Neoliberalism,
“Up to My Elbows in Rice”: Filipina/o American Women,
and Recent Asian American Independent Film and Video
Families, and Food Before World War II
Jun Okada, State University of New York, Geneseo
Dawn Mabalon, San Francisco State University
Asian American Capitalists: Tensions of Empire, Race, and
F53 Globalization (Cascade IA)
Chair & Discussant: Lisa Lowe, Tufts University
The Capitalists’ Lament: Race and Empire through the
Experiences of Indian American Motel Owners
Pawan Dhingra, Tufts University
The Science of Hope and the Remaking of Color
Thuy Tu, New York University
Entanglements of Expertise and Legacies of Racialized
Capitalism in Asian American Advertising
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Empire and Dictatorship: Defamiliarizing Time, Narrative, and
F57 Space in Terms of Ferdinand Marcos (Vashon II)
Chair & Discussant: Christine Balance, University of California, Irvine
Mahal Kita, Maharlika: Spectres of Marcos, Cinematic
Memory, and Balikbayan Tourism in R. Zamora Linmark’s
Leche
Mark Pangilinan, University of California, Irvine
Ending Dictatorship, Opposing Intervention, Supporting
Independence: Ideology and Activism in Friends of the
Filipino People (FFP)
Mark Sanchez, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Birth of a Union: Martyrdom and Heroism in Seattle’s
Labor History and Anti-Marcos Movement
Precious Singson, University of California, Los Angeles
Korean American Expressions: Diasporic Hybridity Post Empire
F58 and Diaspora (Vashon I)
Chair & Discussant: Eleana Kim, University of Rochester
A Cry to the Motherland: Poetry as Advocacy in Korean
Adoptee Activism
Kira Donnell, University of California, Berkeley
Authenticity, Post-Empire Nation and Diaspora Children of
Korean Immigrants Remaking Cultural Traditions in
Adulthood
Barbara Kim, California State University of Long Beach
Grace Yoo, San Francisco State University
Father to Father: Reflections on Korean Patriarchy Across
Different Shores
Allen Kim, University of California, Irvine
A Feminist History of Kimchi: Considering Empire, Methods,
Poetics
Margaret Rhee, University of California, Berkeley
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Linsanity: History, Politics, Identity
F59
(St. Helens)
Chair & Facilitator: Terry Park, University of California, Davis
Participants:
Victor Jew, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christina Chin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Oiyan Poon, Loyola University Chicago
Erin Khue Ninh, University of California, Santa Barbara
Minhtuyen Mai, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Healing, Health, and Medical Knowledge (Pike)
F60
Chair & Discussant: Susan Nakaoka, California State University,
Dominguez Hills, & University of California, Los
Angeles
Overlapping U.S. Imperial Trajectories and the Production
of Comparative Truths about Indigenous Medical
Vulnerability in Hawai‘i
Jean Kim
Re-imagining Roots: The Deck and Roof Gardens of
Khamtanh (Kim) Phothisane
Jane Dusselier, Iowa State University
An Efficacious Synthesis: Approaches to healing and health
practices in a Hmong community
Don Duprez, University of Edinburgh
Japanese Americans on the Empires’ Borders: Turning
F61 Destruction into the Sites of Reconstruction after World War II
(Blakely)
Chair: Gary Okihiro, Columbia University
Discussant: Davinder Bohwmik, University of Washington
American Children of the Bomb: Japanese Americans’
Memories of the Nuclear Attacks and the Conflicted Legacy
of their Transnationalism
Naoko Wake, Michigan State University
Minority Military Service and the Complexities of Their
Transnationalism: An Example of Nisei Soldiers in Occupied
Japan
Eiichiro Azuma, University of Pennsylvania
“Building a Bridge across the Pacific”: Gender, Race, and
Cold War Technical and Educational Interchange between
Okinawa and Hawai‘i
Mire Koikari, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Remembering Hawaii’s Massie-
F62 Kahahawai Case Through Renshi Poetry (Stuart)
Chair & Facilitator: John Rosa, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
Participants:
John Rosa, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
Ann Inoshita, Kapiolani Community College
Juliet Lee, Leeward Community College
Christy Passion, Queen’s Medical Center
Jean Toyama, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
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F63 The Sun Never Sets: South Asians and the Imperial Same (Olympic)
Chair & Discussant: Sohail Daulatzai, University of California, Irvine 110th Year Anniversary of Korean Immigration Reception
Anarchy, Surveillance, and Repressing the “Hindu” Menace
Seema Sohi, University of Colorado, Boulder
Navigating Two Empires: Indian Seamen, Anticolonialism,
and State Surveillance
Vivek Bald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
From Multiple Consciousness to Flexible Ambivalence:
Negotiating the Criminalization of Domestic Violence in
South Asian Immigrant Communities
Soniya Munshi, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Retracing the Muslim Body
Junaid Rana, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
6:00pm-7:30pm
(Cascade Foyer)
Sponsored by: Center for Korean Studies, Binghamton University,
English Department at Pomona College, The Research Center for
Korean Community, Queens College, Center for Korean Studies
University of California, Riverside, The Young Oak Kim Center for
Korean American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles,
Korea Times / Hankook-Ilbo Chair, Korean American Coalition of
Washington

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: What Role Can Asian Americans Play in

F64 Racial Justice Work Now? (Cascade IC)
Chair & Moderator: Subhash Kateel, Co-Host, Let’s Talk About It! Radio
Participants:
Rev. Joseph Santos-Lyons, Executive Director, Asian Pacific
American Network of Oregon (APANO)
Monami Maulik, Executive Director, Desis Rising Up and
Moving (DRUM)
Helena Wong, Executive Director, Committee Against Anti-
Asian Violence (CAAAV)
Tammy Bang Luu, Associate Director, The Labor/Community
Strategy Center
Lisa Hasegawa, Executive Director, National Coalition for
Asian Pacific American Community Development
(National CAPACD)

4:30pm-6:00pm
University of Washington Press Wine Reception
(Cascade II)

5:30pm-6:30pm
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Wine Reception
(5th Avenue)

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April 20, 2013

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Registration
Cascade Foyer
7:30am-8:30am
Coffee Break
Sponsored by The John Hopkins University Press
Cascade II
7:30am-9:00am
Journal for Asian American Studies (JAAS) Board Meeting
Seattle Suite
8:00am-3:00pm
Book Exhibits
Cascade II
8:15am-9:45am
China and Asian America: New Burning Issues and Challenges Discussant: Christopher Lee, University of British Columbia
S1 (Pike)
Chair & Discussant: Huping Ling, Truman State University
Golden Mountain Meets Yangtze River
Rachel Zhang, Truman State University
Third Generation Decline: Evidence from Asian American
Students in School Performance
Philip Yang, Texas Women’s University
From Coolies to Model Minority: Chinese in Post-WWII
Oklahoma
Xioabing Li, University of Central Oklahoma
Rise of China and Its Meaning to Asian Americans
Huping Ling, Truman State University
The Cold War and Japanese America: Struggling for Equality,
S2 Contesting Citizenship (Blakely)
Chair & Discussant: Tetsuden Kashima, University of Washington
Our County or Our People: Nisei and the Debate over the
1952 Immigration Act
Greg Robinson, Université du Québec à Montréal
Japanese American Activism and Cold War Civil Rights
Diane Fujino, University of California, Santa Barbara
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“Ann Nisei” and “Sue Sada”: Negotiating Race, Gender and
Family in the Nikkei Press of Canada and the United States
Stephanie Bangarth, King’s University College, UWO
Diasporic Korean Performance and the Ends of Empire (Stuart)
S3 Chair: Christine Mok, University of Cincinnati
Discussant: Aimee Bahng, Dartmouth College
Still/Present/Past
Christine Mok, University of Cincinnati
“Gangjeong Style”: Pop Appropriation and Anti-imperial
Activism
Michelle Cho, Brown University
Crossing Empire’s Remains: Memory and Substitution in
You For Me For You
Ju Yon Kim, Harvard University
Choreographing the Political Possibilities of Mourning in
Korean/American Dance
Elizabeth Son, Northwestern University
Empire and Asian American Religions (St. Helens)
S4 Chair: Carolyn Chen, Northwestern University
Imperial Intentions on American Soil: Missionary Work at
San Francisco’s Chinese Presbyterian Church in the Late
19th Century
Christopher Chua, University of California, Berkeley
Constructing Yellow Empire: A History of the Neo-
Evangelical, Anti-Communist Matrix in the Korean Diaspora
(1951-1982)
Helen Jin Kim, Harvard University
America, Return to God: Chinese American Evangelical
Social Conservatives as Ironic Perpetual Foreigners
Justin K.H. Tse, University of British Columbia
Color-blinded by the light: The American Evangelical
Empire and the Deconstruction of Asian American Racial
Identity in the San Francisco Bay Area
Timothy Tseng, Canaan Taiwanese Christian Church
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 Happy and Healthy?: Asian American Studies, Ethics, and the
S5 Biopolitics of Good Life (Adams)
Chair: Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Pamela Thoma, Washington State University
Broken and Dangerous: Masculinity, Disability, and
Neuropolitics in Asian America
Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota
The Biomedicalization of the Transgender Body in
Northeast Asia
Stephanie Hsu, Pace University
“I Don’t Really Know What That Means”: Autism and the
Ethics of Asian American Sublimation
Crystal Parikh, New York University
Differential Neoliberal Biopolitics, Tiger Mothers, and the
Return of the Repressed in Asian American Mother-Daughter
Narrative
Pamela Thoma, Washington State University
Home, Nation, Empire (Cascade I)
S6 Chair: Augusto Espiritu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
From Anti-Marcos Organizing to Diaspora Philanthropy:
Filipino American Homeland Orientations
L. Joyce Mariano, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
On What Might Have Been: Looking Back (as Rizal Enters)
Harrod Suarez, Oberlin College
Negotiations of Tutelary Colonialism in Carlos Bulosan
Malini Johar Schueller, University of Florida
Miscegenating Discourses: Critical Contexts for Mixed Race Asian
S7 American Art and Identity (Orcas)
Chair: Laura Kina, DePaul University
Discussant: Wei Ming Dariotis, San Francisco State University
The Celtic Samurai: Storytelling a Transnational-Transracial
Family Life
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Stanford University
Los Anthropolocos Unearth the White Empire
Richard A. Lou, University of Memphis
Loving the Day: Images of Marriage Equality Then and Now
Stuart Gaffney, University of California, San Francisco
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North Korea After Dark (Whidbey)
S8 Chair: Yoonmee Chang, George Mason University
In the Shadow of the Great Leader: Visualizing the Personal
and Political in Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang
Lan Dong, University of Illinois, Springfield
Anti-Citizens, Model Minorities, and Radical Orientalism:
Eldridge Cleaver’s Delegation to Socialist Asia
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, The Ohio State University
Deciphering North Korea: Stories of Devotion and “Evident
Sincerity”
Yoonmee Chang, George Mason University
Reexamining Japan: Education, Empire, and the Diaspora
S9 (Olympic)
Chair & Discussant: Dana Y. Nakano, University of California, Irvine
The Role of Christian Education in Early Japanese America
Dean Ryuta Adachi, Claremont Graduate University
Transpacific Crossings: Japanese Insect and Plant
Immigrants & Empire Building at the Turn of the 20th
Century
Jeannie Shinozuka, California State University, Los Angeles
He Stands Between Black and White’: Japanese
Fulbrighters Finesse the Color Line, 1949-1964
Shuji Otsuka, University of Maryland, College Park
Japan and Mixed-Race People: Eugenics, Genetics, and
Nationalism
Lily Anne Yumi Welty, University of California, Los Angeles
Southeast Asian Refugees in 1980s America (Vashon I)
S10 Chair & Discussant: Chia Youyee Vang, University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee
Cambodian Resettlement and White Working-Class
Violence in Greater Boston
Marilynn Johnson, Boston College
“Compassion Gave Us a Special Super Power”: Vietnamese
Women, Family Reunification, and Re-education Camps
Sam Vong, Yale University
American Missions, Hmong Refugee Migration, and the
Shaping of Hmong American Religious Life
Melissa Borja, Columbia University
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 Time after Time: On Temporalities and Diasporic Performance in
S11 Asian America (Vashon II)
Chair: Laura Hyun Yi Kang, University of California, Irvine
Science Friction, Feeling Sound: Phonographic Memories
and Filipino America
Christine Balance, University of California, Irvine
In a Precarious Time and Place: the Refusal to Wallow and
Other Temporal Investments in Care Divas, The Musical
Allan Isaac, Rutgers University
Future Perfect: Hereafter in Asian American Theaters Near You!
Lucy San Pablo Burns, University of California, Los Angeles
10:00am-11:30am
PLENARY III: Bridging Divides in Asian American Studies (Cascade IA)
P3 Chair & Discussant: Paul Watanabe, University of Massachusetts,
Boston
Are We Interdisciplinary Yet?
Leslie Bow, University of Wisconsin, Madison
If Music and Math Can Go Together, Why Can’t the
Humanities and Behavioral Sciences?
Richard M. Lee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Does Media Matter?
Renee Tajima-Peña, University of California, Santa Cruz, &
University of California, Los Angeles
WORKSHOP DISCUSSION: Engaging the Public Through the Press:
S55 How to Speak to the Media about Asian Americans and Pacific
Islanders (Adams)
Presenter & Moderator: Bill Imada, CEO, IW Group
Deploying Diasporic Disaffection: Imperial Ephemerae in Asian
S12 American Performance (Olympic)
Chair: Emily Hue, New York University
Discussant: Martin Manalansan, University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign
Burmese Diasporic Art and Political Asylum: Intervening
into Humanitarian Intervention
Emily Hue, New York University
Feeling Distance, Performing Alien: Tseng Kwong Chi,
Singularity, Infinity
Vivian Huang, New York University
Jose Antonio Vargas and Performances of “Undocumented”
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Status: Narrativizing Citizenship and Coming Out
Vanessa Banta, University of the Philippines
From Theory to Practice: Emerging Asian American Feminist
S13 Pedagogies (Vashon II)
Chair & Discussant: Emily Porcincula Lawsin, University of Michigan
Final Project Runway: In the I’s of Asian American Women,
University of Delaware Sidekicks and Sifus: The Green
Hornet and Beyond
Allyson Tintiango-Cubales, San Francisco State University
Asian American Feminist Pedagogy: ResiSTANCE,
PerSIStence, and PossibiliTIES
Cindy Huynh, University of Utah
Asian American Feminist Pedagogical Interventions in
Women of Color Spaces
Jocyl Sacramento, University of California, Berkeley
FILM SCREENING: Giving Voice (Blakely)
S14 Presenters:
Mikiko Crawford, Ohio University Southern Campus
Donald Moore, Ohio University Southern Campus
Bradley Bear, Ohio University Southern Campus
Legacies of Japanese Imperialism and the Korean War (Orcas)
S15 Chair: Jinah Kim, Northwestern University
“Immigrants’ Autonomy in the Midst of Two Empires: Picture
Marriage and Entry of Korean Women in Early 20th-Century US”
Kei Tanaka, Tokyo Keizai University
“Echoes of Empire: Triangulating China, Japan and Western
Orientalism in David Henry Hwang’s M Butterfly”
William Nessly, West Chester University
“The Estrangement of History: The Affective Politics of War
and Empire from Richard Kim to Chang-rae Lee ”
Susan Moynihan, University at Buffalo, State University of
New York
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S16 Markets and Mothering (St. Helens)
Chair & Discussant: Lynn Fujiwara, University of Oregon
Validating adoptive family identities through constructions
of “Chineseness”
Andrea Louie, Michigan State University
The Neoliberal Politics of Asian Immigrant Mothers
Lisa Park, University of Minnesota
Transnational Surrogacy in India: “Wombs for Rent”?
Sharmila Rudrappa, University of Texas, Austin
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Samoans on the Edge of U.S.
S20 Empire:
Tracing Articulations of Citizenship, National Belonging,
and Sovereignty (Pike)
Chair: Faanaofo Lisa Upersa, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
Participants:
Toeutu Faaleava, Portland State University
Fatilua Fatilua, U.S. House of Representatives Legislative Office
Kirisitina Sailiata, University of Michigan
Rose Cuison Villazor, University of California, Davis
Rachel Kahn Taylor, Independent Filmmaker

FILM SCREENING: Mr. Cao Goes to Washington (Grand Crescent)

S17 Presenter: 12:00pm-1:00pm
S. Leo Chiang, Walking Iris Media
SECTION MEETING: Filipino American
Race and Environment in the (After)Lives of Empire (Whidbey)
S21 (St. Helens)
S18 Chair: Zhou Xiaojing, University of the Pacific
SECTION MEETING: Religion

Resisting Toxic Colonialism: An Environmental Justice
Analysis of Contemporary Poetry by Asian American
S22 (Adams)
Women
SECTION MEETING: Asian Adoption Studies


Chiyo Crawford, Mount Holyoke College
The Transnational Possibilities of Agrarian Belonging in
S53 (Stuart)
David Mas Masumoto’s Harvest Son
Sarah D. Wald, Drew University 1:00pm-2:30pm
On Exactitude in Poetry: The Cartographic Histories of
Garrett Hongo’s Coral Road ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Richard Aoki and His Legacy: A
Roy Kamada, Emerson College S23
Community Conversation (Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific
Legacy of Colonial “Discovery” and Conquest in Dream American Experience) (See page 36 for details)
Jungle by Jessica Hagedorn” Chair: Daryl Maeda, University of Colorado, Boulder
Zhou Xiaojing, University of the Pacific Participants:
Diane Fujino, University of California, Santa Barbara
Refugee Narratives and the Textual Afterlives of Empire (Vashon I) Scott Kurashige, University of Michigan
S19 Chair & Discussant: Yen Le Espiritu, University of California, San Diego Mike Tagawa, Community Activist
Anthology as a Refugee Archive: Re-Chronicling Hmong
Histories in How Do I Begin?
Ma Vang, University of California, Riverside
The Un-Du-ing of Jane: The Role of the Refugee and the
Foreigner in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine
Aline Lo, University of Wisconsin, Madison
On the Subject of Telling: le thi diem thuy’s The Gangster
We Are All Looking For
Isabelle Pelaud, San Francisco State University
An archive of refuge: Memory and otherness in Monique
Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth
Anh Thang Dao, San Francisco State University
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S24 Practices of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and U.S. Empire (Cascade IC)
Chair & Discussant: Greg Robinson, Université du Québec à Montréal
Encounters and Confrontations: Japanese Soldiers and
Nisei Interrogators in Post- War Japan
Samuel Gerstle, Georgetown University
Picture This: Real Japanese American Men During WWII
Terumi Rafferty-Osaki, American University
Toku Shimomura Diary: Reading Between the Lines
Noriko Sanefuji, Smithsonian National Museum of American
History
Heroic Cannon Fodder: Ben Kuroki and the Construction of
the World War II War Hero
Jeffrey Yamashita, University of California, Berkeley
Cultures of Terror (Pike)
S25 Chair & Discussant: Xuan-Truong Nguyen, Washington State University
(Anti-) Imperial Beats: Afro-South Asian Hip Hop and the
War on Terror
Elliott Powell, New York University
Ordinary Expulsions: Ships, Asian Bodies and the Making of
Empire after 9/11
Lalaie Ameeriar, University of California, Santa Barbara
On the Limits of Charhdi Kala: Oak Creek and Sikh
Philosophy in an Age of Terror
Balbir Singh, University of Washington
The Dark Hearts of Empire (Cascade IB)
S26 Chair & Discussant: Kale Fajardo, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
MacArthur’s Mistress and the Geopolitics of Desire
Vernadette Gonzalez, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
How Do We Talk about Japanese Imperialism in Asian
American Studies?
Martin Ponce, The Ohio State University
Here Lies Love, the Transpacific Filipina, and the Global
Market
Denise Cruz, Indiana University
“Forget Conrad’s Congo”: Queer Humor against Empire in
Gina Apostol’s Gun Dealer’s Daughter and R. Zamora
Linmark’s Leche
Nerissa Balce, State University of New York, Stony Brook
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ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Digital Teaching and Learning in
S27 Asian American Studies (Stuart)
Chair: Josephine Lee, University of Minnesota
This is Asian American Studies? Digital Education as Cross-
Disciplinary and Transnational
Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, University of Maryland, College Park
Digital Narratives as Scholarship: Teaching and Composing
Multi-Media Essays
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, The Ohio State University
Capturing Snapshots: Online Media Tools and Dynamic,
Interactive Presentations
Kimberly McKee, The Ohio State University
Building Online Coursework in Asian American Studies:
Philosophies and Practices
Josephine Lee, University of Minnesota
Linguistic Imperialism and Corporality (Adams)
S28 Chair: Christopher Lee, University of British Columbia
Discussant: Steven Yao, Hamilton College
The Nocturnal Power of Frank Chin: The Abject China Mama
and the Signifying Process of Chinatown Buck Buck Bagaw
Nicole Go, University of British Columbia
Tasting Difference and Tasting Differently in Bitter in the
Mouth
Eun Joo Kim, University of Minnesota
FILM SCREENING: Memory of Forgotten War (Grand Crescent)
S29
Chair: Christopher Lee, University of British Columbia
Presenters:
G. Ramsay Liem, Boston College
Deann Borshay Liem, Mu Films
Author Meets Critic: Joseph Cheah’s Race and Religion in
S30 American Buddhism: White Supremacy and Immigrant Adaptations
(Vashon I)
Chair & Facilitator: Sharon Suh, Seattle University
Participants:
Jane Iwamura, University of the West
Joseph Cheah, University of St. Joseph, Connecticut
Duncan Williams, University of Southern California
Tamara Ho, University of California, Riverside
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S31 Chair: Kyung-Sook Boo, Sogang University
Happy endings: Korean military brides and the affective
entanglements of empire
Jessie Kindig, University of Washington
Remapping the U.S. Empire and the Postcolonial Korean
Nation: The Figures of G.I. Brides/lovers and Babies in
Literary and Cultural Productions
Seonna Kim, University of Minnesota
Consuming Women: Neo-Imperialism and Gender in
Postwar South Korean Cinema
Molly Hamer, Indiana University
Triangulating Empires: the Precarious Place of South Asians in
S32 Asian America (Orcas)
Chair: Ishan Ashutosh, Northumbria University
Discussant: Manan Desai, Syracuse University
Passages of Orientalism: Area to Ethnic/Minority Studies
and South Asian migrations in the United States, Britain, and
Canada
Ishan Ashutosh, Northumbria University
Empire and Cultures of mobility: Understanding Migrations
from Indian Punjab
V.J. Varghese, Central University of Punjab
The Empire Strikes Back or Religious Revivalism? Caste and
Christianity in Colonial and Postcolonial Punjab
Navtej Kaur Perwal, University of Manchester
Empire and Transnationalism: Punjabi Migration and Caste
Inequality
Steve Taylor, Northumbria University
Rocking the Boat: Asian American Identity and Leadership
S33 (Vashon II)
Chair & Discussant: Arlene Daus-Magbual, San Francisco State University
Fighting Foreclosures and Retrofitting Authority:
Development of Asian American Women Political
Leadership
Holly Raña Lim, San Francisco State University
From the Margins to the Core: Narrative and Identity
Among Asian Pacific American Women in Leadership
Mary Grace Almandrez, Brown University
Negotiations of Legitimacy: The Movement for Filipino
American Veteranos’ Equity
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Mike Pedro, Asian Pacific American Legal Center
Narrative Leadership: The Formation of Critical Pin@y
Urban Educators
Roderick Daus-Magbual, San Francisco State University
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: The View From “Paradise”: Asian-
S35 Pacific Islander Writing (Cascade IA)
Chair & Facilitator: Roy Kamada, Emerson College
Participants:
Sandra Park, Ohlone College
Shawna Park Ryan, City College of San Francisco
Peter Bacho, Evergreen State College
Eugene Gloria, DePauw University
S36 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Violence Against Women, Policing,
and the War on Terror in Asian American Studies and Community
Organizing (St. Helens)
Chair & Facilitator: Lee Ann Wang, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
Participants:
Soniya Munshi, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Sora Han, University of California, Irvine
Mimi Kim, University of California, Berkeley
Junaid Rana, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Imperial Chronotopes: Passages of Time and Space in Refugee
S37 Narratives (Whidbey)
The Chronotopes of Vietnamese Diaspora
Marguerite Nguyen, Wesleyan University
Mental States of Asylum: Narrating Refugee Subjectivity in
Wendy Law Yone’s The Coffin Tree and lê thi diem thúy’s The
Gangster We Are All Looking For
Catherine Fung, Bentley University
“Refugeography” in Post-Race America: Bao Phi’s Poetry
and Activism
Vinh Nguyen, McMaster University
Verses in Exile: Kosal Khiev’s Poetics of Revolt
Y-Dang Troeung, City University of Hong Kong
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Seattle’s Asian American Movement: Pan-Ethnicity, Afro-Asian Chair & Discussant: Kim Park Nelson, Minnesota State University,
S38 Solidarities, and Labor Organizing, 1960s-70s
(Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience) (See Visual Representations of Asia as the Global Future in
page 36 for details)
Chair: Tracy Lai, Seattle Central Community College
Discussant: Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington
Afro-Asian Solidarities in the Seattle Black Panther Party
and Beyond
Aaron Dixon, Community Activist
Shoulder to Shoulder: Brothers and Sisters in the Struggle
for Human Dignity
Mike Tagawa, Community Activist
Asian American Student Movement in Seattle
Alan Sugiyama, Executive Development Institute
S42
Seattle’s King Dome Protest Revisited: Forty Years Later
Francisco Irigon, Community Activist
ROUNDTABLE: After Bulosan: New Filipino/American Literature
S39 (Cascade IB)
Chairs & Co-Facilitators: Francisco Benitez, University of Washington
Nerissa Balce, State University of New York,
Stony Brook
Participants:
Gina Apostol, Fiction Writer
S43 the 20th Century (Adams)
Joi Bariros-LeBlanc, University of California, Berkeley
Fedelito Cortez, Poet
Eugene Gloria, DePauw University
Sabina Murray, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Anomalies, Bit Players, and Uneventfulness: Empire in a Minor
S40 Key (Whidbey)
Chair: Sunn Shelley Wong, Cornell University
At Sea: The Institutional Un-mooring of Angel Island Poetry
Sunn Shelley Wong, Cornell University
Gina Apostol’s Gun Dealers’ Daughter: Novel-Forms Beyond
the Philippine National Myth
Ryan Canlas, The Art Institute-Las Vegas and College of
Southern Nevada
Douglas as Bit Players: The Role of Insignificance in the
Rule of Nation States
Virajini Murasinghe, Cornell University
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S41 Asian/Adoption Figures, Family, and Nation in the Persistence of
Empire (Orcas)
Moorhead
Looper (2012)
Jennifer Doane, University of Texas, Austin
Opposite Futures for the Orphan Figure: Family and Nation
in Asian Transnational Adoption Discourse and Law
Kit Myers, University of California, San Diego
Formulating Kinship: Transnational, Transracial Asian
Adoption Narratives and Crime Genre Fiction
Jenny Wills, University of Winnipeg
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Author Meets Critic: Transforming the
Ivory Tower by Brett Stockdill and Mary Yu Danico (Olympic)
Chair & Facilitator: Anthony Ocampo, California Polytechnic State
University, Pomona
Participants:
Mia Tuan, University of Oregon
David Leonard, Washington State University
Victor Bascara, University of California, Los Angeles
Neil Gong, University of California, Los Angeles
Between and Beyond Two Empires: Japan/Korea and the US in
Chair & Discussant: Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California
Beyond Two Empires? : The “Country-less” Identity of
Koreans in Hawai‘i , 1930s
Rika Lee, Tama Art University, Japan
Transpacific Imagination and the Question of “Minzoku”:
Japanese Sociological Studies on Race/Ethnicity between
the 1930s and 1940s
Noriaki Hoshino, Cornell University
Fighting for the “Wrong Empire”?: A Trans-Pacific Reading
of Korean Imperial Soldiers in Chang-rae Lee and Utsumi
Aiko’s Works
Rika Nakamura, Seijo University
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 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Building and Developing Asian
S44 American Studies Programs (Grand Crescent)
Chair & Facilitator: Sue J. Kim, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
The Historical Development & Community-Based
Orientation of AAS at UMass Boston
Loan Dao, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Asian American Studies at Hunter College
Jennifer Hayashida, Hunter College, City University of New York
Mutual Mentoring (MM) in the Five College APA Certificate
Program
C. N. Le, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Asian American Studies’ Criminal Relationship to the
University
Naomi Paik, University of Texas, Austin
Contingent Faculty and Establishing Asian American
Studies at a Small Liberal Arts College
Linta Varghese, Hunter College, City University of New York
History, Memory, and Empire (Cascade IC)
S45 The Archive and The Empire: Problematizing the “Rescue”
Narrative in Refugee Archival Practices
Thuy Vo Dang, University of California, Irvine
Visualizing Empire & Militarism in the Pacific: Teaching with
Geospatial Technology
Theresa Cenidoza Suarez, California State University San
Marcos
“Critical Juxtaposing”: Connecting the Afterlives of Empire
Yen Le Espiritu, University of California, San Diego
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Illness, Disability, and Asian America:
S46
An Amerasia Journal Roundtable (Stuart)
Chair & Facilitator: Arnold Pan, University of California, Los Angeles
Participants:
Floyd Cheung, Smith College
Jennifer Ho, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
James Lee, University of California, Irvine
Crystal Parikh, New York University
Cynthia Wu, University of Buffalo
Immigration After Empire (Cascade IA)
S47 Chair & Discussant: Leti Volpp, University of California, Berkeley
Migrating Bodies, Moving Boundaries: Looking at Recent
Contemporary Art Exhibitions on Immigration
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Susette Min, University of California, Davis
Contemporary Naturalization Delays and Rethinking the
Normative Histories of Naturalization in U.S. Law
Hamsa Murthy, Independent Scholar
Rethinking Family in Immigration Law: Beyond Marriage
and Blood Ties
Sarah Song, University of California, Berkeley
Exploring Claims to Citizenship Based on Birth in the U.S.
Territory of the Philippines
Rose Cuison Villazor, University of California, Davis
Interrogating and Recovering Historical Sources (Pike)
S48
Chair & Discussant: Andrea Geiger, Simon Fraser University
The shifting boundary of “color” and “whiteness”
through creation of the new “race” category of “Chinese”
and “Japanese”: Examination of Census Manuscript
Miya Shichinohe-Suga, Tokyo Gakugei University
Writing “home(s)”: Composing the personal archives of
transnational Asian immigrant women
Vivian Wong, University of California, Los Angeles
A New Look at the Ethnic Chinese Exodus from Vietnam to
the U.S. & Beyond
Daniel Tsang, University of California, Irvine
Transpacific Reverberations of World War II (Vashon II)
S49
Chair: Takashi Fujitani, University of Toronto
Overseas Nationalism: A Construction of China and a
Condemnation of Imperialism
Adrienne Winans, The Ohio State University
From Priests and Disciples to “Witches” and Traitors: The
Japanese American Women of Hono`uli`uli
Amy Nishimura, University of Hawai‘i West Oahu
Race, Confinement and Housing in the Shadow of War:
Japanese Americans and the Hidden History of Suburban
Los Angeles
Jean-Paul deGuzman, University of California, Los Angeles
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 Violence, Trauma, Empire (Blakely)
S50 Chair: Lucy San Pablo Burns, University of California, Los Angeles
Natives of a Ghost Country: Birth of Transhistorical
Southern Vietnamese Nationalism
Roy Vu, North Lake College
Spectacles of War: Bodily Violence and the Trauma of Anti-
War Narratives
Kim Trinh, University of Washington
The Feeling of the Afterlives of Empire: Trauma, Affect, and
Citizenship in Aimee Phan’s We Should Never Meet (2004)
Jungha Kim, University of Pennsylvania
“The Intimacies of Four Colonialisms”: Overlapping
Postcolonial Identities in Vietnamese American Literature
Christine Ho, The University of Pennsylvania

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Violence against Asian American

S51
Religious Communities (St. Helens)
Chair & Facilitator: Sharon Suh, Seattle University
Participants:
Jaideep Singh, California State University, East Bay
Janelle Wong, University of Maryland, College Park
Chandan Reddy, University of Washington
David Kim, Connecticut College
Sylvia Chan-Malik, Rutgers University

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: What’s Food Got to Do With It? The

S52 State of Asian American Food Studies (Vashon I)
Chair & Facilitator: Robert Ji-Song Ku, Binghamton University
Participants:
Erin M. Curtis, Brown University
Alex Orquiza, Wellesley College
Martin Manalansan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Anita Mannur, Miami University of Ohio

4:30pm-5:30pm
General Membership Meeting
(St. Helens)

6:00pm-7:30pm
Awards Reception
(5th Avenue)

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INDEX OF PARTICIPANTS
Abe, Frank T45
Adachi, Dean Ryuta S9
Afzal, Ahmed T52
Alegre, Jan Marie T44
Allen, Linda Pierce F31
Almandrez, Mary Grace S34
Ameeriar, Lalaie S25
Anderson, Crystal T15
Anderson, Emily F48
Andresen, Third F21
Apostol, Gina S39
Arnaldo, Constancio F41
Asaka, Megan T33
Ashutosh, Ishan S32
Au, Vanessa T37
Azuma, Eiichiro F48
Bacho, Peter F44
Badua, Steve Ryan T6
Bahng, Aimee S3
Baik, Cristiana S28
Balance, Christine F58, S11, T30
Balce, Nerissa T24
Bald, Vivek F64, F18
Bangarth, Stephanie S2
Banta, Vanessa S12
Barrios-Leblanc, Joi S39
Bascara, Victor S42, F38
Bashir, Karin T23
Bear, Bradley S14
Benitez, Francisco T42, S39
Bernabe, Jan Christian F47
Bernardo, Joseph T35
Bhatt, Amy T25
Bhaumik, Sita Kuratomi F47
Bolton, Sony T12
Bonus, Rick F21
Boo, Kyung-Sook F10
Borja, Melissa S10
Borshay Liem, Deann S29
Bow, Leslie PP
Bueno, Amalia B. F19
Bui, Lawrence-Minh S27, F 46
Bui, Long T10, T46
Bullen, Ross T47
Bumanglag Tomas, Charlene F21
Burns, Lucy San Pablo S11, S50
Cacho, Lisa Marie F65
Canare, Rhommel Litz Lara T14
Carlson, Janet T55
Cenidoza Suarez, Theresa S45
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Ceniza Choy, Catherine F13
Cham, Asiroh T3
Chambers-Letson,
Joshua Takano F4
Chan, Kenyon F40
Chang, Benji T54
Chang, Doris T13
Chang, Yoonmee S8
Chan-Malik, Sylvia S51
Chantiny, Martha F12
Chapman, Mary T47, T31
Cheah, Joseph S30
Chen, Carolyn S4
Chen, Christine F42
Chen, Edith T29
Chen, Jian T13
Chen, Zhongping T43
Cheng, Cindy I-Fen F14
Cheng, Wendy T13
Cheung, Floyd F48, S46
Chew, Ron F24, P1
Chhun, Lina T3
Chhuon, Vichet T60
Chiang, S. Leo S17
Chin, Charlie F45
Chin, Christina F41, F60
Ching, Doris F40, T60
Chiu, Monica F7
Cho, Michelle S3
Cho, Nancy F26
Cho, Yu-Fang F50
Chou, Elena T41
Choy, Greg F13
Chu, Richard T. T42
Chua, Christopher S4
Chung, Brian T62
Chung, Sue Fawn T43
Clutario, Genevieve F2
Cooc, North T54
Cordova, Dorothy P1
Cordova, Fred P1
Cortes, Fidelito S39
Crawford, Chiyo S18
Crawford, Mikiko S14
Cruz, Denise S26
Current, Cynthia A. F11
Curtis, Erin S52
Danico, Mary Yu S42
Daniels, Roger F36
Dao, Anh Thang S19
Dao, Loan S44
Dao, Thang T46
Dariotis, Wei Ming
Dasgupta, Kushan
S7
F9
Daulatzai, Sohail T53
Daus-Magbual, Roderick T14, S34
Daus-Magual, Arlene S34, T14
Dave, Shilpa T52
Davis, Lawrence-Minh F46, S27
Davis, Rocio G. F7
Day, Iyko F17
Day, Leanne T11
deGuzman, Ben F42
DeGuzman, Brian T14
deGuzman, Jean-Paul S49
deJesus, Melinda F31
Desai, Jigna S5
Desai, Manan S32, T62 Han, Sora S36
Dhar, Nandini T15
Diaz, Josen T8
Diaz, Robert T52
Dimler, Mallory L. T24
Dixon, Aaron S38
Doane, Jennifer S41
Domingo, Cindy T26
Domingo, Ligaya F24, F 44
Domingo, Nemesio T26
Dong, Lan S8
Donnell, Kira F59
Duncan, Patti F31
Duong, Lan T46, F14
Duprez, Don F61
Dusselier, Jane F61
Dutt, Reshmi F31
Eisen, Daniel T6
Endo, Rachel T55
Escudero, Kevin T32
España-Maram, Linda F41
Espiritu, Augusto T42
Espiritu, Yen S19, S45
Faaleava,Toeutu S20
Fabros, Melissa F5
Fajardo, Glenn T59
Fajardo, Kale T59, S26
Fatilua, Fatilua S20
Feng, Peter X F52
Francedese, Janet T61
Francisco, Adrianne T12
Francisco, Valerie T48
Friday, Chris T33
Froh, Geoff F12
Fujino, Diane S2, S23
Fujiwara, Lynn S5, S16
Fung, Catherine S37, T65
Gaffney, Stuart S7
Gairola, Rahul K. T9
Gaon, Bobby F55
Gavilan, Jason
Geron, Kim
T22
T49
Gerstle, Samuel S24
Gloria, Eugene S39
Go, Nicole S28
Gong, Neil S42
Gonzales, Randy F6
Gonzalez, Anna F40
Gonzalez, Vernadette F25, S26
Gonzalves, Theo T24, T62, F45
Gotanda, Neil F50
Guevarra, Rudy T32
Habal, Estella T26
Haddad, John F33
Hamamoto, Gena T16, T51
Han, Stephanie F31
Hasan, Nadia F1
Hashima, Larry T45
Hayashida, Jennifer S44
Hirshberg, Lauren F25
Ho, Christine S50
Ho, Jennifer S46
Ho, Tamara S30
Hong, Caroline F3
Honma, Todd F25
Hoshino, Noriaki S43
Howan, Lillian S35
Hsu, Funie F21
Hsu, Hsuan T47
Hsu, Stephanie S5
Huang, Betsy F11
Huang, Vivian S12
Hu-DeHart, Evelyn T43
Hue, Emily S12
Huh, Jang Wook T56
Huh, Jinny F11
Hune, Shirley T33
Hung, Tzu-hui Celina T10
Huynh, Cindy S13
Huynh, Jennifer T44
Hwang, Ren-yo T13
Ichinose, Daniel F22
Ignacio, Emily Noelle T59
Ikeda, Masako T61
Ikeda, Tom P1
Imada, Bill F42,S55
Inoshita, Ann F63
Inouye, Karen T45
Irigon, Francisco S38
Isaac, Allan S11
Ishii, Douglas F3
Itagaki, Lynn F20
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 Iwamura, Jane F51
Jackowicz, Stephen F33
Jafri, Beenash T41
Jain, Anita T28
Janette, Michele T55
Jansen, Anne T36
Jeon, Joseph T27
Jew, Victor F60
Johnson, Amy F23
Johnson, Kendall F33
Johnson, Marilynn S10
Joo, Hee-Jung Serenity T15
Jung, Moon-Ho P2, S38, T20
Kamada, Roy S35
Kang, Miliann T28, F13
Kara, Hisatake T36
Karbhari, Shilpashri F32
Kares, Faith T12
Kashima, Tetsuden F36, S2
Kato, Eri T65
Kester, Matthew T32
Khan, Hareem T24
Khuc, Mimi T46
Kido Lopez, Lori T37
Kim, Allen F59
Kim, Anna T28
Kim, Anthony Yooshin T7
Kim, Arlene S28
Kim, Barbara F59
Kim, Christine T38
Kim, Daniel F20
Kim, David K. F51
Kim, Eleana F59
Kim, Eun Joo S28
Kim, Eunsong Angela T27
Kim, Heidi S52
Kim, Helen Jin S4
Kim, Jean F60 Lee, Richard PP
Kim, Ju Yon S3
Kim, Jungha S50
Kim, L.S. T30
Kim, Mimi S36
Kim, Na Rae T56
Kim, Nadia T5
Kim, Rebecca F26
Kim, Richard S. T22
Kim, Soh Yeun F26
Kim, Sue S44
Kina, Laura F47
Kishimoto, Kyoko T50
Klein, Kenneth F12
Ko, Michelle F42
Koikari, Mire F62
Kopacz, Elizabeth T2
Koshy, Kavitha F32
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Krishnamurti, Sailaja F1
Ku, Robert Ji-Song F57
Kurashige, Lon S43
Kurashige, Scott S23
Kwak, Laura T41
Kwan, Yvonne T2
Kwon, Eunhye F39
Kwon, Hyeyoung F35
Kwon, Soo Ah F65
Kwon, Yaejoon T5
Labella, John T44
Labrador, Roderick T6
Lai, Selina F33
Lai, Tracy T49, S38
Lam, Mariam F52, F47
Lau, Chrissy F3
Lau, Yvonne T55
Lau, Yvonne T55
Laurino, Mercy T11
Lawsin, Emily Porcincula S13
Le Skaife, Jane T3
Le, C.N. S44
Le, Mai-Nhung T29
Lee, Christina Aujean F9
Lee, Christopher T38, S28
Lee, Heather F57
Lee, Hsiu-Chuan T55
Lee, James S46
Lee, Jane T2
Lee, Jin-Kyung F20
Lee, Jo-Anne T38
Lee, Josephine F20, S27
Lee, Julia F10
Lee, Juliet F63
Lee, Mae T59
Lee, Peter T11
Lee, Rachel F4
Lee, Rika S43
Lee, Robert G. T21
Lee, Su Mee T33
Lee, Sueyuen Juliette T27
Lee, Taeku F22
Lee, Trevor T33
Leonard, David S42
Leong, Amy T49
Leong, Andrew F48
Leong, Karen F53
Leung, Genevieve F34
Lew-Williams, Beth T21
Li, Xiaobing S1
Liem, G. Ramsay S29
Lieu, Nhi T. T30
Lim, Holly Raña S34
Lim, Jeehyun F20
Ling, Huping S1
Liu, Warren T27
Lo, Aline S19
Lo, Marie T47
Lobo Sapigao, Janice T27
Locke, Brian T4
Lopez, Lori Kido T57
Lou, Richard A. S7
Louie, Andrea S16
Lowe, Lisa F53
Lu, Joyce F5
Lui, Mary F23
Lum, Debbie T62
Lum, Wing Tek F19
Lye, Colleen F43
Mabalon, Dawn F57
Machida, Margo F57
Mackrandilal, Maya T27
Maeda, Daryl T52, S23
Magabo Perez, Jason T27
Magosaki, Ri T31
Magwili, Dom T54
Mai, Minhtuyen F60
Makhija, Nina T25
Makino, Rie T65
Mallick, Samip T25, F12
Manalansan IV, Martin F57
Mannur, Anita T31
Maramba, Dina T60, F21
Marasigan, Cynthia T42
Margolin, Alexandra T51
Mariano, L. Joyce S6
Marwaha, Jasmine T49
Mast, Terri F24
McCutcheon, Paul F10
McGregor, Davianna F44
McKee, Kimberly T5
McKenna, Rebecca F23
McTaggart, Ninochka F55
Metzger, Sean F4
Mihiri, Tillakaratne T2
Mimura, Glen F52
Miyake, Keith T20
Miyamoto, Nobuko F45
Mok, Christine S3
Moore, Donald S14
Moynihan, Susan S15
Munasinghe, Viranjini S40
Munshi, Soniya T53, S 36
Murphy-Shigematsu, Stephen S7
Murray, Sabina S39
Museus, Samuel D. T60
Myers, Kit S41
Na, Eunha T56
Nadal, Cherisse (Yanit) F48
Nadkarni, Asha F46
Nakagawa, Mako F36
Nakamura, Rika S43
Nakano, Dana Y. S9
Navarro, Theresa T7
Nazareno, Jennifer T35
Nelson, Kim Park S41
Nessly, William S15
Ng, Dana F34
Ng, Franklin F9
Ng, Konrad T37, T57
Nguyen, Marguerite S37
Nguyen, Mimi F65
Nguyen, Trung T51
Nguyen, Vinh S37
Nie, Phonshia F50
Nievara-Lozano, Melissa-Ann T14
Niiya, Brian T45, F12
Ninh, Erin Khue F60, T30
Nishime, LeiLani T1
Nishimura, Amy S49
Nomura, Gail M. P1
O’Brien, Eileen T15
Ocampo, Anthony S42, T40
Odo, David F42
Oh, Stella T9
Okada, Jun F52
Okamura, Jonathan F21
Okihiro, Gary F62
Ong, James T1
Ono, Kent T37
Orise, Marie T65
Orquiza, Alex S52
Otsuka, Shuji S9
Owens, Gary T26
Oyagi, Go F25
Padoongpatt, Mark F57
Paik, Naomi F65, S44
Pak, Gary F19
Paladan, Gerardo F11
Pan, Arnold T61, S46
Panganiban, Leah T40
Pangilinan, Mark F58
Paramehta, Teraya T23
Paras, Julius T59
Parikh, Crystal S5, S46
Park, Josephine T27
Park, Lisa S16
Park, Sandra S35
Park, Terry F60
Parreñas Shimizu, Celine F52
Passion, Christy F63
Patel, Alpesh Kantilal F47
Patterson, Christopher T12
Pedro, Mike S34
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 Pegues, Juliana F46
Pelaud, Isabelle S19
Peralta, Christine F2
Pham, Vincent T37
Phan, Hoang F43
Pido, Eric T29
Pierce Allen, Linda F6
Pollack, Haley Michaels F14
Ponce, Martin Joseph T8
Ponce, Ninez F22
Poon, Oiyan T60, F60
Poon, Wei-chi F12
Poulsen, Melissa F46
Powell, Elliott S25
Prater, Tzarina T36
Price, John T38
Purewal, Navtej S32
Quaney, Kent F6
Quibuyen, George P2
Quiray Tagle, Thea T7
Quraishi, Uzma T34
Rafferty-Osaki, Terumi S24
Rahemtullah, Omme-Salma F1
Ramakrishnan, Karthick F22
Ramos, Christopher F10
Ramos, Marie Antonette T6
Ramos, Nic T35
Rana, Junaid T53, S 36
Raymundo, Emily T35
Reddy, Chandan T35
Ree, C. T27
Remigio, Allyson T14
Resendez, Andres T32
Rhee, Margaret F59
Rivas, Zelideth F46
Robinson, Greg S2, S24
Rodriguez, Robyn F8
Rondilla, Joanne T24
Rosa, John F63
Ruanto-Ramirez, Joseph F8
Rudrappa, Sharmilla S16
Ruiz, Stevie F17
Sacramento, Jocyl S13
Sailiata,Kirisitina S20
Sanchez, Mark F58
Sanefuji, Noriko S24
Santos, Lillian T29
Saranillo, Dean F8
Saraswati, L. Ayu T24
Sarmiento, Thomas T8
Sasaki, Christen F25
Schleitwiler, Vince F43
Schlund-Vials, Cathy F3, T31 Thangaraj, Stanley F41
Schueller, Malini S6
Sciachitano, Marian T50
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See, Sarita F8
Shankar, Shalini F53
Sharma, Nitasha F13
Sharma, Preeti T28
Sheffer, Jolie T31
Shichinohe-Suga, Miya S48
Shih, Elena T28, T53
Shikuma, Stanley F36
Shimizu, Celine Parrenas T61, F52
Shinozuka, Jeannie N. S9
Shrake, Eunai T34
Singh, Balbir S25
Singh, Jaideep S51
Singh, Nikhil Pal P2
Singson, Precious F58
Siu, Lok T53
Slusser, Sean F55
Soe, Valerie F54
Sohi, Seema T53
Sohn, Ilsu T11
Sokolowski, Jeanne F36
Solomon, Amanda F8, T8
Solomon, Christina T31
Son, Elizabeth S3
Song, Min Hyoung T61
Soojinda, Daniel T40
Sookkasikon, Pahole T7
Spickard, Paul T32
Steinbock-Pratt, Sarah F7
Stockdill, Brett S42
Streamas, John T50
Su, Phi T3
Suarez, Harrod S6
Sudhakar, Anantha T23
Sugiyama, Alan S38
Suh, Sharon F51
Sumida, Stephen H. P1
Suzuki, Bob F40
Suzuki, Erin T4
Tagawa, Michael S23, S38
Tagle, Thea T62
Tajima-Peña, Renee PP
Takagi, Dana T4
Takasaki, Kara T6
Tan, Tina F34
Tanaka, Kei S15
Tang, Edward T4
Tang, Winnie F34
Tanikella, Leela T53
Tayag, Elnora F12
Taylor, Rachel Khan S20
Taylor, Steve S32
Thapa-Oli, Soni F32
Thoma, Pamela S5
Thomas, Susan T40 Wong, Sunn Shelley S40
Tillakaratne, Mihiri T1 Wong, Vivian S48
Tintiango-Cubales, Allyson S13 Woo, Daniel T1
Tiongson, Antonio F55 Wu, Cynthia S46
Titiangco-Cubales, Allyson T14, S13 Wu, Joanna F3
Tomas, Charlene Bumanglag F21 Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun S8, S27
Tong, Donna T9 Xiong, Ger T1
Toyama, Jean F63 Yamasaki, Nobuko T10
Tran, Jennifer Kim Anh T46 Yamashiro, Jane T6
Trieu, Monica T55 Yamashita, Jeffrey S24
Trinh, Kim S50 Yang Ryan, Shawna S35
Troeung, Y-Dang S37 Yang, Caroline F43
Truong, Hong-An T27 Yang, Fan F35
Tsang, Daniel S48 Yang, Jeff T57
Tse, Justin S4 Yang, Mina T4
Tseng, Timothy S4 Yang, Philip F32, SS1
Tu, Thuy Linh F53 Yao, Steven, G. S28
Tuan, Mia S42 Yee, Michelle F47
Ty, Eleanor T15, T36 Yeh, Grace F12, F 39
Upadhyay, Nishant F1 Yeung, Miriam F22
Upersa, Faanaofo Lisa S20 Yoneyama, Lisa F14
Urban, Andrew F23 Yoo, Grace F59
Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline T34 Yu, Henry T38
Vang, Chia Youyee S10 Yu, Phil T57
Vang, Ma S19, F 37 Yu, Timothy T58, F4
Varghese, Linta S44 Zarsadiaz, James T61, F42
Varghese, V.J. S32 Zhang, Rachel S1
Velasco, Gina F8 Zinner, Eric T61
Viernes, Kate T1
Viesca, Victor F55
Villa, Leighton T6
Villazor, Rose Cuison S20
Villegas, Mark F55
Vimalassery, Manu F17
Vinluan, Ermena F44
Visweswaran, Kamala T53
Vo Dang, Thuy S45
Vo, Linda T52
Vong, Sam S10
Vu, Roy S50
Wake, Naoko F62
Wang, Grace T30
Wang, Lee Ann S36
Wang, Su-ching F5
Watanabe, Paul PP
Wegars, Patricia T43
Welty, Lily Anne Yumi S9, F46
Williams, Duncan S30
Wills, Jenny S41
Winans, Adrienne S49
Winkelmann, Marie Tessa F2
Wong, Edlie T47
Wong, Jane T11
Wong, Janelle F51
Wong, Marie F39
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