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SUMMARY:The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora: Essays on Migration\, Identity\, and Literary and Cultural Representations
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of Aleah N. Ranjitsingh’s edited volume The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora: Essays on Migration\, Identity\, and Literary and Cultural Representations. The volume expands notions of the Caribbean diaspora to account for the Asian as part of the Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora. \n Its interdisciplinary chapters center Caribbean people of Chinese\, Indian\, Japanese and Javanese descent in and outside of the Caribbean\, reveal migration narratives\, encounters on Caribbean plantations and in diasporic urban centers\, notions of homeland and experiences of return\, family histories\, identity formation and subjectivity\, the ways in which Caribbean people create and convey meaning about these histories\, experiences and self\, and the contributions of Caribbean people of Asian descent to the framing of the Caribbean and Asian diasporas.\n\nRanjitsingh (Brooklyn College) will be joined in conversation by volume contributors Nikoli Attai (Binghamton University)\, Sue Ann Barratt (University of the West Indies)\, Cristine Sabrina Khan (Stony Brook)\, Jillian Ollivierre (York University)\, and Tarika Sankar (Brown University).
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/the-asian-caribbean-in-the-caribbean-diaspora-essays-on-migration-identity-and-literary-and-cultural-representations/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Hess Week 2026 at Brooklyn College: Asian American Lives in a Time of Crisis and Care
DESCRIPTION:At the center of the annual series of lectures is 2025–26 Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Russell M. Jeung\, whose scholarship and activism have shaped national conversations on race\, religion\, and justice. \nThis spring\, Brooklyn College invites the campus community and the public to gather for Hess Week 2026\, a powerful three-day series exploring Asian American lives\, rights\, civil liberties\, faith\, storytelling\, mental health\, and movements for racial justice. At the center of this week is our 2025–26 Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence\, Professor Russell M. Jeung from the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University\, and co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate. He is a leading sociologist of race\, immigration\, and religion. Over the last 25 years his groundbreaking research on Asian American communities has shaped the fields of Asian American Studies and Sociology of Religion. \n\n\nMar 2026\n\n\n\nTue17\n\n\n\n\n\n11:00 am – 12:00 pm \nHess Week 2026 Welcome Ceremomy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2:15 pm – 3:30 pm \nThe Lives\, Rights\, and Civil Liberties of Asian Americans in an Age of Mass Deportation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed18\n\n\n\n\n\n11:00 am – 12:15 pm \nBelief and Belonging: Faith Communities and Justice\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2:15 pm – 3:30 pm \nRecuperating Collective Stories: Writing Chinese American Memoirs\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3:40 pm – 4:55 pm \nHess Week 2026: Struggling\, Surviving\, Thriving—Asian American Mental Health\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu19\n\n\n\n\n\n11:00 am – 12:15 pm \nAsian American Movements for Racial Justice: Resistance and Solidarity – The 2026 Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHess Week begins on March 17 at 11 a.m. with a Welcome Ceremony honoring Jeung’s arrival on campus. The event brings together leading scholars and public intellectuals\, including Carolyn Chen\, Jerry Park\, and David Kim\, to reflect on the importance of scholarship that bridges research\, community engagement\, and social transformation. \nLater that afternoon (2:15–3:30 p.m.)\, the panel “The Lives\, Rights\, and Civil Liberties of Asian Americans in an Age of Mass Deportation” examines how contemporary immigration politics and policies are reshaping Asian American communities—and how solidarities are forming across immigrant groups. Featuring voices from law\, faith-based organizing\, and community advocacy\, this conversation centers the urgent realities facing families and communities today. \nOn March 18\, Hess Week turns toward faith\, story\, and healing. In the morning (11 a.m.–12:15 p.m.)\, “Belief and Belonging: Faith Communities and Justice” explores how religious communities have become sites of resistance\, refuge\, and organizing in the struggle for immigrant dignity and human rights. \nIn the afternoon (2:15–3:30 p.m.)\, “Recuperating Collective Stories: Writing Chinese American Memoirs” brings together memoirist Ava Chin and Professor Jeung to reflect on memory\, migration\, and the power of storytelling to reclaim erased histories across generations and coasts. The day concludes (3:40–4:55 p.m.) with “Struggling\, Surviving\, Thriving—Asian American Mental Health\,” a timely and deeply needed conversation on the socio-emotional and developmental challenges facing Asian American adolescents and college students\, featuring leading scholars and clinicians including Clarissa S.L. Cheah and Cindy Liu. \nHess Week culminates on March 19 (11 a.m.–12:15 p.m.) with the 2026 Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture\, delivered by Professor Jeung: “Asian American Movements for Racial Justice: Resistance and Solidarity.” The lecture traces the long arc of Asian-American organizing—from survival to coalition-building—and invites the campus community to imagine new possibilities for justice in the present moment. \nAcross three days\, Hess Week 2026 tells a collective story: of communities under pressure\, of faith and culture as sources of belonging\, of memory as resistance\, of mental health as justice\, and of movements that insist on dignity in the face of exclusion. We invite students\, staff\, faculty\, and community members to join us for these conversations and be part of this shared work of learning\, care\, and solidarity. \nAll events are open to the public. Add the events to your calendar and join us for Hess Week 2026. \nAbout Hess Week \nHess Week at Brooklyn College is an annual series of events hosted by the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities that features a distinguished Scholar-in-Residence. The week includes public lectures\, panels\, and seminars\, highlighted by the Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture\, focusing on critical social\, political\, or academic themes. \n  \nhttps://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/wolfe2025/hessweek \nHess Week 2026 at Brooklyn College: Asian American Lives in a Time of Crisis and Care
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/hess-week-2026-at-brooklyn-college-asian-american-lives-in-a-time-of-crisis-and-care/
LOCATION:Woody Tanger Auditorium\, Brooklyn College Library\, 2900 Bedford Avenue\, Brooklyn\,\, NY\, 11210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,History,In Person
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SUMMARY:JUSTICE: A Conversation With Hess Scholars Melissa Murray and Russell M. Jeung
DESCRIPTION:What is justice and how do we get it? Join Robert L. Hess Scholars Melissa Murray and Russell M. Jeung in conversation as they draw on their personal and professional journeys to address these questions. \nMelissa Murray\, the 2024–25 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence\, is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. Murray teaches constitutional law\, family law\, criminal law\, and reproductive rights and justice. She is a co-author (with Andrew Weissman) of The New York Times bestselling book The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary. She is a legal analyst for MSNBC and served as a judicial clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor\, then a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. \nRussell M. Jeung\, the 2025–26 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence\, is professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University and co-founder of Stop AAIP Hate. He is author of Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans; Moving Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies; At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors; and Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches. He co-produced the documentary The Oak Park Story (2010)\, about a landmark housing lawsuit involving Cambodian and Latino tenants. He was named as one of the TIME‘s 100 Most Influential Persons in 2021.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/justice-a-conversation-with-hess-scholars-melissa-murray-and-russell-m-jeung/
CATEGORIES:Non AAARI Events
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SUMMARY:Citizen Enough? Race and Belonging Now and Then
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online conversation with Professor Neda Maghbouleh\, author of The Limits of Whiteness\, and Professor Dana Y. Nakano\, author of Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform. The discussion\, moderated by BC Sociology Professor Diana Pan\, will examine how racial ideologies structure non-white US citizens’ experiences of national belonging.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/citizen-enough-race-and-belonging-now-and-then/
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