Events

Racism and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America: Cultural and Media Systems

Panelists:

Herman Beavers, Professor of English and Africana Studies; Faculty Director of Civic Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania

Margo Natalie Crawford, Professor of English, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excellence, University of Pennsylvania

Guthrie Ramsey, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music

Deborah Thomas, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

Tukufu Zuberi, The Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, Sociology Department, University of Pennsylvania

The 22nd year of Kelly Writers House Fellows will feature poet/activist Hilton Als. During the visit a reading will take place on Monday at 6:30 PM. On Tuesday at 10 AM the Writers House will host a brunch followed by a one-hour interview/conversation; attendance for both programs is by rsvp only.

Asian America Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2021 presents "Combating Islamophobia: Between Throwing Data at the Problem and "You'd Love Us if Only You Knew Us" by Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu, Ph.D. Outreach and Education Director, CAIR-Philadelphia.

Professor Ahmet Selim is a Turkish-American academic and organizer. His research focuses on American Muslim history and identity. He is the Education and Outreach Director at the Philadelphia Chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR-Philadelphia. Dr. Tekelioglu directs the digital Islamic Studies project themaydan.com at George Mason University where he is a research fellow at the Center for Global Islamic Studies. He serves on the boards of POWER Interfaith and JACL-Philadelphia. 

In this lecture with Dr. Selim we will contextualize Islamophobia/ anti-Muslim racism in the US in our current historical moment. Next, we will analyze its different manifestations and examine various tactics employed to counter it. With a specific focus on my experiences from the ground as an organizer in Philadelphia, I will invite us to think around how we could develop a critical perspective on anti-Muslim racism as it impacts AAPI, African, African-American, and other Muslim-Americans.

Hosted by ASAM and ASAM 110-301 Asian American Activism

In America 2020 has been a defining moment. To date the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed over 400,000 lives. With the economic shutdown millions of Americans lost their jobs. Protesters took to the streets denouncing systemic racism and demanding change. Feelings of grief, anger, fear, loss, and uncertainty have marked these unprecedented times.

Many Voices, Many Visions presents over 40 works of art drawn from Penn’s Art Collection that resonate with these contemporary issues. The paintings, prints, sculpture, and photographs on view are insightful, compassionate, and at times provocative. From William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress, 1735, to Honoré Daumier’s Les Gens de Justice, 1845 to Shirin Neshat’s Ghada, 2013 these artists reveal the moral, social, or political issues of their time.

Students, Staff & Faculty: Share Voices.

Opening Remarks by Beth Winkelstein, Ph.D., Deputy Provost, and Eduardo D. Glandt
President's Distinguished Professor Keynote Vijay Kumar, Ph.D., Nemirovsky Family Dean, Penn Engineering.

Organized by the Vice Provost For University Life and the Office of Affirmative Action & Equal Opportunity Programs.

Dr. Ramani Durvasula is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Santa Monica and Sherman Oaks, CA and Professor of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, where she was named Outstanding Professor in 2012, and a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg. She was also the national recipient of the American Association of University Women Emerging Scholar Award. The focus of Dr. Durvasula’s clinical, academic and consultative work is the etiology and impact of narcissism and high-conflict, entitled, antagonistic personality styles on human relationships, mental health, and societal expectations. She has spoken on these issues to clinicians, educators and researchers around the world. Her work has been featured at SxSW, TEDx, and on a wide range of media platforms including Red Table Talk, the Today Show, Oxygen, Investigation Discovery, Bravo, and she is a featured expert on the digital media mental health platform MedCircle.

Asian America Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2021 presents  Asian American Activism; Pan-Ethnicity; Education in conversation with Wei Chen, Civic Engagement Coordinator at Asian Americans United.

Wei Chen, Civic Engagement Coordinator at Asian Americans United.

Since 1985, Asian Americans United exists so that people of Asian ancestry in Philadelphia exercise leadership to build their communities and unite to challenge oppression. AAU sees the right to culture as a human right. AAU’s arts and culture work creates social change through engaging community members in realizing community members’ inherent artistic and creative potential and building pride in cultural heritage.

Hosted by ASAM and ASAM 104-401Asian American Communities.

Integrating Access and Inclusion into the Remote Learning Environment Presenter: Shelby Acteson, M.Ed.

Panelists: 

• Camille Charles, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor, Sociology, Graduate School of Education, and the Center for Africana Studies; and faculty co-director of the Office of Penn First Plus, University of Pennsylvania
• Amalia Z, Dache, Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
• James Earl Davis, Professor, College of Education and Human Development, Temple University
• Valerie Swain-Cade McCoullum, Vice Provost for Student Engagement, University of Pennsylvania
• Brian Peterson, Director of the Makuu Black Cultural Center, University of Pennsylvania

Asian America Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2021 presents Asian American Cinema and other Cultural Movements in conversation with Phil Chan, Director of Programming for IVY

Phil Chan is a co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface, and most recently served as the Director of Programming for IVY, connecting young professionals with leading American museums and performing arts institutions. He is a graduate of Carleton College and an alumnus of the Ailey School. As a writer, he served as the Executive Editor for FLATT Magazine and contributed to Dance Europe Magazine, Dance Magazine, Dance Business Weekly, and The Huffington Post. He was the founding General Manager of the Buck Hill Skytop Music Festival, and was the General Manager for Armitage Gone! Dance and Youth America Grand Prix. He served multiple years on the National Endowment for the Arts dance panel and the Jadin Wong Award panel presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance. He serves on the Leaders of Color steering committee at Americans for the Arts, the International Council for the Parsons Dance Company, and the Advisory Board of Dance Magazine. He is the author of Final Bow for Yellowface: Dancing between Intention and Impact, and a 2020 New York Public Library Dance Research Fellow.

In this lecture, Chan will provide a primer on the complex conversation around authenticity and appropriation through the lens of Asian American media advocacy. Topics will include the history of yellowface on stage and screen, negative stereotyping, Hollywood whitewashing, cultural appropriation, and media activism. We will also be joined by Phil Chan, co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface, an organization committed to eliminating outdated and offensive stereotypes of Asians on stage, whose particular focus is ballet companies.

Hosted by ASAM and ASAM 110-301 Asian American Activism