Events

Against the Grain Spring Speaker Series presents Sayeeda Rashid, Resource Director, Pennsylvania Immigration & Citizenship Coalition.

Sayeeda Rashid is PICC’s Resource Director. She is a social worker, coalition builder, and a proud queer South Asian woman. Her commitment to social and economic equity took root during her early years as a first-generation Bangladeshi immigrant from Saudi Arabia and navigating the intricate systems of inner-city neighborhoods of New York. Sayeeda comes with a decade of experience across social services, local government, and academia, where she has worked with the underlying mission to strategically address systemic issues and create equitable change. Prior to joining PICC, she worked at the City of Philadelphia Office of LGBT Affairs developing city-wide initiatives, programs, and policies affecting LGBTQ communities. Sayeeda earned a Master of Science in Nonprofit Leadership and a Master of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Mount Holyoke College.

Hosted by ASAM and ASAM 104-401 Asian American Community

Racism and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America: The Political System

Panelists:

Traci Burch, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University

Vincent Hutchings, Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; Hanes Walton, Jr. Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan

Michael Jones-Correa, President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration, University of Pennsylvania

Adolph Reed, Professor Emeritus, Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania

Nicholas Valentino, Professor of Political Science and Media Studies, University of Michigan

Asian American Studies Spring Speaker Series, "Against the Grain" presents:

"The Things We Carried: A People's Archive of Guyanese migration to the United States."

By Gaiutra Bahadur, essayist, journalist, and critic.

Hosted by ASAM 165: The Asian Caribbean.

Asian American Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2021 presents Work and Identity, Mental Health and Wellness in conversation with Sarorng Sorn, Director of Immigrant Affairs and Language Access Services at Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual DisAbility Services (BHIDS)

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

Galina Espinoza and Imani Gandy. Moderated by Sophie Maddocks.  Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court marks a constitutional crossroads in relation to sex discrimination and reproductive rights. While some states are poised to expand provisions, 2020 also saw more anti-choice women elected to congress than ever before. From a Catholic adoption agency in Philadelphia refusing to serve gay families to the Texas legislature ignoring its maternal mortality rates in favor of anti-choice legislation, sex discrimination and reproductive health issues have never been more politicized, under-covered, and vulnerable to misinformation and conspiracy theories. What can America’s increasingly polarized relationship to sex discrimination and reproductive rights tell us about the health of our nation’s democracy? At this contested time, what could a Biden-Harris administration accomplish?

This panel brings together Galina Espinoza and Imani Gandy to examine the future of reproductive justice under the next administration and explore what public discourse on sex discrimination and reproductive rights can tell us about the health of American democracy. Moderated by Sophie Maddocks and organized by the Center for Media at Risk, this event is free, virtual, and open to all.

Asian American Studies Spring Speaker Series, "Against the Grain" presents Camille Robcis, Associate Professor of History and French at Columbia University.

Camille Robcis is Associate Professor of French and History at Columbia University. She specializes in Modern European History with an emphasis on gender and sexuality, France, and intellectual, cultural, and legal history. She is the author of The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France (Cornell UP, 2013) and Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (Chicago UP, 2021). She is currently working on a project titled The Gender Question: Populism, National Reproduction, and the Crisis of Representation. She has received fellowships from the Penn Humanities Forum, LAPA (Princeton Law and Public Affairs), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

In this lecturer, professor Robcis will be discussing Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France.

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

Panelists:

John Jackson, Jr., Walter H. Annenberg Dean and Richard Perry University Professor

Sarah Jackson, Presidential Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication

Matthew Miller, Provost Post-Doctoral Fellow, City and Regional Planning

Amy Hawn Nelson, Director of Training and Technical Assistance, Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy

A preceptorial series consisting of a unique series of 13 interdisciplinary conversations among leading scholars and practitioners drawn from a wide range of fields. Each conversation will focus on the ways in which institutional racism is deeply embedded in different parts of our economic, political, social, and cultural systems.

The virtual panel conversations are open to the Penn community and the general public. Members of the Penn community may visit the Preceptorial Canvas site using your PennKey for additional resources.

"A conversation on healthcare access, quality, and disparities in Asian American communities"

ASAM Fellows Spring 2021 Symposium: "The Foreign Body" 

The ASAM Program is hosting a spring colloquium with the undergraduate recipients of this year’s ASAM Fellowship: Claire Nguyen, Julci Areza, Tiffany Tieu, Erin Jin Mei O’Malley, Jaywon Kim, and Neelu Paleti. Each Fellow conducted and presented independent research projects that related to Asian American Studies, with a recurring theme of “The Foreign Body.” The Fellows will engage with scholars, professionals, and activists from around the country to examine how the state and greater geopolitical forces have politicized and controlled the foreign body: the Asian American body. These conversations will investigate how Asian American bodies are featured in mental and maternal health, science fiction, decarceration and deportation, and political engagement. Together, their works question the meaning of foreign bodies as they exist in the US and what this signifies for Asian Americans. 

Spring Colloquium Events:

March 19th at 1pm: "Representing Asian Americans in Philadelphia: Education and the Census" Moderated by Julci Areza and Jaywon Kim

March 26th at 1pm: "The Alien Asian / Asian Alien" Moderated by Claire Nguyen and Erin Jin Mei O’Malley

April 2nd at 1pm: "Healthcare Access, Quality, and Disparities in Asian American Communities" Moderated by Neelu Paleti and Tiffany Tieu