Histories and Worlds Unbound brings together scholars, public intellectuals, artists, and activists from across disciplines who engage with questions of race and empire globally as well as specifically in the context of U.S. and the Pacific. There will be three panels focused on the following themes: “Asian American Studies Then and Now,” “Scholarship Unbound,” and “Third World Studies.”
Date: November 8, 2024
Location: Humanities Quadrangle L-01
This symposium is inspired by the scholarship and legacy of Professor Gary Y. Okihiro, a preeminent historian of race, labor, and empire, who passed away on May 20, 2024. A pioneer in the fields of Asian American studies and Ethnic Studies, the intellectual impact from his decades of publications, teaching, and advocacy work across multiple institutions, fields, and disciplines are immense. At Yale, Professor Gary Y. Okihiro devoted his energies to the programs of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration as well as the Center for Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration and the Asian American Cultural Center. He brought together his intellectual curiosity with his political and social commitments to consistently challenge our work as scholars to chart new modes of interdisciplinary inquiry and build new solidarities and communities.
A reception at the Asian American Cultural Center will conclude the symposium. The symposium will also feature tributes from friends, colleagues, and former students to Professor Gary Y. Okihiro and his beloved partner and spouse, Marina Amparo Henriquez-Okihiro, who also sadly passed away this August.
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Tentative Schedule
9:30am | Registration/Sign In
10:00am | Welcome
10:15am | Interlude 1
10:30am - 12:00pm | Panel 1: Asian American Studies Then and Now
Panelists:
- Pawan Dhingra (Amherst College)
- Moon-Ho Jung (University of Washington)
- Sunnie Liu (Asian American Futures)
- Courtney Sato (Tufts University)
Moderator: Mary Lui
12:00 - 1:30pm | Lunch on one’s own
1:30 - 3:00pm | Panel 2: Scholarship Unbound
Panelists:
- Roderick Ferguson (Yale University)
- Minh Vu (Yale University)
- Erica Edwards (Yale University)
- Chandan Reddy (University of Washington)
Moderator: Lisa Lowe
3:00 - 3:15pm | Interlude 2
3:15 - 4:45pm | Panel 3: Third World Studies
Panelists:
- Natalie Diaz (Arizona State University)
- Janis Jin (Yale University)
- Kyle Kajihiro (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
- Manu Karuka (Barnard College)
Moderator: Daniel Hosang
5:00 - 6:30pm | Reception and Memorial at AACC and Gary Y. Okihiro Library
Sponsors
- Yale American Studies program
- Yale Asian American Cultural Center
- Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM)
- Yale Ethnicity, Race, and Migration studies program
- Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)