As an interdisciplinary network of scholars and artists, the Bad Asians, working group invites critical engagement with questions of race, gender, sexuality, disability, colonialism, and labor through the lens of performance studies and visual and media studies. We examine how performances of Asian America and diaspora on stage and in everyday life are...
The Death of the Author (DotA) is an experimental reading and writing group that aims to foster a different relation with theoretical texts, both as its readers and as its writers. Our meetings encompass a long process of slow reading of...
Our interdisciplinary research group, composed of scholars across the social sciences and humanities, proposes an extended investigation into the ways filmmaking practices reflect, complicate, and expand on traditional...
As an interdisciplinary field of social science and an applied helping profession, social welfare and social work are often charged with supporting marginalized populations in times of acute crisis and chronic structural vulnerability. Social work scholars and practitioners intervene in countless sites of inquiry and practice ranging from mental health clinics, the child...
The Filipinx & Philippine Studies Working Group provides a regular meeting space for graduate students to discuss new and critical scholarship in Filipino/Filipino-American/Filipinx and Philippine studies. We bring these fields together through interdisciplinary collaborations among our working group members whose own backgrounds derive from various disciplinary topics. With existing on-campus resources, the working group...
This working group aims to create a conceptual forum in the Bay Area for those interested in topics and questions in the fields of Asian American and transpacific art. In drawing together the terms “Transpacific” and “Asian American,” we aim to interrogate, challenge, and build from the conceptual assemblage of spatial relations, imperialism, racialization, and diaspora connoted by these disciplinary idioms. Inspired by the recent Asian...
Relational Latinx and Asian American Studies is a multi-disciplinary graduate student-led working group that will explore the aesthetic, political, and social practices of Latinx and Asian American communities as mutually entangled, a matter of linked fates. In anticipation of incipient demographic realities in the state of California and on campus, which has committed to achieving Hispanic-Serving Institution (HIS) status by 2026, but also in the wake of COVID-...
Recent years brought a revival of social movements aimed at achieving racial and ethnic justice in both the United States and elsewhere around the world. Movements whose primary focus is not racial or ethnic justice, but focus on topics such as climate change, youth empowerment or gender and sexual equality also started to pay more attention to racial and ethnic inclusivity in both their agenda-setting and mobilization strategies. The...
