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-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As public interest in “Black art” has grown, there has been a concurrent increase in interest in thinking through mediums more critically. This proliferation has given rise to the questions: What is the category of “Black art?” How does blackness appear across media or geographies? How are conceptions of gender illuminated through visual production and...
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...
