Monday, November 12, 2012
4:15-5:30 p.m.
IDAAS Seminar Room, Lincoln 1121, Pomona College
We are offering new courses in spring 2013: ASAM 75 Asian American and Queer Zines, ASAM 128 Tattoos, Piercing and Body Adornment, and ASAM 189HIST Globalization and Oceania: Hawai’i and Tonga. Come by and learn about these and other IDAAS courses. Enjoy some snacks and chat with the professors.
Linda Lam joins IDAAS as the new Community Engagement Coordinator. As the clinic coordinator at the John Marshall High School Health Center, Linda has experience with small grant writing, administering grants, and coordinating youth activity programs. She has experience creating and implementing popular education workshops on media literacy with Communities for Better Environment and Public Allies Los Angeles fellow. In addition to participating in the Los Angeles Summer Activist Training, Linda graduated magna cum laude from UCLA with degrees in Asian American Studies and Psychology.
Stop by IDAAS to say Hi. Her office is located at Lincoln 1119, Pomona. Her office hours are Mondays & Wednesdays, 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Fridays, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Siwaraya Rochanahusdin (PZ) – Visual: Thai Temple Mobilization
Monday, October 8, 2012
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Founders Room, McConnell Center, Pitzer
Kristina Wong’s GOING GREEN THE WONG WAY is a humorous theatrical show about the culture and challenges of pursuing green living in Los Angeles. Kristina Wong is a multidisciplinary performance artist who integrates race, gender, and class into her work. Through her incisive use of humor, Wong recounts in GOING GREEN THE WONG WAY the adventures of her life-long attempt at sustainable living and the challenges & triumphs of being eco-friendly.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Benson Auditorium, Pitzer
Event is free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by (partial list): Pomona College Dean of Students Office, Asian American Resource Center
Please join us in the 6th annual Africana Studies, Asian American Studies and Chican@-Latin@ Studies Joint Open House.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
4:15-5:30 p.m.
Intercollegiate Lounge, Lincoln Building, Pomona
Professor Todd Honma (PZ) is our new tenure-track faculty in Asian American Studies. This year, he will be teaching courses such as first-year seminar, Filipina/o American Experiences, Asian American and Queer Zines, and Tattoos, Piercing and Body Adornment.
Congratulations to our graduating seniors:
Professor Karin Mak received a number of grants for the completion of her film project, “Red Dust” (Roy W. Dean Film Grant – Los Angeles; Emerging Crisis Oral History Research Fund; Labor and Employment Research Fund (LERF); Pacific Rim Mini-Grant).
Congratulations to Professor Joseph Jeon (English at Pomona) for his promotion to associate professor with tenure. Read the press release.
Congratulations to Professor Ming-Yuen Ma (Media Studies at Pitzer) for his promotion to full professor. Read the press release.