Asian American Studies 08/09 Events

Fall 2008 Visiting Speakers
Asian American Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies presents:
Camilla Fojas & Mary Beltrán
"Mixed Race Hollywood" panel discussion + book release party
Thursday, September 25, 2008 6-8 pm
DePaul University Library
2350 N. Kenmore Rosati Room #300

Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interracial romance and of individuals of mixed racial and ethnic heritage have served to highlight and challenge fault lines within Hollywood and the nation's racial categories and borders. Mixed Race Hollywood is a pioneering compilation of essays on mixed-race romance, individuals, families, and stars in U.S. film and media culture.

Situated at the cutting-edge juncture of ethnic studies and media studies, this collection addresses early mixed-race film characters, Blaxploitation, mixed race in children’s television programming, and the outing of mixed-race stars on the Internet, among other issues and contemporary trends in mixed-race representation. The contributors explore this history and current trends from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives in order to better understand the evolving conception of race and ethnicity in contemporary culture.

The Department of Art, Media and Design presents:
Amanda Ross-Ho visiting artist presentation
Thursday, November 13, 2008 6pm
DePaul Art Museum
2350 N. Kenmore

This event is co-sponsored by Asian American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies

Bio:
Amanda Ross-Ho received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 and her MFA from the University of Southern California in 2006. Her work has been seen in such recent exhibitions as the 2008 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); Nina in Position at Artists Space (New York); Depositions at Galerie Francesca Pia (Zurich); and Post-Rose at Galerie Christian Nagel (Berlin). Upcoming exhibitions include the 2008 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, CA); the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta); Mitchell-Innes and Nash (New York) and the Approach (London).

Winter 2009 Visiting Speaker
Asian American Studies and the DePaul Humanities Fellowship present:
June Chung
"American Orientalism and the Harlem Renaissance in Nella Larsen's Quicksand"
Details TBA

Spring 2009 Visiting Speakers
Asian American Studies and the Art Department of Art, Media and Design presents:
Margo Machida & Alexandra Chang
"Unearthing the Contemporary: Writings about Asian American Art" panel presentation + book release party
Thursday, May 21, 2009 6pm
DePaul Art Museum
2350 N. Kenmore

This event is co-sponsored by the History of Art & Architecture Department

Alexandra Chang is an arts writer, filmmaker and independent curator. She has curated exhibitions and written on contemporary art, graffiti, design and architecture. She has served as the managing editor for Art Asia Pacific magazine and features editor for amNew York. Her writing has appeared in Art Asia Pacific, ArtKrush, Asiance magazine, Art in Asia, amNew York, Hyphen, Time Magazine, Chicago Tribune, among other publications. She is also the Director of Public Programs & Research Manager at A/P/A Institute at NYU and holds a Master’s from the NYU John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s program in Humanities and Social Thought with a concentration in Asian American Art History. Her book Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Art Collectives is available in the U.S. in Fall 2008 (Timezone 8 Limited).

Dr. Margo Machida is Associate Professor of Art History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from SUNY Buffalo (2002). A scholar, independent curator, and cultural critic specializing in Asian American art and visual culture, her most recent book is the co-edited volume Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art (University of California Press, 2003). This volume received the 2005 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Among her current publications is “Reframing Asian America” in the exhibition catalogue, One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now (New York: Asia Society, 2006). Forthcoming and recent books and articles include: Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (Duke University Press, February 2009); “Icons of Presence: Asian American Artists and Social Consciousness,” curatorial essay for the exhibition catalogue Icons of Presence: Asian American Activist Art (Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, California, October 2008); “Into the Jungle: The Art of Ming Fay” in the exhibition catalogue Jungle Tango (Eight Modern Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 2008); “Object Lessons: Materiality and Dialogism in the Art of Flo Oy Wong” in the exhibition catalogue Seventy/Thirty—Seventy Years of Living, Thirty Years of Art (Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, San Francisco, May 2008); and “Diasporas in Motion: The Visual Arts and Communities of Affinity,” in Alexandra Chang, Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Art Collectives from Godzilla, Godzookie, to the Barnstormers (Timezone 8 Art Books, Beijing, China, 2008).
Dr. Machida is presently working on the manuscript for a new book, Visualizing the Local: Contemporary Asian American, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Artists of Hawai’i to be published by University of Hawai’i Press (2010/11). She is also a recipient of the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, to be presented at College Art Association’s annual convention in February 2009.