Center for Asian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Events

October 2008

Title/Speaker	Date/Time/Location	More Information	Sponsor
APA Lunch Discussion Forming Healthy Relationships in the APA Community Dr. Shalini Batra Counseling and Mental Health Center	October 2, 2008 12:00 PM-1:30 PM Center for Asian American Studies, GRG 220	Dr. Batra will lead a discussion regarding topics of Forming Healthy Relationships in the APA Community in connection w/Domestic Violence Awareness Week. Lunch Provided! Kindly RSVP. Limited seats available. RSVP at kydawson@mail.utexas.edu or 512-232-9468	The Center for Asian American Studies, Counseling and Mental Health Center
Austin Asian American Film Festival	October 9-12, 2008	The Austin Asian American Film Festival will be held at the Alamo Drafthouse. The opening night film will be screened at the downtown location and the remainder of the festival will take place at the Alamo Village. A special Asian menu will be offered during the screenings! Please visit their website to view the upcoming program! Austin Asian American Film Festival	Austin Asian American Film Festival, The Center for Asian American Studies
The Myth of the Model Minority Book Reading and Signing Rosalind Chou Doctoral Student in Sociology at Texas AandM University	October 13, 2008 5:30 PM-6:30 PM Follett's Intellectual Properties	The Center for Asian American Studies (CAAS) hosts co-author, Rosalind Chou. She will be reading passages from her book "The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism" which challenges the idea that most Asian Americans are relatively untouched by racism or focused on issues related to equity. Based on field interviews nationwide, the book describes the Asian American experience in schools, colleges, the workplace and public discourse. In the section on college, examples include students who have been the victim of ethnic profiling (as Muslims) and the barrage of allegedly harmless jokes (such as UCLA as the acronym for “University of Caucasians Lost among Asians") that students experience. Book signing will follow reading. This event is free and open to the public. Kindly RSVP: kydawson@mail.utexas.edu, 512-232-9468 Intellectual Property 2402 Guadalupe Street Austin, TX 78705 www.intellectualpropertyaustin.com	The Center for Asian American Studies, Follett's Intellectual Property
Cinema Truth: And Thereafter: A Korean ''War Bride'' in an Alien Land (2004) Dr. Noël Bridget Busch-Armendariz, Associate Professor and Director School of Social Work and Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Film Screening Series SAHELI and CAAS	October 23, 2008 6:00 PM-8:00 PM Calhoun Hall (CAL), 100	And Thereafter: A Korean "War Bride" in an Alien Land (2004), Directed by Hosup Lee. This multi-festival film is a portrayal of the fortitude of an immigrant "war bride" in America. Seventy-six-year-old Young-Ja Wike is one of the 10,000 Korean women who married American G.I.s. after the war. For them marriage was the only escape from the crushing poverty of post-war Korea. "Grandma" lives in South Jersey with her uncaring, rather brutish husband in a kind of domestic servitude. She has brought up three unappreciative children, working doggedly to feed the family and run the household. On her own she cultivates a colorful garden of chili peppers which she dries and sells. Never having learned English, she is isolated from the community, and from her family as well. "Grandma" opens her heart to the Korean filmmaker, revealing the pathos of forty years in exile. Our goal with this film series is to educate people about Asian/Asian American issues of domestic violence/survivors, show Asian/Asian American females in positive roles, gender issues/cultural issues regarding gender roles (i.e. emphasis on culture, religion, etc), sexual assault, and other forms of violence against women. This event is free and open to the public. SAHELI	The Center for Asian American Studies, SAHELI
CAAS Speaker Series ''Enforcing Dependency: Immigrant Mothers and Health Care Access.'' Dr. Lisa Park University of Minnesota	October 24, 2008 12:00 PM-1:30 PM ACES 2.302, Avaya Auditorium	"Enforcing Dependency: Immigrant Mothers and Health Care Access." This presentation investigates how recent changes in immigration and welfare policies have affected prenatal care access for low-income immigrant women in California. The politics of health care access serves as an important venue from which to understand the shifting boundaries of belonging, sense of entitlement, and the role of immigrants in U.S. society. More specifically, Dr. Park argues that dependency of immigrant women to the state is enforced through these policies, at the same time that they are admonished as public burdens. Dr. Park's research interests includes welfare and immigration policy for children of immigrants, immigrant work, labor, environmental inequality, and immigrant women's health feminist theory.	The Center for Asian American Studies