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November 21, 2008
CAAS Speaker Series
“I want to see a real nurse!”: Indian Immigrant Nurses in U.S. Urban Safety-net Hospitals and Implications for Health DisparitiesDr. Sheba George
Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science
“I want to see a real nurse!”: Indian Immigrant Nurses in U.S. Urban Safety-net Hospitals and Implications for Health Disparities
Since the U.S. liberalization of immigration policy in 1965, Indian nurses, among other foreign nurses, have been recruited to meet the nursing shortage. Immigrant healthcare providers, such as doctors and nurses, have become a critical source of labor for urban, safety net hospitals with largely underserved, racial and ethnic minority patients, who experience high levels of health disparities. While the presence of such workers in urban safety net health facilities could have significant effects on the quality of care and health disparities, there is very little research conducted on the work experiences of these immigrant health care providers in urban settings. Building on her book “When Women Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration” (U.C. Press, 2005), Dr. George posits that Indian immigrant nurses face a number of challenges to their integration as professional nurses equal to their U.S. trained peers in their U.S. urban work settings. The challenges include 1) racialization at work; 2) distrust of them as foreigners; 3) gendered and racialized expectations of emotional labor; and 4) the impact of pre- migration Indian work experiences and training, shaped by unique ethnic and professional cultures. A racialized division of labor in U.S. society and a nursing- based professional hierarchy come together with the particular professional skills/values brought by immigrant nurses to shape the post-immigration experiences, preferences and opportunities for these nurses with some potential implications for the quality of care they are perceived as giving.
Dr. George has several research interests, which fall under the umbrella of her broader research concern about the intersection of race, class and gender inequities and health disparities. Building on her dissertation work, she is interested in qualitatively studying the medical encounters between clinicians who are international medical graduates and make up 25% of the U.S. medical workforce and their underserved, multiethnic and often immigrant, urban patient populations. She is also interested in the intersections of technology and health – particularly in terms of how minority, urban patients and providers experience new technologies such as telemedicine. Finally, Dr.George is interested in the experiences of and prevention efforts surrounding HIV/AIDS, both domestically and internationally.
November 13, 2008
- Event Cancelled: Film Screening -
We apologize for the inconvenience. Rescheduled date will be posted at a later date.Film Screening Series
SAHELI and CAAS
The Day I Became A Woman (2000), Directed by Marzieh Makhmalbaf - 78 Minutes
Speaker: Yasmin Diallo Turk, Texas Council on Family Violence
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.
November 6, 2008
APA Lunch Discussion
Consciousness-Raising and ActivismDr. Shalini Batra
Counseling and Mental Health Center
Dr. Batra will lead a discussion addresses racism/discrimination, apathy, defining and connecting w/a pan-Asian culture.
Lunch Provided!
Kindly RSVP. Limited seats.
RSVP at kydawson@mail.utexas.edu, 512-232-9468
October 24, 2008
CAAS Speaker Series
"Enforcing Dependency: Immigrant Mothers and Health Care Access."Dr. Lisa Sun-Hee Park
University of Minnesota
"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.
October 23, 2008
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 AssaultFilm Screening Series
SAHELI and CAAS
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.
October 13, 2008
The Myth of the Model Minority
Book Reading and SigningRosalind Chou
Doctoral Student in Sociology at Texas AandM University
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
October 9, 2008
Austin Asian American Film Festival
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!
October 2, 2008
APA Lunch Discussion
Forming Healthy Relationships in the APA CommunityDr. Shalini Batra
Counseling and Mental Health Center
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
September 26, 2008
CAAS Speaker Series
"Experiencing Racism, Experiencing Illness"Dr. Gilbert Gee
UCLA School of Public Health
"Experiencing Racism, Experiencing Illness: How Racial Bias Is Related to the Health of Asian Americans"
This talk will review some of the ways where Asian Americans encounter racial bias and discuss how these experiences may be related to morbidity. These ideas will be evaluated with empirical findings from the National Latino and Asian American study, a large epidemiological survey of Asian Americans across the United States.
Dr. Gee's research examines how racism and other forms of structural disadvantage contributes to health and health disparities. In addition, his work examines stress, neighborhoods, and environmental justice using a multi-level and life course perspective.
September 25, 2008
Cinema Truth: The Children We Sacrifice (2000)
Featuring Poet, Mamata MisraFilm Screening Series
SAHELI and CAAS
The Children We Sacrifice (2000), Directed by Grace Poore
THE CHILDREN WE SACRIFICE discloses the many layers of a subject traditionally shrouded in secrecy. Insights into the far-reaching psychological, social and cultural consequences of incest are accompanied by thoughtful assessments of strategies that have helped adult women cope with childhood trauma. The video also analyzes social and cultural resistance in South Asia and the Diaspora to dealing with incest's causes and its effects on its victims. This personal and collective letter from South Asian incest survivors and their advocates is both a validation of their struggle and a compelling charge to protect future generations of children better.
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.
September 18, 2008
AAAFSA Welcome Reception
Asian/Asian American Faculty and Staff AssociationWelcome event for new and continuing faculty and staff to the University of Texas at Austin. Program begins at 12:30pm.
RSVP appreciated by September 12, 2008 to: ebeh@mail.utexas.edu
September 15, 2008
CAAS Fall Open House
Featuring Dr. Judy Yung and Eddie FungJoin us in welcoming the new academic year with faculty, students, and staff while viewing a slide show and talk by Eddie Fung, with his editor and wife, Dr. Judy Yung. This event will feature Eddie Fung's life from a Chinatown childhood through World War II POW in Burma, and after.
Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai".
Dr. Judy Yung is Professor Emerita in American Studies at UC, Santa Cruz. Some of her books include, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 (1980), Images of America: San Francisco’s Chinatown (2006), and the award-winning Unbound Feet (1995).
Reception, 3:30-4:30
Talk and Book Signing, 4:30 - 5:30
Books: $15.00, The Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War
Kindly RSVP: kydawson@mail.utexas.edu, 512-232- 9468
This event is free and open to the public.
September 11, 2008
APA Lunch Discussion
How Do You Define Yourself?Dr. Shalini Batra
Counseling and Mental Health Center
Dr. Batra will lead a discussion addresses APA/bicultural identity development, cultural values and conflicts w/parents, and sexuality/LGBT issues.
Pizza will be provided!
Kindly RSVP. Limited seats available.
RSVP at kydawson@mail.utexas.edu or 512-475-6948
August 27, 2008
Classes Begin
May 15, 2008
CAAS Graduation Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Dinner celebration for AAS Graduates and CAAS Scholarship Award recipients. Family of AAS Graduates are welcome.
(By Invite Only)
May 1, 2008
APA Heritage Month
May is Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month—a celebration of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
Educate yourself on the origins of this month and the APA population.
April 30, 2008
Revisiting the Color Line (Re-scheduled)
Moon-Ho Jung
University of Washington - Department of History
"Revisiting the Color Line: Toward a Broader Vision of Race and Region in (Asian) American History"
Moon-Ho Jung is Associate Professor of History and Adjunct Associate Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), which won the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians and the History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. He is at work on a second book project, currently titled The Radical Pacific: Asian American Political Struggles in the Age of Empire.
April 24, 2008
"Never Perfect"
Director/Filmmaker: Regina ParkFilm Screening and Discussion
NEVER PERFECT explores the complex journey of a young Vietnamese-American woman’s struggle with popular perceptions of beauty and body image as she fights the stigma of racial self-hatred in her decision to undergo cosmetic surgery. (64 minutes, including credits)
Regina Park, director and filmmaker, will lead a Question and Answer discussion following the screening of the film.
This event is begins at 7:00pm and is free and open to the public.
For more information about "Never Perfect" please visit: http:// www.neverperfectthemovie.com/
April 24, 2008
"Fair and Lovely"
Asian American Women and Ideals of BeautyDr. Shalini Batra
UT Counseling and Mental Health Center
Dr. Batra will lead a discussion regarding topics of Asian/Asian American beauty images. Pizza will be provided!
RSVP mandatory. Limited seats available. RSVP at kydawson@mail.utexas.edu or 512-475-6948
April 7, 2008
Academic Advising
Summer and Fall 2008Wondering what to take next semester? Do you know whether you have satisfied Area D requirements yet? Wanting to take Departmental Honors?
Academic advising for Summer and Fall 2008 semester is scheduled for April 7-14 in GRG 220. Advising hours are M-F 8:30-4pm. Appointments Preferred. Email Kenyatta Y. Dawson to schedule: kydawson@mail.utexas.edu
*Note: Regular registration advising dates of 9-18th changed due to advisor attending AAAS conference in Chicago, IL. *
April 3, 2008
Asian Americans in Texas
Panel DiscussionHow is the presence of Asian Americans in Texas measured? Come hear insightful viewpoints of those who are a part of our Asian American community.
Panelists: Dr. Art Sakamoto, Esther Chung, Irwin Tang, Dr. Mamta Accapadi and Nancy Bui.
Moderator:Dr. Julia Lee
February 25, 2008
Rescuing Theory from the Nation and Other Identity Concepts
Dr. Viranjini MunasingheAssociate Professor - Cornell University
Dr. Munasinghe will lead a talk about "Rescuing Theory from the Nation and Other Identity Concepts".
Dr. Munasinghe will analyze the peculiar relationships of identity concepts, such as nation, ethnicity and creolization, to theory. She argues for a space for analysis by using the case of creolization and East Indians in Trinidad.
Dr. Munasinghe's research attempts to theorize between the specifics of her New World empirical field location and the epistemologies and methodologies governing the discipline of anthropology itself especially in relation to its master trope, culture and to its conventions of evidence. Within this inquiry, the interface between history and anthropology conceived both as epistemology and methodology intrigues her. Dr. Munasinghe's current field research project is on the symbolics of the "dougla" (those of mixed African and Indian ancestry in Trinidad) in the national imaginary in Trinidad.
February 18, 2008
How the Refugees Stopped the Bronx from Burning
Dr. Eric TangVisiting Assistant Professor - Harvard University
Dr. Tang will lead a talk about "How the Refugees Stopped the Bronx from Burning".
During the winter of 1984, the first large wave of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugee families resettled to the Bronx, New York. Having just survived the wars of Southeast Asia, they were now placed in some of New York City’s most dilapidated and environmentally hazardous housing units. According to local residents, were it not for the sudden and oblique arrival of the refugees, these buildings would have been consumed by the infamous landlord arsons that tore through the Bronx during the 1970s and 80s. Today, the Bronx is considered a model of urban resurrection. Yet few have considered the refugee community’s role in ending one of the most devastating chapters in contemporary urban history.
This presentation draws from the author’s nine years as a community organizer and participant-observer in the refugee neighborhoods of the Northwest Bronx. How did a range of political and economic forces—combined with the survival and community-building efforts of refugees—stop the Bronx from burning?
Dr. Eric Tang earned his doctorate from the American Studies Program at New York Universityin 2006. From 1995-2004 he was Associate Director at Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV) and served as a community organizer in the refugee neighborhoods of the North Bronx. The author of numerous essays and articles on Southeast Asian refugee politics, urban community activism, and social movement theory, Tang received an award from New America Media for his coverage of the Vietnamese American community in post-Katrina New Orleans. Most recently, he contributed to the award-winning book The Revolution will Not Be Funded.
February 15, 2008
Laboring in the Global: In Pursuit of Happiness
Dr. Kee H. YongAdjunct Assistant Professor - New York University and The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Dr. Yong will lead a talk about "Laboring in the Global: In Pursuit of Happiness".
Dr. Yong's talk concerned a figuration of modern conscripts whom he calls Malay Archipelago subjects - who face of discrimination back home – and how they navigate and transcend such dispossession in their new environment in New York City’s Chinatown, or the ways in which they thought they did. Engaging their narratives in messy and contradictory fashion, Dr. Yong hopes to disrupt some of our received notions of nation-state and globalization processes, not simply for the poetic spaces they may open up on the humanities and social sciences, but to activate other less conformist ways of thinking about the world.
Dr. Kee Yong has researched on communism and the displacement of Chinese Hakkas in post-Cold War Sarawak, Malaysia and has written on various aspects of the silencing of this history. Like his research in Sarawak, his current project is concerned with the ways in which regimes of fear affect how the powerless relate to one another and to those in authority. His current focus concerns violent conflicts in the Malay Muslim provinces bordering southern Thailand. Kee Yong is also researching how illegal immigrants from the Malay Archipelago navigate New York City’s Chinatown.
February 12, 2008
Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Featuring: Kristina Wong, Writer and PerformerIncisive writer and performer Kristina Wong mixes sharp humor and psychology in Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a swear-to-god-not-autobiographical, serio- comic portrayal of the high incidence of anxiety, depression and mental illness among Asian American women. Tangling, spinning, and mixing yarns, she asks: Which came first? The sky-high suicides of Asian American women? The maddening world?
Discussion on issues relating to Asian American Mental Health will follow performance.
Panelists include:
Dr. Vagdevi Meunier - "South Asian American Experiences with Depression and Suicide"
Esther Chung - “Traditional vs. Modern: The Struggle for Young Korean Americans”
Catherina Conte - “Culture and Treatment: Challenges of Providing Mental Health Treatment to Asians”
This event is begins at 6:30pm in the Avaya Auditorium (ACE 2.302) and is free and open to the public.
Februray 14-16: "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" will be in Austin as part of the Rude Mechanicals, an ensemble-based theatre company, "Throws like a Girl" festival.
To view more information about Kristina Wong visit: www.kristinawong.com
January 29, 2008
Anna May Wong: Frosted Yellow Willows
Featuring: Elaine Mae Woo, Director and FilmmakerUT-Austin Premiere Screening
The Center for Asian American Studies (CAAS) hosts director Elaine Mae Woo and her film "Anna May Wong: Frosted Yellow Willows". Discussion will follow screening of the film.
For more information about the film and filmmakers please visit: www.anna-may-wong.com.
This event is begins at 7:15pm in the Avaya Auditorium (ACE 2.302) and is free and open to the public.
January 28, 2008
Hemispheric Asian America
Dr. Lok SiuAssociate Professor of Anthropology - New York University
Hemispheric Asian America: Rethinking Migration, Sociality, and Racialization.
A talk by Dr. Lok Siu, Associate Professor of Anthropology-New York University. Dr. Lok Siu’s research interests include: Migration, diaspora, transnationalism, cultural citizenship, race and gender, Chinese diaspora, Central America and Panama. Recent publications include Asian Diasporas: Self Formations, Self Conceptions, and Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama.
January 14, 2008
Classes Begin
Spring 2008
December 10, 2007
Stress Buster
Stressed out about finals? Need a break? Come by the Center for Asian American Studies and enjoy the company of friends and free pizza!
November 27, 2007
No Turning Back (2003)
Immigration and Migration Film SeriesThe new immigration laws of 1965 were a turning point for the Chinese in America and allowed a new wave of immigrants to enter the country. Chinese American life has flourished in the years since. Narrated by Bill Moyers, this program presents intimate portraits of the new Chinese Americans who face a struggle common to so many immigrants: to reconcile some losses of their old culture in order to embrace their adopted American one.
Screening begins at 6:30pm in Welch (WEL) 1.316. This event is free and open to the public.
Film is available to view in CAAS's library, DVD format.
November 6, 2007
My American Kundiman
Poetry Reading and Book SigningPatrick Rosal, Visiting Poet
The Center for Asian American Studies (CAAS) hosts visiting poet and professor, Patrick Rosal. He will be reading passages from his book "My American Kundiman". Book signing will follow reading.
This event is begins at 6:30pm in Burdine Hall (BUR) 116 and is free and open to the public.
A copy of "My American Kundiman" is available to view at CAAS's library.
October 25, 2007
Academic Advising
Spring 2008Wondering what to take next semester? Do you know whether you have satisfied Area D requirements yet? Wanting to take Departmental Honors?
Academic advising for Spring 2008 semester is scheduled for October 25 through October 31 in GRG 220. Advising hours are M-F 8:30-4pm. Walk-Ins welcome, Appointments Preferred. Email Kenyatta Y. Dawson to schedule: kydawson@mail.utexas.edu
October 19, 2007
Asia in Latin America
ConferenceKeynote Speaker: Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University
How Shizuo Osawa became ''Mario the Jap'' and other Stories of Brazilian Ethnicity
A conference exploring the histories, literatures, and ideologies of Asians in the Americas.
Topics discussed will pretain to the following: Historical Overview, Comparative Mexican and Asian Immigrant and Settlement, Asians in Mexico, Labor Systems, and Cultural Exchanges.
October 19th, 9:00 am - 5:15 pm: Avaya Auditorium, ACE 2.302
9:00-10:15 Jeffrey Lesser, Keynote Speaker
10:30-12:15 Panel “Asia’s America: Historical Overviews”
1:30-3:15 Panel “Four Continents, Five Oceans: Systems of Labor and Migration”
3:30-5:15 Panel “Border Contestations: Comparing Mexican and Asian Migration and Settlement”
October 20th, 9:00 am - 12:45 pm: Connally Room, Etter-Harbin Alumni Center
9-10:45 Panel “Asian Mexicans”
11:00-12:45 Panel “Inscribing a Latin American Orient”
This conference is free of charge and open to all audiences.
October 16, 2007
Displaced in the New South (1995)
Immigration and Migration Film SeriesDirected by: David Zeiger
In 1980, there were a few thousand Asian and Latino immigrants in Georgia. By 1994, there were more than 300,000. This documentary explores the cultural collision between Asian and Hispanic immigrants and the suburban communities near Atlanta, Georgia, in which they have settled. The film provides a sensitive and insightful case study of a nationwide trend that is bringing explosive political upheaval all across America: waves of people, mostly from Asia and Latin America, coming to cities, small towns, and suburban communities that have never before experienced immigration on such a scale.
Screening begins at 6:30pm in Welch (WEL) 1.316. This event is free and open to the public.
Film is available to view in CAAS's library, DVD format.
September 25, 2007
El Paso Vietnam (2003) Featuring FilmMaker Ina Adele Ray
Immigration and Migration Film SeriesDirected by: Ina Adele Ray
In Texas during the Vietnam War, a smart, sassy, Vietnamese language teacher meets her future husband before he leaves for her hometown, Saigon, as told by her daughter through interviews, old photos, and archival footage.
Copies of this film are available to view in CAAS's library in both VHS and DVD format.
September 17, 2007
CAAS Fall Open House
Musical Performance by Cynthia LinJoin us in welcoming the new academic year with faculty, students, and staff while hearing a musical performance from Cynthia Lin!
RSVP: kydawson@mail.utexas.edu
September 13, 2007
AAAFSA Welcome Event
Welcome event for new and continuing faculty and staff to the University.
RSVP appreciated by September 5, 2007 to: aaafsa@uts.cc.utexas.edu
December 9, 2005
Last Class Day
October 31, 2005
Preregistration for Fall 2005 Begins
Through November 2
October 27, 2005
Spring 2006 Academic Advising Begins
October 26, 2005
Deadline
Last day to change grading status
September 16, 2005
12th Class Day
August 31, 2005
Fall 2005
Classes Begin
