Events

Asia in Latin America: Across Four Continents
A conference exploring the histories, literatures, and ideologies
of Asians in the Americas

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Friday, October 19
Avaya Auditorium, ACE Building

9-10:15 am: Keynote
Keynote speaker: Jeff Lesser (Emory) “How Shizuo Osawa became ‘Mario the Jap’ and other Stories of Brazilian Ethnicity”

10:30 am-12:30 pm: Historical Overviews
Chair: Kim Alidio
Comment: Evelyn Hu-Dehart (Brown University)
Lane Hirabayashi (UCLA): “Imin, Nikkei, Uchinanchu, Dekasegi: Japan's Ongoing Ties to the Americas"
Aisha Khan (NYU): “Reassembling the Americas: South Asians and Paradigms for the Present”
Lok Siu (NYU): “Chinese Migration Systems”

1:30-3:15 pm: Four Continents, Five Oceans: Systems of Labor and Migration
Chair/Comment: Jonathan Brown  (UT Austin)
Kathleen Lopez (CUNY-Lehman) "Beyond Indenture: Strategies of Social Mobility among Chinese Workers in Late-Nineteenth-Century Cuba"
Ben Narvaez (UT Austin) “The Two Sides to Coolie Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Peru”
Sharmila Rudrappa (UT Austin): “Comparing Guest Worker Programs in the United States: Race, Labor, and Masculinity Among Indian and Mexican Immigrants”

3:30-5:15 pm: Border Contestations: Comparing Mexican and Asian Migration and Settlement
Chair: Nhi Lieu (UT Austin)
Comment: John McKiernan-González (UT Austin)
Su Yeong Kim (UT Austin): “Heritage Language Fluency, Ethnic Identity, and School Effort of Immigrant Chinese and Mexican Adolescents”
David Hernandez (UCLA) “Nexus of Injustice: Asian and Latino Immigrant Detention”
Anna Pegler-Gordon (MSU): "From Imaginary Line to Dividing Line: Chinese and Mexican
Immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1907-1929"
Nestor Rodriguez (University of Houston): "Comparative Experiences and the
Emerging Nexus of Asian and Mexican Immigration"

Saturday, Oct. 20
Connally Room, Etter-Harbin Alumni Center

9:00-10:45 am: Asian Mexicans
Chair: Sharmila Rudrappa (UT Austin)
Comment: Seth Garfield (UT Austin)
Julia Schiavone-Camacho (SMU): “Between Homelands: The Expulsion of Chinese Mexican Families from Mexico to China and Repatriation to Mexico, 1931-1962”
Grace Delgado (PSU) “Merging the Colonial with the National: Chino-fronterizos Inside/Outside the U.S. Mexico Borderlands”
Jerry Garcia (MSU) "I am 60% Japanese and 60% Mexican": Japanese Immigration, Identity, and Community Development in Mexico, 1897-1945"

11:00 am-12:45 pm: Inscribing a Latin American Orient
Chair: Julia Lee (UT Austin)
Comment: Virginia Raymond
Mauricio Tenorio (U. Chicago): “Mexican Orientalism, 1880-1940: An Interpretation”
Jose Limon (UT Austin): “Americo Paredes, South Texas and Globalization: The Japanese Question”
Cesar Salgado (UT Austin) "On Borges' Early Orientalism."
Zelideth Maria Rivas (UC Berkeley): “Kiyotani Masuji: Jun-Niseis Rubrics of Victimization”

Support for the Asia in Latin America Conference is Provided By:

The Center for Asian American Studies
The Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
College of Liberal Arts
Barron Ulmer Kidd Centennial Lectureship
Division of Diversity and Community Engagement
South Asia Institute
History Department

Conference is free of charge and open to all audiences.

For more information please contact The Center for Asian American Studies
(512) 232-6427 :: Email: aas@austin.utexas.edu