Speaking at UM Law School on panel with Peter Liang's defense attorneys Friday

I've been invited to speak at the University of Michigan Law School this Friday, April 15, 12:00-1:00 pm, Hutchins Hall 220, on a panel with Peter Liang's defense attorneys.

Officer Peter Liang and the Asian-American Community: Scapegoating, Justice, or Something Else?
Officer Peter Liang was the first NYPD officer convicted in over a decade for a line-of-duty shooting against the tense political and social backdrop of a post-Ferguson world. Officer Liang’s defense attorneys, Rae Koshetz and Robert Brown, and local journalist and activist Frances Kai-Hwa Wang will discuss Liang’s legal case and the posture of Asian-Americans and other minority groups within a highly racialized criminal justice system.

Disparities Facing Asian-Americans in the Healthcare System: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang APAMSA Keynote - YouTube

My keynote speech at Asian Pacific American Medical Students Association (APAMSA) at University of Michigan Medical School, January 23, 2016

Becoming Badass APIA: Taking on Disparities Facing Asian-Americans in the Healthcare System: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang - YouTube

Remembering Yuri Kochiyama

Remembering Yuri Kochiyama. 

From the University of Michigan Yuri Kochiyama Leadership Program - YK Leaders, an A/PIA high school student mentorship program.

Check out http://smithsonianapa.org/yuri and email your #yurikochiyama artwork to curator Adriel Luis.

Also check out the because of yuri tumblr put together by the great folks at 18 Million Rising.

Loving the Adjunct Life

Finals all graded now. Goodbye adjunct life (for now). Goodbye empty office (with three windows, sortof) That was the best fun I have had in a long time.  I so want to go to grad school now...

Reading with poet Yang Lian

Reading the work of international poet Yang Lian at the University of Michigan Museum of Art




From International Institute | University of Michigan:

The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting: Tiananmen 25 Years On

Apr
14
2014

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• Speaker: Yang Lian
• Host Department: Center for Chinese Studies
• Date: 04/14/2014
• Time: 6:00PM
  
• Location: Stern Auditorium
  University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
  525 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
  
• Description:

  6:00pm:  Reception ~ UMMA Commons Area
  7:00pm:  Poetry Reading ~ UMMA Stern Auditorium

   
  Yang Lian will be introduced by Kelly Askew, Director of the African Studies Center, and moderated by Professor San Duanmu, U-M Dept. of Linguistics.
  Yang Lian was born in Bern (Switzerland) in 1955, where his parents were in the diplomatic service, and grew up in Beijing. Like millions of other young people, he was sent to the countryside for re-education during the final years of the Cultural Revolution. After the death of his mother in 1976, Yang began to write poetry. Back in Beijing, as one of the leading experimental poets, he was associated with the underground literary periodical Jintian (Today).
  Yang Lian is best known as a poet, but he also writes prose, literary criticism and art criticism. His work, which comprises half a score of poetry collections and two volumes of prose, has been translated into over twenty languages. It includes: Dead in Exile (1989), Masks & Crocodile (1990), Non-person Singular (1995), Yi (2002), Notes of a Blissful Ghost (2002) and Concentric Circles (2006). He is regarded as one of the most representative voices of present-day Chinese literature.
  A recent passion and project of Yang Lian is to encourage the production and translation of poetry written in dialects of Chinese: Sichuan dialect, Shanghainese and Beijing dialect. There is currently no vehicle for writing poetry in these languages since Chinese orthography supports Mandarin only. Yang has been closely involved with a collective of Slovenian poets who, despite the small population of their country, support poetic production in nine Slovene dialects. He is currently working with Kelly Askew (U-M) and a formerly exiled Kenyan poet, Abdilatif Abdalla, on translating poetry composed in various dialects of Swahili into English and from English into dialect forms of Chinese. The idea is ultimately to produce a volume on ‘dialect poetry’, written in the shadows of dominant, politically powerful, languages (Mandarin and Standardized Swahili being but two examples).

  Organized by the African Studies Center and co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies, the International Institute, and the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan.

International Institute | University of Michigan

"The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting: Tiananmen 25 Years On," Monday, April 14

I was just invited to read poetry in translation of/for Chinese poet Yang Lian, "The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting: Tiananmen 25 Years On," Monday, April 14, 6:00 pm, at University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), with University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies University of Michigan International Institute Confucius Institute and African Studies. Part of a three-day exploration of the events of Tiananmen Square.

http://www.ii.umich.edu/ccs/eventsprograms/specialpresentations/ci.thestruggleofmemoryagainstforgettingtiananmen25yearsonmon14apr2014_ci.detail

GenAPA 2014

Gen APA is always a great show. This Sunday at 6 at University of Michigan Michigan League Mendelssohn Theatre. Check out Lauren Peng's video for a preview: Video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkFev8QxGmw

University of Michigan Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month

Click on link see events: University of Michigan Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month



Update: Today: Ninth annual University of Michigan Law School Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) Origins Banquet, Michigan League Vandenberg Room. Dinner, music, and the announcement of the recipients of the 2014 APALSA Public Interest Fellowships. Keynote speaker, Helen Wan, attorney and author of The Partner Track.

2014 APIA High School Conference

The APIA High School Conference is almost here! March 22 at University of Michigan. (Sorry, same day as Solo Ensembles)

More info at: umichhsc2014 | schedule

Playing Jon Jang's 1984 "Are you Chinese or Charlie Chan"

Playing Jon Jang's 1984 "Are you Chinese or Charlie Chan" for students today.

Are you Chinese or Charlie Chan? Charlie was a white man.
With his two buckteeth and his eyes pulled back,
Vincent Chin lies dead from his racist attack.
Are you Chinese or Charlie Chan? Charlie was a white man.

More at: The Sound of Struggle: Black Revolutionary Nationalism and Asian American Jazz | Loren Kajikawa - Academia.edu

Have you heard of the Vincent Chin case? Michigan edition

Today we asked our class how many were from Michigan. Over 60%. How many had heard of the Vincent Chin case? Zero. wow.

Remembering Vincent Chin

Speaking at 11th Annual Images and Perceptions Diversity Conference, Dearborn, April 10

I will be speaking on Asian Pacific American Media Stereotypes and Representation at the 11th Annual Images and Perceptions Diversity Conference at Byblos in Dearborn, MI on April 10. Keynote Speaker: Edward James Olmos. Dynamic, engaging and effective: Go to www.3dconsults.com to Register today! Earn 6 CEU's and SCECH's

More at: https://www.facebook.com/ImagesandPerceptions

Paisley Rekdal Poetry Reading Thursday, February 20, 5:10 pm, UMMA

Paisley Rekdal
Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 20, 5:10 pm
UMMA Helmut Stern Auditorium

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the 

hybrid genre, photo-text memoir Intimate; and four books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos, Six 

Girls Without Pants, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, and Animal Eye.  Her work has received 

the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, 

an NEA Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, the University of Georgia Press’ Contemporary 

Poetry Series Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, inclusion in the Best American Poetry series (2102 

and 2013) and various state arts council awards.  Her most recent book of poems, Animal 

Eye, was a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize, the Balcones Poetry Prize, and was 

the winner of the 2013 UNT Rilke Prize. Her poems and essays have appeared in or are 

forthcoming from The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, 

Poetry, The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House, and on National Public Radio 

among many others.

Check this out: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/245908

Michigan in Color: I love so we can heal - The Michigan Daily

More Michigan stories from the students at the University of Michigan.

Michigan in Color: I love so we can heal - The Michigan Daily

Michigan in Color: What am I? - The Michigan Daily

heartbreaking and hopeful stories from our University of Michigan students

https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/michigan-color-what-am-i?page=0%2C1

Michigan in Color: What am I? - The Michigan Daily

Michigan in Color: Our sacrifice, our shame

Why I do what I do: This was written February 2 by a townie kid who is now a junior at the university. It is sad that kids still have to go through this.

Michigan in Color: Our sacrifice, our shame

Register for A/PIA Civil Rights: Journalism, Activism, and the Law at the University of Michigan

I'm so excited to be teaching this course on A/PIA Civil Rights: Journalism, Activism, and the Law at the University of Michigan Winter 2014 with Ron Aramaki and Roland Hwang. Send us your University of Michigan students! Register now!

UPDATE: Course description here:  http://www.ii.umich.edu/UMICH/cjs/Home/Academics/Documents/Courses/Winter2014Courses.pdf

More hula, day 2 of Makawalu at University of Michigan

More hula! Lectures today on Makawalu (Eight eyes/perspectives) at 10 am and 4 pm at University of Michigan Department of American Culture, 3512 Haven Hall.



https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=398567723578998&set=gm.477574962363449&type=1&theater

Today: Makawalu: Hawaiian Hula Arts Concert and Lectures on Indigenous Ecology at UM Nov 25-26

Today! Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies at the University of Michigan is hosting a concert and lecture series with legendary hula artists Kekuhi Kealikanakaoleohaililani and Kaumakaiwa Kanaka'ole.

Concert: Monday, November 25, 7:00 pm, at University of Michigan Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Ann Arbor. Doors open at 6:30. Free.

Lectures: Tuesday, November 26, 10 am and 4 pm, 3512 Haven Hall.

Not to be missed. Seriously.

Sneak peak: Check out this awesome video of Kaumakaiwa performing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2oGKVRhU0 
▶ Kaumakaiwa Kanaka'ole - "Ola'A" - YouTube

Details: Makawalu: Concert and Lectures on Indigenous Ecology of Hawaiian Hula Arts

Makawalu: Concert and Lectures on Indigenous Ecology of Hawaiian Hula Arts at UM Nov 25-26

Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies at the University of Michigan is hosting a one-night only concert and lecture series with legendary hula artists Kekuhi Kealikanakaoleohaililani and Kaumakaiwa Kanaka'ole Monday Nov 25 6:30 pm. See you there! 

Check out: Makawalu: Concert and Lectures on Indigenous Ecology of Hawaiian Hula Arts