Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies

Are you a student who identifies as Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian? A student of color or otherwise marginalized? An ally?

Please Join Us for W&M COMMUNITY UNITING AGAINST ASIAN HATE

Thursday, April 1 at 8 p.m. ET

Join our long-serving Representative to Congress who will share his plans for education, criminal justice, healthcare and labor reform.

The Visual Politics of Africa-China Relations by Tara Mock, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies, the Honors College at the University of Alabama

For OTOD: At W&M we strive to understand and change the world through collaborative research. Join us for a discussion highlighting the cultural, economic and political implications of the new administration as it relates to China. 

For OTOD: Study Abroad, Then & Now

Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer Abeer Hoque presents the finale conversation in Asian American Plural: Literature Across Borders series, curated by Dr. R. Benedito Ferrao for the Asian Centennial. 

Asian and Pacific Islander Bahn Mi presents: Filipino Nurses at the Postcolonial Prelude, 1911 – 1946: A History of Mobility and Racialization to and from Seattle

Hindi Hauntology in Post-Liberalization Kolkata by Rahul Bjørn Parson, Assistant Professor, South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

SHUSENJO: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue A Documentary Film by Miki Dezaki

7PM-10PM Thursday, April 22, 2021: Group Screening & After-Film Q&A Filmmaker Conversation with Professors Tomoyuki Sasaki and Eric Han

Please join us for a talk by  Dr. Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, The University of Hawai`i - Manoa  titled "Towards understanding long-term impacts of indigenous agriculture on soils: Hawai`i as a model system"

THE ASIAN CENTURY - AMES Colloquium Series presents: "How Not To Be Secure: The Role of PMSCs in South Asian Security" by Sahar Khan

Please join us for a AMES & APIA 2021 CAPSTONE CONFERENCE

THE ACTORS ARENA is a two-part master class series that educates on the ins and outs of pursuing a successful professional career in acting. April 27 & 29, 7-9pm. One on one monologue coaching available on a limited basis.

In this stirring choreoritual of word, song and movement, Tahlequah, assisted by ancestral forces, journeys into a dark emotional abyss and learns the freedom which comes from letting go. A co-production with Christopher Newport University. 

Please join us on Thursday, April 29th at 7 PM for the 2021 W&M Student Literary Awards Virtual Ceremony. 

A conversation with Eric Han and Tomoyuki Sasaki about the ongoing "comfort women" controversy. Please RSVP for the Zoom link.