American Studies Graduate Student Association Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, 3 April 2010 – Rescheduled due to Tsunami
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM – Campus Center, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Inspired by the Mary Kawena Pukui quote, “The top of the cliff isn’t the place to look at us; come down here and learn of the big and little current, face to face,” the ASGSA conference focuses on issues of indigeneity, colonialism, and settler communities around the globe. Check out this free event, with Southeast Asian presentations in these sessions:
War and National Identity
11:15am – 12:15pm – Campus Center 308
Moderator: Yusuke Ikeda
Alvin Lim, Political Science. “Khmerness qua Event.”
Kevin Lim, American Studies. “Debunking The Myth of Canadian Multiculturalism: A Case Study of Select Japanese Canadian Internment Films.”
Linda Michaud-Emin, Political Science. “Identifying Complexities within an Ethnic or Sectarian Post-Colonialist Framework: Turkish Occupation of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).”
Philippines: Colonized & Settler Colonizer
2:00 – 3:00 PM – Campus Center 307
Moderator: Miguel Llora
Eriza Bareng, American Studies. “The Direction of Modern Philippine Historiography and a Short Case Study.”
Kim Compoc, English. “Filipinos and Statehood: Reflections on American Assimilation and Settler Complicity.”
Melanie Medalle, Political Science and Women’s Studies. “1898 Unfortunates’: Reimagining Sex, Race, and Aesthetico-Sensory Space in the Treaty of Paris and Resistance to US Conquest of the Philippines.”
Theresa Navarro, American Studies. “Exhibiting Nation, Citizenship and Gender in the Philippines: The Pinay as Politico-Historical Prop at the Ayala Museum Diorama Experience.”
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