Asian American Philosophy Workshop

(Densho archive: https://densho.org/catalyst/gidra-now-available-online/)

This event gathers scholars from across the country to showcase emerging work on Asian American philosophy. Topics include aesthetic, political, and epistemological aspects of Asian American experience and the wider social landscape in the U.S.

Speakers:

• Nicholas Whittaker (Wesleyan University) “Asian American Cinema” 
• Hannah Kim (University of Arizona) “Asian American Experience and the Memoir” 
• Meilin Chinn (Santa Clara University) “Other Orients: Music and Orientalism”
• Falguni Sheth (Emory University) “Technologies of Race and South Asian American Identity”
• Maya von Ziegesar (CUNY, Grad Center/Wesleyan University) “Asian Americans and the Epistemology of Ignorance in American Race Discourse”
• Boram Jeong (CU, Denver) “The Temporal Politics of Asian America”

For more information and to RSVP please email the Philosophy department at philosophy@usfca.edu.

Sponsored by Fleishhacker Endowment, this event is free and open to the public.