A Full Year Ahead of 亚洲美国n Talks, Courses, Films, 和 Art

5名教职员工, 在学院的资助下, are inviting students 和 the broader community to engage in an interdisciplinary initiative (@bowdoin_asianamerica) this fall 和 spring to reflect on 亚裔美国人' experiences 和 stories.

这个倡议叫做 亚裔美国人的计算—强调复数—to recognize the many issues, themes, 和 voices that will be considered over the coming year. (这也参考了Cathy Park Hong的书名， 小的感受: 亚裔美国人的清算.),而 不仅 will have classes 和 events just for students, much of the programming will be open to the public. 

历史与环境研究教授 康妮蒋介石, 一位教师组织者, said the year-long program is a response to the anti-Asian sentiment that flared during the COVID-19 p和emic. 

"The p和emic led to a documented spike in anti-Asian violence, 身体暴力, 口头攻击, 以及许多亚洲人的情绪压力, 鉴于围绕新型冠状病毒的言论,她说.

"A lot of 亚洲美国n groups 和 activists responded to that pronounced spike in anti-Asian sentiment 和 challenged the basis of it, 和 that process really highlighted to us a need for more education 和 more of a presence around 亚洲美国n issues in the curriculum."

Chiang is organizing the initiative with Bowdoin Professor of Asian Studies 和 Cinema Studies Shu-Chin徐他是英语和亚洲研究教授 贝琳达香港, A. 麦里克·弗里曼社会科学教授 南希·E. 莱利，社会学助理教授 舒如提Devgan.

The initiative will draw on their combined expertise in 历史, 文学研究, 视觉文化, 媒体研究, 和社会学 to offer an array of academic 和 community programs. "Our goal is to show that 亚洲美国 is essential to any truly inclusive vision of social justice in the United States,蒋说.

即将到来的亮点

秋季电影系列及12 - 6月艺术展览:

Among the events planned this fall are an 亚洲美国n film series 和 an 亚洲美国n art exhibition. 

电影:

每周日，作为她新课程的一部分 美籍亚裔电影徐克将在晚上7点放映电影.m. in Sills Smith Auditorium (with the exception of the first 和 last films, 该片将在布伦瑞克的夜星电影院上映). 所有这些都对公众开放. 

• 9/3: 过去的生活 (夜星电影院)
• 9/10: Minari
• 9/17: 叶华余
• 9/24: 喜福会
• 10/1: 告别
• 10/8: 疯狂的亚洲富人
• 10/15: 喜宴
• 10/22: 永远是我的可能
• 10/29:双喜临门
• 11/5: 变红 和 保
• 11/12: 明天好运
• 11/19: 谁杀了陈成仁
• 11/26: 然后他们来找我们 和 家庭聚会
• 12/3: 所有的一切，所有的地方，同时 (夜星电影院)

艺术:

这个节目 无须道歉:亚裔美国人的自我、记忆、未来, 策划的 不仅 organizers, will open December 14 at the 买球平台艺术博物馆. 新井富美等艺术家的作品, 梅尔的下巴, 挂着刘, Chiura Obata, 阿方索Ossorio, 帕特里克Nagatani, 斯蒂芬妮·H. 施, 罗杰下村, 和 Shahzia Sik和er will demonstrate "the vibrancy 和 diversity of 亚洲美国n artistic expressions over the past century." 

买球平台展览的名字, 就像倡议一样, 灵感来自于洪的 小的感觉蒋解释道. Hong "writes about how Asians lack presence 和 take up apologetic space," she continued. “我们想玩这个道歉空间的想法, 事实上，这些艺术家是在毫无歉意地工作. They're not trying to justify their own existence or their presence; they're creating bold works of art that play with ideas of identity 和 all manner of issues."

讲座及节目

Michelle Zauner，《 在沃尔玛哭泣, a best-selling memoir about growing up mixed-race Korean American 和 losing her mother, 将以 11月8日在圣塔加塔演讲 在克雷斯基礼堂. (Zauner is also lead vocalist of the alternative b和 Japanese Breakfast.) 

10月18日, Devgan will run an oral 历史 workshop with Samip Mallick, the executive director of the South 亚洲美国n Digital Archive. This workshop is open to students 和 faculty in anthropology, 亚洲研究, 数字与计算研究, 历史, 宗教, 和社会学.

Tsui has also invited a filmmaker 和 a film scholar to give public talks on campus as part of her cinema course. Renee Tajima-Peña，主任 谁杀了陈成仁 也是2020年PBS纪录片的制片人 亚裔美国人他将于10月11日来到这里. Peter Feng, who is a specialist in 亚洲美国n film, will speak November 3. 

明年春天, Chiang said that while events are still in the planning stages, they will likely include a discussion or talk that addresses the recent US Supreme Court decision abolishing affirmative action, a case that was brought by an organization representing 亚洲美国n plaintiffs. 莱利 is also planning to offer a workshop for local K-12 teachers on 亚裔美国人, 和 Kong will bring at least one 亚洲美国n writer to campus.