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Call for Teams: ASAM Knowledge Bowl!

We’re pleased to invite undergraduate students to form teams to compete in the 6th Annual Asian American Studies Knowledge Bowl, to take place on Wednesday, March 5, 4-6 p.m. Please see the flyer…

OSSR Research Grant Received: Professor Gayatri Reddy

Congratulations to Professor Gayatri Reddy, who received a 2013-2014 OSSR Research Grant for her project, “The “African” Diaspora in India: Explorations of Race, Masculinity, and Caste-Politics in Contemporary Hyderabad.”

Grant Received: Prof. Rooshey Hasnain and ADOPT

Congratulations to Prof. Rooshey Hasnain and her Asians with Disabilities Outreach Project Think Tank (ADOPT) team, which was just awarded an additional grant funding of $139,818, which brings their total funding amount to $272,221 for FY14.…

Congratulations to 2013-2014 Expo Grant recipients!

Congratulations to 2013-2014 Expo Grant recipients! Recipients of the ASAM Expo Grants (funded by the AANAPISI Initiative), for critical and creative work, pursue undergraduate research in a variety of forms and fields; their work will…

Prof. Nadine Naber in Inside Higher Ed

“Supporters of the boycott also described a desire to open up space for American scholars who are critical of Israeli policies. “Because the open discussion about Palestinian human rights that happened [Saturday] rarely…

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NPR Interview with Mary Anne Mohanraj re: Jaggery

Audio clip of NPR Interview:  Editor-in-chief Mary Anne Mohanraj, local artist Manish Shah and poetry contributor Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha on the Jaggery Lit launch, co-sponsored by UIC’s Asian Studies and Asian American Studies…

Nadine Naber at the Center for Art and Thought

Nadine Naber in conversation about Filipina/o workers in the Middle East facilitated by the Center for Art and Thought’s series that attempts to bring together artists, scholars, writers on a thematically-driven dialogue. Filipino Workers in the…

Critical Language Scholarship Program, deadline 11/15

The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program offers intensive summer language institutes in thirteen critical foreign languages. About the Program http://www.clscholarship.org/ A program of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural…

Pre dissertation Summer Grants in China Studies, deadline November 12

ACLS is offering pre-dissertation summer research grants through the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies. ACLS is offering Predissertation-Summer Grants through the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies. Predissertation grants provide funding for…