American
Resource and
Cultural Center
AARCC
updated
2/2007
Asian Pacific American Graduate Students Organization
A.P.A.G.S.O.
Conference Updates
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Conference
Sponsored by:
Student
Activities
Funding
Committee
Institute for
Research on Race
and Public Policy
Asian American
Resource &
Cultural Center
Department of
African American
Studies, UIC
Department of
English, UIC
Chicago
Organizational
Fund
The Chancellor’s
Committee on
the Status of
Asian Americans
Keynote Speaker: Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Professor of South Asian History and Director of the International Studies Program at Trinity College. His most recent books are The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (New York: The New Press) and Dispatches from Latin America: Experiments Against Neoliberalism (coedited with Teo Ballve, Boston: South End Press). He is the author of ten other books, including two selected by the Village Voice as books of the year ( Karma of Brown Folk, 2000; Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity, 2001). He is on the board of the Center for Third World Organizing (Oakland), United for a Fair Economy (Boston) and National Priorities Project (Northampton). He writes a monthly column for Frontline (India), ZNET and Counterpunch.Featured Faculty Panel
Innovations and Transitions: Emergent Paradigms in Interdisciplinary and Comparative ResearchMarch 16, 2007 3:30-5:00pm
Moderated by Helen Jun, University of Illinois at Chicago
Junaid Rana, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Lisa Cacho, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Barnor Hesse, Northwestern University
Camilla Fojas, DePaul University