Global Urban Humanities/Future Histories Lab

Rethinking Place in Asian American Histories of the United States | Catherine Ceniza Choy (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)

Lecture, 79 minutes; Part of the Fall 2022 Speaker Series (Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration and Resistance)

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Recording of presentation at @BAMPFA Osher Theater; free and open to the public Friday, October 14, 2022

Speaker:

Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley

Catherine Ceniza Choy discusses her new book, Asian American Histories of the United States, in which she argues that Asian American experiences are essential to any understanding of US history and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century. She’ll discuss her work on pandemics, medical labor, and the role of the arts in resistance to dehumanization.

Catherine Ceniza Choy is Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She is author of Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History, Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America, and co-editor of Gendering the Trans-Pacific World, with Judy Tzu-Chun Wu. She received her Ph.D. in History from UCLA and her B.A. in History from Pomona College. The daughter of Filipino immigrants, she was born and raised in New York City.

UC @Berkeley Arts + Design Fridays: Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration, and Resistance is a lively series of talks by artists, performers, scholars, and activists exploring themes of global and US migration, exclusion, and belonging. It is also a UC Berkeley course offered as Humanities 20: Explorations of Art + Design. Organized by Susan Moffat, Creative Director of Future Histories Lab and Executive Director of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative and by Lisa Wymore, Professor of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies and Faculty Advisor of Berkeley Arts + Design. Hosted by Susan Moffat.

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This speaker series is part of a program of music and dance performances, exhibitions, public conversations, and courses called A Year on Angel Island (futurehistories.berkeley.edu/angel-island/), using the historic Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay as a jumping-off point to consider landscapes from China to Australia to Mexico as sites of memory and meaning.

A Year on Angel Island is organized by Future Histories Lab and the Arts + Design Initiative. UC Berkeley departmental cosponsors include the Departments of Music; Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Ethnic Studies; History; and American Studies. Campus partners include the Arts Research Center, the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, On the Same Page, Othering and Belonging Institute, Center for Race & Gender, Worth Ryder Gallery, and BAMPFA. Our community partner is the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation.