flimmakersFulbright Conferences:
Narratives of Free Trade 2009 - From South China to North America 2010 - Tale of Ten Cities 2011 - Asian American Graphic Narratives 2012 -
New Perspectives on Transnational Chinese Culture and History 2013 - Chinese Filmmakers in the United States 2015 -
Imperial Benevolence: U.S. Foreign Policy in American Popular Culture Since 9/11. 2016

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Conference Program Monday 22 May / Tuesday 23 May

Tuesday, 23 May 2017
9:00 - 9:45 erin Khuê Ninh (UC Santa Barbara)
“Refugees and Other Impossibilities: Imagining Apocalypse”
10:00 - 10:45 Chris Fan (UC Riverside)
“Chinese Clones and Postracial Zombies”
11:00 - 11:45 Kim Park Nelson (Minnesota State University at Moorhead) and Eleana Kim (UC Irvine)
“Adoptee Deportee: Asian American Adoptees and Citizenship in the Time of Trump”
11:45 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:45 Leilani Nishime (University of Washington)
“Birth Tourism and Citizenship as Property”
2:00 - 2:45 Jason Coe (The University of Hong Kong)
“Remembering the Losers: Imagining Americanness in Asian American Cultural Memory”
3:00 - 3:45 Andrea Louie (Michigan State University)
“Toy Len Goon, 1952 Mother of the Year: Asianness, Americanness and the Model Minority Myth”
4:00 - 4:45 Staci Ford (The University of Hong Kong)
“MENmoirs: Stories of New Manhood in Rising China”
4:45 - 5:15 Closing Remarks and Discussion
Grace Wang, Fulbright Visiting Associate Professor of American Studies
Tim Gruenewald, Director of American Studies Programme