October 22 (Sat) || 11:30 am || Mary Lou Williams Center
From left to right: Paul Lai, Manju
Rajendran, Shivali Shah, Milan Pham, & Jeff Chang.
EAST MEETS SOUTH: A Panel Discussion on Asian American
Organizing in the South
An event in conjunction with the release of "East Meets South: 150 Years
of Asian/Southern Intersections" - a special issue of
Southern Exposure, published by the Institute for Southern
Studies, with support from the North Carolina Humanities Council.
Also see Jeff
Chang's public lecture on the evening of Friday October 21.
OPENING REMARKS:
Jeff Chang
Hip Hop Journalist & ActivistPANEL DISCUSSION:
Milan Pham
Director, Orange County Department of Human Rights &
Relations
Manju Rajendran
Student activist / Co-founder, Hip Hop Against Racist
War
Shivali Shah
Co-Founder, Kiran: Domestic Violence & Crisis Services
for South Asians in North Carolina
Paul Lai
Graduate Student, UNC-Chapel Hill
Event co-sponsors: Institute for
Southern Studies/Southern Exposure Magazine (Durham, NC); North
Carolina Humanities Council; African & African American Studies
Program; Asian Students Association; Asian/Pacific Studies
Institute; Center for Asian & Asian American Studies; Institute
for Critical US Studies; Office of Community Affairs; Office of the
Vice Provost of Interdisciplinary Studies.
For more information, please contact Christina
Chia (cmc7@duke.edu) or Hong-An
Truong (hongan.truong@gmail.com).
General Programs 05-06:
2005-2006
| Critical Responses to Hurricane Katrina
| "Say Something" by Dan Bacalzo
| Jeff Chang: Public Lecture
| East Meets South
| Money Matters
| Cheryle Dawes: Domestic Violence
| Bryan Brayboy Lecture
| Breakfast with Capt. James Yee
| The Native American Student Alliance Presents: Chief Michell Hicks
| Student Presentations from "Beyond Black & White" Seminar