Conferences

CAALS Virtual Conference 2024

Welcome to the homepage for the CAALS 2024 Virtual Conference
Friday, June 7 and Saturday, June 8
(All Times EST)

ZOOM LINK: https://uci.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkc-GgrDoiGNaYX484rgBsA6WTeVvSXYCN#/registration

TINYURL LINK to ZOOM: https://tinyurl.com/2024CAALS

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June 7th FRIDAY 

(all times EST)

11:45-11:55am Welcome & Opening Remarks

12-1:30pm Creativity and Critique in Asian American Literature: A Critical Methods Roundtable

Panelists:

Swati Rana (UCSB)

Aline Lo (Colorado College)

Clara Chin (UCSB)

Angie Sijun Lou (UC Santa Cruz)

Amanda Su (UC Berkeley)

Thaomi Michelle Dinh (Stanford)

Seo-Young Chu (Queens College-CUNY)

2:00-3:30pm Beth Nguyen Book Talk – Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir of Motherhood and Absence

with Timothy K. August (Stony Brook University)

4:00-5:30pm Julia Lee Book Talk – The Racial Railroad 

with Katrina Yuan (UCLA)

6:00-7:30pm Teaching Asian American Literature in 𝖯̶𝗈̶𝗌̶𝗍̶-Pandemic Times

Panelists:

Patty Chu (George Washington University) 

Leah Abuan Milne (University of Indianapolis)

Rajender Kaur (William Paterson University) 

Karen Siu (Rice University)

June 8th SATURDAY

12:00-1:30pm Leslie Bow Book Talk – Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasure of Fantasy

with Toni Hayes (UCI)

2:00-3:30pm Practicing Asian American Autobiographical Criticism

Panelists:

Aline Lo (Colorado College)

Mai-Linh Hong (UC Merced)

Samina Najmi (Fresno State)

Timothy K. August (Stony Brook University)

4:00-5:30pm Writing an Asian American Literary Studies Dissertation

Panelists:

Lilika Ioki Kukiela (University of Toronto)

Shannon I-Hsien Lee (Georgia State University)

Nyla Numan (University of Minnesota)

Hui Min Annabeth Leow (National University of Singapore)

Karen Siu (Rice University)

So Young Koo (Florida State University)

Savannah Trent (Florida State University)

Chair: Christopher Lee (Emerson College)

6:00-7:30pm Asian American Mass Culture

Panelists:

Lili Hsu (NYU)

Alex Chun (Brown)

Hui Min Annabeth Leow (National University of Singapore)

Yei Won Lim (University of Oregon)

7:30-7:45pm Closing Remarks