CAALS Virtual Conference 2022

Welcome to the homepage for the CAALS 2022 Virtual Conference
Friday, June 10 and Saturday, June 11
(All Times EST)
Hosted by University of California, Santa Barbara

Day 1: Friday June 10th, 2022

11:45am CAALS Co-Chair Welcome

12pm Book Conversation

Gina Apostol, author of Bibliolepsy (Soho Press, 2022)

(https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673303/bibliolepsy-by-gina-apostol/)

Discussant: Paul Nadal (Princeton University) and Alden Sajor Marte-Wood (Rice

University)

This panel is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Effron Center for the Study

of America and Rice University’s Chao Center for Asian Studies

2pm Book Conversation

Mai-Linh K. Hong (University of California, Merced), Chrissy Yee Lau

(California State University, Monterey Bay), and Preeti Sharma (California State

University, Long Beach), editors of The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask

Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (University of California Press, 2021)

(https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520384002/the-auntie-sewing-squad-guide-to-mask-making-radical-care-and-racial-justice); 30% off coupon code (if purchased from UC Press): 21W2240

Christine Kitano (Ithaca College) and Alycia Pirmohamed (University of

Edinburgh), editors of, and Swati Rana (University of California, Santa Barbara),

contributor to They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women

Poets (Blue Oak Press, 2022)

(http://blueoakpress.media/they-rise-like-a-wave/)

Moderator: Aline Lo (Colorado College)

4pm Scholarly Panel

Environments, Experts and Frontiers

Julia Lee (University of California, Irvine), The Asian American Neo-frontier

Narrative

Hyo Kyung Woo (Edwards Waters University), Creating an “Oriental Yankee”:

Kang Younghil’s East Goes West and the Role of “Chinamen”

Julia Harvey (University of Indianapolis), “Not-one, Not-two. Not Same. Not

Different”: Buddhist Philosophy and Rejection of an Anthropocentric Ecology in

Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being

Chair: Julia Lee (University of California, Irvine)

6pm Book Conversation

Jeff Chon, author of Hashtag Good Guy With A Gun (Sagging Meniscus Press,

2021) (https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/hashtag_good_guy_with_a_gun/)

Leland Cheuk, author of No Good Very Bad Asian (Conscious & Responsible

Press, 2021)

(https://www.crpress.org/shop/no-good-very-bad-asian/)

Moderator: Hilda H. Ma (Saint Mary’s College of California)

This panel is co-sponsored by the Department of Asian American Studies and

the English Department’s American Cultures and Global Contexts Center

(ACGCC) at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Day 2: Saturday June 11th, 2022

12pm Book Conversation

erin Khuê Ninh, author of Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other

Model Minorities (Temple University Press, 2021)

(https://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000010385)

James Kyung-Jin Lee, author of Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir,

and the Ends of the Model Minority (Temple University Press, 2021)

(https://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000010514)

Moderator: Erica Kanesaka (Brown University)

2pm Scholarly Panel

CAALS Emerging Scholars Panel

Justine Trinh (Washington State University), Left Behind and Nowhere to Go:

Runaways and Parental Disownment in Little Sister Left Behind and Miles from

Nowhere

Katherine Xiong (Brown University), Plastic Humanity: Human/Asian

Biomaterial and Plastic Commodity Circulation in “Peeling Off” by Lin Hsin-hui

Janice Yim (Fordham University), Khmerican (in)Verse: How Sokunthary Svay’s

Aspara in New York Counters Practices of Unsettlement

Chair: Rei Magosaki (Chapman University)

4pm Book Conversation

Erin Suzuki (University of California, San Diego), author of Ocean Passages:

Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures (Temple University Press, 2021)

(https://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000009883)

Heidi Kim (University of North Carolina), author of Illegal Immigrants/Model

Minorities: The Cold War of Chinese American Narrative (Temple University

Press, 2021)

(https://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000009955)

Moderator: Karen Siu (Rice University)

6pm Scholarly Panel

Embodiment and Beyond

Nancy Carranza (University of California, Riverside), The Violent Inheritance of