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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita, AARC Artist in Residence
DESCRIPTION:Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award, and most recently, Sansei and Sensibility. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.\nDuring her stay at UC Berkeley as the Asian American Research Center artist-in-residence from March 13-17, 2023, she will visit several classes and participate in four public events (details below).\nSeries Sponsors: Asian American Research Center, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, Department of English, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, Japanese American Studies Advisory Committee, Othering & Belonging Institute.\n(Additional event co-sponsors listed below.)\nKaren Tei Yamashita will sign books at each event, and her books will be for sale, courtesy of Eastwind Books.\nSpeculative Fiction: Asian Latinx Intersections\n\nTuesday, March 14, 2-3.30pm, with reception to follow (including book sales/signing)\nHybrid!\nIn-person location: Latinx Research Center, 2547 Channing Way\nPlease register here to attend in person.\nRegister here to attend via Zoom.\nKaren Tei Yamashita, filmmaker Alex Rivera, and writer Sesshu Foster.\nModerated by John Alba Cutler.\n\nEvent sponsors: Asian American Research Center, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, Center for Japanese Studies, Department of English, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, Japanese American Studies Advisory Committee, Latinx Research Center, Othering & Belonging Institute.\nEmbodied Memories: Japanese Americans Across Generations\n\nWednesday, March 15\n5-6pm: Reception and informal conversation (in-person only), includes book sales/signing\n\n6-7:30: Program (Hybrid)\n\nIn-person Location: Latinx Research Center, 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley CA\n\nRegister here to attend in person.\nRegister here for Zoom Webinar.\n\nKaren Tei Yamashita in conversation with playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, moderated by Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani.\n\nBooks will be available for sale and signing during the reception.\nEvent sponsors: Asian American Research Center, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, Center for Japanese Studies, Department of English, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, Japanese American Studies Advisory Committee, Othering & Belonging Institute.\nI Hotel: Feminist Perspectives on a Social Movement\n\nThursday, March 16\n5-6pm: Reception and informal conversation (in-person only), includes book sales/signing.\n\n6-7:30: Program (Hybrid)\n\nIn-person Location: Multicultural Community Center, Second Floor, Room 220 Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union (Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave.)\n\nRegister here to attend in person.\nRegister here for Zoom Webinar.\n\nEstella Habal, Shoshana Arai, and Nancy Hom in conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita. Moderated by Colleen Lye. \n\nCome hear from activists involved in the fight to save the International Hotel, home to elderly Filipino American and Chinese American residents until their eviction in 1977 by 400 police officers in riot gear. The I Hotel was part of a once-thriving “Manilatown,” which was destroyed to make room for the Financial District. The nine-year anti-eviction campaign brought together community organizations, residents, and students from UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University. While the campaign was unsuccessful, it created community solidarity and led to new forms of organizing. In 2005, with the support of the International Hotel Block Development Citizens Advisory Committee, the new International Hotel was opened to provide housing to low-income seniors. Karen Tei Yamashita’s book I Hotel, a multivoiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy, tells the story of the fight for the International Hotel and the struggle for civil rights.\n\nSponsors: Asian American Research Center, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, Department of English, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, Japanese American Studies Advisory Committee, Multicultural Community Center (as part of the Week of Cultural Resistance), Othering & Belonging Institute.\n\nCartographies of the Anthrobscene\n\nFriday, March 17\n12-1:30 PM, with reception to follow (includes book sales/signing).\nIn-person only.\nMaude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall.\n\nRegister here.\n\nKaren Tei Yamashita\nPart 1: Manifesto Anthrobscene, a collaboration with artist Ronaldo Lopes de Oliveira.\nPart 2: Trekking to Delta, a collaboration with filmmaker Tim Yamamura.\nModerated by Lok Siu.\n\nSponsors: Asian American Research Center, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, Center for Japanese Studies, Department of English, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, Japanese American Studies Advisory Committee, Othering & Belonging Institute.\n\n
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