Asian American Student Activism and the Story of Ethnic Studies

Sponsors: Asian American Research Center, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, Department of Rhetoric, and Berkeley Teacher Education Program

Join us in Room 1102, Berkeley Way West (UC Berkeley) for a screening of Making Waves: The Rise of Asian America (co-directed by Jon Osaki and Josh Chuck), a new documentary on the SF Bay Area activists’ role in the birthing and renewal of Ethnic Studies—from the Third World Liberation Front in 1968-69 to AAPI Youth Rising in 2021. The film showing will be followed by a panel discussion with Joemy Ito-Gates, Jon Osaki, Donald Tamaki, and Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales on the political frontlines and fault lines of Ethnic Studies in California today.

The event will conclude with a reception.

Admission Information:

Thursday, Feb 5, 2026 at 5pm-6:45pm

Berkeley Way West
2121 Berkeley Way Room 1102

Berkeley, CA 94704

Register here: bit.ly/MakingWavesUCB