COVID-19 and Anti-Asian Violence with Professor Lok Siu
Cal Alumni Association is hosting Professor Lok Siu, who will be speaking on COVID-19 and Anti-Asian Violence
Professor Lok Siu is a cultural anthropologist and faculty of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Her areas of expertise include Asian diasporas in the Americas, transnational migration, belonging and cultural citizenship, performance, and food. Her award winning books include Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama (Stanford U Press 2005) and Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions (Stanford U Press 2007). She has lectured at universities throughout the US and Europe and museums such as the Smithsonian, the Museum of Food and Drinks in NYC, the Chinese American Museum in LA, and the California African American Museum. She has appeared in CNN’s United Shades of America with Kamau Bell and on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show, and is currently working on her book manuscript, “Worlding Asian Latinx: the Intimate Publics of Cultural Mixing.”
This event is free and open to all.
Time: Saturday, October 17, at 2:30 pm PDT.
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