2021 Southeast Asian American Studies Conference

2021 Southeast Asian American Studies Conference A Virtual Conference hosted by San José State University

Conference Description

July 8 and July 9, 2021

The 2021 triennial meeting of the Southeast Asian American Studies (SEAAS) Conference will provide an opportunity to reimagine a sustainable and empowering future. 2021 marks the beginning of President Biden’s administration, the completion of the 2020 Census count, and 41 years since the 1980 Refugee Act was signed into law. As such, it marks a pivotal moment for Southeast Asian American Studies to grapple with histories of militarism, displacement, and imperialism in our communities during a dual pandemic of COVID-19 and racial and political unrest. It is also a time for transforming the past into new possibilities of the future invested in building culture as well as grassroots, intellectual, and political power. By locating the past as the condition of possibility for Southeast Asian diasporic futurity, this conference seeks to locate the future of social justice in the present moment of arts, activism, scholarly thinking, and community building efforts on the ground.

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FAQs

Will closed captioning be made available? Autogenerated closed captions will be made available for all plenary sessions. For concurrent sessions, hosts have been instructed to turn on captions. Please message the host directly if you do not see captions.
Will sessions be live streamed and made available for later viewing? (1) Plenary sessions are available (open access to all) via the webinar format during the scheduled days/times. Plenary sessions will also be recorded. For access to recordings, please return to this website after the conference or email seaas2020@gmail.com. (2) Concurrent sessions will be available via an access link during the scheduled days/times (please register for for access). They will not be recorded for later access, unless presenters choose to record.

Plenary Sessions

Plenary Session T1. Thursday, July 8 at 9a PT. Community Based Organizations and Building Solidarities Across Difference. RECORDING AVAILABLE HERE.

Plenary Session T9. Thursday, July 8 at 12:30p PT. Ethnic Studies: Fighting the Ivory Tower. RECORDING AVAILABLE HERE.

Plenary Session T18. Thursday, July 8 at 12:30p PT. Arts and Expression: The Next Generation. RECORDING AVAILABLE HERE.

Plenary Session F1. Friday, July 9 at 9:00a PT. Southeast Asian American Communities and the Actions Against Deportations and Carceral Violence. RECORDING AVAILABLE HERE.

Plenary Session F9. Friday, July 9 at 12:30p PT. Policy Priorities: Southeast Asian American Communities. RECORDING AVAILABLE HERE.

Plenary Session F19. Friday, July 9 at 4:00p PT. Controlling Images: History & Preservation (access link). RECORDING AVAILABLE HERE (to be updated soon).

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Credits:

Angel Trazo (2020)