April 13, 2023 2nd International Symposium on the Nak Chung Thun Archive at USC
April 5, 2023 Archipelagic/s with Candace Fujikane, Keith Camacho, Jodi Kim, Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi
February 8, 2023 Menace of Empire with Moon-Ho Jung and Professor Sean Fraga
February 22, 2023 Transborder LA with Yu Tokunaga and Professor Genevieve Carpio
February 15, 2023 Converging Empires with Andrea Geiger
November 18, 2022 Book Talk – Remaindered Life With Neferti X. M. Tadiar
November 11, 2022 Gaze Back: A Poetry Reading & Q&A with Singaporean Poet, Marylyn Tan and Brian Bernards
November 2nd, 2022 The Archive Arrives: Considerations in Resurrecting Colonial Non-fiction Films
October 26th, 2022 BENDING AESTHETICS TO A MORE-THAN-HUMAN ASKESIS: THE COLLAPSE OF ABSTRACTED CREATIVTY
October 7th, 2022 Transpacific Studies Fall Symposium
May 20-21 and June 10-11, 2022 on “Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two Part International Workshop”
April 22-24, 2021 – Society of Sinophone Studies Conference
April 5th, 2022 on “Navigating CHamoru Poetry” by Craig Santos Perez
March 3, 2022 on “Barangay: an offshore poem” – Adrian De Leon in conversation with Craig Santos Perez
February 4, 2022 on “Hawai’i is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific,” a Book Talk with Nitasha Tamar Sharma
November 3rd, 2021 – Veronika Kusumaryati and Ernst Karel on “ Expedition Content Colloquium”
October 29th, 2021 – Viet Thanh Nguyen on “SEEK, MEMORY”
October 29th, 2021 – Shao-yun Yang on “ Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Imperial China”
October 8th, 2021 – Dr. Hentyle Yapp on “ Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic”
September 15th, 2021 – Uyghur Visions: Two Films by Mukaddas Mijit – Conversation with Jenny Chio
April 4th, 2021 – conversation with Larry Ward – “America’s Racial Karma”
April 1st, 2021 – with Tiara Wilson and Jang Wook Huh – “The Politics of Friendship: Black and Korean Soldiers in U.S. Military Expansion”
March 16th, 2021 – with Karylnee Ejercito and Stanley Fonseca – “Mapping Mobilities Session 5”
March 10 – April 21, 2021 – Dr. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Dr. Brian Chi Hang Fong and Dr. Evyn Espiritu Gandhi – “Migration and Refugee Studies Working Group”
March 9th, 2021 – Renato Rosaldo – “The Day of Shelly’s Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief(Duke University Press, 2013)”
March 2nd, 2021 – Professor Deborah Wong. “Louder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko”
February 24, 2021 – Velina Hasu Houston with Elizabeth Wong and Philip Kan Gotanda. “Intersections of Asian and Black Cultures in Theatre” (Transpacific Conversations Race Solidarity)
February 17, 2021– Tao Leigh Goffe. “History’s Emulsion: Hysteria, Surface, and Sexuality in the Black Pacific” (Cornell University)
November 11th, 2020– Master Class with Achille Mbembe (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research | University of the Witwatersrand)
October 21st, 2020 – Summer Research Symposium; Doctoral students from American Studies and Ethnicity and East Asian Languages and Cultures presented about their summer research activities
February 22nd, 2020 – Transpacifics Symposium, with Petrus Lin (Boston University), Christopher Patterson (University of British Columbia), Maile Arvin (University of Utah) & Iyko Day (Mount Holyoke College), Taper Commons Center – USC University Park Campus
October 30th, 2019 – Photography and the Bio-politics of Fear: Witnessing the Philippine Drug War, presented by Vicente L. Rafael (University of Washington)
April 11th, 2019 – Sex Work, Media Networks and Transpacific Histories of Affect, a talk by Lily Wong (American University)
December 6th, 2018 – The More-Than-Human Anthropocene, presented by Anna Tsing (UC Santa Cruz)
October 26th, 2018 – Transpacific Studies at USC and UCLA: A Social Gathering, USC University Park Campus
November 18th, 2015– From Sanctuary to Skid Row: Governmentality and the Resettlement of Central Americans in Los Angeles, presented by Cindy I-Fen Cheng (UW-Madison)
March 24th, 2015 – Launch of The Divine Eye and the Diaspora by Janet Hoskins – Sponsored by the Center for Transpacific Studies & the Center for Immigration and Integration
January 23rd – 24th, 2015– Transpacific Re-Orientations: Religion, Spirituality and the Invisible Connections Between Asia and the Americas
October 30th, 2014– Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field– with editors Janet Hoskins & Viet Thanh Nguyen and contributors Akira Mizuta Lippit, Nancy Lutkehaus, John Carlos Rowe, Yunte Huang & Yên Lê Espiritu
October 2nd, 2014 – Making War in Paradise: Race, Empire and Hawaii’s Counterinsurgency in Vietnam War, presented by Simeon Man (USC)
March 5th, 2014– The Transpacific Partnership (TPP): A Panel Discussionwith USC Professors Saori Katada, Daniel Lynch & David Kang (USC)
February 28th – March 7th, 2014 –Transpacific Intimacies: Three Film Screening Series, organized by Feng-Mei Heberer (2014-2015 Center for Transpacific Studies Fellow)
February 3rd, 2014 – HYPERVISIBILITY and INVISIBILITY: Asian/American Women, Radical Orientalism, and the Revisioning of Global Feminism, presented by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (Ohio State University)
January 29th, 2014 – BX for CTS: Transpacific Cultural Politics in Contemporary Time-Based Art – a book talk and presentation by Meiling Cheng
December 11th, 2013– The Sea is Rising: Narrating Climate Change in the Pacific, presented by Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA)
November 13th, 2013 – Postcolonial Subjects of Japanese Military ‘Comfort Women’: Reconstructing Boundaries, Shifting Identities, presented by Na-Young Lee (USC)
October 23rd, 2013 – Imagining the Nanyang: On National Culture, Postcolonial Archipelagoes, and the Idea(s) of Southeast Asia, presented by Brian Bernards (USC)
April 30th, 2013– A poetry reading by Wing Tek Lum
April 27th, 2013 – Troubled Ocean: Filmmakers Imagine the Pacific, film screenings & discussions with John Sayles (Amigo), Vilsoni Hereniko (The Land Has Eyes)
March 7th, 2013– Re-Membering the Khmer Rouge: Cambodian American Memory Work, presented by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (University of Connecticut)
February 27th, 2013 – Transnationalism and Vietnamese Studies, presented by Lan P. Duong (UC Riverside) & Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde (UC Davis)
January 31st, 2013– Aloha America: Hula Circuits as Alternative Archives, presented by Adria L. Imada (UC San Diego)
November 29th, 2012 – The Pageant of the Pacific: Miguel Covarrubias’s Transpacific Vision and The Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939, presented by Nancy Lutkehaus (USC)
October 16th, 2012 – Bottomhood Is Powerful: Asian American Sexual Positionings, presented by Nguyen Tan Hoang (Bryn Mawr College)
April 8th – 9th, 2011 – Redefining the Pacific Conference, USC University Park Campus
April 23rd, 2010 – The Political Economy of the Pacific Rim Workshop, USC University Park Campus
April 2nd – April 3rd, 2010 – Transpacific Studies Conference: Homelands, Diasporas and the Movement of Populations, USC University Park Campus
October 30th – 31st, 2009 – Center for Transpacific Studies Workshop, USC University Park Campus