Note: All events will be online. Register here.

Monday, October 25, 9:30-11 a.m. - Global Asian Experiences in Brooklyn and Beyond
Description: Formal welcoming of Lisa Lowe by BC administration, followed by an overview of Asian and Asian American experiences in Brooklyn by Brooklyn native and Queens College Professor Tarry Hum. Lisa Lowe will tell students about her family's experience of immigrating to and living and working within the USA.

Monday, October 25, 12:50-2:05 p.m. - Asian American Studies 101
Description: Overview of history of, and major topics and trends within Asian American Studies. Conversation between Moustafa Bayoumi (BC English), Lisa Lowe (Yale)

Monday, October 25, 5:05-6:30 p.m. - Disruptive Pedagogies
Description: How can our teaching practices overcome centuries of what Freire calls the "banking model of education," which treats students as empty vessels to be filled, instead of seeing them as active participants in their own learning?

Tuesday, October 26,  11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - The Subaltern Archive
Description:  The adage goes, "History is written by the victors." If the "victors' " voices appear in historical archives more often than "subaltern" voices (i.e. the voices of people who were not of the ruling class/age/gender/race/caste), how do we reclaim those voices and let the subaltern "speak"? In archives that more regularly collect sources from powerful elites, how can we listen to the voices of more (seemingly) marginalized and (seemingly) undocumented historical figures?

Tuesday, October 26,  3:40-4:45 p.m. - A Reading Featuring Asian American Alumni of Brooklyn College's Creative Writing Programs
Description: A reading featuring Asian American Alumni of Brooklyn College's Masters of Fine Art in Creative Writing programs.

Tuesday, October 26,  6:05-7:45 p.m. - Asian Americans in the BC Archives
Description: Brooklyn College students and faculty discuss their research into Asian focus on the history of Asian American studies on campus, Asian Americans in the general archives, and in the COVID Archive)

Wednesday, October 27,  12:30-2 p.m. - Student Activist Luncheon
Description:  Students who identify as activists focused on any issue have a private, informal opportunity to speak with the Hess Scholar.
Please let your students know about this opportunity; you can email their names to WolfeInstitute@brooklyn.cuny.edu - or they can email us directly to attend.

Wednesday, October 27,  5:05-6:20 p.m. - The Secret History of Academic Disciplines
Description:  Many of the disciplines and departments of our modern university were formed and developed in the nineteenth century, at the same time that European countries were colonizing various parts of the world. Panelists will discuss how colonialism shaped various academic disciplines, and how scholars today are attempting to fundamentally decolonize and transform age-old concepts and categories that have historically been foundational to their disciplinary methodologies.

Thursday, October 28, 9:30-10:45 a.m.- Before 1492: Comparative Premodern Colonialisms
Description: We often think about imperialism and colonialism as phenomena that happened in the world after 1500 C.E., as a result of European exploration. But how (and by whom, and of whom) was colonialism practiced before the early modern period, in the premodern world? And how does such premodern history both deepen our understanding of colonialism in modernity and enhance our understanding of the world before European hegemony?

Thursday, October 28, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.-  The New Nativism
Description: How do we understand and address the growing xenophobic upsurge in the United States (and elsewhere)?  Is it just a matter of economic frustrations and security-focused phobias, or are the voices of nationalist hatred emerging from deeper, and more troubling, waters?

Thursday, October 28, 4 or 5 p.m. - Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture
Format: 45-minute new, original lecture by Lisa Lowe.