We're looking forward to seeing you at the Fall Reframing Global Asias
Conversation Series events this week! Here's a rundown and event page
links for each of the Global Asias Initiative's lectures & workshops. We can't wait to welcome
our guest speakers and hope to see you there.
Wednesday, October 22
10:30am-11:45am
Library Gallery
House of Mirrors: How Mis- and Disinformation Amplify Imperialist
Histories to Shape Asian American Political Participation in
California's 45th Congressional District
RSVP on the myUMBC event page (encouraged but not required)
Light breakfast, coffee & tea provided
Thursday, October 23
2-4pm
CADVC Gallery (Fine Arts 105)
Language as personal and communal
expression: an interactive zine-making workshop with Dr. Joyhanna Jung
Yoo & Shengxiao "Sole" Yu
RSVP on the myUMBC event page (encouraged but not required)
Thursday, October 23
6-8pm
Commons 331
Solidarity with Anti-Imperialist Struggles: A Creative Mapping
Workshop in collaboration with student groups Anakbayan UMBC and Binhi
FFPS
RSVP on the myUMBC event page (encouraged but not required)
Dinner provided from Mama Rosa Grill
Friday, October 24
12-1pm
PAHB 216
The Semiotics of Skin: The Discursive Construction of Desirable Figures of Personhood in Korean Beauty's Global Circulation
RSVP on the myUMBC event page (encouraged but not required)
Lunch provided
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About our guest speakers:
Shengxiao Yu, known by her nickname
Sole, is a speaker, facilitator, writer, and social justice educator.
She is the creator of Nectar, a space where she provides political
education for the community through giving keynote speeches,
facilitating workshops, and providing thought leadership. In 2024, Sole
served as the activist-in-residence at the Asian American Studies Center
at the University of California, Los Angeles. In this capacity, Sole
conducted research to more deeply understand the AAPI electoral
landscape and the role of mis- and disinformation. Sole is a writer for
the Xin Sheng Project, a platform combating misinformation in the
Chinese diaspora community by publishing in-language, progressive
articles that shift perspectives and build intergenerational power. As a
generation 1.5 Asian American, Sole is also working to build community
among her fellow Asian Americans in order to build socio-political power
and to lift up her lineage. Sole is inspired by BIPOC activists,
grassroots community leaders, and all the intersectional movement
ancestors who have paved the way.
Joyhanna "Joy" Yoo (she/they) is a
linguistic anthropologist whose work examines the circulation of Korean
popular cultural genres with fieldwork based in Seoul, Mexico City, and
Los Angeles. Their research examines the meanings generated by language
as it pertains to race and gender when cultural genres circulate. Joy
has also published on Asian American racialization and linguistic
appropriation in mediatized contexts. Her newer work examines the
relationship between language loss, grief, and Korean diasporic
belonging. They are especially passionate about student-centered
teaching, mentorship, and student advocacy.