REPOST: 4/16 Manil Suri Book Event: A Room in Bombay
Join Asian Studies for discussion with the author!
Join the Asian Studies Program in conversation with author of A Room in Bombay: A Memoir, Manil Suri, and English/MCS Alumnus, Aditya Desai. The event will be held on Thursday, April 16th, starting at 4:30PM in the Library Gallery!
Food will be provided.
About the Author:
Manil Suri is the author of the forthcoming memoir, A Room in Bombay, three internationally acclaimed novels, The Death of Vishnu, The Age of Shiva and The City of Devi, and a book on popular mathematics, The Big Bang of Numbers.
He has served as a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and is a distinguished university professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is a passionate promoter of both mathematics and the humanities, and has motivated audiences worldwide to embrace both, rather than just one or the other.
Aditya Desai, who will be in discussion with Manil Suri during the event, is a writer, editor, teacher, and activist living in Baltimore, Maryland. He also works with several arts & racial justice organizations in Baltimore including the CityLit Project, Baltimore Youth Arts, and the Asian Pasifika Arts Collective.
This event has been organized by Asian Studies with support from the Global Asias Initiative.
This event is open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.
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Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:05:49 -0400
REPOST: March 5 "Made in Ethiopia" Screening and Q&A
Asian Studies hosts film and meet the filmmaker with us!
Original event posting and RSVP link on the Asian Studies myUMBC
here!
Join us in the AOK Library Gallery on Thursday, 3/5/26 at 4:30PM for the screening of Made in Ethiopia! Our event will also include a Q&A with the filmmaker herself, Xinyan Yu, along with discussants, Tracy Tinga (MCS) and Guenet Abraham (Visual Arts).
Learn more about the documentary that explores rapid industrialization and China's economic influence in Africa.
Food will be provided during this event.
This event has been organized by Asian Studies with support from the Global Asias Initiative's Course Expansion Grant.
This event is open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's
nondiscrimination policy.
The Global Asias Initiative (GAI) at UMBC is holding a workshop to help support and curate an exhibit of creative works produced by students that relate and help illustrate understandings and relationalities to Asia as understood through a Global Asias framework. In the workshop, students will read and unpack a text written by Tina Chen (Global Asias: Method, Architecture, and Praxis) in order to better understand Global Asias, a theoretical, multidisciplinary framework that brings together the fields of Asian American and Asian Studies. We will work together to create an exhibit of student work that translates and explains Global Asias as an analytical lens to the campus and wider public.
Students will arrive to the first session with a project they have either completed in a prior class or with a project in mind as well as having read an assigned text on Global Asias. Together with faculty mentors, we will discuss the text and clarify any questions in order to strengthen our collective understanding of the Global Asias framework.
In the second session, students will work to hone their project and work on writing artist statements that explain to a public audience how their piece reflects Global Asias–what Global Asias concept(s) does their piece draw on? How can we see that concept or process illustrated or represented in the piece?
Participating in this workshop will help strengthen public writing skills, hone reading skills, and is an opportunity you can put on your resume/CV.
Please make sure to keep available 5/1 for the exhibition install date and 5/4 for the Exhibition Reception.
Applications are due Wed, February 11, 2026 by 11:59pm.
Application Process:
By 11:59pm on Wed., Feb.11, 2026: Submit responses via the following application form: https://forms.gle/3WBUUEA9NyrC16QU6
Make sure to include:
WORKSHOP TIMELINE:
Session 1 (Friday 2/27, 12:00-2pm): reading & activity that asks that helps guide the revision of their project and helps them brainstorming their "artist statement"
In between sessions: students send advanced drafts
Session 2 (Friday 4/10, 12:00-2pm): bring workshopped/revised project, share. finalize and create connections between pieces.
(lunch will be provided)
Exhibition Install date: Friday, 5/1
Exhibition Reception: Monday 5/4
PAYMENT DISBURSEMENT:
Participating students will receive a $300 stipend. Receiving the stipend is dependent on completion of both workshop sessions and installing their piece in the exhibition.
CONTACT INFO:
Please reach out to Dr. Mika Thornburg at mthornburg@umbc.edu, Dr. Tamara Bhalla at tbhalla@umbc.edu or Priya Bhayana at priyab@umbc.edu with any questions.
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Thank you for attending the Asian American Children's Literature Exhibition!
Thank you so much for attending the Asian American Children's Literature Exhibition organized by Dr. Sharon Tran! We had a beautiful evening engaging with work created by Dr. Tran's English 360 students and sharing in story time with Dr. Tamara Bhalla, Dr. Fan Yang, and their daughters.
Plans are in the work to host the children's books that students selected in an accessible location for people to visit. For now, please reach out to Dr. Fan Yang (Director, Asian Studies) at fanyang@umbc.edu if you would like to check them out!
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Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:55:46 -0500
Reminder: Reframing Global Asias Conversation Series Events
Join us for this series of lectures & interactive workshops!
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 our 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
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
6-8pm
Commons 331
Solidarity with Anti-Imperialist Struggles: A Creative Mapping Workshop in collaboration with student groups Anakbayan UMBC and Binhi FFPS
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
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.
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Abbie Fakoya leads faculty, staff, and students in the choreography for the song "Golden," from Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters film. (All photos by Brad Ziegler/UMBC)