Event Calendar

Jennifer Lin, author of Beethoven in Beijing will be at the Luddington Library, 5 S. Bryn Mawr Ave. Bryn Mawr, PA, with Booker Rowe, one of the musicians from the 1973 tour

James Wolfinger, editor of If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress, with contributor Clem Harris will be speaking at the Walnut West Library 

James Wolfinger, Stan Arnold, David Canton, and Abby Perkiss discuss their book If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia, at Historical Society of Pennsylvania

erin Khue Ninh, author of Passing for Perfect, to speak at UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library, 30 Stephens Hall in Berkeley, CA on February 8 at 6:00 PM PST
 

IN PERSON EVENT: Meet Robin Bachin, author of Engaging Place, Engaging Practices: Urban History and Campus-Community Partnerships, at the Books & Books in Coral Gables at 265 Aragon Ave.

Meet Ray Didinger for an in-person signing of The Eagles Encyclopedia: Champions Edition and Finished Business: My Fifty Years of Headlines, Heroes, and Heartaches  at Barnes and Noble in Wilmington, DE. GO BIRDS!!

ONLINE EVENT: Elora Halim Chowdhury will discuss her book Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh as part of the Conversations on South Asia series at Dartmouth College.

Virtual Book Talk ~ Ethical Encounters: Transitional Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh with Elora Chowdhury at Cal State University Long Beach. Register here.

An Evening With David Steele, author of It Was Always a Choice: Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism
and co-author of Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith.  Register here.

Mrill Ingram will be signing copies of her book, Loving Orphaned Space, at the Wild Things conference.

Nelson Díaz, author of Not from Here, Not from There, will participate in the Díaz Professorship Panel Discussion and Reception at the Temple University Beasley School of Law on February 27 at 4:00 pm in the Moot Court Room, Klein Hall, 1719 N. Broad Street, in Philadelphia, PA. 

IN PERSON EVENT: Leth Oun and Joe Samuel Starnes, authors of A Refugee’s American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service, will speak at the Free Library of Philadelphia.

HYBRID EVENT: Join us at Temple's Charles Library for a reading of A Refugee's American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service and a discussion with authors Leth Oun and Joe Samuel Starnes. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing after the program.

This celebration of life will feature two panel discussions on Refugee Lifeworlds, by Y-Dang Troeung. Panelists will include Vinh Nguyen, Cathy J. Schlund Vials, Danielle Wong, David Chariandy, Chris Patterson, and Madeleine Thien. RSVP here.

Join Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies coeditors Alex-Thai Dinh Vo and Tuong Vu for a Panel Discussion with New Directions in Vietnamese/American Studies at UCLA. 

Thursday, March 9, 2023
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM (Pacific Time)
Math Sciences 4000A
UCLA Campus

John Haddad, author of Cultures Colliding: American Missionaries, Chinese Resistance, and the Rise of Modern Institutions in China, will present at the China Institute Renwen Society. Register here for the online lecture.

Nature writer Billy Brown, author of Exploring Philly Nature: A Guide for All Four Seasons, discusses the history of pigeons, starlings, and house sparrows at the Upper Dublin Public Library.  Register here.

Mark Rose, co-author of A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal since 1945, will present at the 2023 Business History Conference (Session d: Financial Innovation, Room D)

IN PERSON EVENT: Leth Oun and Joe Samuel Starnes, authors of A Refugee’s American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service, will speak at the Tredyffrin Library.

Ray Didinger to appear at the new Barnes and Noble and Carl's Cards, information to come

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CKS Series: Emerging Directions in Korean/American Studies with James Kyung-Jin Lee and erin Khue Ninh

When the Model Minority Fails: A Discussion of Pedagogies of Woundedness & Passing for Perfect

Wednesday, March 29 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
On Zoom and in person at The Wang Center Lecture Hall, register here.

Join us at Widener University's Kapelski Learning Center for a reading of A Refugee's American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service and a discussion with authors Leth Oun and Joe Samuel Starnes.

Join Leth Oun & Joe Samuel Starnes, the authors of A Refugee's American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service, for a conversation at Collingswood Public Library. Register for the in-person event here.

A/P/A Institute at NYU will hold a conversation with James Kyung-Jin Lee, author of Pedagogies of Woundedness, and erin Khuê Ninh, author of Passing for Perfect.