Cho to join leading scholars for “I’m Not a Virus: A Teach-In on Anti-Asian & Asian American Racism”
WHAT
FIU’s Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment in the College of Arts, Sciences & Education and the Asian Studies Program in the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs, with the support of the FIU Division of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, will host a teach-in on anti-Asian / Asian American racism.
A panel of activists, scholars and artists will lead “mini-lectures” to address the problem of anti-Asian racism, its history and what people should do about it.
WHO
- Moderated by Phillip Carter, director of the Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment; associate professor of English in the College of Arts, Sciences & Education at Florida International University
- Joy Lidu Yi, associate professor in the College of Communication, Architecture & The Arts at Florida International University will begin her mini lecture with the statement “Holding Noble Mindfulness, A Buddhist Teaching”
- Margaret Cho, comedian, actor, musician, advocate and entrepreneur will lead a mini lecture titled “No Minority is a #Model”
- Sean Metzger, social theorist at University of California, Los Angeles will lead a mini lecture titled “Queering Asian American Violence”
- John Kuo Wei Tchen, historian and chair of public history and humanities at Rutgers University, will lead a mini lecture titled “Yellow Peril Today & The Deep Ecology of Anglo-Protestant Possessive Colonialist Ideologies”
- Cyra Choudhury, professor in the College of Law at Florida International University, will lead a mini lecture titled “The Shared Stories and Different Experiences of South Asian and Asian Americans”
- Mia White, assistant professor at New School, will lead a mini lecture titled “Understanding AAPI-Racism Through a Freedom Framework”
- Mitzi Carter, cultural anthropologist in the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs at Florida International University, will lead a mini lecture titled “Nappy Routes & Tangled Tales: A Personal Reflection on Anti-Asian Violence and White Supremacy”
- Joanne Li, dean, College of Business at Florida International University, will lead a mini lecture with the closing statement “A community of love and care must be built on our diverse thoughts and experiences”
WHEN
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 4 p.m.
WHERE
Access the discussion via Zoom: https://go.fiu.edu/notavirus. Zoom discussion will be live at this link the day of the discussion.
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About FIU:
Florida International University is Miami’s public research university, focused on student success. According to U.S. News and World Report, FIU has 26 top-50 rankings in the nation among public universities and Washington Monthly Magazine ranks FIU among the top 20 public universities contributing to the public good and No. 12 for social mobility. FIU is a top U.S. research university (R1), with more than $200 million in annual expenditures. FIU ranks 15th in the nation among public universities for patent production, which drives innovation, and is one of the institutions that helps make Florida the top state for higher education. The Next Horizon fundraising campaign is furthering FIU’s commitment to providing students Worlds Ahead opportunities. Today, FIU has two campuses and multiple centers, and supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA, with more than 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. The university has awarded more than 330,000 degrees to many leaders in South Florida and beyond. For more information about FIU, visit www.fiu.edu.
