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Join our 2017-18 board!
Applications are due May 6

GENERAL MEETINGS

Every other Wednesday at 7:30 PM
​Cross Cultural Center, Ring Room

Our general meetings take place every odd week of the quarter and will entail a variety of social events and a series of social/political consciousness workshops called School of Consciousness. 

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Upcoming Events

Check Our Calendar

​Check our calendar for events from our constituents, the Cross-Cultural Center, the AsAm Department, and more.

APAAC 2017

​Find out more about our 32nd Annual Asian Pacific American Awareness Conference, happening on January 21st.

APIHM 2017

April is API Heritage month. Find out more about the events hosted by our constituents and other API communities during this month!

New Asian American Studies Class for Fall 2016!

Humanities Honors 81: The Viet Nam War

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30-10:50 AM - Prof. Judy Wu
​Description:
This honors course explores the origins, history, and legacies of the U.S. War in Viet Nam through the lens of Asian American Studies.  Through readings, discussions, and films, we will explore and analyze various ways to understand the U.S. War in Viet Nam as well as its legacies. 
Students will benefit from both local and institutional resources to explore these complex legacies.  Orange County is the home of the largest Vietnamese community in the U.S., and UCI is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Southeast Asian Archives (http://seaa.lib.uci.edu/).  Students can both access valuable historical and contemporary resources and also have the opportunity to utilize the UCI’s Vietnamese American Oral History Project (http://sites.uci.edu/vaohp/).  
The class will prepare students to create a short digital narrative about the significance and memory of the Viet Nam War. 
This course fulfills either GE III or IV.  Students who are interested in taking this class to fulfill requirements in Asian American Studies should contact Prof. Wu. 
Guest Speakers and Special Activities include: 
l   Karen L. Ishizuka:  author of Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties (Verso, 2016)
l   Tu-Uyen Nguyen:  UCI Alum, co-founder of UCI Asian American Studies, refugee rights activist, and Associate Professor of Asian American Studies specializing in public health at CSU Fullerton
l   Thuy Vo Dang:  Archivist, the UCI Southeast Asian Archives
l   Tram Le:  Associate Director, the Vietnamese American Oral History Project
l   Trinh Mai:  Artist (http://trinhmai.com/)
 
Readings Include:
Mark Atwood Lawrence, The Vietnam War:  A Concise International History (Oxford Press, 2010)
Yen Le Espiritu, Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) (University of California Press, 2014)
Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora  (Temple University Press, 2012)
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies:  Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press, 2016)

Welcome Class of 2020 (and returning Anteaters)!

Now that the 2016-17 school year is starting, we'd like to share with you our fun events for Welcome Week, the Fall quarter and beyond. Check out our Events Calendar for more.

Get Involved with APSA!

Check out our Calendar and our Facebook Page to discover different APSA, constituent, and campus-wide events. You can also visit the Advocacy page to catch up on any campaigns we have been involved in and read about our political stances on current issues. If your organization is interested, apply to become a constituent. You can also visit us in the Cross-Cultural Center!
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