Symposium on Asian American Literary Studies
(featuring Maxine Hong Kingston)
Thursday, February 23
1:00-6:00 PM
McCune Room, 6020 HSSB

http://acc.english.ucsb.edu/conference/symposium2006/index.asp

Join the American Cultures & Global Contexts Center for an interdisciplinary symposium on critical issues in Asian American literary and cultural studies, featuring an onstage interview with renowned novelist Maxine Hong Kington. This half-day event will also include panel discussions with scholars and artists such as Yunte Huang (English, UCSB), James K. Lee (Asian American Studies, UCSB) and Karen Tei Yamashita (Literature, UCSC). The symposium will conclude with a reception to celebrate the release of a new collection of essays, Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits, edited by UCSB English Professor Shirley Geok-Lin Lim et al. All events are open to the public. For more information and a detail schedule, please visit: http://acc.english.ucsb.edu/conference/symposium2006/index.asp.

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