
Up Next at CAS
February 9, 2022
Fireside Chat | February 17
Dr. John Brender is Director of Special Initiatives for the Office of International Programs at Wayne State University, in Detroit, Michigan. Professionally dedicated to language and cultural education, he has taught Spanish, Japanese, linguistics, foreign-language teaching methods, and English as a second language. He has also presented multiple lectures on cross-cultural communication in China and the U.S. Dr. Brender's research has focused principally on international and ethnic student identity and values at North American universities and on North American experiences abroad. He is actively involved with the Great Lakes Chinese Consortium, an online source for Chinese language and cultural learning, of which he is a co-founding member. Between 2008 and 2021, Dr. Brender served as Director of the Confucius Institute at Wayne State University.
The first 25 people to register will receive a free copy of Dr. Brender's book!
Anlin Ku Lecture & OAH Distinguished Lecture | February 24 *NEW TIME 6:00 PM*
As part of the Anlin Ku Lecture hosted by both the CAS and the UTD School of Arts & Humanities, Dr. Erika Lee from the Organization of American Historians (OAH) will be giving a virtual lecture via Zoom based on her book, "The Making of Asian America" on February 24 at 6:00 PM CST. As the fastest growing group in the United States, Asian Americans are helping to change America. But much of their long history has been forgotten. In a lecture that spans centuries and continents, Lee shows that the long history of Asian Americans offers a new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today.
Erika Lee is President-Elect of the Organization of American Historians and a Regents Professor, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, and Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. The granddaughter of Chinese immigrants, Lee was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and testified before Congress in its historic hearings on anti-Asian discrimination and violence. She is the author of four award-winning books including The Making of Asian America (2015) and America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in America (2019), which won the American Book Award and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, as well as other honors. Named to many best books lists and identified as an essential book illuminating the Trump era and the 2020 elections, it was recently re-published with a new epilogue on xenophobia and racism during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Making of Asian America was also recently republished with a new postscript about the latest campaigns against Asian Americans. Lee directs three major digital humanities projects: Immigrant Stories, #ImmigrationSyllabus, and Immigrants in COVID America and also regularly appears in the media, including featured appearances in the PBS film series “Asian Americans,” the History Channel’s “America: The Promised Land,” and interviews with CNN, PBS NewsHour, National Public Radio, the BBC, the New York Times, ABC News, NBC News, and many podcasts. Her opinion pieces have been published in the Washington Post, Time, the New York Daily News, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times.
DMA Arts & Letters Live | March 10
The Dallas Museum of Art's Arts & Letters Live program will be hosting author Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Tammy Nguyen Lee. Join them for this live event at the DMA's Horchow Auditorium on March 10 at 7:30 PM.
The trenchant follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide, The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen follows the man of two minds as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. Both highly suspenseful and existential, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that cements Nguyen’s position in the firmament of American letters.
This event is presented in promotional partnership with the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture and the Center for Asian Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas.
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