Asian American Studies

Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!

Women have been important patrons of major works of architecture in the Islamic world historically, a phenomenon that reveals their social agency and can illuminate their lives even when they are barely mentioned in historical texts.

BLKNWS is an Afro-futurist film that braids fictional and historical characters in a stunning cinematic experience spanning 247 years across land and sea.

Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!

Suburban inequality and anti-immigrant violence are rising. This talk focuses on Orange County’s Little Saigon and asks, How do suburban communities like Little Saigon resist displacement pressures? How do refugees enact placemaking and fight for immigrant justice in the suburbs?

Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!

Please join us next Wednesday, February 25, at 12:00 PM for a presentation from the winner of our 2026 Tanaka Grant, Inyoung Jang. Inyoung Jang is a PhD student in Information Sciences who is minoring in Asian American Studies. She'll be sharing her exciting research!

Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!