SPEAKER: SAMIP MALLICK, Executive Director, South Asian American Digital Archive.

South Asian Americans have been a presence in the United States for more than 130 years. Early immigrants from South Asia worked on farms and factories, helped build railroads, fought for India's freedom from British rule, and struggled for equal rights in the United States. Today, more than 5.4 million individuals in the U.S. trace their heritage to South Asia, the fastest growing immigrant group in the country. South Asian American stories are an integral part of the American story, yet little information is available to the public about these stories.

In "The Missing Stories," SAADA's Executive Director Samip Mallick will cover how communities come to be excluded from the archival record and how we can address these absences. Samip will provide an introduction to South Asian American history (1800s to present) and will also discuss how community-based archives can become sites for liberatory memory work by introducing the audience to SAADA's archival collections, programs, and participatory storytelling projects.

SAADA's work has been recognized with awards and support from the American Historical Association, Society of American Archivists, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Institute of Museum and Library Services. The organization has been highlighted by the New York Times, the Atlantic, NPR, and other national and international media. SAADA is working to create a future where each person's story is valued and given the dignity and importance it deserves.

This event is co-sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Studies Program (APA) and the India Council, Asian Studies Center.

Hybrid event (New Haven, CT and online). Co-hosted by MSU Department of Psychiatry

Theme: Fragilities Unmasked: Emerging from Social Isolation, Social Inequalities and COVID

More information: | Michigan State University (msu.edu)

Required Webinar Registration Link: msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fsj98yKmTJKAICdkl46RjQ

Join us for an exciting virtual career series featuring many MSU Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) alumni with diverse career experiences for APIDA Heritage Month!

Panelists:

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  Caitlin Do (She/Her), First Year Law Student, College of Law, Michigan State University, B.S., Economics, University of Michigan


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  Ronald Ilagan (He/Him), Second Year Law Student, College of Law, Michigan State University, B.S., Interdisciplinary Studies, Health and Society & B.A., Political Science-Pre-Law College of Social Sciences, Michigan State University


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  Ilina Krishen (They/She), Second Year Law Student, College of Law, Michigan State University, BA, History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan


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  Christine Wang (She/Her), Third Year Law Student, College of Law, Michigan State University, B.A., Political Science & B.S. Management, Northern Illinois University

Sponsored by: APIDA Student Success Committee, Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, Career Services Network and MSU Alumni

Conversation hour with cultural events, for those learning Korean. Do you know Korean? Come practice Korean.

Sponsored by the Korean Program, Council on Korean Studies and the Asian Studies Center.Conversation hour with cultural events, for those learning Korean.

Required Webinar Registration Link: msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_l1gKfpgfRVe5N1xLDgqOBg

Join us for an exciting virtual career series featuring many MSU Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) alumni with diverse career experiences for APIDA Heritage Month!

Panelists:

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  Brianna Brown (She/Hers), PhD Student, Plant Biology, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University, B.S. Earth Systems & B.A. Human Biology, Stanford University


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  Justin Lee (He/Him), PhD Candidate, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University, M.S. Microbiology & B.S. Biotechnology, California State Polytechnic Pomona


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  Grace Gerloff (She/Hers), PhD Student, Cultural Anthropology, College of Social Science, Michigan State University, B.A. Religious Studies, Education, Critical Identity Studies, Beloit College


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  Vicky Phun (She/Hers), PhD Student, Educational Psychology & Educational Technology, College of Education, Michigan State University, B.A. Psychology, California State University, Long Beach

This career series is sponsored by the APIDA Heritage Month Planning Committee, APIDA Student Success Committee, Career Services Network, and MSU Alumni. 

with Translator Aida Bamia.

Join us on Zoom or in person for a special event with the translator of My First and Only Love, an historical Palestinian novel written by Sahar Khalifeh. Dr. Aida Bamia will give a short lecture about the book and her work as its translator, which will be followed by facilitated small group discussions of the book.

Aida Bamia is a literary translator and professor emeritus of Arabic language and literature at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where she lives. Sahar Khalifeh, born in Nablus in 1941, is an acclaimed Palestinian author. She is hailed as a feminist writer and has written eleven novels, which have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, and many other languages. She has won numerous international prizes, including the Naguib Mahfouz for Literature for The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant. She lives in Jordan.

Sponsored by the Muslim Studies Program, Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, and Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences

Join Zoom Webinar at: edwp.educ.msu.edu/event/role-of-race-ses-inequalities-in-education/

The United States and most countries across the world struggle with the growing inequality in student performance. This talk presents data from three types of countries - developed, developing and transitional (China). The data collected as a part of PISA provide measures of opportunity to learn, SES, race, and student performance in 63 countries. The data show varying degrees of inequality related to SES both across the three types of countries as well as across individual countries. For the US, those analyses also include race. The striking findings indicate quite surprisingly to some that schooling itself contributes varying large amounts to SES and racial inequalities.

Speaker: About Dr. Schmidt: William H. Schmidt is a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and director of the Center for the Study of Curriculum Policy. He holds faculty appointments in Statistics and Education. Previously he served as National Research Coordinator and Executive Director of the US National Center which oversaw participation of the United States in the IEA sponsored Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). His current research interests focus on the effects of curriculum policy on academic achievement. He is also concerned with educational policy related to equality of opportunity through schooling.

Sponsored by the Office of International Studies in Education

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The Global Reads Webinar will be talking with Saadia Faruqi, author of SABA Honor Book A Thousand Questions, about her work and how incorporate multicultural literature into the classroom. Saadia Faruqi is a Pakistani American author, essayist and interfaith activist. She writes the children's early reader series Yasmin and other books for children. Her new book Yusuf Azeem Is Not A Hero details the experiences of the Muslim American community twenty years after 9/11. She lives in Houston, TX with her husband and children.

Sponsored by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs, the South Asia National Outreach Consortium, the Middle East Outreach Council, and African Studies Outreach Council, the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia.

Co-sponsored by the South Asia Book Award

Website & Zoom Link: Asia in Transition Webinar Series Information Page

In recent decades, people living in Southeast Asia have witnessed major shifts from predominantly subsistence agriculture to industrializing economies, with attendant changes in migration, crop production systems, and major infrastructure (roads, dams, industrial estates). This series of four webinars will explore how communities in the region are experiencing the economic, social, and cultural dislocations of these transformations. We will focus on forests, rivers, documentarians and writers, and Imaging Environmental Futures.