Movie - Strong Coffee: The Story of Cafe Femenino

I thought this might interest some folks here. This is a documentary about a coffee cooperative run by women in Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Peru.

http://www.strongcoffeefilm.com/

October 20th
7:00 PM
Studio 35
3055 Indianola Ave
$5/door

FANHS-Midwest Conference

Filipino American National History Society, Midwest Chapter
2009 Biennial Regional Conference

"The Filipino American Experience in Ohio and Other Midwestern States"

October 16-18, 2009
University Plaza Hotel & Conference Center
3110 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH 43202

To view the conference program and download the registration form, visit: http://asianamericanstudies.osu.edu/dsp_event.cfm?EventID=4ded2088-c776-45f3-bd42-cf98b72374c0

cfp: MELUS conference

The call for papers for the MELUS conference, "Ethnic Transformation in the Self and the City," is available online: http://webspace.ship.edu/kmlong/melus/.

Proposals due: Dec. 21, 2009
Conference dates: Apr. 8-11, 2010
Location: The University of Scranton, Scranton, PA

cfp: Asian American Studies national conference

The call for papers for the 2010 AAAS conference, "Emergent Cartographies: Asian American Studies in the Twenty-first Century," is available online: http://www.aaastudies.org/2010/call/index.php.

Proposals due: Nov. 15, 2009
Conference dates: April 7-11, 2010
Location: Austin, TX

Walter Lim talk -- 9/24/09

The Asian American Studies Program is pleased to present:

Dr. Walter S. H. Lim

“Reading Asian American Literature from Ohio to Singapore—notes from a comparative perspective”

Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
311 Denney Hall

After receiving his PhD from the University of Toronto (Canada), Walter S. H. Lim taught at Hiram College (Ohio) before moving on to the National University of Singapore, where he is presently Deputy Head (Literature) in the Department of English Language and Literature. Dr. Lim teaches English Renaissance Literature and Asian American Literature, and has published articles on such diverse topics as Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, and Asian American Literature. He is the author of two books: The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism from Ralegh to Milton (University of Delaware Press, 1998) and John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism (University of Delaware Press, 2006). He is also co-editor with Debra Johanyak (University of Akron Wayne College) of a volume of essays, The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia, forthcoming in 2010 from Palgrave Macmillan. For more information, visit http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/elllimw/.

USEP Reading Group's First Meeting (Ever)

The inaugural USEP Reading Group meeting is to be held this Wednesday (June 24, 2009)! We will be meeting to discuss two articles:

• "Editor's Column: The End of Postcolonial Theory? : A Roundtable with Sunil Agnani, Fernando Coronil, Gaurav Desai, Mamadou Diouf, Simon Gikandi, Susie Tharu, and Jennifer Wenzel." PMLA 122.3 (2007): 633-51.
• Selby, Jan. "Edward W. Said: Truth, Justice and Nationalism." interventions 8.1 (2006): 40-55.

Thanks to Brian for organizing and hosting this gathering, and to Brian and Suhaan for selecting the readings.