With an $800 funding grant from INTS, Victoria Huynh traveled to Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She reports: “As a result of my conversations with Khmer women activists, queer activists, diasporas, Khmer-Exiled Americans and anti-carceral activists, I was able to manifest a letters project entitled ‘Decolonizing Khmer Women’s Resistance’ which recorded the sentiments and…Continue Reading Victoria Huynh attends 2019 International Association for Genocide Scholars Conference
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Jeannie Shinozuka discusses the history of Japanese Immigration and American Relations
On September 11, Dr. Jeannie Shinozuka discussed her forthcoming book From a Contagious to a Poisonous Yellow Peril: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Public Health and Agriculture, 1890s-1950. “In the early twentieth century, government officers and the mass media demonized mutually constitutive Japanese beetles and bodies as deadly yellow perils. The Japanese beetle, second-generation Japanese…Continue Reading Jeannie Shinozuka discusses the history of Japanese Immigration and American Relations
INTS Supports Student’s Conference Participation
Victoria Huynh (class of 2021) attended the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) Women’s Lead #ImReady Conference in Berkeley on November 3rd. She reported: “I found myself amidst self-identified AAPI women and girls having traversed the nation to be within a space that we’ve rarely had before. Through my internship with Reappropriate.com under activist Dr….Continue Reading INTS Supports Student’s Conference Participation
Jessica Graham speaks on Brazilian history and Bolsonaro’s election
On Oct 31, Jessica Graham, Assistant Professor at the University of California San Diego, visited Soka University to present “Black Internationalism in Brazil in the 1930s.” Speaking to a packed room, Dr. Graham explored striking contrasts and continuities with contemporary Brazil and thus was particularly engaging only a week after the election Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s…Continue Reading Jessica Graham speaks on Brazilian history and Bolsonaro’s election
Sada Sud (Class of 2018) Attends Major Political Science Conference
Sada Sud attended and presented a research [poster at the Western Political Science Association Conference in San Francisco on March 29-31, 2018. She reported: “The academic value gained [through the conference] was immense. I was able to talk to other academics and undergraduate students interested in Middle Eastern geopolitics. Questions and inquiries raised by them served as…Continue Reading Sada Sud (Class of 2018) Attends Major Political Science Conference