GET EXCITED because APASA’S annual ?Night Market ?is happening on 11/29 (Tues) from 6:30 to 8:30 PM on McCarthy Quad! Night Market is APASA’s biggest event of the year, with over 1,700 in attendance last spring ?Don’t miss out on this chance to explore the diversity of the APIDA community at USC and #plantyourroots! ? … Continue reading APASA Night Market 11/29
November was designated as National American Indian Heritage Month in 1990 by President George H. W. Bush and Congress by joint resolution, after almost a century of efforts nationwide to recognize the contributions, achievements, and diverse histories and cultures of Indigenous peoples. This year, President Biden issued a proclamation encouraging the celebration of November 25, … Continue reading National American Indian Heritage Month
Wishing you a Diwali that brings happiness prosperity and joy to you and yours! Starting last Saturday, this five-day festival of lights symbolizes a spiritual victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance. Organizations all over campus will have events on Sunday, October 30 to celebrate. Are you observing Diwali this … Continue reading Happy Diwali Festival of Lights
Great to see everyone at the October APIFSA Informal Luncheon hosted by the Programming & Development! And thanks to Glenn for the informative mini-lecture on the Nisei Rock Garden! Continue reading APIFSA Programming & Development Luncheon
On Wednesday, October 12, USC hosted Noche de Cultura, the closing event for Latinx Heritage Month. The event honored this month’s theme “Unidos: Inclusivity for a Stronger Community,” with live dance performances, free food from local vendors, raffles, giveaways, and a DJ. The exciting program will feature remarks by USC President, Carol L. Folt, former … Continue reading Noche de Cultura at USC Latinx Heritage Month
“Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health” ||Division of Biokinesiology & Physical Therapy DEI Book Club for Faculty, Staff and Alums September 26, 2022 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm on Zoom Join the Division Biokinesiology of & Physical Therapy’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Book Club. September’s selection is Leana Wen, MD (memoir) Lifelines:A Doctor’s Journey in the … Continue reading Book club meetings: “Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health”
Thanks to everyone who joined us on Wednesday for the Everything Everywhere All At Once screening! A huge thank you to everyone who co-sponsored this event with us: A24, USC Libraries, USC Cinema’s Out of the Box Office, and USC East Asian Studies Center! Continue reading Everything Everywhere All At Once screening
Earlier today members of the USC APIFSA Executive Board joined @mayorofla and organizations around Los Angeles that support the AAPI community to kick off Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and celebrate the dedication of May 3 as AAPI LA Day. USC APIFSA is one of the advisory board member organizations of the LA … Continue reading USC APIFSA at City Hall to celebrate AAPI LA Day!
Join President Carol L. Folt together with faculty, staff, students, and members of the USC community as we explore the heritage month’s theme of “Making Space for Our Stories.” Thanks to all who attended the APIFSA End-of-Year Celebration and to those who attended the AAPIHM events this month. In particular, we would like to thank Isaac Vigilla for the … Continue reading Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Virtual Closing Event
USC Kaufman dance majors will perform at @thewallisbh April 21-23, 2022! Choreography includes a new work by API faculty member Achinta S. McDaniel. The piece titled “1947” draws from the colonial history of modern India and Pakistan. Learn more and buy tickets today at kaufman.usc.edu. Continue reading Debut at The Wallis
USC APIFSA’s Industry and Identity event series invites USC API staff, faculty, and alumni to speak about their careers. In addition to sharing how their identities have influenced their journeys, guests will explore a variety of professional development topics from mentorship to networking and more. On Monday April 4, 2022, Dr. James Hu, Associate Professor … Continue reading Industry and Identity: A career conversation with Dr. James Hu
USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture and the Japanese American National Museum present “Interlinking Past and Present: A Conversation and Reading about Race, Religion, and American Belonging” on Saturday, April 2 at 5pm. Link in bio to RSVP! Join Duncan Ryuken Williams, co-curator of the exhibition Sutra and Bible: Faith and the … Continue reading Interlinking Past and Present: A Conversation and Reading about Race, Religion, and American Belonging
In the spirit of allyship, Maintaining Our Bliss (MOB), the Annenberg Cross-Cultural Student Association (ACCSA), and the Asian Pacific Islander Faculty and Staff Association (APIFSA) present a panel discussion to explore the complexities of race, identity and representation surrounding the Black and Asian communities. While we have had different lived experiences throughout history, we also highlight and explore how communities of color have … Continue reading What’s in a name: Exploring identities, allyship, and cross-cultural relations
USC Kaufman students Hayden Rivas and William Okajima (BFA ’24) perform with USC Thornton student Elizabeth Wei | Photo by Hannah Doerr On March 9, the USC Asian Pacific Islander Faculty and Staff Association (APIFSA), USC Asian Pacific American Student Assembly (APASA), Asian Pacific American Student Services (APASS) and the USC Office of Religious and … Continue reading VIGIL FOR VICTIMS OF ANTI-ASIAN HATE
Did you know that Asian Pacific Islanders are America’s most educated group — but the least likely to get promoted in the workplace? For career coach Joy Chen, this reflects a clash of cultural leadership styles — and a call for change. APIFSA hosted a talk with Chen on Thursday, November 18, 2021, as she … Continue reading Career Coach Joy Chen Explains How to Smash the API Glass Ceiling
In honor of Filipino American History Month, APIFSA hosted a film screening of the PBS documentary Delano Manongs on October 12, 2021 on the USC campus. The film follows the story of farm labor organizer Larry Itliong and a group of Filipino farm workers who organized The Delano Grape Strike of 1965. The seminal event … Continue reading APIFSA Hosts Screening and Q&A for Delano Manongs Documentary
The photo of the Japanese Trojan Club tucked into the back of the 1942 yearbook was not so different from the other pictures of young men and women about to start their futures: smiling faces with a world of hope and promise. But by the time the El Rodeo yearbook was circulated, every student of Japanese descent … Continue reading 80 years after being forced to leave USC, a degree of honor for the Nisei
To Grace Ryu, the pain was like “suffering in a silo.” That’s how the associate director of the East Asian Studies Center at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences describes the days following a mass shooting in Atlanta in March that targeted Asian women. The attack came a year into a pandemic … Continue reading New group seeks to build community among Asian faculty and staff
For the first time since the pandemic shuttered museums around the country, the USC Pacific Asia Museum is reopening its doors to the public. To mark the historic occasion, the museum is hosting an “Opening and Closing Weekend” starting May 29. The unique event sends off an exhibit of work by women living and working … Continue reading USC Pacific Asia Museum reopens and vows to be a platform for community artists
During a semester abroad in Nanjing, China, Tiara Wilson, then an undergraduate, became fascinated with the proliferation of hip hop in China, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. She found the topic so compelling that she made it the focus of her studies when she was accepted to graduate school at the USC Dornsife College … Continue reading Master’s degree student explores race, identity and culture in East Asian hip hop
