Asian American Writers Workshop | Stories of the Future: Diasporic Literary Community on Campus @AAWWNYC | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
This May, in collaboration with Barnard College’s arts and literary magazine Echoes, we are gathering a panel of academic and student leaders to discuss the role of diasporic on-campus literary communities in mobilizing and giving form — but never definition — to the elusive notion of “Asian America.” Drawing from the perspectives of Amy Zhang and Ruchi Shah (co-Editors-in-Chief of Echoes), Jerrica Li (Founder of Harvard’s The Wave), Silayan Camson (Editor-in-Chief of UC Berkeley’s {m}aganda), and Hua Hsu (New Yorker staff writer and professor of English at Vassar), this conversation will explore the unique opportunities and challenges of celebrating multiplicity, building solidarity, and uplifting Asian diasporic stories in the academic setting. This even will be moderated by Jyothi Natarajan, Editor-in-Chief of The Margins, and introduced by Meg Young, events coordinator at Echoes magazine.
The title of this event is drawn from the following quote from Grace Lee Boggs’ book The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century: “Every crisis, actual or impending, needs to be viewed as an opportunity to bring about profound changes in our society. Going beyond protest organizing, visionary organizing begins by creating images and stories of the future that help us imagine and create alternatives to the existing system.”
This May, in collaboration with Barnard College’s arts and literary magazine Echoes, we are gathering a panel of academic and student leaders to discuss the role of diasporic on-campus literary communities in mobilizing and giving form — but never definition — to the elusive notion of “Asian America.” Drawing from the perspectives of Amy Zhang and Ruchi Shah (co-Editors-in-Chief of Echoes), Jerrica Li (Founder of Harvard’s The Wave), Silayan Camson (Editor-in-Chief of UC Berkeley’s {m}aganda), and Hua Hsu (New Yorker staff writer and professor of English at Vassar), this conversation will explore the unique opportunities and challenges of celebrating multiplicity, building solidarity, and uplifting Asian diasporic stories in the academic setting. This even will be moderated by Jyothi Natarajan, Editor-in-Chief of The Margins, and introduced by Meg Young, events coordinator at Echoes magazine.
The title of this event is drawn from the following quote from Grace Lee Boggs’ book The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century: “Every crisis, actual or impending, needs to be viewed as an opportunity to bring about profound changes in our society. Going beyond protest organizing, visionary organizing begins by creating images and stories of the future that help us imagine and create alternatives to the existing system.”
