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SUMMARY:A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting: Kinjal Dave
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nKinjal Dave (A/P/A Institute at NYU Visiting Academic and PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication) presents her dissertation chapter\, “Bethak: Sitting Between Work and Life in the Diaspora” at this session of the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Dave’s dissertation\, tentatively titled “Gujarati Aunties on the Integrated Circuit: Women’s Manufacturing Labor in 1980s New Jersey\,” is framed by broad theoretical questions such as: how does the West relate to the non-West in empirical terms\, particularly in the creation of a political world order following the Second World War (Williams 1976)? What are the symbolic relations which reflect a situation of postmodernity (Harvey 1989\, Trouillot 1991)? The tradition of global communication studies has argued that ethnographic perspectives are valuable resources with which to understand the arrangement of symbols and meanings of globalization as a post-structural process (Kraidy & Murphy\, eds. 2003). How do Gujarati American technical workers in military subcontracting help tell the story of globalization? \nThis meeting is open to all graduate students working in and around the field of A/P/A Studies. Lunch will be served. \n  \nBethak: Sitting Between Work and Life in the Diaspora \nThis methods chapter employs the bethak as an ethnographic and to an extent autoethnographic vignette from which to begin to delineate stories about a diaspora and the gendered social construction of their labor at the intersection of wage labor and social reproduction labor theories (Federici). The chapter sits as part of a broader dissertation project engaging immigrants from the nation-state of India\, specifically from the state of Gujarat\, who came to the United States in the 1980s as unskilled workers and established themselves into the manufacturing industry. \nSpecifically\, many ended up working in military subcontracting facilities in New Jersey. Engaging an ethnographic encounter at an interviewee’s home\, a bethak constructed in a peri-urban New Jersey home and the community members visiting the bethak are impacted by several different binaries: the United States as a different geographic and political territory from India\, men and women as subjects socialized by their nation states and its cultural histories\, and home with its relation to work. Since the project engages the author’s own family and family network\, the chapter explores methodological distinction between autoethnography and reflexivity in the feminist ethnographic practices. Further\, the chapter attempts to make a case for of collecting “boring stories” particularly from women who are not socialized to understand their own work history as important or worthy of storytelling practices as a feminist method with which to build working class immigrant women’s history. \n  \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to graduate students from NYU and nearby universities. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms and a lactation room available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. \n  \nImage courtesy Kinjal Dave.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/a-p-a-graduate-student-working-group-meeting-kinjal-dave/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, room 372\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting: Elliott Jun
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nElliott Jun (PhD candidate\, CUNY Graduate Center English Department with a certificate in American Studies) presents “‘The Wind Blows From All Directions’: Chinese Settler Labour\, Indigenous Differences\, and Transpacific Imperialisms in the Eighteenth Century” at this session of the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. This meeting is open to all graduate students working in and around the field of A/P/A Studies. Lunch will be served. \n\n“‘The Wind Blows From All Directions’: Chinese Settler Labour\, Indigenous Differences\, and Transpacific Imperialisms in the Eighteenth Century” \nOn May 5th\, 1789\, an unfamiliar but worrying sight came into view when Esteban José Martinez sailed into the Surgidero de San Lorenzo inlet of the Northwest Las Indias Occidentales; two ships from the newly established United States and a British ship were moored in the sound. Martinez immediately occupied the inlet and arrested William Douglas and the crew of the Iphigenia Nubiana before ordering them to return to Guangzhou. Over the next two months\, several more British ships arrived in short succession and were placed under arrest: the North West America\, the Princess Royal\, and the Argonaut. Each of these ships shared several common characteristics; they primarily bore Portuguese or British names\, flags\, and papers\, had British captains\, contained crews composed primarily of Europeans and Chinese labourers\, and were connected by the same British merchant\, John Meares. In negotiations with the captain of the Argonaut\, James Colnett\, Martinez discovered the British had already claimed the inlet as Nootka Sound in the preceding years with the intent to establish a more fortified settlement called Fort Pitt. Martinez imprisoned Colnett and the crew of the Argonaut and seized the Argonaut and the North West America along with their cargoes on the charge of violating Spanish territorial sovereignty. The competing colonial claims of British and Spanish empires across settler ownership and sovereignty over the unceded lands of the Mowachaht formed the core of the international incident known as the Nootka Crisis. \n“‘The Wind Blows From All Directions’: Chinese Settler Labour\, Indigenous Differences\, and Transpacific Imperialisms in the Eighteenth Century” investigates how Yuquot\, a seasonal fishing village of the Mowachaht\, became a key transpacific site where the multiple scales of racial capitalism and competing empires converged. I show how crises in the royal monopoly system and plantation economy across the increasingly transhemispheric British empire in the late eighteenth century created the opportunity for private free traders like John Meares to look for their own solutions beyond the nation-state. I argue that Meares imagined and employed Chinese wage labour as a liberal solution to form a British settler transpacific that connected Yuquot\, Hawai’i\, Guangzhou\, and Kolkata. While Meares’ experiment failed\, I reflect on the ways in which studying the “failures” of colonial capitalism as method attunes us to pay attention to the fragility\, contradictions\, crisis\, and reinvention that define colonialism\, empire\, and capital without foreclosing the relational possibilities of affinities organized around mutual struggle. \n\n\nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to graduate students from NYU and nearby universities. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. \n  \nImage credit: Meares\, John\, and Giovacchino Pagani. “Carta del Mar Pacifico del nord che comprendela costa nord est d’Asia e la costa-nord ouest d’America riconosciute nel 1778 e79 del Cap. Cook e piu particolarmente ancora nel 1788. e. 89.” Map. Florence/Italy: Pagani\, Giovacchino\, 1796. Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center\, https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:vx0273587 (accessed January 06\, 2026).
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SUMMARY:A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting: Dang Weiyu
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nDang Weiyu (PhD candidate\, NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis) presents “Weaponized Understanding: Foreign Study\, National Security\, and the Philanthropic Foundations of a Humanistic Empire” at this session of the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. This meeting is open to all graduate students working in and around the field of A/P/A Studies. Lunch will be served. \n\nWeaponized Understanding: Foreign Study\, National Security\, and the Philanthropic Foundations of a Humanistic Empire \nAs Allied victory beckoned in 1943\, the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) avidly promoted multilingualism and international understanding as hallmarks of US postwar leadership. “Oriental languages” were indispensable for conventional and psychological warfare in the Pacific\, but perhaps more importantly for the occupation and “liberation” of Japanese and European colonies into a US-led global order. Alongside the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)\, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)\, and elite universities\, the RF created centers devoted to international understanding through language and cultural study. While Cold War area studies has been amply critiqued\, the transformation of foreign study into intellectual ammunition for US national security remains understudied. As these programs have been disemboweled and demonized over the past year\, their origins illuminate how international understanding has become so contentious for contemporary national security and self-understanding. \n“Weaponized Understanding: Foreign Study\, National Security\, and the Philanthropic Foundations of a Humanistic Empire” locates the origins of foreign study in the interwar invention of the humanities. This dissertation chapter shows how the RF articulated a “humanistic empire” by deputizing the ACLS and SSRC along racial and geopolitical lines to reorganize US knowledge production between the wars. While its newly formed Division of Social Sciences investigated domestic social ills through the SSRC’s supposedly race-neutral methods\, a companion Division of Humanities deployed the ACLS to remedy international racial prejudice through foreign study. Crucially\, this managerial remit secularized a Protestant missionary pursuit of foreign souls into a domestic project of redemption by cultivating a moral public capable of sympathizing with foreign peoples and cultures. In weaponizing international understanding for geopolitical ends\, philanthropic–academic partnerships laid the ideological and institutional groundwork of the Cold War battle for hearts and minds. Yet\, framing intolerance as national security risks also positioned the United States as an imperfect society to be civilized through humanistic education in foreign ideas—a show of humility that catalyzed a McCarthyist backlash now hardened into an enduring suspicion toward foreign sympathy as an anti-American menace from within. \n\nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to graduate students from NYU and nearby universities. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. \n  \nImage credit: “Oriental Languages Become Weapons\,” March 1943 Trustees Bulletin\, Folder “Program and Policy\, 1915-1959\,” Series 911 “Humanities\,” Record Group 3.1 “Administration\, Program and Policy\,” Rockefeller Foundation Records\, Rockefeller Archive Center.
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SUMMARY:A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting: Academic Job Market Q+A with Prof. Minju Bae
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nProfessor Minju Bae (NYU Gallatin) joins the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group‘s October workshop session for an open discussion on preparing for the academic job market. Topics covered will include C.V.s\, cover letters\, and job talks. Attendees are encouraged to come with their own questions for this session\, which is open to all graduate students working in and around the field of A/P/A Studies. Lunch will be served. \n\nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to graduate students from NYU and nearby universities. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/a-p-a-graduate-student-working-group-meeting-academic-job-market-qa-with-prof-minju-bae/
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