Two virtual events by the University of Notre Dame will examine the recent rise of discrimination and violence against Asians and Asian Americans in the United States, including the shooting deaths in Atlanta on March 16.
Under the organizing theme 鈥淎nti-Asian Violence in Context: Histories, Connections, Coalition,鈥� these events will feature Notre Dame faculty and students as well as guest activists. The University鈥檚 and the are leading the organization of the virtual events, which are free and open to the public.
The first event, 鈥淧rocessing Anti-Asian Violence: A Roundtable Discussion on the Atlanta Shootings,鈥� will be held from 5:30 to 7聽p.m.聽April 8. Professors and doctoral students will participate in a conversation to focus especially on attacks against Asian and Asian American women. Participants are , assistant professor of American studies; , assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures and gender studies; , assistant professor of Korean studies; , doctoral student in theology; , doctoral student in history; and , doctoral聽student in peace studies, theology聽and gender studies. Register at聽.
The second event,聽"Histories of Anti-Asian Violence in the U.S.: Politics, Gender聽and Resistance,"聽is a panel discussion that will be held from 5:30 to 7聽p.m. April 29. Notre Dame participants are聽, associate professor of history; , assistant professor of American studies; and , associate director of gender studies. , assistant professor of American culture at the University of Michigan, will also participate. Borja is a member of the Indiana Chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Women鈥檚 Forum, whose mission is to build collective power with AAPI women and girls, and an affiliated researcher with the Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center. , a Notre Dame doctoral candidate in history, will moderate. A registration link is to come.
鈥淭he surge in violence against Asians and Asian Americans in the United States over the past year is deplorable, but sadly unsurprising,鈥� said , director of Notre Dame鈥檚 Gender 91视频 Program. 鈥淪uch racist violence has deep roots in U.S. society, and those roots must be made visible and carefully analyzed if we are to understand the current situation and develop effective strategies for expanding social justice for all. That many of the victims of the recent violence are also women demands an intersectional lens that takes gender into account alongside the other identities in play, and thus explores the complexity of these xenophobic acts and the structural inequities that sustain them.鈥�
鈥淢any grief-stricken students, faculty聽and staff have approached the Liu Institute in the wake of the Atlanta shootings, which claimed innocent lives, including those of six women of Asian descent,鈥� said , director of the Liu Institute. 鈥淲e are grateful to be able to lend support for programming to respond to this unfathomable tragedy, and to further the necessary work of confronting and dismantling systems of white supremacy and anti-Asian bias. We鈥檙e confident these events will serve as steps toward this effort.鈥�
The events are cosponsored by the , , , , 聽and Association of Graduate Historians.
Originally published by at on April 1.