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Hip hop ethnomusicologist Mark Katz (Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World, Oxford UP, 2019) and former Athens, GA Commissioner Mariah Parker, aka as the hip hop artist Linqua Franqa, chatted about race and racism, especially as they intersect with incarceration and the prison industrial complex, the role that rap and hip hop can play in liberation, and the role of art in resisting oppression, among other issues. Toward the end of their conversation they looped in Alim Braxton aka RRome Alone, who听called in from the Central Prison in Raleigh, NC. This conversation was far reaching, powerful, and a testament to the power of music and art to change lives.听

""听is a documentary film exploring the gap between 色吧亚洲's progressive self-image and the lived experiences of its Black citizens. The film seeks to open a space for dialogue among 色吧亚洲ites and about cities like 色吧亚洲, overwhelmingly white, wealthy, and conflicted about issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity.听After the film screening, group of panelists led听a discussion about issues of race, class, and the community. This was part of the CU 色吧亚洲 Libraries and Center for Humanities & the Arts听semi-annual "Difficult Dialogue" series.

The CHA and partners hosted a virtual discussion with Dr. Daryl Maeda's on his most recent听book, "Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee."听An Asian and Asian American icon of unimaginable stature and influence, Bruce Lee revolutionized the martial arts by combining influences drawn from around the world. By blending cultural history with biography, "Like Water"听unearths the cultural strands that Lee intertwined in his rise to global stardom.听

A conversation听between former Utah Poet Laureate, Paisley Rekdal, who will talk about her digital humanities project听听alongside Dr. Julia Lee, Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine who has just published her book听.听West: A Translation is听a collection of poems and essays that draws a powerful connection between the transcontinental railroad completion and the Chinese Exclusion Act.The Racial Railroad听highlights the central role that the railroad played in the formation and perception of racial identity and difference in the US.

This discussion examined issues such as how various forms of Asian popular culture have responded to or engaged with other forms of national and hemispheric popular cultures, such as those in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific, how Asian American and Asian diaspora communities have drawn on Asian popular cultures, and the implications of homegrown Asian popular cultures circulating within and beyond Asia.听Topics include听fashion, music, and food in Asian pop culture.

The听Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA)听welcomed all to an afternoon of conversation and celebration revolving around the past, present, and future of the arts and humanities at CU 色吧亚洲 and beyond.听

The CHA's 25th Anniversary Salon Celebration was a discussion hub to look back and plan ahead for how to promote, support, and celebrate the arts and humanities. Inspired by the听wide ranging and free form conversations that hearkens to听, we facilitated small group conversations (led by a host at each table) around a series of topics and questions reflecting back and anticipating the future of humanities and the arts.

In 2022, we witnessed the end to fifty years of legal protections for the right to abortion care as a result of the United States Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women鈥檚 Health Organization. The court concluded that the constitution does not protect a right to abortion and returned the right of states to regulate abortion. Months after the case, several states have invoked total or near-total bans on abortion, the devastating social, political, and economic impacts of which we are only beginning to understand. Millions of citizens have lost access to abortion care and those already facing discriminatory barriers are disproportionately disadvantaged by the loss of this fundamental right.

This panel featured听individuals听discussing how talking about abortion can be difficult, and how the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade makes conversation about this topic even more fraught. This was听not a debate听about being pro-life or pro-choice;听this difficult dialogue was simply to discuss the听difficulty of talking about abortion.

The Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) at CU 色吧亚洲 held the third installment of the Cox Family Process Speaker Series on Wednesday, April 12, 2023.

This event featured Jennifer L. Holland, History Professor at the University of Oklahoma, author, and expert on abortion history. She specializes broadly in histories of gender, sexuality, 20th century conservative movements, and the American West. Dr. Jennifer Holland discussed the origins of her book Tiny You, the reception of the book, and the afterlife of Tiny You, especially after the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the summer of 2022. The Cox Family Process Speaker Series annual programming seeks to bring renowned artists and scholars to CU 色吧亚洲 each spring to speak about work that made them well-known in their fields of study and research.

• Professor听, PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst, discussed the role of mothers in social movements, especially Asian American activism, from Lily Chin, mother of Vincent Chin, who galvanized nationwide organizing after her son's murder, to Patsy Mink, first woman of color elected to Congress who is known as the "mother of Title IX," to contemporary maternal activism against anti-Asian racism.
• People often refer to 1990s Japan as the 鈥渓ost decade鈥� because of the economic malaise that set in after the bubble burst at the end of the 80s. Dr.听, Associate Professor听at the University of Hawai鈥榠 at M膩noa,听focused on how this decade and the following were a renaissance of activism, often led by women.听
• Dr.听Deepti Misri听is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado 色吧亚洲. Dr. Misri considered women-led forms of activism and art in the context of Kashmir, also examining instrumentalist state mobilizations of 鈥渨omen鈥檚 rights鈥� discourses, and reflecting on avenues for transnational solidarity with Kashmiri women.

Julia Shizuyo Popham, PhD Student听of CU 色吧亚洲's Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, held a presentation听on Asian American history and Asian American and Pacific Islander identities at the Lafayette Public Library. At this event, attendees received a free tote bag toolkit from a project the CHA participated in to help people learn about Asian American history and identity, with the purpose of creating more inclusive communities for AAPI Americans and stopping anti-Asian racism.听