What can a cuddle tell us about intimacy, violence and racism?

In On Cuddling, Phanuel Antwi combines poetry and essays to stirring effect to highlight the interplay of intimacy with racial violence. Rooted in Black-feminist and queer teachings, Antwi has crafted a collection that is both urgent and elegant, playful and vulnerable, showing us the violence that can lurk behind the comfort of the cuddle— and how to face it with resistance and solidarity.

Professor Phanuel Antwi will appear conversation with fellow UBC Professor Cecily Nicholson, and SFU Professor Nadine Attewell. 

For more information and to register, please visit the Vancouver Public Library website here.

Please join Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Global Asia Program as we welcome Dr. Adrian De Leon as the Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar in History and celebrate the publication of his first scholarly book, Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America. J. P. Catungal (UBC) May Farrales (SFU), and Coll Thrush (UBC) will join Dr. De Leon in conversation about his work, moderated by Nadine Attewell (SFU).

For more information and to register, please visit the Eventbrite page here.

Plenary panel for “Diasporic Solidarities: Islands, Intimacies, and Imagining Otherwise,” the 2022 John Douglas Taylor conference at McMaster University (June 9-10 2022).

For more information and to register, please visit the conference website here.

Sponsored by the Global Asia Program & David Lam Centre at Simon Fraser University.

A conversation about food justice for explorASIAN Festival 2022, featuring poet, organizer, and educator Mercedes Eng; researcher and organizer Yi Chien Jade Ho; scholar, activist, educator, and citizen eater Tammara Soma; and organizers with Yarrow Intergenerational Society for Justice and DTES SRO Collaborative.

Food is crucial to how we care for each other, come together in community, and express ourselves culturally. At the same time, the systems that condition how food is produced, made, and distributed proliferate injustice at every scale, from environmental degradation to labour exploitation. On May 14th, please join us for a conversation with local activists, artists, and academics who are taking up rich legacies of struggle to imagine more nourishing futures for all. What’s possible, and what will be required to get there?

Register here.

An online workshop as part of “Breaking Boundaries: Pedagogies of Global Asia,” hosted by the Global Asian Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Chicago.