WINTER GUEST LECTURE: Evelyn Hu-Dehart (Brown U.)

WINTER GUEST LECTURE

EVELYN HU-DEHART

Professor of History

Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America

Brown University

Friday, February 18, 2011

12-1:30 PM: Lunch Conversation, Kresge 2-425


"How do we do Hemispheric Ethnic Studies?"

4-6 PM: Guest Lecture, Harris Hall 108


"Reconceptualizing Immigration as Diaspora: Lessons from Asian American History"

*Please RSVP to northwesternced@gmail.com by 2/13 if you plan to attend the 12 PM function as lunch will be provided*

Please contact Phonshia Nie or James Zarsadiaz at northwesternced@gmail.com for questions or RSVPs. 

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Professor Hu-DeHart's profile from Brown University website:

Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown. She joined Brown from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she was Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America. She has also taught at the City University of New York system, New York University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Arizona and University of Michigan, as well as lectured at universities and research institutes in Mexico, Peru, Cuba, France, Hongkong, Taiwan, and China. 

Professor Hu-DeHart was born in China and immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was 12. As an undergraduate at Stanford University she studied in Brazil on an exchange program. She became fascinated with Latin America and that interest eventually led her to a Ph.D. in Latin American history. She has written two books on the Yaqui Indians, and is now engaged in a large research project on the Asian diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The goal of Professor Hu-DeHart`s diaspora project is to uncover and recover the history of Asian migration to Latin America and the Caribbean, and to document and analyze the contributions of these immigrants to the formation of Latin/Caribbean societies and cultures. It should also contribute towards theorizing diasporas and transnationalism. The importance and timeliness of this research was most recently demonstrated by the election of Alberto Fujimori, son of Japanese immigrants, as president of Peru. Hu-DeHart also hopes that her work will broaden the scope of Asian American studies as well as contribute to an area not well covered within Latin American studies.

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The Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora thanks the following departments, programs, and academic centers at Northwestern for their support for this event:

Department of History

American Studies Program

Asian American Studies Program

Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities

Chabraja Center for Historical Studies

The Graduate School

Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences

American Cultures Colloquium