Josen Masangkay Diaz, an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of San Diego, is coming to present on a chapter from her book Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War and Filipino America (Duke 2023). This event will be held on Friday, May 24th 3:30PM-5:00PM at Thomson Hall (THO) 317.
The chapter that will be the focal point theorizes a configuration as the racial and gender formation that comes into visibility at the intersections of transpacific multistate collaborations. The book reconceptualizes the meanings of Filipino America during the period and the politics of unmaking that people practiced to move beyond narrow ideas of subjectivity prescribed by a new world order.
See the Center for Southeast Asia & Its Diasporas webpage for additional details.
AES Professor Linh Thủy Nguyễn is coordinating a coffee with graduate students who want to meet with Josen on Friday before the talk. If you are interested, please contact Professor Nguyễn.