Join the Southeast Asian Diaspora (SEAD) Project for these upcoming special events commemorating the 50th anniversary of southeast Asian refugees in Minnesota. www.theseadproject.org/mekongjourne...

A remarkable feature with one of our brilliant graduate students, Selena Moon, a second year American Studies PhD student:

✨ONE WEEK AWAY! Join the Department of American Studies for the 2026 David Noble Lecture, titled “Auntologies: Queer Aesthetics and South Asian Aunties” by Dr. Kareem Khubchandani. ✨ 📅 Thursday, April 9 ⏰ 6:00pm-7:30pm
 📍 Cowles Auditorium, University of Minnesota & Zoom z.umn.edu/aunties

Next week!! The 2026 Noble Lecture with Dr. Kareem Khubchandani. Auntologies: Queer aesthetics & South Asian Aunties Thurs. April 9 at 6pm. Lecture followed by book signing & reception. cla.umn.edu/american-stu... @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnlawschool.bsky.social @umnengagement.bsky.social

Join us Wed. April 22 for Students of Diaspora and the Fight for Justice. This webinar will bring together experts to examine how international, immigrant, and migrant students in the U.S. have organized against repression and restrictions. z.umn.edu/IHRC_April22 @umn-amst.bsky.social

Attention UMN students studying migration: Applications for IHRC Summer and Academic Year Fellowships are due March 31st. More info at cla.umn.edu/ihrc/fellows... @umnengagement.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnanth.bsky.social @umnpolisci.bsky.social

Monday, April 20, 4-6pm. Dr. JC Salyer of Barnard College and the Arab American Family Support Center to speak on the difficulties disabled immigrants face when attempting to come to America. cla.umn.edu/anthropology... @umnengagement.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnanth.bsky.social

Asst. Prof. Jessica Lopez Lyman's Book "Place-keepers" explores how Latina/x artists in the Twin Cities use their art as a form of activism to reclaim spaces. Learn more: z.umn.edu/place-keepers

We Had to Run: Liberian Journeys from War to Belonging. Join us for a book talk with UMN grad student author Darlington Sehgbean. Tues April14 at 12:30. cla.umn.edu/human-rights... @umnengagement.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnlawschool.bsky.social @umnenglish.bsky.social

Join the Asian American Studies Program for a fascinating conversation Unsettling Refugees: Vietnamese Refugees Fighting Displacement in America's suburbs with Dr. Jennifer Huynh on March 25 at 5 Central. @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnengagement.bsky.social @umnanth.bsky.social @umnpolisci.bsky.social

Join the IHRC and our partners for another timely and important event. Echoes of Home, Visions Ahead: 50 Years of Southeast Asian Community. March 20, 4-6pm. Appleby Hall 311. More info and rsvp: z.umn.edu/SEA50 @umnengagement.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnlawschool.bsky.social

Join us Wed at 6 PM to hear Dina Gilio-Whitaker, author of "Who Gets to be Indian? Ethnic Fraud and Other Difficult Conversations about Native American Identity," in conversation with Audra Simpson, (Columbia University). z.umn.edu/who-gets-to-be-indian #HoldingOurGroundUMN

Congratulations to Dr. Elliott Powell, Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies and Associate Director of RIDGS, on being named a recipient of the Arthur “Red” and Helene B. Motley Exemplary Teaching Award from @umncla.bsky.social! cla.umn.edu/news-events/...

Less than one week to go for #HoldingOurGroundUMN, Mar 18-19 at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus. Register for in-person or online attendance at the link below. We welcome requests from community members for complimentary registrations. Instructions in the link below.

Join the @umnanth.bsky.social for April Kamp-Whittaker of CA State Univ Chico: Networks at Play: Sports and the Archaeology of Community in a WWII Japanese American Incarceration Center More info and rsvp: z.umn.edu/networks_at_play @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnengagement.bsky.social

Join me today for a livestream interview on The Red Nation Podcast. I'll be talking with my @umncla colleague, Professor Nick Estes about our upcoming March 18-19 hybrid symposium at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. #HoldingOurGroundUMN

Join the IHRC and our partners for another timely and important event. Echoes of Home, Visions Ahead: 50 Years of Southeast Asian Community. March 20, 4-6pm. Appleby Hall 311. More info and rsvp: z.umn.edu/SEA50 @umnengagement.bsky.social @umnlawschool.bsky.social @umnpolisci.bsky.social

Join us for "Unsettling Refugees: Vietnamese Refugees Fighting Displacement in America's Suburbs" with Dr. Jennifer Huynh. March 25 from 5-6:15pm. More info and register z.umn.edu/JHuynh @umnengagement.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnanth.bsky.social @umnpolisci.bsky.social

Networks at Play: Sports and the Archaeology of Community in a WWII Japanese American Incarceration Center with Prof April Kamp-Whittaker. Monday March 23, 4-6pm More info and register z.umn.edu/networks_at_play @umnlawschool.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnpolisci.bsky.social

Attn UMN Grad Students: you still have time to apply for an IHRC academic year or summer fellowship. Are you researching migration? Check out our fellowships at cla.umn.edu/ihrc/fellows... Applications due March 31 @umnengagement.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnpolisci.bsky.social

You still have time to register for The Borders Crossed Us Too: Global Indigeneities, Migration, and World-Making with Dr. Khoi Nguyen. Wed from 4-5 Central. Join the IHRC to hear @umn-amst.bsky.social grad speak about his research on Southeast Asian refugees. @upenn.edu @umncla.bsky.social

NEXT TUESDAY March 3, 5-6:30pm. Kelly Lytle Hernández will discuss The Whites-Only Immigration Regime 1803 to Now. More info and rsvp: z.umn.edu/IHRC_Hernandez @ridgs.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnanth.bsky.social @umnpolisci.bsky.social @umnlawschool.bsky.social @umnenglish.bsky.social

Univ of MN students, are you studying any aspect of migration? You still have time to apply for IHRC academic year and summer fellowships. More info at cla.umn.edu/ihrc/fellows... @umnengagement.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnanth.bsky.social @umnpolisci.bsky.social @umnenglish.bsky.social

Featuring Dr. Khoi Nguyen (AMST Ph.D. '25)! Nguyen is currently the Panda Express Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (@upenn.edu).

What are the strategies for addressing "self-Indigenization" in our institutions? Join UMN American Indian Studies for Holding Our Ground, a hybrid symposium on Indigenous Ethnic Fraud. March 18-19, 2026. Register: z.umn.edu/holding-our-ground #HoldingOurGroundUMN @kimtallbear.bsky.social

Call for proposals: 2026–2027 Hub Residencies ✨ The Liberal Arts Engagement Hub is seeking collaborative, community-based projects in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Residencies run July 2026–June 2027 and include up to $15,000 in support. Learn more: https://ow.ly/5PTk50YckST

Great story about IHRC Director Llana Barber's upcoming edited volume Dark Waters: Centering Black Experiences in US Immigration History. @migrationcollab.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social

🎧 "We talk about resistance or resilience; what does that actually look like?" Jessica Lopez Lyman, author of Place-Keepers, with Kristie Soares and Karmen Chávez on the Press podcast. share.transistor.fm/s/97747e66

Registration open, in-person & online. Reduced student rates & community members can request complimentary registration; limited & will be vetted. We prioritize actual tribal/Indigenous voices in resisting #pretendianism, + recognize that our community includes non-Indigenous allies. Please share.

Dr. Kareem Khubchandani (Tufts University) will deliver the 2026 David Noble Lecture, entitled "Auntologies: Queer Aesthetics and South Asian Aunties." 🗓️: April 9, 2026 ⏰: 6:00pm-7:30pm 📍: Cowles Auditorium (Humphrey School) & Zoom More info: z.umn.edu/auntologies

We're glad to again co-sponsor this annual touring festival of restorations and archival films from Il Cinema Ritrovato, the international fest in Bologna, Italy. Feb 12-15 at the Main Cinema and Walker Art Center:

A not-to-be-missed event featuring AMST alum Dr. Hana Maruyama (Ph.D. '21), with moderation from Dr. David Aiona Chang (UMN History and American Indian Studies). Register here!: umn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join us for an online discussion of Intersections in Indigenous and Immigration Histories Monday, Feb 23 at 4pm Central. Co-sponsored by the Dept. of American Indian Studies. More info and rsvp: z.umn.edu/IHRCIntersections @iehs.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social

“This is about continuity. It’s about linking generations, honoring those who came before us while inspiring the next generation to see themselves as part of a living history” Curator Davu Seru on the U's Givens Collection of African American Literature, celebrating its 40th anniversary

Our community is in peril. Our neighbors need our help in this time of ICE presence and subzero temperatures. Mpls has a shortage of available shelter for residents, and our city govt has not developed adequate resources to humanely house people. Please support MIWRC in this time of emergency.

Once again, Scott Laderman gets to the heart of the matter in explaining how censorship threatens life-saving research at the University of Minnesota.

Our University of Minnesota American Indian Studies department Dakota language instructor, Cante Maza sharing what Dakota people know, why "Minne" is part of so many place names in Minnesota.

IHRC summer fellow Khoi Nguyen's article "Beyond Kinh(ship): The Making of Vietnamese Settler Refugeeism Through Land and Dispossession" was published in the Journal of Transnational American Studies. Congrats Khoi! @migrationcollab.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social escholarship.org/uc/item/0fs7...

We invite you to join UMN at this year’s ASA conference to celebrate a year of accomplishments and collaborations at our reception on Saturday, November 22, at 6:30 pm. 📅: Saturday, November 22 🕑: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm 📍: Terrace & Ballroom Lobby, Puerto Rico Convention Center All are welcome.

This Saturday, Prof Emeritus John Wright and Curator of the Givens Collection Davu Underwood Seru will discuss their paths as interdisciplinary scholars working in academia and in off-campus communities--and within the broader Black Studies tradition:

Join us and the Katherine Nash Gallery for Becoming SotaRicans, a conversation with Puerto Rican community leaders discussing their contributions to the arts and culture of MN. Oct. 8 from 4-6 in Pillsbury Hall. More info at events.tc.umn.edu/event/24867-...

Join us Wed. Oct 1 for a discussion of Vichet Chhuon's new book Cambodian American Youth, Identity and Schooling with remarks by Peuo Tuy More info at z.umn.edu/chhuonbookevent @umnlawschool.bsky.social @umnenglish.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnpolisci.bsky.social

Co-signed and co-sponsored. Next Wed hear from the co-editors of the great anthology of essays, poems, and artwork from migrants, refugees, and Dreamers:

Farm Aid and the UMN Departments of History, American Studies & Anthropology Present Collective Power in the Countryside: A Conversation With Sarah Smarsh & Sarah Vogel, Moderated by Sonja Trom Eayrs Thu, Sep 18, 5:00pm Best Buy Theater, Northrup, UMN @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social

Join us for a special evening with Reyna Grande and Sonia Guinansaca Sept 24 at 6pm at Best Buy Theater, Northrop in Minneapolis. More info and registration at z.umn.edu/rosales2025 @umncla.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnenglish.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social

You still have time to register for our webinar on Birthright Citizenship on Sept 17 with @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @skantrow.bsky.social @cnacken1.bsky.social William Jones and Cecilia Marquez. z.umn.edu/BirthrightCitizen @migrationcollab.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social

UMN Professor Jimmy Patino published this excellent piece drawing attention to historical parallels. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/before-aboli...

And... our final visiting writer event of this fall will be the author of There's Always This Year, Hanif Abdurraqib! (Winner of the @bookcritics.bsky.social 2025 award for criticism!) Free with registration. Join us Nov 17: