Location: Osher Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Lenora Lee, Artistic Director, Lenora Lee Dance Ava Roy, Artistic Director, We Players Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Choreographer Lenora Lee and theater director Ava Roy will discuss San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island and Alcatraz Island as creative catalysts ... Read moreAngel Island and Alcatraz: Site-inspired Dance, Theater, and Landscapes of Incarceration

Location: Osher Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Ed Tepporn, Executive Director, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation Angel Island in San Francisco Bay is a crucial spot marking the history of exclusionary, race-based immigration policy. Its immigration station has sometimes been called “the Ellis Island of the West.”  But Angel Island was ... Read morePreventing Erasure: How the Angel Island Immigration Station Was Saved

Location: Osher Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) (note: this talk will not be live-streamed or recorded) ShiPu Wang, Professor and Coats Endowed Chair in the Arts, UC Merced, and Commissioner of the Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryIn Conversation with Atreyee Gupta, Assistant Professor of Global Modern Art and South and Southeast Asian ... Read moreSee Us: Portraits of Community in the Exclusion Era by Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo

Location: Zoom Webinar *Note: This talk will be available only via webinar and will not be held in person. Lynne Horiuchi, Architectural Historian  Anoma Pieris, Professor of Architecture, Melbourne School of Design Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi will talk about their new book, The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration Camps and the Pacific War. The design ... Read moreBorder-thinking Through Wartime Incarceration Environments

Location: Osha Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Barnali Ghosh, Artist, Community Activist, and Designer Barnali Ghosh will talk about creating the award-winning Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, part of a growing movement of activist-led, place-based storytelling. She and partner Anirvan Chatterjee have led thousands of people through walks on ... Read moreRooted in Place: Radical South Asian Storytelling Blooms in Berkeley

Location: Osher Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley Catherine Ceniza Choy will discuss her new book, Asian American Histories of the United States, in which she argues that Asian American experiences are essential to any understanding of US history and ... Read moreRethinking Place in Asian American Histories of the United States

Location: Osher Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Skyler Chin and Sita Sunil, Playwrights of Illegal Jeffrey Lo, Director of The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin; Playwright One island, two plays: Skyler Chin and Sita Sunil will discuss their new musical Illegal with Filipino-American playwright Jeffrey Lo, who recently directed The Paper Dreams ... Read moreIllegal: the Theater of the Angel Island Immigration Station’s Paper Sons