NEWS: Planning Retreat Abbreviated Minutes

Planning Retreat Minutes

NOTE: These minutes are highly abbreviated. If you are interested in more detailed minutes, please contact one of the blog contributors.

June 16, 2007

10:30am-4:00pm

Wexford Place/Silverstone Clubhouse

SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)

-Broke into groups to analyze AAAGS in the last year. Reconvened and compiled a list (see detailed minutes for specific breakdown)

A Vision for AAAGS in the new school year

-Fostering Academic Support

-Social Support and Activities

-Fostering and mentoring relationships with undergrads

-Giving back to the Community

-We may need to re-define elements of our mission statement

The executive committee

Co-chairs = Mytoan and Gil

Treasurer = Yoonsook

Grant Writing = Ray, Hai and Gil

Secretary = Casey

Undergrad Liaisons = Kong, Nancy, Amy and Betty

Community Liaisons = Nancy and Duong

Administration Liaison = Linda

Web Design = Danielle

Blogs and Email = Emily

-Need to solidify and clarify the roles of each position

Activities for the 2007-2008 School Year

Terrace Mixer (Sept)

Undergrad/grad meeting dinner (Sept)

Harvest Moon Potluck (October)

Activism Panel with AA leaders (Nov)

AA Reading group (Academic Year)

Lunar New Year Potluck (February)

Fac/Grad Dinner and Dialogue (March)

Open Mic/AA Voices (April)

Film night with APALSA/SALSA (open)

Grad Student Panel (open)

End of Year Goodbye to Grads (May)

EVENT: Freedom Inc.'s 6th Annual Potluck and Tournament

This Saturday June 23rd, Freedom Inc will be hosting its 6th Annual Potluck and Tournament. Come on out for some fun in the sun at Vilas Park! All are welcome to join in the festivities. There will be a BBQ and intramural sports going on throughout the day. Feel free to bring food or drink to share as well! Hope to see you there! Details below:

When: Saturday, June 23, 2007 @ 12pm
Where: Vilas Park (by the Tennis Court)
Who: EVERYONE!! It's for the Mad-community!

Event: Journey from the Fall

What: Journey from the Fall, directed by LA-based Vietnamese American filmmaker Ham Tran.

Where: Orpheum Theater, 216 State St. Madison, WI 53703

When: Friday, June 22, 2007, 7:00 p.m.

Who: RSVP to join AAAGS members for dinner at Husnus Restaurant at 5:30 p.m. to Mytoan (mnguyen[at]ssc[dot]wisc[dot]edu). Each individual is responsible for purchase of his/her own ticket.

OT: Asian American Reading Group (AARG!), 2007-08 Schedule

Please contact Emily Yu at eyu at wisc dot edu for more information. I will be in touch about this in late August. A big thank you to everyone who has already emailed me about joining. I've put together an impromptu list based on many requests and syllabi.

Caveat: I am unfamiliar with most of these texts, so I’m not entirely sure if some theoretical texts work well with the literary/filmic texts that follow. Please feel free to provide me suggests, criticisms, etc.

September
• Arjun Appadurai, “Diversity and Disciplinarity as Cultural Artifacts” in Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies, eds. Cary Nelson and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar (New York: Routledge, 1996), 23-36.
• Excerpt from Said’s Orientalism
• Excerpt from Lisa Lowe’s Immigrant Acts

October
• Chang Rae Lee, Native Speaker

November
• Elaine H. Kim, “ ‘Such Opposite Creatures’: Men and Women in Asian American Literature”.
• Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Hsu Wong, “An Introduction to Chinese- and Japanese-American Literature,” in Aiiieeeee!.

December
• Mai’s America (film)

February
• Some stories from Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior and China Men
• King-Kok Cheung, “The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critics Choose between Feminism and Heroism?”

March
• Leslie Bow, “ ‘For Every Gesture of Loyalty, There Doesn’t Have to Be a Betrayal’: Asian American Criticism and the Politics of Locality”
• Excerpt from Nancy Yuval-Davis, The Situated Politics of Belonging

April
• Some poetry from Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictée

May
• Chan is Missing (film)

EVENT: AAAGS Planning Retreat, Saturday, 6-16-07

Stay tuned for the retreat meeting minutes on our perceived Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats; Vision; and Calendar of Events for this coming year.

~ Mytoan (6/17/2007, post-retreat)

When: Saturday, June 16th, 2007 at 10:30am
Where: Gil's clubhouse
What: Planning and brainstorming for the 2007-08 academic year

Itinerary
10:30-11:00 Icebreakers and Continental Breakfast

11:00-12:30 Session I: SWOT analysis (Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats)

12:30-2:00 Working lunch and discussion of Visions and Goals

2:00-3:30 Session II: Program Planning and setting up the calendar for next year

3:30- Program ends, socialization begins

Food will be ready before noon and will be out throughout the afternoon, so those coming later need not worry about being without food. We should have enough for everyone!

Please contact Gil at [gilbert.g.jose at gmail.com] to RSVP and for more details.

NEWS: Amy Ling Legacy Fund for Asian American Studies

Amy Ling Legacy Fund for Asian American Studies

The Asian American Studies Program has initiated a fundraising campaign in recognition of its founding director, Professor Amy Ling. Contributions are tax deductible and will build an endowment fund to support the educational mission of the Asian American Studies Program.

To mail a donation, make the check out to the UW Foundation, include the fund designation (#12544261, Amy Ling Legacy Fund), and send it to:

University of Wisconsin Foundation
U.S. Bank Lockbox
P.O. Box 78807
Milwaukee, WI 53278-0807

OR
To make a secure gift on-line using your credit card go to www.uwfoundation.wisc.edu

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