Join us on Zoom on June 13 for a talk by Heidi Amin-Hong to learn about how we can "unsettle" US national parks and be in real solidarity with Indigenous land-movements.

Heidi Amin-Hong is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching focus on Asian American and Pacific Islander cultural studies and the effects of war, colonialism, and global capitalism on AAPI environments. She is working on a book that considers how
Asian American writers and artists can contribute to healing damaged environments in the afterlives of the Cold War.

In this talk, Dr. Amin-Hong will discuss how contemporary Asian American literature and art contend with the settler, colonial, and racial histories of US national parks such as Yosemite have simultaneously begun to recognize the historical contributions of Chinese workers to building park infrastructures. However, this talk argues that Asian Americans must move beyond visibility in order to be in solidarity with Indigenous land-back movements.

DATE: Friday June 13, 2025
TIME: 12:00 pm PST
RSVP: tinyurl.com/EJASA25

This guest lecture series is hosted by the Amado Khaya Initiative in collaboration with the Asian American Seed Stewards Project at UC Davis. See more at https://amadokhaya.org/unsettling-asian-america.