2024-2025 Events
May 6, 2025: ASAM 094 Alumni Career Panel
Featuring Any Subica, Jessica Chairez, and Nicah Driza
7:00pm in Fletcher 104, Pitzer College

May 5, 2025: Ikigai
Short film screening + Vision board making: Student produced film about Japanese life from countryside to city
7:00pm at The Motley, Scripps College.
ASAM 179I Transpacific Japan: Love & Money class traveled to Japan to ask people about their Ikigai, their reasons for being. In this, we explore love, duty, and beauty. Join us for our screening and a vision board making event. Snacks provided.

May 2, 2025: Senior Thesis Presentations
2:00-4:00pm in the Founders Room, TCCS Library
Refreshments and light bites will be served. Please RSVP.

May 1, 2025: Chris Eng: Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America
Two chances to catch Professor Eng!
A conversation between Prof. Aimee Bahng and Prof. Chris Eng
11:15am-12:15pm in Crookshank 002, Pomona
A formal talk and Q&A to follow in Prof. David Seitz’s class with light refreshments provided
3:00-4:00pm in Shanahan 3461, Harvey Mudd

April 29, 2025: Dr. Maura Finkelstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Muhlenberg College
Academic Freedom in a Time of Genocide
4:30-6:00pm in the Humanities Auditorium, Scripps College

April 14, 2025: Dr. Noura Erakat, Human Rights lawyer and Professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University
WE CHARGE NAKBA: ARE THE ICJ AND THE ICC ADEQUATE SITES OF JUSTICE?
7:00-8:30pm in the Humanities Auditorium, Scripps College

April 7, 2025: Fall 2025 Course Info Session
4:15-5:15pm in the Ponderosa Room, TCCS Library
Please RSVP for a headcount for refreshments.

February 4, 2025: Palestine Is A Reproductive Justice Issue
12:00-1:30pm in Crookshank 108, Pomona College
Please RSVP for lunch.

January 28, 2025: The Palestine Exception screening plus a discussion on zoom with Jan Haaken, one of the filmmakers.
5:30pm at the Benson Auditorium, Pitzer College

November 18, 2024: A Welcome Reading with Gazan Poet Yahya Ashour
4:30pm in the Benson Auditorium, Pitzer College.

November 14, 2024: Rudy P. Guevarra Jr: Meet and greet with students from 2:15-3:15pm at the Asian American Resource Center, Pomona College and book talk at 4:15pm at Shanahan 2460, Pomona College.

November 4, 2024: 3:30-4:30pm at the Smith Campus Center room 208, Pomona College
Come learn about our course offerings for spring 2025. Refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP to the event.

September 18, 2024: 4:00-5:30pm at the Lincoln-Edmunds Courtyard, Pomona College
18th Annual Open House with Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, and Chicanx-Latinx Studies. Please RSVP to the event. Open to all 5C students.
