Asian American Heritage Month 2010

April is Asian American Heritage Month! Check out all the exciting events we have planned throughout the month.

Thursday, April 8:

Keynote Speaker : author of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle, Cathy Bao Bean (more info at www.cathybaobean.com)

Paresky Theater, 7:30pm

Dinner with Cathy Bao Bean at Sushi Thai Garden

5:30pm

Friday, April 9

Movie Screening of Infernal Affairs (the inspiration for The Departed, see trailer)

Co-Sponsored with Purple Valley Films

Paresky Theater, 7pm

Saturday April 10

Lunch with Trustee Yvonne Hao at Sushi Thai Garden

12:30pm

KOW Pop Culture Night

Goodrich Hall, 6-8pm

Monday, April 12

History Department Brown Bag Lunch with Professor Scott Wong

“Where the Twain Can Meet Asian and Asian American Studies”

Paresky 220, 12pm

Tuesday, April 13

International Studies Colloquium: Rajesh Kochhar

“Colonial Use of Science and the Differential Native Responses”

Weston 10, 2:45pm

Thursday April 15

AASiA Student Faculty Dinner at the Faculty House

Co-Sponsored by Office of Campus Life and Committee for Undergraduate Life

6pm

Friday, April 16

Williams After Dark: Cooking with Steven Cheng

Dodd Kitchen, 4:30pm

Saturday, April 17

AASiA Game Night

Co-Sponsored with Wood Neighborhood

Paresky Basement, 6-8pm

Tuesday, April 20

Learn meditation with a Buddhist monk

Goodrich Upper Dance Studio, 4-6pm

Thursday, April 22

Qin and Calligraphy Performance with Mingmei Yip, talk entitled “Aesthetic of Lines in Chinese”

Co-Sponsored by the Asian Studies Department

Paresky Theater, 8pm

Friday, April 23

CASO Night Market

Goodrich Hall, 4:30-6:30pm

Saturday, April 24

AASiA Night

Paresky Theater, 8pm

Wednesday, April 28

Comedian Hari Kondabolu

Baxter Hall, 8pm

Friday, April 30

KOW Spring Dinner

First Congregational Church, 6pm