AY 2021–2022 Schedule
We Go Down Sewing: The Auntie Sewing Squad
American Studies Association Conference
October 13, 2021, 1:00–2:45 p.m. PT (virtual)
Roundtable ft. Jessica Arana, Mai-Linh Hong, Chrissy Lau, Preeti Sharma, Valerie Soe
Book Launch: The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice
City Lights Bookstore
November 3, 2021, 6:00–7:30 p.m. PT (virtual)
Mai-Linh Hong, Chrissy Lau, and Preeti Sharma, in conversation with Rebecca Solnit
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Book Talk: Auntie Sewing Squad Guide
Eastwind Books + Oakland Asian Cultural Center
January 29, 2022, 3:00–4:30 p.m. PT (virtual)
Story in the Shadow of the Refugee Regime:
A Talk by Mai-Linh K. Hong
UC Irvine Humanities Center
February 8, 2022, 12:00–1:30 PT (virtual)
Story in the Shadow of the Refugee Regime:
Work-in-Progress Presentation
Columbia University American Studies Seminar
February 15, 2022, 6:30–8:00 p.m. ET (virtual)
Roundtable and Film Screening on the Auntie Sewing Squad
UCLA Asian American Studies Department
February 28, 2022, 12:30–1:45 p.m. PT (virtual)
Mai-Linh Hong, Chrissy Lau, and Preeti Sharma, along with Hannah Joo, filmmaker of “Auntie Kristina"
Women's History Month: The Auntie Sewing Squad
Brown University Doyle Center for Women and Gender
March 3, 2022, 6:30–8:00 p.m. ET (virtual)
Sowing Care and Justice
Virginia Festival of the Book
March 18, 2022, 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET (virtual)
Panel ft. Mai-Linh Hong, Chrissy Lau, and Valerie Soe, moderated by Alissa Ujie Diamond
Authors Meet Critics: The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice
Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference
April 15, 2022
Critics & Creators Roundtable: Vietnamese American Literature
Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference
April 16, 2022
We Go Down Sewing: The Auntie Sewing Squad
California State University, Long Beach
April 26, 2022, 2:00–3:15 p.m. (virtual)
Reconnecting: Publishing & Community
California American Studies Association Conference
California State University, Fullerton
April 28, 2022, 9:00–11:00 a.m. (virtual)
2021 Association for Asian American Studies Conference
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We Go Down Sewing: The Auntie Sewing Squad, Racial Justice, and Radical Care in COVID-19
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Speakers: Mai-Linh Hong, Chrissy Lau, Preeti Sharma, Valerie Soe, and Kristina Wong. Moderated by Preeti Sharma. Session #4063.
Our Babel: Multilingual Asian/American Studies
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Speakers: Weisong Gao, Aline Lo, Joseph Allen-Ruanto Ramirez, Hyo Kyung Woo, Fan Yang. Moderated by Mai-Linh Hong and Kanjana Thepboriruk. Session #3961.
other events
As a scholar of Asian American studies, I often present my research at academic conferences and in invited talks and panels. I also organize such events. Here are a just a few examples.
Sewing the Seeds of Activism in an Age of COVID: The Auntie Sewing Squad, sponsored by the Center for American Literary Studies at Pennsylvania State University, Friday, December 11, 2020.
Speakers: Kristina Wong, Grace J. Yoo, Mai-Linh K. Hong; moderated by Tina Chen.
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Feminist Mentoring & Self-Care Roundtable, sponsored by Asian American Feminisms Caucus, Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, April 26, 2019, Madison, WI.
Asian American Literature Festival, hosted by the Smithsonian APA Center, July 2019. As co-chair of the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies, I participated in a series of public Literary Addresses and Responses, now available on the Massachusetts Review blog: "Asian American Literature: The State of the Art."
Unsettling Asian/America: U.S. Citizenship and Transpacific Critique, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 8, 2018, Atlanta, GA.
CAALS@ALA 2019, The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies, American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 24–25, 2019, Boston, MA.
Contradictions of Citizenship: International Adoptees as Children & Adults, Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, April 26, 2019, Madison, WI.