Academic Associate Karen Kuo
“Of Passing and Citizenship in Younghill Kang’s East Goes West:The Making of an Oriental Yankee.” Presented at the 2004 MELUS (Society for the Study of Multiethnic Literature in the U.S) as part of the panel: “Nation, Transgression and Liminality:“Passing” in the Works of Lynda Barry, Philip Roth and Younghill Kang.”

“Eurasian Women and the Politics of Passing.” Will be presented at the 2005 Association for Asian American Studies Conference as part of the panel:
“Re-thinking the Roles of Race.”

Associate Professor Wei Li
“Chinese Immigration in USA and Italy: impacts of economic contribution and consequences of building social identities” (Wei Li and Pierpaolo Mudu). Paper presented at the 9th Metropolis Conference, Geneva, 2004.

“Racialized Assimilation: Identity transformation and community integration among immigrants” Paper presented at the Race/Ethnicity and Place Conference, Washington, DC, 2004.

“Globally Connected and Locally Embedded Financial Institutions: Analyzing the ethnic Chinese banking sector” (Wei Li and Gary Dymski), paper presented at the Research Conference on the Chinese entrepreneurship in the Pacific Rim, Hong Kong, 2004.

“Racialized Assimilation: Identity transformation and community integration among immigrants” Paper to be presented at the Race/Ethnicity and Place Conference, Washington D.C., 2004.

“Intertwined Immigrations,” (Wei Li, Hyeon-Hyo Ahn, Jang-Pyo Hong, Gary Dymski, Carolyn Rodriguez, Yu Zhou, Maria Chee) Paper presented at the 29th International Geographical Congress, Seoul, Korea, 2000.

Assistant Professor John Rosa
“Arizona Aloha Festival: The Making of a Pacific Islander Community in Phoenix.” Association for Asian American Studies, Boston, MA, March 2004.

Panelist on Pacific Islanders in AZ for ASU Asian/Asian Pacific American Student Coalition Conference, April 2004.

Discussant on boundaries in APA Studies at the Asian Pacific American History Collective (APAHC), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 2004.

Co-chair, Asian American and Pacific Islander Scholarship Fund, ASU Foundation, 2004-05.