The Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center are presenting Teaching the Pacific: A New Initiative by PIEAM and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center on Feb. 25, 2012 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 30, 2012) — Today, Members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and Congressional Leaders released statements in honor of California’s second annual Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution.

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This year’s training’s will take place at the following college and universities:
• University of Michigan –  Feb. 18
• Hendrix College – Feb. 25
• Columbia University – March 3
• University of Minnesota – March 17
• University of Arizona – March 24
• American University – March 31
• University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee – April 21
• University of California, Irvine – May 19

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 26, 2012) — The Organization of Chinese Americans has received a  $157,500 grant from State Farm for support of its 2012 APA Youth Leadership Summit, APIA U: Leadership 101 Training, and the upcoming JACL/OCA Leadership Summit.

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MINNEAPOLIS — The Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations will hold its 9th Annual Leadership Conference from July 26-29, 2012 in Minneapolis — one of the nation’s most vibrant and diverse metropolitan communities.

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By David K. Yoo

LOS ANGELES (Dec. 6, 2011) — More Asian Pacific Americans hold public office in the United States than at any other time in U.S. history, a sign of the community’s growing engagement with the political process, according to a newly released political almanac published by UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center.

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Jack Soo

The Center for Asian American Media has a mission to bring the stories of Asia and Pacific Islander communities to light. It is introducing four new dynamic titles to its film collection.

Each of the four new films will be released this November. They will each be paired with a related pre-existing title from the CAAM film collection to better illuminate the multifaceted Asian and Asian American experience.

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Mark E. Pfeifer, Ph.D.

AAP staff report

ST. PAUL (Nov. 19, 2011) — Mark E. Pfeifer, Ph.D. has returned to the Twin Cities to become the Director of Research and Evaluation at Hmong American Partnership and its subsidiary Hmong National Development.

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LOS ANGELES — Answering President Obama’s call to improve opportunities and quality of life for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders by increasing their participation in federal programs, UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center has published pioneering research examining the needs of this community’s underserved and underrepresented groups.

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A critical consideration of the moment and its aftermath — the political, legal, and civil rights repercussions for the communities most directly affected: South Asian, Arab, Middle Eastern, and Muslim American.

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LOS ANGELES — The UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press announces the release of the latest issue of Amerasia Journal, “Further Desire: Asian and Asian American Sexualities.”

Guest edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez, this special topic issue is based on a conference on Asian American Sexualities held at the University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, which is headed by Professor Gutiérrez. “Further Desire” builds on Amerasia’s commitment to the study of sexualities within Asian American Studies, which began with the groundbreaking 1994 volume, “Dimensions of Desire” (20:1).

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