Speculative Fiction: Asian Latinx Intersections

2547 Channing Way,Berkeley CA 94720

14 March, 2023

Description

Featuring novelist Karen Tei Yamashita, filmmaker Alex Rivera, and writer Sesshu Foster, with reception to follow. Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award, and most recently, Sansei and Sensibility. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This event is part of a series. For all the information, visit: https://issi.berkeley.edu/KTY2023 This event is in-person only and includes book sales and signing after the event Sponsored by: Asian American Research Center, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, Department of English, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, Japanese American Studies Advisory Committee, Latinx Research Center, Othering & Belonging Institute These events are free and open to the public. For more information or if you require an accommodation, please contact [email protected] with as much notice as possible and at least 7 days in advance of the event.