What is Asian Canadian Culture?

Sept 27 - 7:30pm
Speaker Series at St. John’s College at UBC

VANCOUVER - On September 27th, 2007, St. John’s College, together with the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia (http://www.cchsbc.ca) and the University of British Columbia Press will be launching a speaker series interrogating the state of Asian Canadian culture. To start off the series, sociology professor Xiaoping Li, will be in attendance for the panel discussion and also to launch her book, Voices Rising: Asian Canadian Cultural Activism a multidisciplinary inquiry that addresses issues of race, ethnicity, identity and transculturalism. Panelists will include musician Sean Gunn and photographer Tamio Wakayama, whose fascinating stories are presented in the book.

Voices Rising is the first book that documents and examines Asian Canadian political and cultural activism in the late twentieth century around such issues as community building, identity making, racial equity, and social justice. Xiaoping Li draws on historical sources and compelling personal testimonies to show how culture acts as a means of engagement with the political and social world. In conjunction with the events being organized in the Greater Vancouver area marking the anti-Asian Race Riots of 1907, this speaker series aims to build awareness and historical perspective in the community regarding the development of Asian Canadian culture.

Panel Discussion: What is Asian Canadian Culture?
September 27th, 2007
7:30pm – 8:45pm

Featuring Dr. Xiaoping Li

Lecture Hall
St. John’s College, UBC
Map: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=822-1.

For more information, contact:
Dr. Christopher Lee
Junior Faculty Fellow, St. John’s College
University of British Columbia
Tel: 604-838-7636
Email: chrisml@interchange.ubc.ca

Dr. Xiaoping Li
Professor
Okanagan College
Email : Xli@okanagan.bc.ca