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Starting this Fall 2025! The Asian American Movement Archives at UIC
This archive will document and preserve the history of the 31-year student-led movement (1991-2022) for Asian American Studies that paved the way for building Global Asian Studies (GLAS) and the Major at the University of Illinois Chicago. This project is led by GLAS Founding Director, Dr. Anna Guevarra in collaboration with UIC alumni and former student leaders who have led and contributed to this movement. There are two ways to support this project! If you were involved in this movement as a student, faculty, or staff and have material (photos, letters, petitions, event flyers, etc.) to contribute, or are willing to be interviewed, please email: Dr. Anna Guevarra at guevarra@uic.edu. For UIC students, if you would like to be part of the team to gain some research and archiving skills and be part of this important project, please email Dr. Guevarra as well. by @uicglas

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Repost from @arguevarra2018:
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A Brief Commentary on the Value of Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies
From Prof. Anna Guevarra
Professor and Founding Director
Global Asian Studies, UIC
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The views expressed are those of the author. This commentary was sent to the Illinois Board of Trustees, President Killeen, and UIC campus leadership. Prof. Guevarra delivered a portion of this commentary at the Illinois Board of Trustees Meeting on November 14, 2024.
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@uicaarcc
@uicaasap
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@uicwlrc by @uicglas

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Meet the Asian American Movement at UIC Archiving Team who is hard at work in helping archive the 31-year student-led movement (1991-2022) that helped pave the way for establishing the youngest of the interdisciplinary ethnic studies programs at UIC - Global Asian Studies - GLAS and the Major. We are proud of this fierce team of students!

If you would like to join the team, or you are a UIC alumni and have materials to contribute, or if you would like to find ways to support this project, please contact Prof. Anna Guevarra - guevarra@uic.edu #WeAreGLASHalfFull

Francis Balquin is a third-year PhD student in the Department of History. His areas of expertise include 20th century US history, Asian American history, and comparative empires. He hopes to write his dissertation focusing on Filipinos in the Chicagoland area. Working on the Asian American Movement, for him, is an opportunity to acknowledge the many people who brought GLAS into reality and to ensure that their stories are preserved and accessible.

Stefanie (Stef) Demayo is a fourth year undergraduate student majoring in psychology. Besides academic passions in psychology and neuroscience, she loves to craft handmade jewelry. She’s excited to be a part of the team and contribute to the Asian American Movement archival project as a means of learning more about a movement that resonates with her.

Avni Gupta (she/her) is a third year UIC undergrad student majoring in Global Asian Studies and minoring in Moving Image Arts and Museum and Exhibition Studies. Harboring a love for cinema and filmmaking as well as history and art, she was drawn to the Asian American Movement archives project for the opportunity to discover new stories.

Joon Sol (they/them) is an undergraduate student majoring in Global Asian Studies and minoring in Black Studies. They chose this path to hopefully become a professor in ethnic studies one day, but until then are very happy with their life as a barista. As a current Global Asian Studies Student Advisory board member as well as an Asian American Student Academic Program ( AASAP) General Office aide, Joon exists in spaces that were only ever possible through the advocacy of UIC’s by @uicglas

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UIC’s Asian American Resource and Cultural Center (AARCC) will host “Unheard Voices of Care: Filipino Nurses in America,” a traveling exhibit that explores the experiences, contributions and legacy of Filipino nurses who migrated to the United States.

“Unheard Voices of Care: Filipino Nurses in America,” will be on display from Oct. 14 through Dec. 4 at the center, at 723 W. Maxwell St., Chicago. The exhibit and all related events are free and open to the public. AARCC is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

📣 Calling UIC Students interested in script reading!
We are seeking FIVE UIC STUDENTS interested in participating as narrators/actors to read written passages about the lives of Filipino nurses for our Community Reading event on Oct. 28, 2026.
If interested: reach out to Mr. Angel Abcede, co-coordinator of the exhibit at angelchgo@gmail.com by FRIDAY, OCT 16, 2026.

📆 Join our two free events inspired by the exhibit’s themes of migration, caregiving and community, offering opportunities for dialogue and reflection:

Opening Panel and Reception
Wednesday, Oct. 14
Panel: 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Reception: 4:30-6 p.m.
Asian American Resource and Cultural Center
723 W. Maxwell St., Chicago

Community Reading
Wednesday, Oct. 28
3:30-5 p.m.
Asian American Resource and Cultural Center
723 W. Maxwell St., Chicago
Participants will share readings about the experiences of immigrants arriving in the United States from the 1940s to today.

https://aarcc.uic.edu/filipino-nurses-exhibit/ taken in UIC Asian American Resource and Cultural Center - AARCC by @uicglas

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Mark your calendars!
📢 From UT Austin to UIC:
A Convening for Critical Gender, Race, and Ethnic Studies 📢

🗓️ Date: Monday, October 26, 2026
⏰ Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm
📍 Location: Institute for the Humanities,
Behavioral Sciences Building (BSB) 153,
🧭 Address: 1007 W Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607
🎟️ Registration is required at go.uic.edu/UTAustintoUIC

Come hear from and engage with UT Austin colleagues, Professors Karma Chávez and Iván Chaar López, faculty in what was until recently, the Department of Mexican-American and Latina/o Studies, as we talk about how to sustain and expand Critical Gender, Race and Ethnic Studies and interdisciplinarity at UIC. This is for faculty, students and staff working in any/all interdisciplinary units on campus.

🍴A light lunch will be provided. 🍴

Karma R. Chávez is Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas - Austin. She is author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (University of Illinois Press, 2013); Palestine on the Air (University of Illinois Press, 2019); and The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (University of Washington Press, 2021). She is a co-founder of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at UT Austin and president of the AAUP Chapter.

Iván Chaar López is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, and the Principal Investigator of the Border Tech Lab (BTL) at the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching examine the history and politics of computing and information infrastructures.

CART will be transcribing the conversation, and the Institute for the Humanities is wheelchair accessible and has gender neutral bathrooms.

Co-Sponsors: Black Studies; Criminology; Law, and Justice; Global Asian Studies; Latin American and Latino Studies; the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change; the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy; Institute for the Humanities

✨ SEE YOU THERE! ✨ taken in Institute for the Humanities, UIC by @uicglas

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Ever been curious about the history of Chai Guevarra? Check this post out or go to bit.ly/ChaiGuevarraHistory for more!

#WeAreGLASHalfFull by @uicglas

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The Asian American Resource and Cultural Center at UIC will host two free events inspired by the exhibit’s themes of migration, caregiving and community, offering opportunities for dialogue and reflection:

Opening Panel and Reception
Wednesday, Oct. 14
Panel: 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Reception: 4:30-6 p.m.
Asian American Resource and Cultural Center
723 W. Maxwell St., Chicago

Community Reading
Wednesday, Oct. 28
3:30-5 p.m.
Asian American Resource and Cultural Center
723 W. Maxwell St., Chicago

#UIC #AARCC #FilipinoAmerican #FilipinoNurses #UnheardVoicesOfCare by @uicglas

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Come to our first Chai Guevarra Open Hour!

Next Wednesday, September 30th from 3-4PM, the Global Asian Studies Student Advisory Board will be meeting up in Room 1050 at University Hall.

The event is open to all community members who’re interested in getting to know the GLAS community, GSAB, and other students who might share your interest in Global Asian Studies!

Snacks and chai will be provided!

#WeAreGLASHalfFull by @uicglas

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Looking for something to do on Friday? Come join some of the student leaders from Prof. Anna Guevarra’s GLAS 217: Filipino American Studies class , @anakbayan_atuic and @kalusuganatkalilasanngbayan for a Philippines History Study, a teach-in of how the conditions of the Philippines have changed over time from precolonial history to the current day! We’ll have food and fun activities while learning about different events and policies that affect Filipino society today! 🧑‍🏫🇵🇭🤜🤛

SAVE THE DATE‼️:
September 18th, 2:00-4:30PM at SCE Rathskellar (Atrium lower level)

#WeAreGLASHalfFull by @uicglas

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You are invited!

On Tuesday, September 29th from 5:30-7PM, the Asian American Resource and Cultural Center and the Global Asian Studies program are hosting a film screening at UIC on a docuseries called Southeast Asian American Journeys. The filmmaker, Quyên Nguyễn-Lê, will be in attendance for a Q&A with snacks provided!

ABOUT THE DOCUSERIES:
Produced in association with Southeast Asia Resource Action Center and the Center for Asian American Media, Southeast Asian American Journeys explores the stories of five local SEAA refugee communities who, while being shaped by their resettlement journeys, have transformed the landscape of which they are a fundamental part. The docuseries is composed of five shorts that each focus on a different local SEAA refugee community and topic (e.g. Montagnard, Hmong, Iu Mien, Khmer, and Vietnamese). For more about the topics and communities explored, check us out at go.uic.edu/seaajourneys or follow the filmmakers at @seaajourneys_doc!

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR/FILMMAKER:
Quyên Nguyễn-Lê is a queer vietnamese filmmaker born to boat refugee parents where Chumash and Tongva lands meet in Los Ángeles, California. Quyên’s film work–spanning between documentary and scripted genres–focuses on the ways histories are deeply felt in the quotidian everyday.

Quyên’s debut feature, co-directed and produced with Tad Nakamura, Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement (2024), uses rare archival material to create a vivid portrait of iconic Asian American movement activist Nobuko Miyamoto’s decades-long artistic career. Recently, Quyên was also an Associate Producer for two Sundance award winning feature films–Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s Free Chol Soo Lee (2022) and Sing J. Lee’s The Accidental Getaway Driver (2023).

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The Global Asian Studies Student Advisory Board presents our Fall 2026 Mixer!

Come celebrate the fall semester with us. All students, staff, and faculty are welcome! Come learn about the GLAS major and minor alongside other opportunities. We’ll have fun, food, and raffle prizes!

We’ll be on the tenth floor of University Hall in room 1050 UH from 2-4PM on Wednesday, September 23rd. We look forward to seeing you all!

RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/#GLASFallMixer2026

#WeAreGLASHalfFull by @uicglas

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Come visit our table at the Involvement Fair today and learn more about GLAS and our fabulous academic community! by @uicglas

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