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Schedule & Speakers

All events take place in the College of Law Building, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign

Thursday, February 3
6:30 p.m. Shuttles from Chancellor Hotel to College of Law

7:00 p.m. Introductory Keynote Address - Angela Oh, J.D.
Solving Tough Problems -- The Intersection of Law, Society, and Spirit
Max L. Rowe Auditorium
Introduction by: Dave Roediger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

8:30 p.m. Reception, Peer and Sarah Pedersen Pavilion

9:30 p.m. Shuttles from College of Law to Chancellor Hotel

Friday, February 4
8:00 a.m. Registration (until noon), Pedersen Pavilion

Shuttles from Chancellor Hotel to College of Law

8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast, Pedersen Pavilion

8:50 a.m. Welcoming Remarks, Rowe Auditorium
Tom Ginsburg, Kent Ono
Charles Tabb, Associate Dean, College of Law
Sarah Mangelsdorf, Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

9:00 a.m. Welcoming Keynote Address - Roger Daniels, University of Cincinnati
The Japanese American Cases: A Social History, 1942-2004
Rowe Auditorium
Introduction by: Augusto Espiritu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:30 a.m. Plenary Session: Legal History and Comparative Racial/Ethnic Studies
Kevin Johnson (University of California, Davis), Neil Gotanda (Western State University), Sumi Cho (Depaul University)
Rowe Auditorium
Chair: Vernon Burton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
. Neil Gotanda: Comparative Racialization: Race, Identity and the Law
. Kevin Johnson: Asian Americans, Latina/os, African Americans: The Law of Immigration
. Sumi Cho: Liberal Exclusions and Racial Formation

Noon Lunch (on own)

Noon-5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit (location to be determined)

1:30 p.m. Concurrent Panel Session I
1. Queering the National Family
Chair: Rachel Buff, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
. Victor Romero, Penn State University, "Asians, Gay Marriage, and Immigration: Family Unification at a Crossroads"
. Paul Lai, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Legislating Queer Sexuality through Asian America"

2. Genealogies of Legal Doctrine
Chair: Tom Ginsburg, University of Illinois College of Law
. Greg Robinson, Université du Québec À Montréal, "Japanese Americans and the Origins of Strict Scrutiny"
. Victor Jew, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Finding the Ur Texts of the Asian Citizenship Denial Cases in the Whiteness Determination Decisions of the Antebellum and Reconstruction Era Midwest."
. John Torok, University of California, Berkeley, "Towards the History and Theory of Asian American Jurisprudence"

3. Policing the Homeland, Post 9/11
Chair: Nadine Naber, University of Michigan
. Rachel Mattson, New York University, "Past Matters: Reframing Thind in an Age of Homeland Security"
. Melissa Hussain, Washington State University, "Homeland (In)Securities and (Un)Patriotic Acts: Asian Americans and the Law in the Post-September-11 World"
. Mohar Ray, Rutgers-Newark School of Law, "Can I See Your Papers?"

3:15 p.m. Concurrent Panel Session II
4. Beyond the Black and White of American (In)justice: Constructing Legal Subjects through Relational Racializations
Chair: Lisa Cacho, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
. Victor Bascara, University of Wisconsin Madison, "The Declining Significance of the Citizen?: The Emergence of Chinese Personhood After the 14th Amendment"
. Julietta Hua, University of California, San Diego, "Reproduction and the Limits of Race: Subjecting the Asian Female Through China's One Child Policy"
. Helen Jun, University of Illinois, Chicago, "The Open Door and the Colored Entrance: Chinese Exclusion and Discourses of Black Citizenship"
. Grace Kim, University of California, San Diego, "Probationary Legal Subjects: Law, Power, and the Differential Racialization of Asian Americans"

5. Fictions of Citizenship in Transnational Contexts
Chair: Yoonmee Chang, Indiana University
. Sora Han, Columbia University, "Global Citizenship, the New Immigration, and Asian/America"
. Varun Soni, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Civilizing Bond(age), Saving India (na)"
. Stella Oh, Loyola Marymount University, "Law and the Construction of American Citizens: Disrupting Historiography in Maxine Hong Kinston's China Men"

6. Models of Reparation and Redress Justice
Chair: Sundiata Cha-Jua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
. John Tsuchida, California State University, Long Beach, "Tenney V. Mitsui & Co., Ltd.: The U.S. Supreme Court's Denial Of Claims By Victims Of Japanese War Crimes"
. John Streamas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Race and the Regulation of Time and Space"
. Yvonne Lau, DePaul University, "Under Attack: Set-aside Programs and Asian American Minority Business Enterprises"

5:00 p.m. Concurrent Panel Session III
7. Competing Legal Authorities and Global/ Local Settings
Chair : Angelo Ancheta, Harvard Law School
. John Haberstroh, Lakeland College Japan, "World War II Era Japanese Forced Labor Litigation: Narrative, Analysis, and Implications"
. Diana Yoon, New York University, "Sovereignty and Membership: Plenary Power Doctrine as a Constitutive Force in Citizenship"
. Winifred Poster, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Transnational Slippage in Diversity Policies: Asian Americans and South Asians and in the Global Workplace"

8. Chinese Americans and Zoning the Multiracial City
Chair: Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
. Judy Liao, Boston College, "Oznemoc v. Lower Washington Street Task Force: A Study of Adult Entertainment's Move to Chinatown and Community Efforts to Keep it Away"
. Shanshan Lan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Chinese Americans in Multiracial Chicago: A Story of Overlapping Racializations"
. Sieglinde Lim de Sánchez, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign," Lum v. Rice (1927): Proto-legal challenge to "Separated but Equal" in the Mississippi Delta"

9. Crossing Borderlines: Contemporary Migration and Legal Narratives and Practices
Chair: Diem-My Bui, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
. Hyunhee Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "The borderline between illegality and legality: Korean American lawyers, Korean immigrants, and Citizenship"
. Lisong Liu, University of Minnesota, " Hong Kong Transition, Migration Laws and American Citizenship"
. Chia Youyee Vang, University of Minnesota , "Hmong Refugee Resettlement in Minnesota: A Comparative Analysis of Media Coverage between the Early 1980s and Summer 2004"

6:30 p.m. Reception, Pedersen Pavilion

7:30 p.m. Dinner (on own)

9:00 p.m. Shuttles from College of Law to Chancellor Hotel

Saturday, February 5
7:30 a.m. Shuttles from Chancellor Hotel to College of Law

8:00 a.m. Registration (until noon), Pedersen Pavilion
Book Exhibit
Continental Breakfast, Pedersen Pavilion

8:30 a.m. Concurrent Panel Session IV
10. Cultural Citizenship/ Political Belonging and the Racialized State
Chair: Roger Daniels, University of Cincinnati
. Michael Chang, Santa Clara University, "An Asian American Interest Convergence Problem"
. Masumi Izumi, Doshisha University, "Inventing 'Enemy Citizens': Japanese American Internment, the Emergency Detention Act, and Civil Liberties in Post-WWII America"
. Taro Iwata, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "'We Will Be Stateless': Nisei Fear of Citizenship Nullification and U.S. Geopolitics in Hawai'i, 1920-1924"

11. Subjects Outside the Law
Chair: Junaid Rana, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
. Linta Varghese, Vassar College, "Laboring Under Illegality: the Domestic Sphere and Citizenship in New York City"
. Svati Shah, New York University, "Women Underground: Women Negotiating Work Between Mumbai's Informal and Underground Economies"
. Lisa Cacho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Illegal Immigrants after September 11"

10:15 a.m. Concurrent Panel Session V
12. State v. Community: Education, Assimilation, and Indigeneity
Chair: Kal Alston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
. Susan Matoba Adler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Midwestern Japanese Americans Post Internment: Family, Ethnic Identity and Acculturation Across Generations"
. Heekyong Pyon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "The Issues of Bilingual Education from a Critical Race Theory (CRT) Perspective"
. Christin DePouw, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "'Everyone wants to speak for me': University Policy and Hmong American Students"

13. Asian American Law and History: Roundtable
Chair: Moon-Kie Jung, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Augusto Espiritu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Judy Wu (Ohio State University), John Cheng (Northwestern University)

Noon Lunch

1:30 p.m. Plenary Session: Feminism, Race, and Legal Frameworks
Susan Koshy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Mae Ngai (University of Chicago ), Leti Volpp (American University)
Rowe Auditorium
Chair: Siobhan Somerville, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
. Leti Volpp: Getting Married and Losing Citizenship
. Susan Koshy: "Racial Exclusion, Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Anti-Miscegenation Law"
. Mae Ngai, "Beauties or Prostitutes? Chinese Women, the World's Fairs, and the INS, 1893-1904"

3:30 p.m. Closing Keynote Address - Frank Wu, Wayne State University Law School
Asian Americans at a Crossroads: The Future of Race
Rowe Auditorium
Introduction by: Mark Chu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

5:30 p.m. Shuttles from College of Law to Chancellor Hotel

 6:30 p.m. Banquet at Chancellor Hotel