Reminder: Reframing Global Asias Conversation Series Events

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:45:02 -0400

We're looking forward to seeing you at the Fall Reframing Global Asias Conversation Series events this week! Here's a rundown and event page links for each of our lectures & workshops. We can't wait to welcome our guest speakers and hope to see you there.

Wednesday, October 22

10:30am-11:45am

Library Gallery

House of Mirrors: How Mis- and Disinformation Amplify Imperialist Histories to Shape Asian American Political Participation in California's 45th Congressional District

RSVP on the myUMBC event page (encouraged but not required)

Light breakfast, coffee & tea provided

Thursday, October 23

2-4pm

CADVC Gallery (Fine Arts 105)

Language as personal and communal expression: an interactive zine-making workshop with Dr. Joyhanna Jung Yoo & Shengxiao "Sole" Yu

RSVP on the myUMBC event page (encouraged but not required)

Thursday, October 23

6-8pm

Commons 331

Solidarity with Anti-Imperialist Struggles: A Creative Mapping Workshop in collaboration with student groups Anakbayan UMBC and Binhi FFPS

RSVP on the myUMBC event page (encouraged but not required)

Dinner provided from Mama Rosa Grill

Friday, October 24

12-1pm

PAHB 216

The Semiotics of Skin: The Discursive Construction of Desirable Figures of Personhood in Korean Beauty's Global Circulation

RSVP on the myUMBC event page (encouraged but not required)

Lunch provided

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About our guest speakers:

Shengxiao Yu, known by her nickname Sole, is a speaker, facilitator, writer, and social justice educator. She is the creator of Nectar, a space where she provides political education for the community through giving keynote speeches, facilitating workshops, and providing thought leadership. In 2024, Sole served as the activist-in-residence at the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. In this capacity, Sole conducted research to more deeply understand the AAPI electoral landscape and the role of mis- and disinformation. Sole is a writer for the Xin Sheng Project, a platform combating misinformation in the Chinese diaspora community by publishing in-language, progressive articles that shift perspectives and build intergenerational power. As a generation 1.5 Asian American, Sole is also working to build community among her fellow Asian Americans in order to build socio-political power and to lift up her lineage. Sole is inspired by BIPOC activists, grassroots community leaders, and all the intersectional movement ancestors who have paved the way.

Joyhanna "Joy" Yoo (she/they) is a linguistic anthropologist whose work examines the circulation of Korean popular cultural genres with fieldwork based in Seoul, Mexico City, and Los Angeles. Their research examines the meanings generated by language as it pertains to race and gender when cultural genres circulate. Joy has also published on Asian American racialization and linguistic appropriation in mediatized contexts. Her newer work examines the relationship between language loss, grief, and Korean diasporic belonging. They are especially passionate about student-centered teaching, mentorship, and student advocacy.