This discussion will examine issues such as how various forms of Asian popular culture have responded to or engaged with other forms of national and hemispheric popular cultures, such as those in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific, how Asian American and Asian diaspora communities have drawn on Asian popular cultures, and the implications of homegrown Asian popular cultures circulating within and beyond Asia.

with Carla Jones (CU Boulder) co-editor of Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress

Dr. Vernadette Gonzalez, (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa), working on an interdisciplinary critical reader about the K-pop group BTS

Anita Mannur (Miami University), author of Intimate Eating: https://www.dukeupress.edu/intimate-eating

moderated by Tim Oakes, professor of Geography and Center for Asian Studies Interim Faculty Director

Co-Sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Arts, and the Global Asias Initiative