Friday, May 10, 2024
9am-7pm
Greenberg Conference Center
Yale University, New Haven, CT
As both objects of study and agents of discovery, Asian Americans across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have played an important yet often unseen, stereotyped, and misrecognized role in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in the U.S. In our present moment, Asian American scientists have become hypervisible in American culture and society as dangerous threats to U.S. national health, security, and economic well-being. Often portrayed as the successful “model minority” in popular media, Asian and Asian Americans are often invisible in scholarly and popular accounts of the history of race and racism in the U.S. As a result, the fields of history, history of science, and science and technology studies have generated little scholarship to understand the ways in which American scientific research has been shaped by Asian exclusion and racial formation and in turn has impacted the lives of Asian and Asian American scientists in the U.S. and around the world more broadly.
The conference brings together scholars from the humanities and STEM fields who are actively engaged in exploring the history of race and racialization in their respective fields. The conference will address research and pedagogy. The conference offers an opportunity to explore the ways in which the afterlife of Asian exclusion and postwar struggles over Civil Rights and racial inequality have continued to shape the lived experiences and scholarship of Asian and Asian American scientists and their respective fields. The conference will also address the scientific research undertaken by Asian Americans in these fields to understand the impact of their respective work as well as examine the ways in which their work has been remembered, obfuscated, or erased in standard histories of scientific discovery and invention.
PROGRAM
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Keynote speaker: Dr. Howard Kyongju Koh
Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Faculty Co-Chair of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
(Graduate of Yale College and Yale School of Medicine)
See Howard Kyongju Koh's bio here.
SPONSORS
Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS)
Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM)
Traphagen Alumni Speakers Series, Yale College Office of Student Affairs.
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