EVENTS/PUBLIC TALKS/ILLUSTRATED LECTURES

Museum of the Chinese in the Americas, NY “The Dog Tag Act”

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, “Driven Out:
Ethnic Cleansing in the Pacific North West”

Library of Congress, Featured Speaker, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, 2008

Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program and Smithsonian Museum of the American
Indian, Washington DC“A Story of Immigration” Asian Pacific American Center,
Smithsonian Museum of American History October 12

Chinese Tacoma Reconciliation Project Ground- breaking
Featured Speaker, to honor the Chinese purged from Tacoma, Washington. University of
Puget Sound, Washington,

Oakland Museum of California January 14

Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, January 15

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, “Violence and Violations” Monterey
Park Library, Los Angeles

California Historical Society and Chinese Historical Society of America, co-sponsored,
San Francisco

Chinese Culture Foundation, Sacramento January 13

Chinese Cultural Society Stockton/University of the Pacific , Jacoby Center for
Community & Regional Studies Jan 17, Thurs.

Oakland Asian Cultural Center Oakland, California,“Driven Out” Museum Exhibit opening and gallery lecture, January 19 gallery talk; exhibit January to May, 2008.

Organization of Chinese Americans, Greater Philadelphia Chapter; Lunar New Years
Banquet Speaker February 16

Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library History Roundtable, University of California, Berkeley,”

University of Pennsylvania School of Law, “The Chinese Re-Write The Letter of the Law.”

Washington DC Diversity Consortium, “The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans” Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, 2007 @ Georgetown Day School

Truckee Donner Historical Society, Truckee, CA, (in remaining opium den)

Humboldt County Historical Society, Eureka CA . 2007, 2004

Humboldt County Library, CA

Ferndale City Hall, CA

“Expelled: the Chinese in Northern California” Invited Keynote. Humboldt Historical Society, 2004

Association Asian American Studies, NY “The Dog Tag Act”

University of Maryland; Women's Studies, Asian Studies, American Studies November 28
The Chinese Professional Club of Houston; The Rice University Chinese Alumni Association; The Univ. of Houston Asian Alumni Association; The Asian Chamber of Commerce; & Organization of Chinese Americans, & Rice University,
Orinda California, Book Store Lecture & Signing November 15

Politics and Prose Bookstore, lecture Washington DC.

North Town Books, Arcata, CA

PUBLIC TALKS FORTHCOMING

Labor Film Fest, San Francisco
University of California Santa Barbara
Amherst College
University of Washington Ethnic Studies
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CD
San Diego State University
University of California Davis
University of California, Merced, 2008,
San Diego State University, Invited Speaker 2008
Golden Gate Law School, 2007, Invited Speaker
Occidental College, 2007, Invited Speaker
Martin Luther King Library, San Jose, CA
American Studies Association : “Muted Mutinies: Rebellions on Chinese Slave Ships” ;

PAPERS DELIVERED related to Driven Out

Hood College, MD. February 21

Ethnic and Area Studies Lecture Series, University of Delaware, “The Poetry of Angel Island Detention Center” September 20

Women's Studies Fall Lecture, University of Delaware, “Driven Out: A Forgotten Tale of Chinese American Women” September 27


Department of History Series, University of Delaware, October 30

American Studies Association, “The Archives Fight Back”

“What's In What's Out?” Society for the Study of American Women Writers, 2006

“No Longer Buried Alive: The Rebellious Subjectivity of Chinese Americans in the Late
Nineteenth Century” for panel “Mining the Archives, Unearthing Ethnic Histories in the United States” The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies, International Conference, Pamplona, Spain, 2006

"To Broker Rebellion" American Studies Association, 2006.

“Purging the Body Politic” City University of New York, 2006 Invited Speaker

“Peaceably If We Can, Forcibly If We Must” Chinese American Studies/Chinese Historical Association, 2005.

"Chinese Resistance to Violence and Vigilantes in the Nineteenth Century: Re Writing the Letter of the Law” British Association for American Studies Conference, Cambridge University, 2005

“The Overseas Chinese in California: Roundups and Resistance” Xi'an University, China, 2004 Invited speaker & Visiting Faculty, November-December 2004

“9/11 from 11/4: The American Political System and The Presidential Election of 2004" Xi'an University, China, 2004 Invited speaker

“Beyond the Trail of Tears: Ethnic Cleansing in California” Invited Plenary Speaker, American Studies Association, 2004

“Public History: A Documentary of Dispersion and Dissent” Re-thinking Asian-American History Consortium Invited Speaker, Smithsonian Museum of American History, 2004

“Trading Gazes: The Empire Looks Back” Invited Panelist Nineteenth Century American Women Writers 2004

“Domesticity and Property; Race and Law” Asian American Studies, 2004

“The Chinese Diaspora in California: The Local and the Global” Invited Speaker, Temple University, 2003

"Chinese Resistance to Violence and Vigilantes in the Nineteenth Century: Re writing the Letter of the Law" American Studies Association, 2003

future events to be added