ACAM Faculty Spotlight – Benjamin Cheung

Welcome to the ACAM Faculty Spotlight series! This series is designed to showcase ACAM faculty affiliates by highlighting their teaching, research, and/or other academic work in a short Q&A format. Our inaugural Faculty Spotlight features Dr. Benjamin Cheung from the Department of Psychology. Dr. Cheung teaches in both Psychology and ACAM and currently serves as […]

RECAP – You are Here: Asian Canadians on the Map

On Saturday, April 11th, ACAM Dialogues hosted their public-facing event at 312 Main in the heart of Vancouver’s Chinatown and Downtown Eastside. ACAM Dialogues Coordinators Gabby Abando, Felicity Gutierrez, and Lian Lo welcomed community members to discuss the many ways we all come to understand ourselves in relation to the layered geography of so-called Metro […]

Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Positions – 2026W

The Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program (ACAM) is seeking applications from Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching Assistants from the Faculty of Arts to assist the following courses in 2026W Term 1 and Term 2.   ACAM_V 100-001 – Introduction to Asian Canadian Studies (Term 2, Tue/Thu, 9:30 am – 11:00 am)  Qualifications: Must be a […]

RECAP – The 2025 Fall Semester With ACAM Dialogues

What does it look like to create a community rooted in care? What does it look like for this community to centre ‘Asianness’? What does ‘Asianness’ even mean? These are the questions we tried to address, or at least discuss, during the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration (ACAM) Dialogues’ first meeting of the 2025/26 school […]

RECAP – The Body at Play: Basketball as Place, Identity, and Community

On October 29th, 2025, ACAM320J hosted Dr. May Farrales and Dr. Sharnjit Kaur Sandhra for an open lecture sharing their work on the role of basketball in Asian Canadian placemaking, identity shaping, and community engagement. “The Body at Play” was an opportunity for guests to engage with the different histories and experiences of basketball in […]

RECAP – Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama Exhibit Tour + Fireside Chat

On November 2, the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies (ACAM) Program hosted an exhibit tour of Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The exhibit is the first comprehensive retrospective on the Japanese Canadian photographer and his important work documenting social justice movements such as the Civil Rights Movement and Japanese Canadian […]