Faculty of ArtSessional Teaching for 2024W Term 1
Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program – Sessional Teaching for 2024W Term 1 (September 1 to December 31, 2024)
Posted: February 28, 2024
The Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program (ACAM) is now accepting applications for a sessional position in 2024W Term 1 (4 instructional months; September 1 to December 31, 2024). The successful candidate will teach the following course:
ACAM250 001 – Asian Canadians in Popular Culture (Tues/Thurs, 3:30-5pm)
Applications must include the following items:
- Brief cover letter outlining your experience for the position
- Curriculum Vitae, which includes a record of experience and a detailed list of all postsecondary courses taught (course name and number, length, credit value, dates, and teaching responsibilities)
- A sample outline for this course (maximum 1 page)
- Transcript of your academic record if you do not yet hold a PhD
- Names and contact emails of two referees
Please send your application package to acam.program@ubc.ca by April 30, 2024 (11:59pm).
Preference will be given to applicants with a Ph.D. and experience in teaching at the college or university level, but applicants without a PhD who are ABD will also be considered. The minimum salary for a 3-credit course in the Faculty of Arts is $9,280.70.
Deadline for applications: April 30, 2024 (11:59pm)
All positions are subject to funding and are governed by UBC’s “Agreement and Conditions of Appointment for Sessional Lecturers.” In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Métis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.
ACRE ACAM Graduate Student Social
The Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement (ACRE) and the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies program (ACAM) are excited to invite you to a graduate student social on Monday, February 12th at the St. John’s College Social Lounge (2111 Lower Mall)!
This informal gathering is primarily an opportunity to connect over food and conversation with other graduate students working broadly in Asian North American studies, Asian diaspora and migration studies, and other related areas.
You’ll also have a chance to meet the ACRE and ACAM leadership and staff team. There’s no formal ask from you, but we’re working on ways to support graduate students in our community and we’d love to hear from you about your priorities, needs, and interests. (Also, stay tuned for an announcement about a travel fund!)
Please RSVP by Wednesday, February 7 to reserve a spot or contact the ACRE team at acre.info@ubc.ca.
ACRE ACAM Graduate Student Social
ACRE ACAM Faculty Social
We warmly invite you to the first ACRE ACAM Faculty Social of 2024 on Wednesday, February 14th! Co-hosted by the Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement (ACRE) and the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies program (ACAM), this casual and lighthearted gathering will take place from 12:00 – 2:00pm on February 14th at the St. John’s College Social Lounge (2111 Lower Mall). We hope that you will join us to eat, connect, and catch up and meet new friends.
Please RSVP by Wednesday, February 7 to reserve a spot or contact the ACRE team at acre.info@ubc.ca.
ACRE ACAM Faculty Social
Kaitlyn Lee
ACAM Special Projects Coordinator – Multimedia Production
Office: Room 300, Wesbrook Building (6174 University Boulevard)
Email: acam.events@ubc.ca
Kaitlyn Lee (she/her) is a UBC Arts student with a major in Sociology and a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration. She is passionate about community engagement, representation, and accessible storytelling for change – interests which have guided her experiences in and out of academic spaces. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, drawing, and capturing memories on her digital camera.
Kaitlyn Lee (she/her) is a UBC Arts student with a major in Sociology and a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration. She is passionate about community engagement, representation, and accessible storytelling for change – interests which have guided her experiences in and out of academic spaces. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, drawing, and capturing memories on her digital camera.
ACRE ACAM Faculty Dim Sum
Dim sum alert! You are warmly invited to an end-of-term dim sum brunch co-hosted by the Centre for Asian Canadian Research & Engagement (ACRE) and the Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies program (ACAM) on Friday December 1, 11am-1pm at the Dining Hall of St. John’s College (2111 Lower Mall)! Please join us for a cozy gathering over food to connect and catch up with other faculty in the broader ACRE ACAM orbit. Make sure to RSVP by Friday November 24 using the form below to reserve a spot!
RSVP is now closed.
Ayaka Yoshimizu
Ayaka Yoshimizu is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in cultural studies, media and communication studies, and ethnographic methodologies. Her research is concerned with transnational migration within Asia and across the Pacific Ocean; carceral mobilities, forced migration and human trafficking; politics of memory and memorialization; sensory studies; performance ethnography; embodied, experimental, and decolonial methodologies; and transnational and diasporic spaces and cultures.
Ayaka is the author of Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama: Sensuous Remembering (Routledge, 2022). Her current project looks at memorial sites, objects, and practices that commemorate the deaths of Japanese sex workers involved in transnational and interracial sex trade in the late 19th century through early 20th century in the transpacific world. She is a co-creator of a bilingual and multimodal website Sex and Migration in the Transpacific Underground, which offers an open educational resource that engages transpacific histories of interracial sex, intimate labour, and migration. The website brings together various Japanese-language archival materials with English translation along with teaching modules that can be implemented in courses in Asian Studies, Asian Diaspora Studies, Transnational History, Gender, Studies, Migration Studies and more.
Ayaka is affiliated with the Department of Asian Studies and the UBC-Ritsumeikan Academic Exchange Program. She teaches courses on Japanese literature, films, media, audiovisual translation, transpacific histories and cultures, and Indigeneities in Asia and Asian diaspora. She has been working on multiple pedagogical projects to develop decolonial and anti-racist approaches to teaching, curriculum development, and international education.
Remembering Larry Wong
On Saturday, September 2, 2023, longtime ACAM and UBC INSTRCC supporter Larry passed away. We will never forget Larry Wong’s impact on our students and his devotion to storytelling the untold histories of Asian Canadians. As ACAM marks its 10th anniversary, we are sad to lose one of the key community members who advised and helped found ACAM a decade ago. We are proud that our UBC INSTRCC student Jennifer Yip, working with the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, helped edit and publish Dim Sum Stories: A Chinatown Childhood (2011), his acclaimed collection drawn from his memories of growing up in Vancouver Chinatown.
We share the remembrance of long time friend and community volunteer Catherine Clement:
On September 2, Larry sailed away to a distant shore. He was 85.
A community historian, a writer, a playwright, a mentor, a consummate volunteer, Larry was a champion for all things Chinese Canadian.
Larry arrived in this world in the summer of 1938, the fourth and final child of WONG Mow, a tailor, and LEE Shee, an occasional opera singer. Both had immigrated from China. He grew up in his father’s workshop/store – the Modern Silk Shirt company – located at 432 Main Street in Vancouver.
Larry was born during the Chinese Exclusion Act years and that legislation had a profound impact on his family. When his mother died of tuberculosis when Larry was just 18-months old, his father struggled to raise four children while also running a tailor shop on his own. The Exclusion Act made it impossible for Wong Mow to marry again and bring a second wife from China. Consequently, his father often handed over some of Larry’s care to a local Chinese “bachelor” named WONG Seid Yew. Later in life, Larry would get emotional when he recalled the many elderly Chinese bachelor men still living in Chinatowns in Canada – a group for whom exclusion never ended.
Larry Wong (left) and his father in 1954
While Larry took a while to find his footing in the world of work, he eventually enjoyed a long career with Canada Post and later the federal Department of Employment & Immigration. However, it was only after Larry retired from the civil service that he discovered his greatest passion: Chinese Canadian history.
It helped that Larry loved sharing stories from his own past. And, with the gift of the gab and a creative ability to add colour to any story, Larry was always an entertaining conversationalist.
In retirement, Larry became an enthusiastic volunteer. He helped establish and became the first curator for The Chinese Canadian Military Museum. He helped create The Chinese Canadian Historical Society of B.C. and became its second president. Larry joined the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop and wrote a couple of plays. He also served on numerous boards including the Vancouver Historical Society. He purchased almost every book published by a Chinese Canadian writer – both fiction and non-fiction – and was a lifelong friend to celebrated author Wayson Choy (1939-2019).
Larry Wong (left) and Wayson Choy in 2012
One of Larry’s proudest moments was finally writing his own memoirs which were published in a 2011 book Dim Sum Stories: A Chinatown Childhood. Not only was the book an entertaining read, it became an important document describing everyday life in Vancouver’s Chinatown during the 1940s-1960s.
Larry enjoyed food and relished every kind of pastry produced in Chinatown bakeries. It was easy to make him laugh, and he had the warmest smile.
Although Larry fell in love many times during his lifetime, he never married. He often theorized that he never found the right partner because he was always seeking a woman to replace his late mother. In the end, he left this world with many good friends but no partner and no children. His legacy will live on, however, in the support he left to future students at the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies program at the University of British Columbia.
For someone who dedicated many years to history and to remembering, it was an irony and tragedy that Larry’s last years of advancing dementia robbed him of his memory.
However, Larry remained cheerful and smiling right to the end and was a favourite among the staff at Blenheim Lodge. We thank the staff there for caring for Larry in this last phase of his life.
A celebration of life will be held November 26 in Vancouver.
ACAM320J
In ACAM 320J – Asian Canadian Community Organizing (Community Engaged Research), students will learn about and practise ethical and collaborative research with and for Asian Canadian communities. Along with lectures, discussions and readings, students will engage directly with and learn from community research partners who have worked with Asian Canadian studies faculty at UBC. The course will enable students to implement research projects in collaboration with local community partners and to collaborate on a ‘community charter’ that articulates what it means to do meaningful research for Asian Canadian communities, by and with Asian Canadian communities.
In 2023W, ACAM320J 001 will be offered in Term 1 on Tuesday and Thursday, 12-1:30pm. It will be co-delivered by Dr. JP Catungal from the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and christina lee from hua foundation.
ACRE ACAM Faculty Brunch
We are excited to announce that the Centre for Asian Canadian Research & Engagement (ACRE) and the Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies program (ACAM) will be hosting a faculty brunch on Friday September 22, 11am-12:30pm at St. John’s College (2111 Lower Mall)! Please join us for a casual brunch to connect and catch up with other faculty in the broader ACRE ACAM orbit. During the brunch, ACAM Director, Dr. Laura Ishiguro, and ACRE Co-leads, Dr. JP Catungal and Dr. Henry Yu, will be sharing some recent developments and upcoming initiatives for the academic year 2023-24. Make sure to RSVP by Friday September 15 using the form below to reserve a spot!
Tentative Brunch Menu
Cold
- Two Types Cold Cereals
- Cottage Cheese
- Fruit Salad
- Natural & Fruit Yogurt
- Pastries & Baked Goods: assorted muffins, bagels, danishes, cinnamon buns, freshly baked croissants, white and whole wheat toast *GF bread upon request
- Chilled Orange Juice, Passion Guava, Grapefruit Juice & Fresh Milk
- Condiments: Fruit Preserves, Marmalades, Butter, Margarine & Cream Cheese
Hot
- Crisp Bacon & Sausages
- Eggs Benedict
- Home Fries
- Pancakes with Syrup
- Scrambled Eggs
- Regular Ethical Bean Coffee & Decaffeinated Coffee, Selection of Teas
