Humanities & Social Sciences
Esteemed speakers contributing their insights into human culture, behavior, and societal development
Originally from Roseville, CA, working in residence life began for Alex when he was a first-year student at William Jessup University near Sacramento, CA. A professional staff member asked Alex to apply to be an Orientation Leader and later on a Resi... Show more
I've been a professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Santa Barbara since 2002. My professional life is here: https://www.asamst.ucsb.edu/people/john-s-w-park Show more
Kylie Ching is a University of California Riverside Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies. Her research interests are art and visual culture of the Asian diaspora, contemporary American art, photography, cul... Show more
Sohom is a second-year PhD student at the Wolfpack Privacy and Security Lab at North Carolina State University. Besides researching web browsers, he spends his time playing CTF challenges, contributing to open-source projects, and writing about cyber... Show more
Jacqueline DiCanio is a two-time SUNY Stony Brook University graduate (BA/MA) with a deep passion for Italian literature, heritage, and regional history. After growing up and engaging the Italian-American community on Long Island, she now teaches wit... Show more
Chris A. Eng is Assistant Professor of English at University of Maryland, College Park. His first book, Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America, was published by NYU Press in the Sexual Cultures series (February 2025). It received the ... Show more
I am a systems thinker, AI governance practitioner, and founder of the Regen AI Institute, where I develop system-level approaches to Responsible and Safe AI. My work focuses on the intersection of human cognition, organizational decision-making, and... Show more
Abdouramane Issoufa
Coordinateur régional des Cyber-Gardiens (Projet Laafi-Kurabi – Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso) | Chef d’équipe – Digitalise Youth Niger | Leader scout engagé sur les droits numériques
Abdouramane Issoufa est un leader scout et acteur communautaire engagé sur les questions de droits numériques, de cybersécurité et de lutte contre la désinformation dans les pays du Sahel. Il est coordinateur régional des Cyber-Gardiens pour le proje... Show more
Chad Shomura is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Denver. His research interests include political thought, affect, biopolitics, new materialism, and ecology. His recent publications are in Capacities To: Affect Up ... Show more
Michelle N. Huang is assistant professor of English and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Racial Beings: Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms (Duke, 2026). Her film essay, INHUMAN FIGURES: Robots, Clone... Show more
I am a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota, with minors in Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (RIDGS) and American Indian and Indigenous Studies. "Messin’ Wid Paradise: The Kalihi-verse as O... Show more
Madeline Anderson is the author of Girl Dad and an entrepreneur. She has a passion for neuroscience, psychology, writing, and speaking. She is the daughter of a Girl Dad and spent years interviewing a wide array of fathers and daughters to write her ... Show more
Marie Myung-Ok Lee is the author of the novel The Evening Hero (2022), and the re-release of her young adult novel, Finding My Voice. Her journalism and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Paris Rev... Show more
Jim Lee is Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at UCI. Show more
Katie Masano Hill is a fifth-generation Japanese American (Gosei) from Lafayette, Indiana. She graduated from Valparaiso University with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Museum Studies at the Universit... Show more
Henry Cheng is a PhD candidate in History at Cornell University (ABD, 2025), where his research examines Cold War afterlives, postsocialist reinventions, and Asian American politics across labor, law, and memory. His work traces how Maoist discourses... Show more
Federick Ngo is an associate professor in the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His work focuses on higher education policy, finance, and economics. Show more
Suiyi Tang is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Southern California where she works on Asian American postwar modernism and the history of cybernetics. She is also the author of the novel American Symphony: Other White Lies (CC... Show more
John P. Rosa, PhD Associate Professor Department of History, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa rosajohn@hawaii.edu Mobile: (808) 723-1160 EDUCATION Ph.D., 1999, M.A., 1992, History, University of California, Irvine B.A., 1990, History, Nor... Show more
Ai Grace Acton is an undergraduate student studying International Relations and Sociology at Tufts University. This past summer, Acton was awarded a grant from the Tufts Summer Scholars program to conduct research on multiracial Asian American identi... Show more
Dr. Xiang Gao is an Assistant Professor of Public Health Education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG). Dr. Gao also holds a research affiliation with the Carolina Asia Center (CAC) at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Gao’s research investigate... Show more
A la fois scientifique de formation dans le domaine de la biologie et serious game designer, j'anime le dialogue sciences & société autour des biotechnologies en utilisant le jeu comme ressource principale pour impliquer les citoyens. Show more
Caroline Kieu-Linh Valverde
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis
Dr. Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Founding Director of the New Viet Nam Studies Initiative at the University of California, Davis. She was a Fulbright, Rockefeller, and Luce scholar. She authored Tra... Show more
Researcher. Builder. Hacker. Traveler. Show more
Moch Rafy Adhipramana Effendy
Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Master Student from Information System Department
Moch Rafy Adhipramana Effendy is master’s students in the Department of Information Systems at Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, passionate about applying knowledge graphs to real-world problems. In Indonesia’s democracy, he care about raising pol... Show more
Ayush Pandey is the Founder & CEO of Sixth Axe Studios, a 'Culture-Tech' gaming startup incubated at IIM Kozhikode (LIVE). With over 10 national recognitions and a fellowship from the IGDC (India Game Developer Conference), Ayush is pioneering the ge... Show more
Innovative and results-driven professional with expertise in AI, data analytics, and business transformation. I specialize in leveraging generative AI solutions, multimodal large language models (LLMs), and AI agents to optimize workflows, enhance op... Show more
Je suis consultante en conduite du changement. J'interviens en entreprise pour travailler sur des projets de transformation (réorganisation, nouveaux processus métier, nouvelles méthodes de travail). Les méthodes agiles, les techniques du Design Thin... Show more
Com mais de 24 anos e experiencia em tecnologia e expecializado em Data Science, Analytics & Big Data. Principais pontos da Carreira • Gerenciamento de banco de dados SQL • Tuning de queries SQL • Desenvolvimento, auditoria e consultoria de q... Show more
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