Thursday, February 1, 2018
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
UCLA Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095

This panel will explore college exchange programs (international and otherwise) not simply as an opportunity for adventure and transformative experience, but as a means of training students to become global citizens. Panelists will speak to various programs they have designed in Southeast Asia as they grapple with challenges of histories and current practices of territorial occupation.

Introduction by Chris Erickson, Director of UCLA International Institute and Professor of Management

Panelists:

Enrique Bonus is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. He also directs UW’s Diversity Minor Program and is Affiliate Faculty in the Southeast Asia Center and the Center for Multicultural Education. His research interests lie in the conjunctions among ethnic studies, Pacific Islander Studies, and Southeast Asian studies, and in relation to transnationalism, interdisciplinarity, and multicultural pedagogy. His forthcoming book is entitled The Ocean in the School.

Ninez A. Ponce, MPP, PhD, is Professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management and Director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health. She is the Principal Investigator for the California Health Interview Survey, the largest state health survey in the nation. She led pioneering efforts in the measurement of race/ethnicity, the implementation of the Asian ethnic oversamples and the cultural and linguistic adaptation of the survey. A health economist, her research contributes to the elimination of racial/ethnic and social disparities in health and health care in three areas: multicultural survey research, social penalties in health access, and global and immigrant health.

Stephen Acabado is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. He received his PhD and MA in Anthropology from the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa and his BA in Anthropology from the University of the Philippines-Diliman. His archaeological investigations in Ifugao, northern Philippines, have established the recent origins of the Cordillera Rice Terraces, which were once known to be at least 2,000 years old. Dr. Acabado directs the Ifugao Archaeological Project and Bicol Archaeological Project, projects with strong student-training component. Dr. Acabado’s work revolves around agricultural systems, indigenous responses to colonialism, subsistence shifts, landscape archaeology, and heritage conservation. He is a strong advocate of an engaged archaeology where descendant communities are involved in the research process.

Event is part of a new series, The Philippines and its Elsewhere

Nguyet Tong
(310) 206-9163
cseas@international.ucla.edu

Sponsor(s): UCLA International Institute, Asian American Studies Center, Asian American Studies Department , Comparative Literature, UCLA Undergraduate Education Office of Instructional Development, UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and UCLA Institute of American Cultures