PANAAWTM's Winter 2026 Newsletter
- PANAAWTM
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Feb 2026Contents include: Board Updates, New Communications, Virtual Gathering, Community Highlights, and Announcements** We are retiring our panaawtm@gmail.com email address and are now conducting our communications with our network through the email address info@panaawtm.org .  Over the next few months, you all will be getting a few more updates from us with practical ways you can help inform and shape this new chapter of PANAAWTM. We are exploring tangible paths to make sure PANAAWTM can have sustainable organizational structure and finances moving into the future. We are looking forward to sharing about some of this work at our Spring Gathering on Monday, March 23, 2026 at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT / Tuesday, March 24, 2026 9 am HKT . Registration Link: https://scu.zoom.us/meeting/register/zftJDd82TYqKxwqe53F7sg Any person who identifies as a woman or non-binary individual and as someone of Pacific Islander, Asian, or North American Asian is invited to join the community gathering and business meeting. The business meeting is an important part of our annual rhythm and this is the space where you participate actively as part of the community to shape the org. Please join! We usually host this at the annual conference. However, since we do not have a conference this year, attendance to this business meeting this year is how you will indicate to PANAAWTM per our org bylaws that you want to identify as a member of PANAAWTM. There are no financial obligations associated with membership at this time. If you have any questions about this, please email info@panaawtm.org.  Board Update: The board members recently had a 2 day board retreat facilitated by Rozella White in Atlanta, and we are ready to imagine and build, alongside the PANAAWTM network, this next season of PANAAWTM organizationally. We are grateful for this 3 year capacity building grant from Lilly Foundation and Duke to do this much needed work. |
Community and Member HighlightsWe would love to feature an update on your project, work, publication, community work, activism! Nothing is too big or small! We are hoping to keep our community connected through small updates in these newsletters. https://forms.gle/eaJgEHSe9WFuqA6w9 Kwok Pui Lan's Podcast and Substack Dr. Kwok has launched some new media channels. If you want to stay updated on her work and ongoing conversations these are great places to subscribe or tune into! Podcast: |
From Dr. Minjung Noh (Leigh University) "PANAAWTM NY regional networking gathering (PI: Ki-Eun Jang, Fordham University) resulted in participants publishing journal articles developed from the networking workshop in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies. The collection was edited by Ki-Eun Jang and Minjung Noh." Find the journal articles here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/56107 |
From Wing Yin Li(PhD student at Princeton Theological School) "Recently, Dr. Wing Yi Wong, Dr. Almond Sin, and I have started a new Cantonese online certificate program in Christian theology, titled "Reconstructing Faith in Diaspora and Trauma,” at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto. It is the very first Cantonese course in North America rooted in progressive theology. Our third and forth courses are starting in January and March respectively. We would like for more Cantonese-speaking women who reside in North America to learn about this program." For more information, click here. |
Email ChangesYou will notice that we are shifting from using google groups for mass email communications to using EmailOctopus. This will streamline our mass communications and increase the privacy of information shared in correspondences with individuals. Additionally, we are retiring our If you are able, it would be greatly appreciated if you could unsubscribe from the newsletter with the email addresses you are no longer using (we have found many duplicates and are not sure which ones are active). It will help us keep our data up to date! Upcoming External Opportunities APARRI 2026 Call for Proposals Hope and Struggle: Navigating Today, Nurturing Tomorrow June 9-11, UC Berkeley Proposal Deadline: March 9, 2026 The Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI) is the largest and longest running interdisciplinary conference series in the United States addressing issues of religion and race in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities. Since 1999, APARRI gatherings have provided opportunities for scholars and community leaders involved in work on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander religions to share research, exchange ideas, and build collaborative relationships. As we gather in this year of unprecedented social and political challenge, we invite participants to reflect on sources of hope and struggle for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander religious communities. How have Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander scholars and religious communities grounded themselves in hope? How has hope anchored their collective struggle for meaning, fulfillment, and social change? When and where have we also witnessed the limits of that hope? How have Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander scholars and religious communities wrestled with the struggle of hopelessness and unfulfilled hopes? Particular sub-topics of interest on hope and struggle include:
Proposals are due March 9, 2026. Learn more and submit here. |
 Association of Asian American Studies 2026 Annual Conference April 2- 4, 2026, Honolulu, HI The 2026 AAAS conference in Hawai‘i serves as a space, place, and time through which to collectively reflect on, respond to, and/or reckon with settler colonial and U.S. imperial desires and designs that continue to shape everyday life and futures. This call for collective study should be read as an invitation for critical inquiry into our field and association, particularly as this conference takes place in a site that has been continually marked by the frictions of decolonial struggle. Indeed, the emergence of Asian settler colonial critique contends with how Asian settlers benefit from Kanaka Maoli dispossession, and how our politics must be answerable to Indigenous sovereignty if we are to build a truly radical collective future (Trask, Fujikane and Okamura). How can we attend to the contradictions of our presence in Hawai‘i as an organization in light of Kanaka Maoli calls for consent and reciprocity? How might AAAS in Hawai‘i serve as a touchstone for thinking through the forms of resistance that have brought people and ideas in relation across the islands, to other archipelagoes, and that traverse and bind Asia and the Pacific? In all, how can Asian American Studies, especially in and from Hawai‘i, help us further probe the global and historical processes and enduring legacies and logics of white supremacy and racial capitalism, of war and empire, of militarism and tourism, of land and capital, of labor and racialization, of Asian settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty, of freedom and violence? |
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