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Race & the Railroad: A Conversation with Julia Lee and Paisley Rekdal. This event will be held in the CBIS Room, 5^th floor Norlin Library, between former Utah Poet Laureate, Paisley Rekdal, who will talk about her digital humanities project alongside Dr. Julia Lee, Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine who has just published her book .听West: A Translation is听a collection of poems and essays that draws a powerful connection between the transcontinental railroad completion and the Chinese Exclusion Act.The Racial Railroad听highlights the central role that the railroad played in the formation and perception of racial identity and difference in the US.听Join the conversation about the impact of the railroad and its role in racial identity in the United States.

Event Information:

• Date: Wednesday,听November 9, 2022
• Time: 3:30pm - 5pm听MT
• Location: in-person at CU Boulder -听Norlin Library (CBIS 5th Floor, Room M549)
• Registration:听
• Event is free and open to the public.
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ADA Accomodation

We will work with ADA Compliance to attempt to fulfill any disability requests for ASL interpreting and/or real-time听captioning for these events. Requests received less than 48 hours prior to the event cannot be guaranteed. To make a request, please email听the Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) at cu-cha@colorado.edu.

麻豆视频 the Speakers:

Julia Lee, Associate Professor, Author of "The Racial Railroad"

Julia H. Lee, PhD听is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California at Irvine and author of听Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896鈥�1937听补苍诲听Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston. She also recently published her book, , which reveals the legacy of the train as a critical site of race in the United States

The Racial Railroad听highlights the surprisingly central role that the railroad has played鈥攁nd continues to play鈥攊n the formation and perception of racial identity and difference in the United States.听Lee demonstrates how, through legacies of racialized labor and disenfranchisement鈥攆rom the Chinese American construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and the depictions of Native Americans in landscape and advertising, to the underground railroad and Jim Crow segregation鈥攖he train becomes one of the exemplary spaces through which American cultural works explore questions of racial subjectivity, community, and conflict.听

By considering the train through various lenses,听The Racial Railroad听tracks how racial formations and conflicts are constituted in significant and contradictory ways by the spaces in which they occur.

Paisley Rekdal, Award Winning Poet, Author, Professor, and Creator of "West: A Translation"

In 2018, 听was commissioned by the Spike 150 Foundation to write a poem commemorating the 150^th听anniversary of the transcontinental railroad鈥檚 completion. The result is听: a linked collection of poems that respond to a Chinese elegy carved into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station where Chinese migrants to the United States were detained. 鈥淲est鈥� translates this elegy character by character through the lens of Chinese and other transcontinental railroad workers鈥� histories, and through the railroad鈥檚 cultural impact on America.

Paisley Rekdal has received countless fellowships, prizes, and awards for her poems and essays. Her work听has appeared in听The New Yorker,听The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the听Best American Poetry听series,听on National Public Radio, among others.听

Between 2017-2022, she served as听Utah's Poet Laureate,听receiving a 2019 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.听She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah and currently serves a a poetry editor for High Country News.

Event Hosts:

This free event is hosted by听CU Boulder's听Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA), Center of the听American West (CAW), and CU Boulder's English Department.听

Directions:

The Race and the Railroad event will take place听on the听5th floor听of听Norlin Library, room M549, in the Center for British and Irish Studies (CBIS) room M549.听To access the CBIS Room听M549, use the West entrance of Norlin Library and take the elevator to the 5th floor. You may also听use either the north or south stairwell to the 5th floor.听

Address:
184 UCB
1720 Pleasant Street
Boulder, CO 80309

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For any questions, reach out to the Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) at cu-cha@colorado.edu.