TODAY! The Internationalists: Asian / American Politics in the Shadow of Cold War Empire, with Mark Tseng-Putterman (Feb. 3, 2023)

The Boston University Dept. of History is pleased to invite you to the upcoming lecture

“The Internationalists: Asian / American Politics in the Shadow of Cold War Empire”

by Mark Tseng-Putterman

(Brown University)

Friday, February 3, 2023 from 12:20 to 1:45 pm

in the BU Dept. of History, Room  HIS 504, 226 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215

Mark Tseng-Putterman

I am a PhD student in American Studies focusing on Asian American political organizing, coalitional politics, and comparative ethnic studies. As someone committed to the political project of ethnic studies, I am drawn to public humanities work in order to think critically about how to make my scholarship public-facing and to make theory work for social movements. My background in public humanities includes serving as associate curator for the New York University exhibition series Haunted Files: The Eugenics Record Office, which explored the history and legacy of the U.S. eugenics movement and “scientific” racism. I try to write for a public audience when I can, and my recent work on Asian American racial politics has appeared in the Huffington Post, Truth-Out, The Root, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.