Morning Keynote
Ryan Shin, Professor, University of Arizona
AsianCrit and Counter-Narratives in Art Education
Ryan Shin is a professor in the School of Art at the University of Arizona, Editor, Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement (IGI Global), Co-editor, Pedagogical Globalization: Traditions, Contemporary Art, and Popular Culture of Korea (International Society for Education through Art). He was inducted as 2021 USSEA Kenneth Marantz Distinguished Fellow. His research interests include Asian popular media and visual culture, critical discourse on Asian identity and teacher decolonization, global civic engagement, and application of new media and technologies to school and other educational settings. He is the Media Review Editor of Studies in Art Education and served as co-editor of Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education (2016-2018). His articles have appeared in Studies in Art Education, Art Education, Visual Arts Research, Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, and International Journal of Education through Art. He also has authored numerous book chapters, and has given presentations at national and international levels.
Afternoon Keynote
Roland Sintos Coloma, Professor, Wayne State University
Critical Race, Anticolonial, and Asian Canadian Theorizing
Roland Sintos Coloma is a professor of Teacher Education at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Previously he was a faculty member in the Department of Social Justice Education at OISE University of Toronto (2008-2014). A scholar of history, cultural studies, and education, his research addresses critical questions of race, gender, and sexuality from transnational and intersectional perspectives. His publications include Asian Canadian Studies Reader (2017), Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility (2012), and Postcolonial Challenges in Education (2009). He has successfully garnered over $2 million of external funding from federal, education, philanthropic, and non-profit agencies, including SSHRC in Canada. Roland served as president of the American Educational Studies Association (2018-19) and editor of the Educational Studies journal (2014-17). In 2017, he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Research on the Education of Asian Pacific Americans special interest group of the American Educational Research Association. In 2020, he was appointed to the Governor of Michigan’s statewide Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission.
Sunera Thobani, Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
Asian Canadian Studies: Challenges in an Age of Catastrophes
Sunera Thobani is Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her scholarship focuses on critical race, postcolonial and transnational feminist theory; intersectionality and social movements; colonialism, indigeneity and racial violence; globalization, citizenship and migration; representations of Islam and Muslims in South Asian and Western media; and Muslim Women, Islamophobia and the war on terror.
Dr. Thobani is the author of Contesting Islam, Constructing Race and Sexuality (2020) Exalted Subjects; Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada, (2007); and co-editor of Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University (2022); Asian Women: Interconnections, (2005) and States of Race: Critical Race Feminist Theory for the 21st Century, (2010). Her research is also published in numerous edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals, including Borderlands, Atlantis, Feminist Theory, The Supreme Court Review, International Journal of Communication, Hypatia and Race & Class.