ACAM Dialogues Podcast

The Chinese Canadian Museum (CCM) opened in Vancouver’s Chinatown on July 1st 2023, 100 years after the passing of the 1923 Chinese Immigration Act (also known as the Chinese Exclusion Act). Its feature exhibit The Paper Trail to the 1923 Exclusion Act holds the identity documents that individuals of Chinese descent were forced to carry and the personal stories behind them.  This week’s ACAM Dialo...

This episode is in remembrance of Y-Dang Troeung who was a beloved teacher, researcher, friend, mentor, advocate, colleague and community member in the ACAM orbit. Her first book, Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia was published in August 2022, and her memoir, Landbridge: Life in Fragments was published posthumously. Prior to her passing in November of 2022, she also had...

This week's episode is a roundtable discussion with the ACAM student staff: Emily Law, Kaitlyn Lee, Vanessa Lee and Victoria Sin. We discuss identity, our migration stories, and the work we do at ACAM. We also have a message left by Szu Shen, ACAM's Program Manager for our ACAM voicemails on joy segment!

Our first episode of 2024 is an interview with Jane Komori, a postdoctoral research fellow in UBC’s history department. This week we discuss labor history in Western Canada, migrant ecologies, and food systems. We also have two messages left by Victoria Sin and Emily Law for our ACAM voicemails on joy segment. https://history.ubc.ca/profile/jane-komori/

This mini episode of the podcast is a collection of voicemails left by ACAM community members reflecting on Asian Canadian joy as 2023 comes to a close. ACAM Voicemail is a new segment on the podcast. What’s bringing you joy? Do you have any recipes, stories, books, messages for other people you’d like to share? If you’d like to leave a voice message to be featured on a future episode of the podca...

This week we have another group interview! So in 2018, Phebe Ferrer hosted ACAM447A, a student directed seminar exploring Filipino identities in diaspora. She and two of the participants in the seminar, Raphael Diangkinay and Jacqueline Sarvini sat down with Isa to chat questions of Filipinx identity, the student directed seminar format, and the real friends they made along the way.

Our guest this week on the podcast is Emi Sasagawa, author and Director of Communications at UBC Faculty of Arts. We sat down for a chat about her debut novel  Atomweight , writing with empathy, and intersectionality within queer Asian womanhood. 

Our guests this week on the podcast are 2023 ACAM grads—Moira Henry, Lindsay Mak, Divine Reyes, and An Xu. We sat down for a chat about their takeaways from the ACAM minor program, building community, and the power of storytelling.

Our guest this week on the podcast is Jocelle Refol, Events Coordinator and Campaign Lead at Sliced Mango Collective, as well as the previous Peer 2 Peer Summer Program Leader at Collingwood Neighbourhood House Society. We sat down with her to chat about strategies for community organizing, social media as a useful tool in advocacy, and the importance of accessible summer programs for yo...

Our guest this week on the podcast is Wendy Yip, University Ambassador at UBC since 2016, President of the Pacific Canada Heritage Centre - Museum of Migration Society, and longtime supporter of ACAM. Alongside her husband, outgoing UBC President Santa Ono, Wendy will be relocating to Michigan, marking the end of her role with UBC. We caught up with Wendy to get her reflections on her work as Univ...

Our guest this week on the ACAM podcast is William Canero, organizer for the Joyce Street Action Network and board member for the Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Collective Society & the Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage Society. We discuss the Joyce-Collingwood food hub, public engagement in city planning and the role of Filipino businesses within the community. Buto/Buto: Bones are Seeds Ka...

The realities of being an indie musician, the conceptualization of queer sound and the use of music in building community, these are just *some* of the subjects we cover in episode 6 of the ACAM podcast! Our guest this week is Dr. Casey Mecija, musician, scholar of queer sound and Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at York University. Dr. Casey Mecij...

Maximalist design, banana ketchup and Filipino food's connection with resilience, these are just *some* of the subjects we cover in episode 5 of the ACAM podcast! Our guests this week are Fyonna Laddaran and Kin Chua, designers and students at Emily Carr. Their project, Bahay Natin will be on exhibit at the Emily Carr grad show from May 10 to May 24. Links: Fyonna Laddaran Kin Chua Emily...

Legal writing vs. creative writing, diasporic fusion foods, and ghost stories from Southeast Asia, these are just *some* of the subjects we cover in episode 4 of the ACAM podcast! Our guest this week is Jamie Chai Yun Liew, writer, lawyer, law professor and podcaster on Migration Conversations. Stories that Haunt Us: A Conversation with Jamie Liew and Lindsay Wong

Our next guest for the ACAM podcast is Lindsay Wong, author of the #1 bestselling debut memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug-Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family. We sat down for an interview to chat about the memoir writing process, language learning, and immigrant ghost stories. Stories that Haunt Us: A Conversation with Jamie Liew and Lindsay Wong

In January of 2021, ACAM launched a new mini-podcast series to accompany our ACAM Dialogues podcast "Flow of Thoughts". The mini-episodes encourage dialogue with people in the ACAM community to facilitate conversations of their past and present during this new era of working. Our next guest is Laura Ishiguro, historian and associate professor in the Department of History at UBC. We sat down for an...

In January, ACAM launched a new mini-podcast series to accompany our ACAM Dialogues podcast "Flow of Thoughts". The mini-episodes encourage dialogue with people in the ACAM community to facilitate conversations of their past and present during this new era of working. Our next guest is Mila Zuo, filmmaker, film scholar and assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at UBC. We sat do...

In January, ACAM launched a new mini-podcast series to accompany our ACAM Dialogues podcast "Flow of Thoughts". The mini-episodes encourage dialogue with people in the ACAM community to facilitate conversations of their past and present during this new era of working. Our next guest is Jeanne Sakata, renowned actress and playwright. Our host, Leilan Wong, speaks with Jeanne about her family's migr...

Flows of thoughts surrounding film, and the filmmaking process with Natalie Murao and Thea Loo, the writer-director/producer duo behind No More Parties , as well as Alejandro Yoshizawa, filmmaker and professor at the University of the Fraser Valley.  Hosted and Produced by Moses Caliboso

The UBC Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies (ACAM) program is excited to announce a new podcast series to accompany our ACAM Dialogues podcast "Flow of Thoughts". The mini episodes encourage dialogue with the people of the ACAM community to facilitate conversations of their past and present during this new era of working. Our first guest is Winnie Cheung, Executive Director of the Pacific C...

[Re-release from Soundcloud] EPISODE 1 ACAM's inaugural episode of Flow of Thoughts is written and hosted by ACAM alumni Jackie Sarvini.  Created out of her experience processing emotions surrounding the global pandemic, Jackie returns to the music of her youth. In this return, she comes across the album SAWAYAMA by British-Japanese artist Rina Sawayama, an artpop extravaganza of colliding id...