Humanities in the Village | The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History

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Assistant Professor [Diego Javier Luis]9https://history.jhu.edu/directory/diego-javier-luis/) (history) will give a talk titled "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" as the September edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with Bird in Hand. Assistant Professor Johaina Katinka Crisostomo (English) will join Luis in conversation.

Luis's book The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History provides a definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire—from Manila to Acapulco and beyond—and its implications for the history of race and colonization in the Americas.

Audience Q&A after the reading—all are welcome. While there, pick up some recommended titles from Bird in Hand and enjoy nighttime beverages.

Diego Javier Luis specializes in the histories of colonial Latin America and the Spanish-Pacific world. He is the author of The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History, published by Harvard University Press in 2024. In his free time, Luis enjoys photography, hiking, and fencing.

Johaina K. Crisostomo received her bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 2011 and her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 2022. Her work explores the intersections between Asian/Asian American and Latinx/Latinx American literatures, engaging literature, political philosophy, religion, and comparative empire studies.