Jun 30, 2026
What makes Californian literature shine? Writer Kathleen Alcott suggests that the diversity of California’s landscape has gifted a unique sense of time and change to its inhabitants, who are “used to the colors out the window turning over entirely, and to stop seeing trees and to start seeing water” within a few...
Jun 30, 2026
In times of danger and despair, kid-friendly stories and symbols can help families approach heavy topics, such as the ones in this panel. Touching on the difficult experiences of Japanese-Americans during the Japanese Incarceration in Hawai’i during World War II, Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson’sShell Song tells ofthe true...
Jun 29, 2026
Being a writer means coming up against self-doubt. But what if it doesn’t have to be so scary? What if the blank page felt more like an invitation than a cliff?
Does it sometimes seem like your novel is trying to kill you? Have you considered divorcing a story? Me too.
In this gathering we will work through a few...
Jun 29, 2026
Where is the boundary between a dream and a lie? The award-winning authors of this panel write about the elusive and deceptive dreams—of assimilation, of youth, of success— that impact their Asian American communities. In Lisa Lee’s American Han, the Kim family dutifully embodies the model minority myth in 1980s...
Jun 26, 2026
What is it like to stand up for our beliefs as members of universities in today’s social and political climate? UC Davis free speech and equity law scholar Brian Soucek argues that institutional neutrality is a myth in The Opinionated University, which takes a deep dive into prominent campus controversies...