CANCELLED: Lunch and Conversation with Panelists of "Fear of Asian Tech: Chips, Platforms, and Social Networks"
IMPORTANT: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO THE SPRING.
Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to join an informal lunch hour to connect with the panelists of "Fear of Asian Tech: Chips, Platforms, and Social Networks" (see more info about the panel here). Students will have the opportunity to meet the panelists, discuss their research/work, and network.
El Harissa Market Cafe will be provided. Registration is required and limited space is available.
Meet the Panelists
Christopher Fan is an Associate Professor of English at UC Irvine, Director of UCI Global Asias, and co-director of the Geographers at UCI Research Cluster. Dr. Fan holds courtesy appointments in Asian American Studies and East Asian Studies. He is a senior editor at Hyphen magazine, which he co-founded, and serves on the editorial board of the journal American Literary History. Dr. Fan is the author of Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia University Press, 2024) and co-editor of Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions (Rutgers University Press, 2025). He is currently working on two books, one about the trope of China’s rise in fiction and film and another about a cultural history of semiconductors, centering on the industry’s emergence in Taiwan.
Janice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a Filipina American poet, writer, and independent scholar from the San Francisco Bay Area (unceded Ohlone land). She is the author of the poetry collections like a solid to a shadow (Nightboat Books, 2022) and microchips for millions (PAWA, Inc., 2016), along with two other chapbooks. Sapigao contributed three entries to The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. She is a 2023-2026 Lucas Arts Resident in Literary Arts at the Montalvo Arts Center and a tenured Associate Professor of English at Skyline College. Sapigao also co-founded Santa Clara County’s Youth Poet Laureate Program and Sunday Jump Open Mic in Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown. She is working on a novel and a non-fiction manuscript on Philippine American archives.
Tony Shyu is an award-winning filmmaker, founder of Neu Wave AI Films, and CEO of Himalaya Entertainment, with over 20 years of experience directing across commercials, narrative films, and documentaries. After earning his BFA and MFA in Film from Art Center College of Design, he began his career directing high-profile campaigns for brands like Doordash, Mastercard, Volvo, and Uni-President earning Advertising Awards and the 2016 Videographer Award for API Vote, featuring George Takei and Constance Wu. His feature debut with Lions Gate and acclaimed documentaries for PBS, including The Race Epidemic and Builders of the Silicon Dream, showcase his talent for impactful storytelling. As a pioneer in AI filmmaking, Tony has directed cutting-edge AI-generated films and founded the Neu Wave AI Film Festival and Cinemarket.AI to support and mentor the next wave of creators.