Co-led by Carolyn Chen and SueJeanne Koh, following the public conversation on Chen's book, Work Pray Code. This is a professional development seminar open to humanities and social science students. Discussion will include who we write for and why, what it means to write for “the public,” and unpacking the concept of care in relationship to scholarly work. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, Digital Humanities Exchange, Program in Religious Studies, and Department of Sociology. Register here for lunch and the workshop. For questions, please contact SueJeanne Koh at sj.koh@uci.edu. HG 1010.
Speaker bio
Carolyn Chen, a sociologist, is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Carolyn’s research focuses on religion, spirituality, and work in the new economy, as well as Asian American religions. She is the author of /Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience/ (Princeton 2008) and co-editor of/Sustaining Faith Traditions: Religion, Race and Ethnicity among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation/ (NYU 2012). Carolyn has written for the/New York Times, Los Angeles Times/, and spoken on National Public Radio. She is Co-Director of the UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, and a founding member of the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI), a scholarly community committed to the advancement of public knowledge of Asian Pacific American religions.
