BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.4.6.4//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:146@museum.msu.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T170000 DTSTAMP:20260328T220038Z URL:https://museum.msu.edu/events/speculative-futures-apida-sounds-and-sto ries/ SUMMARY:Speculative Futures | APIDA Sounds and Stories DESCRIPTION:As the United States turns 250\, the Speculative Futures series looks ahead\, spotlighting artists\, poets\, scholars\, and storytellers who imagine what comes next. Through programs celebrating Black History\, Women’s History\, AAPI Heritage\, Hispanic Heritage\, and Native America n Heritage Months\, the series asks how visionary narratives can reimagine identity\, justice\, and possibility in America’s next chapter.\n\nSpec ulative Futures | APIDA Sounds and Stories\nPanel Talk\, Musical Performan ce\, and Night Market\n\nJoin us for an evening of music and conversation exploring imagination\, identity\, and the possibilities of tomorrow. Feat uring a live performance by musician Austin Har and a panel discussion wit h MSU faculty and students from APASO (Asian Pacific American Student Orga nization)\, this Speculative Futures program examines how creative express ion can shape more inclusive futures.\n\nFollowing the panel\, the program expands into a vibrant “Night Market” experience across the Museum. V isitors are invited to explore a network of student organizations and comm unity groups throughout the building\, collecting stamps at each stop to b e entered for giveaway prizes. This interactive\, museum-wide activation t ransforms the evening into a dynamic collaboratory. This event brings toge ther ideas\, cultures\, and creative practices through exploration\, excha nge\, and shared experience.\n\nRegister Here\n\nPanelist Include:\n\n\n\n Naoko Wake is Professor of History and former Director of the Asian Pacifi c American Studies Program at Michigan State University. She has authored  Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan\, the Science of Homosexuality\, and American Liberalism (Rutgers\, 2011) and American Survivors: Trans -Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Cambridge\, 2021). She has created the largest oral history collection of Asian American survivors o f the 1945 atomic bombings in the world\, housed in MSU’s Robert G. Vinc ent Voice Library and in the Densho Digital Repository in Seattle. Her cu rrent project concerns the histories of disability\, archives\, and litera ture in Asian America/Pacific Islands. In Michigan\, she has served as an expert witness for the Korematsu Day Bill for House and Senate Committees\ , helping Michigan become the 7th state in the union to observe Korematsu Day in perpetuity and allowing Michiganders to commemorate the civil righ ts activist who resisted the Japanese American internment during WWII.\n\n \n\nTerese Guinsatao Monberg (she/her) is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing\, Associate Dean\, and founding faculty member of the Resident ial College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) at Michigan State University . She served as Director of MSU’s APA Studies Program from 2017-2019. As a community-engaged scholar and teacher\, her work focuses on methods for mobilizing Asian/American and Filipinx/American rhetoric\, community lite racies\, and countermemory. Much of her work is co-authored\, co-edited\, and has intentionally been placed in outlets that value collaborative form s of knowledge making. Dr. Monberg currently serves as co-editor of the Fi lipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) Journal\, which publis hes research by both academic and community scholars.\n\n\n\nAnna Pegler-G ordon teaches in the Asian Pacific American Studies program and the James Madison College at Michigan State University. Her research and teaching in terests include Asian American history\, immigration and citizenship pol icy. She is the author of award-winning books\, In Sight of America: Pho tography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy (2009) and Clo sing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island (2021). Her current research is focused on everyday Ja panese American resistance during World War II.\n\n\n\nAustin Oting Har i s a composer\, writer\, and performer whose work bridges ancient philosoph y\, music technology\, and experimental sound. Drawing on ancient language s\, instruments\, digital sound design\, and creative coding\, his practic e spans contemporary classical\, electronic\, popular music\, and poetry\, with a focus on phonaesthetics—the sound of words as meaning. His colla borations connect Greek tragedy\, Japanese nō theatre\, and renga poetry with contemporary music across Australia\, Europe\, Japan\, and the United States. In fall 2025\, he joined Michigan State University as Assistant P rofessor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities\, where he co-founded Bogue Street Records\, an experimental RCAH record label.\n\n\n \nBorn in Grand Rapids\, Michigan\, Tony Pham is a proud West Michigander and sophomore majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Science at M ichigan State University. He currently serves as the Cores and Cams Liaiso n and as Vice President for Academic Affairs in ASMSU\, advocating for stu dent academic initiatives and uplifting minority voices across campus.\n\n Tony previously collaborated with the National Archives\, West Michigan As ian Community\, and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum on an APIDA-foc used project commemorating 50 years since the Fall of Saigon and the stori es of immigrants who came to Grand Rapids. He also works in the Michigan S tate Legislature under Representative Glanville and works on Congresswoman Scholten’s campaign—both proud West Siders.\n\nStudent Groups Partici pating in the Night Market\nAPASO: Asian Pacific American Student Organiza tion\nWE ARE SAATH: Bringing Mental health awareness to South Asian Commun ities\nSpartan Sur: South Asian Co-Ed acapella  group\nPASS: Pilipino Ame rican Student Society\nKSA: Korean Student Association\nCTRL + A: Student org that celebrates APIDA culture and diversity through dance\nVSA: Vietna mese Student Association\nJSA: Japanese Student Association\nHASA: Hmong A merican Student Association\nSpartan Diabolo: Shares the art of Chinese yo -yo\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museum.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/0 1/Website-Promo-1.png CATEGORIES:Speculative Futures LOCATION:MSU Museum\, 409 West Circle Drive\, East Lansing\, Michigan\, 488 24\, United States GEO:42.731562;-84.48169 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=409 West Circle Drive\, Eas t Lansing\, Michigan\, 48824\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=MS U Museum:geo:42.731562,-84.48169 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR