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Stories Buried, Stories Told: Entangled Histories of Asia and St. Louis

Stories Buried, Stories Told traces how Asian migrants and Asian Americans arrived, lived, and died in St. Louis, and how they are remembered—or forgotten. Moving from early migration and community-making to burial, memory, and storytelling today, the symposium asks whose stories become part of the city’s history and who gets to tell them.

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Event agenda, faculty host, panelists, session chairs, & student researchers:

8:00-8:45        Breakfast

8:45-9:00        Opening Remarks by Uluğ Kuzuoğlu

9:00-10:45      PANEL I: Arriving in St. Louis: Migration, Exclusion, and Belonging

Zhao Ma (Chair)

Susan Brownell, “Invited but Unwelcome Guests: Chinese Merchants bound for the St. Louis World’s Fair in the Exclusion Era”

Anna Crosslin, “Vietnamese Arrivals in St. Louis 1975-1995: Phases and Impact”

Mallory Steen, “Once Revered, Then Feared: 19th Century Chinese Immigration to St. Louis”

Tyler Winter, “Reporters' Perceptions of the Chinese Queue Haircut in 19th Century St. Louis”

10:45-11:00    Coffee Break

11:00-12:30    PANEL II: Building St. Louis: Asian American Communities, Spaces, and Design

Dalen Wakeley-Smith (Chair)

Peter Tao, “STL Lost Chinatown: The Chinese American Journey”

Kelley Murphy and Heidi Kolk, “Building a World after the War: Japanese American Design at Mid-Century”

12:30-1:30    LUNCH

1:30-3:00    PANEL III: Dying in St. Louis: Preserving Community Stories from the Historic Chinese Cemetery at Valhalla

Michelle Hauk (Chair)

Presenters: Min Liu (University of Illinois Edwardsville), Thomas Bauer (Clayton High School), Elizabeth Hung (Ladue High School), Kellie Ji (Ladue High School), Janey Lin (Clayton High School), Rayden Lin (Clayton High School), Anna Yuhan Liu (Clayton High School), Will Haowen Liu (Clayton High School), Maggie Zeng (Clayton High School), Lily Zhou (Ladue High School)

3:00-3:15    Coffee Break 

3:15-4:45    PANEL IV: Connecting Past, Present, and Future Through Storytelling

Sabnam Ghosh (Chair), Moderators: Jia Lian Yang, Elsa Fan, Robin Hattori

5:00-6:00    DINNER

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu (WashU), symposium host/organizer, Associate Professor of History & East Asian Languages and Cultures, and member of the Immersive Technology Collective Incubator team 

Susan Brownell (UMSL), Anna Crosslin (Former President & CEO of the International Institute of St. Louis), Elsa Fan (Webster University), Sabnam Ghosh (WashU), Robin Hattori (WashU), Michelle Hauk (WashU), Tyler Winter (Missouri History Museum), Heidi Kolk (WashU), Min Liu (SIUE), Zhao Ma (WashU), Kelley Van Dyck Murphy (WashU), Jia Lian Yang (Community-Based Educator), Mallory Steen (UMSL), Peter Tao (TAO + LEE Associates), Dalen Wakeley-Smith (WashU), Thomas Bauer (Clayton High School), Elizabeth Hung (Ladue High School), Kellie Ji (Ladue High School), Janey Lin (Clayton High School), Rayden Lin (Clayton High School), Anna Yuhan Liu (Clayton High School), Will Haowen Liu (Clayton High School), Maggie Zeng (Clayton High School), and Lily Zhou (Ladue High School)

This event is sponsored by the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures, WashU's departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures, American Cultural Studies, and History, and in partnership with researchers from the Missouri Historical Society's Chinese American History Initiative. 

Questions? Please reach out to us at TheIncubator@wustl.edu. 

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