Conversation with Author Dr. Dylan Rodríguez & Dr. MT Vallarta, April 28
Asian American Studies Now: A Conversation with Author & Professor Dr. Dylan Rodríguez and Dr. MT Vallarta
Dylan rodríguez guest talk, 2:10-3:30pm, April 28, 2026 on Zoom (link here)
The Ethnic Studies Department, organized by Assistant Professor Dr. MT Vallarta, will be hosting author and professor Dr. Dylan Rodríguez from the University of California, Riverside, for a dialogue with Dr. Vallarta where they will be discussing the current state of Asian American Studies under fascism and state-sponsored violence. This event is available on Zoom and will take place on April 28th, from 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm with the link and Zoom registration here. Please join us to hear more about this topic and the unfolding conversations!
About Dr. Dylan Rodríguez
Dylan’s lifework focuses on liberationist, anticolonial, and abolitionist confrontations with the antiblack, colonial, and white supremacist violences that permeate the ongoing Civilization project. He is devoted to studying and teaching the historical, collective genius of rebellion, survival, and insurgent futurity that radically challenge dominant forms of authority, power, and institutionality.
Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, scholar, organizer and collaborator who has worked at the University of California-Riverside since 2001. He is a Distinguished Professor in the recently created Department of Black Study as well as the Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Dylan served as Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies from 2009-2016, Chair of the UCR Academic Senate from 2016-2020, and has worked as the Co-Director of the UCR Center for Ideas and Society since 2021. As the Co-Director of the Center, he created the Decolonizing Humanism(?) programming stream, which features scholars, artists, and intellectuals based in revolutionary, anti-colonial, and liberationist movements from all over the world. Dylan was elected President of the American Studies Association by his peers in 2020, the same year in which he was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars, a national award program that intends to “recognize the role that Freedom Scholars play in cultivating and nurturing movements for justice and freedom.”
Read about Dr. MT Vallarta from their bio here