Duke TAASCON 2014 : SELF

TAASCON: Triangle-Area Asian American Student Conference

 

​​The Triangle-Area Asian American Student Conference (TAASCON) is a day-long conference founded in 2011 with the purpose of encouraging substantive and sustainable engagement with Asian American issues at the college level. Through a series of keynotes, workshop sessions, and networking, TAASCON aims to use relevant cultural group programming and facilitated dialogue to connect existing clusters of the Asian American community. Each spring, a diverse population of faculty, students, and professionals gather at Duke University to discuss and learn about topics relevant to the Asian American community.



The face of Asian America is changing. There is ample room and urgent need for our generation to begin new discourses about our individual identities as well as our unique collective transnational identity. While groups in the Triangle-Area have demonstrated remarkable progressive thinking and activism through programming and dialogue, the Executive Board of TAASCON envisions engaging the larger Asian American community in the Southeast by creating a unique combination of student involvement, academic engagement, and community building resources.



The theme of TAASCON 2014 is "SELF: Stories Empowering Love and Fortitude." We challenge you to begin and/or continue redefining the conceptualization of what it means to be Asian American. At this year’s TAASCON we will pose questions and present issues, exploring how we see ourselves as a community and as individuals. Some major topics we will address include: what being Asian American in today’s society means to and for each of us; how to grow organically and mobilize successfully; and how to take fresh perspectives and ideas from the conference and apply them to our own communities.