Spring 2022: AAST Open Class Series
This Spring, several AAST classes will be welcoming guest speakers into their classroom and selected AAST class sessions will be open to the UMD community. Below is a list of open classes.
Day Of Remembrance
Monday, February 21, 2022
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Topic: Redress for African Americans and Japanese Latin Americans: Lessons across movements.
Panelists
Dr, Jerome Reide - Civil Rights Attorney
Aniya Butler & Lawrel Butler - Human rights Activists
Phil Tajitsu Nash - Asian American Studies Program
Grace Shimizu - Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project
Speaker: Dr. Alex Karan
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
3:30pm - 4:45pm
AAST394 - Open Class with Dr. Alex Karan
Topic: Making psychological research more accessible to the public.
Dr. Alex Karan is a founder and president of a non-profit organization, The Research Room (weblink: https://www.roomforresearch.com/). In this organization, Dr. Karan seeks to make psychological research more understandable, accessible, and usable to the public by communicating science in more digestible and relevant ways, including podcast, interviews, blogs, and infographics. Dr. Karan received his Ph.D. in Social/Personality/Health Psychology from the University of California, Riverside and was a former postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Karan has conducted research involving race/ethnicity, minority stress, and systemic/structural barriers to equality and has served on multiple graduate school and 1st-generation student panels.
Federal Careers For the Public Good
Monday , March 14, 2022
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Topic: Discussion on how to get, keep and be promoted at a federal government job.
Participants will be from both the civilian and military sectors with experience in scientific, statical, business, social science and other disciplines.