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

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"original sketch detailing plans the Jefferson National Memorial Park"

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.

Faculty host, panelists, session chairs, & student researchers:

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), Thi Nguyen (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. 

The Incubator is a signature initiative of the Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan and was created to catalyze and support bold collaborations that foster the future of scholarly inquiry. Questions? Please reach out to us at TheIncubator@wustl.edu.