Imperial Material: A Book Talk & Conversation with Prof. Alvita Akiboh

Join the AACC’s Political Action and Education Team as we welcome Professor Alvita Akiboh for a book talk and conversation about her recently published work, Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire. This event is part of the AACC’s Pan Asian American Heritage Month Celebration: Nostalgia and the Path Forward, and we invite you to be in conversation about how US national identity has been created, challenged, and transformed through embodiments of empire found in US territories, from the US dollar bill to the fifty-star flag. These symbolic objects encode the relationships between territories—including the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam—and the empire with which they have been entangled.

We will be raffling off signed copies of Imperial Material to attendees and light refreshments will be provided!

Professor Alvita Akiboh is a US historian specializing in the history of US overseas colonies in the Caribbean and Pacific. At Yale, she’s an Assistant Professor in the History Department and teaches courses on US history, national identity, colonialism, and empire. She has conducted research throughout the continental United States and the overseas territories, including American Samoa, Guam, Hawai‘i, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.

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