Name: Conversation with author Curtis Chin
Start: 2025-03-29T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-29T12:15:00-05:00
Location: Dicke Hall

Join us for a conversation with writer and filmmaker Curtis Chin, author of "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant."
About this Event

This event, hosted by Trinity University and the ASIANetwork consortium, features the acclaimed author Curtis Chin in conversation with Prof. Karen Kingsbury (Chatham University) and Prof. Jie Zhang (Trinity University).

A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profit's first Executive Director. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in twenty countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press and the Emancipator/Boston Globe. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and more. His essay in Bon Appetit was just selected for Best Food Writing in America 2023 and his short doc, "Dear Corky" premiered on American Masters (PBS). He is currently working on a new docuseries on the history of Chinese restaurants in America.

LOCATION IS DICKE HALL 104 ON THE TRINITY UNIVERSITY CAMPUS.

ASIANetwork is grateful to Humanities Texas and Trinity University for sponsoring this event.