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Welcome to our 46th episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions.  Today’s episode is a film commentary on Minari, starring Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, and Yoon Yuh-jung. The film centers around a Korean-American family who moves from California …

Welcome to the Cultural Appropriation Episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, we feature an interview with Llyod Suh, playwright and IU alum, who speaks about the theatre community and how his role as an Asian-American …

Welcome to Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, we have an interview with Chris Chyung, Indiana State Representative of District 15. Chyung speaks about his experiences as the first Asian American lawmaker in Indiana. Also in …

Welcome to Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, we have an interview with Cambodian filmmaker Caylee So. So speaks on her latest work, “In the Life of Music”, in addition to her role in the Cambodia …

Welcome to the Holiday Episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, Mongolian-American Ochmaa Dasheveg Escue and Indian-American Suparna Bose discuss their traditions during the holiday season, specifically Christmas and New Year’s in Mongolia and India. …

Welcome to the Playing Your Part Episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, Host Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin interviews Yuko Kurahashi Ph.D., a professor in the School of Theatre and Dance at Kent State University. Dr. Kurahashi speaks about …

Welcome to Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio anniversary episode, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Indiana University Asian Culture Center! Hearabouts is produced in partnership with WFHB and the IU Asian Culture Center, in Bloomington, Indiana. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, we feature two IU Alumni, Khai Yang and Dr. Paul Park, …

Welcome to the Back to School Episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, Eric Langowski discusses the reality of IU’s racist enrollment policy toward Japanese and Japanese-Americans during the World War II era. Langowski also shares …

Welcome to the Retracing Roots Episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, Keiko McCullough and Alyssa de la Rosa share their results from genomics company to discuss their family ancestry and history. Also in the program, …

Welcome to the Citizenship/Identity Episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, Eric Langowski discusses the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II, his grandmother’s internment, and IU’s racist enrollment policy during the period. We then …