Brings together students and faculty across disciplines who share a common
interest in the people and places around the Pacific Rim. In the 2007-2008
academic year, APARC proposes to engage scholars across UCSC in a dialogue
that reconsiders area studies and explores the ways knowledge-making practices
about Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific intersect with transnational
capitalism, colonialism, and nationalism to produce new discourses of identity,
power, and sociality.