Faculty Accomplishments

Gave the keynote lecture, “Discontinuities in Anti-Asian and Anti-Black Racism” at the National Forum on Anti-Asian Racism: Building Solidarities, from the Faculty of Arts, Ryerson University, in partnership with UBC and University of Manitoba on November 10, 2021.

Gave an invited talk, “Anti-Carceral Approaches to Sexual Violence: Lessons from Asian American Feminist Activism: A Panel Discussion”, sponsored by the Department of Women and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on November 16, 2021.

Was an invited speaker at UnOther: Navigating and Unpacking AAPI Now Symposium, sponsored by Division of Cinema and Media Studies, USC. Livestreamed November 18, 2021. Day gave a talk, "Social Justice and Activism."

Was interviewed on WGBY's Connecting Point on March 31, 2021 in "Prof. Iyko Day on Violence Against the Asian Community."

Was elected to the American Studies Association National Council.

Gave a lecture, "Anti-Asian Racism and Settler Colonial Racial Capitalism: A Response to the Atlanta Shootings." at Washington and Lee University on March 31, 2021. Sponsored by East Asian Languages and Literatures, East Asian Studies, and the Center for International Education. 

“COVID-19 and Viral Racism,” Lecture and Workshop. Global Arts and Humanities Society of Fellows, The Ohio State University, Livestreamed September 22, 2020.

“The Neoliberal University and Academic Feminism,” GCWS Feminisms Unbound Panel Series, Livestreamed September 17, 2020.

“Human Rights Pasts and Futures: Pandemics, Racism and Colonialism,” Panel Presentation. Global Arts and Humanities Society of Fellows, The Ohio State University, Livestreamed September 23, 2020.

"Affirmative Action Isn’t Reverse Jim Crow: Asian Americans and the Reconstruction of White Entitlement,” Lecture. Antiblackness and Alliance: A Series on Asian-Black Race Relations, Asian American Center and Carolina Asia Center, University of North Carolina, Livestreamed September 30, 2020.