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Iyko Day

Publication

Day, I. “Being or Nothingness: Indigeneity, Antiblackness, and Settler Colonial Critique.” Critical Ethnic Studies 1.2 (2015): 102-121

Day, I., “Alien Intimacies: The Coloniality of Japanese Internment in Australia, Canada, and the US.” Amerasia Journal 36.2 (2010). 107-124.

Award

Day, I. (2023) Meredith E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship, ߣߣ, March 2, 2023

Honor

Day, I. (2025) Invited Speaker, “Seeing in the Dark: On Pacharee Sudhinaraset’s Worlds At the End.” NYU Book Celebration Sponsored by Department of Postcolonial Race and Diaspora Working Group, Critical Race Anti-Colonial Co-Lab, and Asian/Pacific/American Institute, March 5, 2025. 

Day, I. (2025) Invited Speaker, “Cruel Optimism in the Time of Genocide.” UC Davis, Re/Imagining Abolitionist Practices, Department of Asian American Studies, February 6, 2025.

Day, I. (2024) Plenary Address. “Settler Colonialism and the Ends of Analogy.” Dartmouth College, Summer Institute on the Futures of American Studies, June 22, 2024

Day, I. (2024) Invited Speaker, “Nuclear Power and the Waste Theory of Value.” Waseda University, Tokyo, Fifty-Eighth Japanese Association for American Studies Annual Meeting Program, June 2, 2024.

Day I. (2024). Invited Speaker and Workshop Respondent, Eco-Criticism and Capitalism, USC Transpacific Symposium, Transpacific Research Cluster, April, 19, 2024.

Day, I. (2024). Keynote lecture. “Settler Colonialism and the Limits of Analogy.” Johns Hopkins University, Keywords for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism Graduate Symposium, The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. May 2-3 2024.

Day, I (2024). Invited Speaker, “Black Mirror Black Mirror/Black Marxism: Racial Capitalism in the Green Colony. Duke University, Program in Literature Spring Symposium: Entangled and Incommensurate Racializations. April 4-5, 2024.