'Too Cute' conference on Asian style at Princeton University, March 3-4

For immediate release: February 24, 2010 - Media contact: Judith Ferszt, (609) 258-6771, jferszt [a] Princeton (p) EDU. 'Too Cute' conference on Asian style at Princeton University, March 3-4. Scholars and artists from around the world will come together for a conference titled "Too Cute: American Style and the New Asian Cool," on Wednesday and Thursday, March 3-4, on the Princeton University campus. The conference is free and open to the public. "Too Cute" will explore the relationship between style and race through the lens of "Asian cuteness," featuring scholars and art practitioners from the diverse fields of literary studies, performance and gender studies, American studies, East Asian studies, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, art and art history. Conference sessions will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. March 3-4 in Prospect House on the central campus, and will be followed by keynote events at 4:30 p.m. both days in McCormick Hall, Room 101. The event will feature a keynote address by Eric Nakamura, editor and publisher of Giant Robot magazine, and an appearance by contemporary pop artist Yoshitomo Nara.