™Tracing What Remains: Memory, Place, and Chinese American Histories
Sat, Nov 14 · 5:30 pm–7:30 pm
Listed on MUSAY · checked Oct 22
When
Saturday, November 14, 5:30 pm–7:30 pm
Where
Anderson Collection at Stanford University
314 Lomita Drive, Stanford, California 94305
Price
Free
About
Presented in conjunction with Patty Chang's surfacing, Tracing What Remains: Memory, Place, and Chinese American Histories brings together films that examine the histories of Chinese communities across Northern California through landscape, memory, and acts of remembrance. Moving between documentary, historical narrative, and poetic reflection, these films trace the enduring presence of communities whose lives and labor were systematically erased from the historical record. From the displaced Chinese fishing villages of the San Francisco Bay to the expulsion of Chinese residents from Eureka, these works reveal how places can hold memory even when official histories do not. Together, they ask how artists can recover forgotten stories, map absences, and imagine new ways of bearing witness to the past. Following the screening, filmmakers, Chisa Hughes (Many Moons) and Rene Yung (Chinese Whispers) will join in conversation with surfacing co-curator, Kelsey Chen to discuss filmmaking as a practice of historical recovery, the relationship between place and memory, and the ongoing work of preserving Chinese American histories.
Know before you go
Getting there
Visitor parking is available on Stanford's campus. Parking payments are contactless and managed through ParkMobile. Visitor and hourly parking enforcement is Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with no visitor parking enforcement on weekends.
Venue hours on Saturday
The venue’s regular hours don’t cover this day. This event’s time comes from the listing.
Added to MUSAY Sep 21, 2026.