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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.
Day, I. (2023) Meredith E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship, Mount Holyoke College, March 2, 2023
Day, I. (2026) Invited Speaker, “The Politics of Disaporic Grief in Times of War: Asian Americans and US Imperialism Today,” Barnard College, Asian Diaspora and Asian American Studies, April 16, 2026.
Day, I. Co-curator, Visual Kinship photography exhibition at the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College. On view August 30-November 29, 2025.
Day, I. (2025) Invited Speaker, “The Possessive Investment in Asian American Class Power,” University of Chicago, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indignity Colloquium Series, October 16, 2025.
Day, I. (2025) Invited Panelist, Public Art Conversation with Paul Pfeiffer, Iyko Day, and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa on Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, May 3, 2025.
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
