Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)

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What's Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY) about?

Building the bridge between CUNY, and the Asian American community.

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Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY) episodes:

05.23.2024
AAARI Symposium on Interrogating AAPI Identities - Morning Keynote
For this symposium, AAARI has invited students, scholars, community organizers, and/or practitioners to share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, and other activities that address the broad scope of AAPI Identities."
05.23.2024
AAARI Symposium on Interrogating AAPI Identities - Welcome
For this symposium, AAARI has invited students, scholars, community organizers, and/or practitioners to share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, and other activities that address the broad scope of AAPI Identities."
05.23.2024
AAARI Symposium on Interrogating AAPI Identities - Closing Session Performance
For this symposium, AAARI has invited students, scholars, community organizers, and/or practitioners to share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, and other activities that address the broad scope of AAPI Identities."
05.23.2024
AAARI Symposium on Interrogating AAPI Identities - Lunch and Networking
For this symposium, AAARI has invited students, scholars, community organizers, and/or practitioners to share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, and other activities that address the broad scope of AAPI Identities."
05.23.2024
AAARI Symposium on Interrogating AAPI Identities - Closing Session
For this symposium, AAARI has invited students, scholars, community organizers, and/or practitioners to share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, and other activities that address the broad scope of AAPI Identities."
04.15.2024
Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War
Hong Kong was a key battlefield in Asia's cultural cold war. After 1948-1949, an influx of filmmakers, writers, and intellectuals from mainland China transformed British Hong Kong into a hub for mass entertainment and popular publications. Hong Kong Media and...
04.08.2024
Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China
On a hot summer day, Wang Guiping attended her divorce trial at the Xiqing Peoples Tribunal. Taking an unfaithful spouse to court would, Guiping thought, help her end a hopeless relationship and actualize her lawful rights upon divorce. Later that...
04.02.2024
From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States
Based on his new book, this presentation explores the recent history of Chinese immigration within the United States and the fundamental changes in spatial settlement that have relocated many low-skilled Chinese immigrants from New York Citys Chinatown to new immigrant...
03.21.2024
The Children of This Madness
In The Children of this Madness, Gemini Wahhaj pens a complex tale of modern Bengalis, one that illuminates the recent histories not only of Bangladesh, but America and Iraq. Told in multiple voices over successive eras, this is the story...
03.20.2024
Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies
There is a growing consensus that the discipline of sociology and the social sciences broadly need to engage more thoroughly with the legacy and the present day of colonialism, Indigenous/settler colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism in the United States and...
02.06.2024
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects
Asian Americans are the fastest growing group in the United States and include approximately 50 distinct ethnic groups, but their stories and experiences have often been sidelined or stereotyped. Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects...
12.11.2023
Soju: A Global History
Hyunhee Park offers the first global historical study of soju, the distinctive distilled drink of Korea. Searching for sojus origins, Park leads us into the vast, complex world of premodern Eurasia. She demonstrates how the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth...
11.21.2023
C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction
C.C. Wang (1907 to 2003) is best known as a preeminent twentieth-century connoisseur and collector of pre-modern Chinese art, a reputation that often overshadows his own art. "C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction" recenters Wangs extraordinary career in his own artistic...
11.18.2023
A Conversation with Chandra Bhan Prasad
Chandra Bhan Prasad is an Indian scholar and political commentator. He is editor of Dalit Enterprise Magazine and has been widely quoted by the world press on issues of caste and the treatment of Dalits in India. Prasad is the...
11.13.2023
Abandoned Women and Boudoir Resentment: The Feminine Voice in Chinese Literature
Abandoned Women and Boudoir Resentment: The Feminine Voice in Chinese Literature
11.10.2023
Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools
The American suburb conjures an image of picturesque privilege: manicured lawns, quiet streets, andmost important to parentshigh-quality schools. These elite enclaves are also historically white, allowing many white Americans to safeguard their privileges by using public schools to help their...
11.10.2023
The Temple of Non-Duality (Q&A Session)
Muyisa (The Temple of Non-Duality) holds a long-kept secret that has been handed down through generations of monks. One day, a mother who lost her daughter at the Itaewon Halloween Crush, visits the temple unexpectedly and discovers the secret.
11.09.2023
One Century after Thind: Continuing the Conversation
Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute for a panel discussion for the launch of One Century after Thind, a special issue of Ethnic Studies Review, edited by Dr. Soniya Munshi (Queens College/CUNY) and Dr. Linta Varghese (Borough of...
10.30.2023
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wongs Rendezvous with American History
Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (19051961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywoods most famous Chinese American actress, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her publicity photoswith...
10.23.2023
Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States
Prof. Edward T. Chang will present on University of California, Riversides traveling exhibition to preserve and share the history of Americas first Koreatown Pachappa Camp a community of Korean migrant workers in Riverside who contributed to the citys...
10.16.2023
Filipinos in Greater Boston
As early as the Civil War, a dozen Filipino men living in Massachusetts enlisted in the Union army. In the 1900s, Filipino pensionados studied at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other colleges. After the Immigration and Nationality Act...
09.29.2023
Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent
Novelist Wendy Law-Yone, tracks Aung San Suu Kyis transformation from daughter of a national hero to materfamilias of Myanmar, placing her firmly within the context of the Burmese Buddhist notions of nationhood and motherhood and explaining her continuing role as...
09.26.2023
Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroines Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation
In Creating Identity, Prof. Jayashree Kambl examines the romance genre, with its sensile flexibility in retaining what audiences find desirable and discarding what is not, by asking an important question: Who is the romance heroine, and what does she want?...
06.08.2023
2019 CUNY Asian American Film Festival
Since 2004, the CUNY Asian American Film Festival (AAFF) has recognized and awarded over $12,000 in cash prizes to student filmmakers enrolled at the City University of New York, including City College, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, Lehman College, College of...
06.08.2023
2023 CUNY Asian American Film Festival
Since 2004, the CUNY Asian American Film Festival (AAFF) has recognized and awarded over $14,300 in cash prizes to student filmmakers enrolled at the City University of New York, including City College, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, Lehman College, College of...
06.02.2023
2023 NYC Council District 1 Candidate Forum
Join APA VOICE, the Asian American / Asian Research Institute, and other partners for a candidate forum for New York City Council District 1, representing neighborhoods including Chinatown, the Lower East Side, Two Bridges, NoHo, SoHo, and Financial Distinct.
06.02.2023
Love, Life, and Death in Transnational Adoptions from Asia
In this talk based on his upcoming book supported by the Betty Lee Sung Research Endowment Fund, Prof. Kit Myers explores how the orphan figure; birth and adoptive families; and sending (Asian) and receiving (United States) nations have been configured...
05.24.2023
Womens Studies Quarterly Feminism as a way of Diasporic Life
An interdisciplinary exploration of Asian diasporas as gendering spaces that host uneven movements of bodies, identities, histories, and hegemonies.
05.24.2023
Found in Korea (Documentary)
Abandoned and left in the streets as a newborn baby, KAD (Nam) returns home to find the world she lost as a baby. In search of her birth parents, she attempts to retrace her journey from birth to being...
05.24.2023
Roundtable: Reflections on Asian American Studies at CUNY
At this symposium, students, scholars, and/or practitioners, within and outside of CUNY, will share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, models for organizing and activism, and other activities at CUNY that address critical issues in Asian...
05.24.2023
AAARI Symposium on Asian American Studies across CUNY - Welcome
At this symposium, students, scholars, and/or practitioners, within and outside of CUNY, will share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, models for organizing and activism, and other activities at CUNY that address critical issues in Asian...
05.24.2023
Roundtable: Asian American Studies Futures
At this symposium, students, scholars, and/or practitioners, within and outside of CUNY, will share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, models for organizing and activism, and other activities at CUNY that address critical issues in Asian...
05.24.2023
Rajiv Mohabir, in conversation with DJ Rekha
At this symposium, students, scholars, and/or practitioners, within and outside of CUNY, will share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, models for organizing and activism, and other activities at CUNY that address critical issues in Asian...
05.10.2023
Mystical Forest: Collected Poems and Short Stories of Dungan Ethnographer Ali Dzhon
Prof. Kenneth J. Yin will discuss his new book, Mystical Forest: Collected Poems and Short Stories of Dungan Ethnographer Ali Dzhon. Born in Shor-Tyube, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, in 1951, Dungan ethnographer and creative writer Ali Dzhon is widely regarded...
05.02.2023
Immigrant, Refugee and Citizen Futures: Anti-Armenian Racism and Armenian-American Organizing
Join us for a panel of scholars and community activists discussing Armenian American histories, from immigration bans in the late nineteenth century to Executive Order 13679 and ongoing displacement and marginalization from homelands and belonging today. Uplifting the long history...
05.02.2023
Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion Queens Book Celebration
Join Kew and Willow Books for a celebration of Bushra Rehman novels Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer desire in a Pakistani-American community in Corona, Queens. This celebration will feature some...
05.02.2023
Monkey in Residence and Other Speculations
Observations of contemporary life that make monkeys of us, this existential disbelief thrums through speculative stories and essays in writer Xu Xis latest collection, Monkey in Residence and Other Speculations. These 16 short pieces, evenly divided between fiction and nonfiction,...
04.29.2023
In Search of Bengali Harlem (Panel Discussion)
Join us for a screening of the feature documentary, In Search of Bengali Harlem, directed by Vivek Bald and Alaudin Ullah. After the screening there will be a panel discussion with the co-directors and Bangladeshi artists, organizers, and community members...
04.24.2023
Happy Cleaners (Virtual Discussion with the Filmmakers)
Join us for a discussion of the feature film, Happy Cleaners (2019), a heartfelt story that celebrates the survival of immigrants, the experiences of the Korean American community, and the value of family.
04.22.2023
Dear Corky (Q and A Session)
Join us for a screening and discussion of the short documentary Dear Corky, with director Curtis Chin. For over fifty years, New York native Corky Lee photographed his hometowns Chinatown, and Asian American communities around the country.
04.18.2023
Dismantling Everyday Discrimination: Microaggressions Toward LGBTQ People
Distinguished Professor Kevin Nadal will discuss his new book, Dismantling Everyday Discrimination: Microaggressions Toward LGBTQ People, examining the microaggressions that LGBTQ people face on a daily basis, highlights their impact on mental health, and discusses ways mental health providers can...
04.18.2023
Chinese Whispers: A Transpacific Journey in Poetics and Politics
For this talk, Dr. Yunte Huang will speak on his new book, Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics, which explores the dynamics of poetry and poetics in the age of globalization, particularly questions of translatability, universality, and risk in the...
04.05.2023
Gender Justice in lndo-Caribbean Communities
Indo-Caribbean community leaders discuss gender justice.
03.15.2023
Indo-Caribbean Community Leadership and Political Priorities in Queens (Excerpt)
Join us for a forum with Indo-Caribbean community leaders to discuss political priorities in Queens and their career paths.
03.13.2023
Building a Sustainable Platform and Pipeline for AAPI Leadership in Higher Education
There is a glaring lack of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) representation in higher education leadership, although AAPIs may be well represented in the ranks of faculty and the student body. Participants will learn about the importance of creating...
03.06.2023
The Children of the People: Writings by and about CUNY students on race and social justice
In 1849, Horace Webster, the first president of the Free Academy said of the radical social experiment that would eventually become the City University of New York: The experiment is to be tried, whether the children of the people, the...
03.06.2023
Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA
In Refusing Death, Nadia Y. Kim tells the stories of Asian and undocumented Latin@ immigrant women, finding that they are influential because of their ability to remap politics, community, and citizenship in the face of the countrys nativist racism and...
02.11.2023
Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands
Author Dorothy Moss will present on Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands, a catalogue of the stunning work by the late contemporary Chinese American artist Hung Liu (1948-2021), who blended painting and photography to offer new frameworks for understanding portraiture...
02.06.2023
Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfathers American Journey
Minoru Yamasaki described the feeling he sought to create in his buildings as serenity, surprise, and delight. In Shapes, Lines, and Light, Katie Yamasaki charts his life and work: his childhood in Seattles Japanese immigrant community, paying his way through...
01.31.2023
We Are Here: 30 Inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Have Shaped the United States
A stunning anthology licensed in partnership with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center,We Are Herecelebrates 30of the most inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S. history. With over 23 million people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent living in...

What's Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY) about?

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Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY) episodes:

AAARI Symposium on Interrogating AAPI Identities - Morning Keynote

AAARI Symposium on Interrogating AAPI Identities - Welcome

AAARI Symposium on Interrogating AAPI Identities - Closing Session Performance

AAARI Symposium on Interrogating AAPI Identities - Lunch and Networking

AAARI Symposium on Interrogating AAPI Identities - Closing Session

Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War

Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China

From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States

The Children of This Madness

Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies

Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects

Soju: A Global History

C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction

A Conversation with Chandra Bhan Prasad

Abandoned Women and Boudoir Resentment: The Feminine Voice in Chinese Literature

Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools

The Temple of Non-Duality (Q&A Session)

One Century after Thind: Continuing the Conversation

Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wongs Rendezvous with American History

Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States

Filipinos in Greater Boston

Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent

Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroines Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation

2019 CUNY Asian American Film Festival

2023 CUNY Asian American Film Festival

2023 NYC Council District 1 Candidate Forum

Love, Life, and Death in Transnational Adoptions from Asia

Womens Studies Quarterly Feminism as a way of Diasporic Life

Found in Korea (Documentary)

Roundtable: Reflections on Asian American Studies at CUNY

AAARI Symposium on Asian American Studies across CUNY - Welcome

Roundtable: Asian American Studies Futures

Rajiv Mohabir, in conversation with DJ Rekha

Mystical Forest: Collected Poems and Short Stories of Dungan Ethnographer Ali Dzhon

Immigrant, Refugee and Citizen Futures: Anti-Armenian Racism and Armenian-American Organizing

Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion Queens Book Celebration

Monkey in Residence and Other Speculations

In Search of Bengali Harlem (Panel Discussion)

Happy Cleaners (Virtual Discussion with the Filmmakers)

Dear Corky (Q and A Session)

Dismantling Everyday Discrimination: Microaggressions Toward LGBTQ People

Chinese Whispers: A Transpacific Journey in Poetics and Politics

Gender Justice in lndo-Caribbean Communities

Indo-Caribbean Community Leadership and Political Priorities in Queens (Excerpt)

Building a Sustainable Platform and Pipeline for AAPI Leadership in Higher Education

The Children of the People: Writings by and about CUNY students on race and social justice

Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA

Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfathers American Journey

We Are Here: 30 Inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Have Shaped the United States