Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)
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Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War
April 15, 2024 23:04 - 1 hour - 22.2 MBHong 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 Asia's Cold War discusses how Communist China, Nationalist Taiwan, and the U.S. fought to mobilize Hong Kong cinema and print media to sway ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia and across the world. Central to this propaganda and psychologic...
Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China
April 08, 2024 21:39 - 1 hour - 15.9 MBOn 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 day, Guiping would find herself betrayed not only by her husband, but by the court system and her own legal counsel. Taking this case as a point of departure, Ke Li recounts decades-long research on divorce litigation in rural China in her book Marr...
From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States
April 02, 2024 22:10 - 1 hour - 21 MBBased 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 destinations. Using a mixed-method approach over a decade in Chinatown and six destination states, sociologist Zai Liang specifically examines how the expansion and growing popularity of Chinese restaurants has shifted settleme...
The Children of This Madness
March 21, 2024 01:25 - 1 hour - 16 MBIn 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 of Nasir Uddin and his daughter Beena, and the intersection of their distant, vastly different lives.
Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies
March 20, 2024 23:34 - 1 hour - 17.9 MBThere 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 globally. In Disciplinary Futures, edited by Nadia Y. Kim and Pawan Dhingra, a cross-section of scholars comes together to engage sociology and the social sciences by way of these paradigms, particularly from the influence of di...
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects
February 06, 2024 23:10 - 1 hour - 17 MBAsian 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 offers a vital window into the triumphs and tragedies, strength and ingenuity, and traditions and cultural identities of these communities. Edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves, the book invites readers to experience both well-kno...
Soju: A Global History
December 11, 2023 21:36 - 1 hour - 14.5 MBHyunhee 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 and fourteenth centuries wove together hemispheric flows of trade, empire, scientific and technological transfer and created the conditions for the development of a singularly Korean drink. Sojus rise in Korea marked the evolution of a ne...
C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction
November 21, 2023 18:27 - 1 hour - 17.3 MBC.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 practice to reveal an original quest for tradition and innovation in the global twentieth century. Spanning seven decades, the catalog focuses on the artists distinctive synthesis of Chinese ink painting and American postwar abstra...
A Conversation with Chandra Bhan Prasad
November 18, 2023 01:22 - 1 hour - 14.4 MBChandra 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 co-author author of Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs (with D Shyam Babu and Devesh Kapur), Dalit Phobia: Why Do They Hate Us?, What is Ambedkarism?, and Dalit Diary, 1999-2003: Reflections on Apartheid in India.
Abandoned Women and Boudoir Resentment: The Feminine Voice in Chinese Literature
November 13, 2023 22:19 - 52 minutes - 12.6 MBAbandoned 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
November 10, 2023 17:49 - 1 hour - 22.1 MBThe 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 children enter top colleges. Thats changing, however, as Asian American professionals increasingly move into wealthy suburban areas to give their kids that same leg up for their college applications and ...
The Temple of Non-Duality (Q&A Session)
November 10, 2023 00:17 - 14 minutes - 3.9 MBMuyisa (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.
One Century after Thind: Continuing the Conversation
November 09, 2023 22:54 - 1 hour - 17.2 MBJoin 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 Manhattan Community College/CUNY), examining legacies past and present of the U.S. Supreme Court case, United States v Bhagat Singh Thind (1923). Building on discussions in the special issue, we will continue examinations of caste in the South Asian dia...
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wongs Rendezvous with American History
October 30, 2023 20:20 - 59 minutes - 14.2 MBBorn 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 a touch of defianceOrientally yours. Now, more than a century after her birth, Yunte Huang narrates Wongs tragic life story, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent, prewa...
Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States
October 23, 2023 21:08 - 1 hour - 14.4 MBProf. 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 citrus development. Among those workers was Koreas most influential independence activists, Dosan Ahn Chang Ho, who helped foment Koreas democratic movement.
Filipinos in Greater Boston
October 16, 2023 22:06 - 1 hour - 16 MBAs 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 of 1965, Filipino medical, military, and other professionals settled in and around Greater Boston in Cambridge, Lexington, Malden, and Quincy. To support their communities, Filipino immigrants founded civic organizations such as the Phil...
Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent
September 29, 2023 21:16 - 59 minutes - 14.3 MBNovelist 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 the figurehead of the nations struggles. The result is a unique portrait of a living legend, rendered by a compatriot and contemporary. Once deified by the international community for her advocacy of democracy and human rights, yet l...
Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroines Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation
September 26, 2023 23:27 - 1 hour - 16.8 MBIn 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? To find the answer, Kambl explores how heroines in ten novels reject societal labels and instead remake themselves on their own terms with their own agency. Using a truly intersectional approach, Kambl combines gender and sexuality, Marxism...
2019 CUNY Asian American Film Festival
June 08, 2023 22:07 - 20 minutes - 5.14 MBSince 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 Staten Island, and Queens College. The CUNY AAFF helps to promote the artistic visual talents and stimulate communication among CUNY students who are separated by the different campuses, and serve as a central location to display the...
2023 CUNY Asian American Film Festival
June 08, 2023 22:06 - 55 minutes - 13.2 MBSince 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 Staten Island, and Queens College. The CUNY AAFF helps to promote the artistic visual talents and stimulate communication among CUNY students who are separated by the different campuses, and serve as a central location to display the...
2023 NYC Council District 1 Candidate Forum
June 02, 2023 20:36 - 2 hours - 28.1 MBJoin 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.
Love, Life, and Death in Transnational Adoptions from Asia
June 02, 2023 18:53 - 1 hour - 18.2 MBIn 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 in transnational adoption discourse and law. Looking at popular television, legal journals, and congressional hearings, Prof. Myers considers how racialized notions of love, life, and death inform the best interest of the child determinations i...
Womens Studies Quarterly Feminism as a way of Diasporic Life
May 24, 2023 22:12 - 37 minutes - 9.09 MBAn interdisciplinary exploration of Asian diasporas as gendering spaces that host uneven movements of bodies, identities, histories, and hegemonies.
Found in Korea (Documentary)
May 24, 2023 22:12 - 23 minutes - 5.88 MBAbandoned 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 adopted by a family in America, but old records and 35 years of economic growth have transformed the Korea of her infancy into a country where information held on paper is a thing of the past, leaving her with no trail to follow.
Roundtable: Reflections on Asian American Studies at CUNY
May 24, 2023 21:59 - 43 minutes - 10.6 MBAt 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 American studies and/or communities.
AAARI Symposium on Asian American Studies across CUNY - Welcome
May 24, 2023 21:59 - 12 minutes - 3.41 MBAt 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 American studies and/or communities.
Roundtable: Asian American Studies Futures
May 24, 2023 21:59 - 45 minutes - 10.9 MBAt 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 American studies and/or communities.
Rajiv Mohabir, in conversation with DJ Rekha
May 24, 2023 21:59 - 51 minutes - 12.4 MBAt 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 American studies and/or communities.
Mystical Forest: Collected Poems and Short Stories of Dungan Ethnographer Ali Dzhon
May 10, 2023 23:15 - 1 hour - 15.6 MBProf. 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 as the preeminent writer on the material and spiritual culture and history of the Dungan people, the Sinophone Muslims of Central Asia. Mystical Forest makes available for the first time in English a significant collection of Dzhons...
Immigrant, Refugee and Citizen Futures: Anti-Armenian Racism and Armenian-American Organizing
May 02, 2023 18:20 - 1 hour - 21.1 MBJoin 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 of Armenian community activism in the US, this panel will inspire participants to envision Armenian futurity through the lens of collective action and social justice.
Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion Queens Book Celebration
May 02, 2023 18:11 - 59 minutes - 14.2 MBJoin 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 of Queens most celebrated and beloved writers including Bushra Rehman, Christine Kandic Torres, Jai Dulani, Joseph O. Legaspi, Nadia Q. Ahmad, Patricia Park, Soniya Munshi!
Monkey in Residence and Other Speculations
May 02, 2023 18:07 - 55 minutes - 13.2 MBObservations 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, are in turn elegiac, satiric, darkly comic, lyrical, even confessional in tone, and traverse the inequities and abuse of power in sex, politics, race, history, culture, and language across a disquieting transnationa...
In Search of Bengali Harlem (Panel Discussion)
April 29, 2023 00:28 - 1 hour - 16.8 MBJoin 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 including Nahar Alam, Nadia Q. Ahmad, DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving), and S. Nadia Hussain (moderator).
Happy Cleaners (Virtual Discussion with the Filmmakers)
April 24, 2023 21:20 - 1 hour - 18.5 MBJoin 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.
Dear Corky (Q and A Session)
April 22, 2023 00:48 - 58 minutes - 13.9 MBJoin 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.
Chinese Whispers: A Transpacific Journey in Poetics and Politics
April 18, 2023 19:55 - 1 hour - 23.5 MBFor 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 transpacific context. Chinese whispers refers to an American childrens game dating to the years of the Cold War, a period in which everything Chinese, or even Chinese sounding, was suspect. Taking up various manifestations of the phrase ...
Dismantling Everyday Discrimination: Microaggressions Toward LGBTQ People
April 18, 2023 19:55 - 1 hour - 21 MBDistinguished 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 help clients process and address microaggressions.
Gender Justice in lndo-Caribbean Communities
April 05, 2023 23:07 - 1 hour - 17.3 MBIndo-Caribbean community leaders discuss gender justice.
Indo-Caribbean Community Leadership and Political Priorities in Queens (Excerpt)
March 15, 2023 20:08 - 24 minutes - 6.22 MBJoin us for a forum with Indo-Caribbean community leaders to discuss political priorities in Queens and their career paths.
Building a Sustainable Platform and Pipeline for AAPI Leadership in Higher Education
March 13, 2023 23:06 - 1 hour - 20.3 MBThere 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 a platform for collaboration and synergy among AAPI leaders who have reached the position of president/chancellor in higher education, and a sustainable pipeline to support ascending AAPI leaders.
Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA
March 06, 2023 21:48 - 1 hour - 20.8 MBIn 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 system of class injustice, defined not just by disproportionate environmental pollution but also by neglected schools, surveillance and deportation, and political marginalization.
The Children of the People: Writings by and about CUNY students on race and social justice
March 06, 2023 21:48 - 33 minutes - 8.14 MBIn 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 children of the whole people, can be educated, and whether an institution of the highest grade, can be controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few, but by the privileged many. More than 170 years later, The Children of the People, offers the persp...
Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands
February 11, 2023 00:46 - 48 minutes - 11.6 MBAuthor 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 in relation to time, memory, and history. Often working from photographs, Liu used portraiture to elevate overlooked subjects, amplifying the stories of those who had historically been invisible or unheard. This richly illustra...
Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfathers American Journey
February 06, 2023 21:46 - 46 minutes - 11.1 MBMinoru 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 college working in Alaskas notorious salmon canneries, his success in architectural school, and the transformative structures he imagined and built. A Japanese American man who faced brutal anti-Asian racism in postWorld War II America a...
We Are Here: 30 Inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Have Shaped the United States
January 31, 2023 20:39 - 46 minutes - 11.1 MBA 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 the United States, their stories span across generations, as well as across the world. We Are Here highlights thirty noteworthy Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the impact theyve had on the cultural, social, and pol...
Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty: Perspectives and Lessons from Higher Education
December 19, 2022 22:35 - 1 hour - 17.4 MBEditors Nicholas D. Hartlep and Daisy Ball will discuss their book, Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty (Routledge, 2019) which examines the challenges faced by diverse faculty members in colleges and universities. Highlighting the experiences of faculty of colorincluding African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Indigenous populationsin higher education across a range of institutional types, chapter authors employ an autoethnographic approach to the telling of their stories. Chap...
Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the Worlds Largest Movie Market
December 07, 2022 22:34 - 1 hour - 16.2 MBChina surpassed North America to become the world s largest movie market in 2020. Formerly the focus of exotic fascination in the golden age of Hollywood, today the Chinese are a make-or-break audience for Hollywoods biggest blockbusters. And movies are now an essential part of Chinas global soft power strategy: a Chinese real estate tycoon, who until recently was the major shareholder of the AMC theater chain, built the worlds largest film production facility. Behind the curtains, as this br...
We Are American Soldiers (Documentary)
November 15, 2022 18:32 - 53 minutes - 12.7 MBSince Americas inception, immigrants have shown their gratitude to this country through military service. We Are American Soldiers is a short documentary film capturing the stories of Chinese Americans who served this country during World War II, only to return home to face discrimination. We Are American Soldiers tells one mans story of immigrating to America, being drafted for the war, and serving with the 407th Air Service Squadron an all Chinese American unit, of the 14th Air Services Gr...
Celebrating Our Roots Panel Discussion to Honor the 40th Anniversary of the 1982 Chinatown Garment Worker Rallies
November 10, 2022 21:55 - 1 hour - 17 MBPanel speakers will share personal stories about growing up with sewing mothers and grandmothers during the decades when practically every Chinese immigrant family in New York City included garment factory workers - the hard work and long hours, the social environment and friendships, union benefits and programs, and the strength, solidarity and activism of the immigrant women workers. Speakers will discuss how they teach this history and legacy to new generations.
The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin
November 10, 2022 21:54 - 54 minutes - 13 MBWhen the Berlin Wall fell, Germany united in a wave of euphoria and solidarity. Also caught in the current were Vietnamese border crossers who had left their homeland after its reunification in 1975. Unwilling to live under socialism, one group resettled in West Berlin as refugees. In the name of socialist solidarity, a second group arrived in East Berlin as contract workers. The Border Within paints a vivid portrait of these disparate Vietnamese migrants encounters with each other in the pos...