Events

February 13, 2018
[March 9] A Suitable Girl: Film screening and discussion with director, Sarita Khurana
By Soniya Munshi on February 13, 2018
A SUITABLE GIRL Film screening and discussion with director, Sarita Khurana Friday, March 9 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM...
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May 26, 2017
[Video] The Writer in the World: Jessica Hagedorn and Viet Thanh Nguyen Discuss Their Work
By Keith Miyake on May 26, 2017
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May 8, 2017
[May 9] CUNY for Ethnic Studies Interest Meeting
By Keith Miyake on May 8, 2017
Organizing Meeting for Ethnic Studies at CUNY and Beyond Tues, May 6, 6:30-8:30pm Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave, room...
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March 29, 2017
[May 4] The Writer in the World: Jessica Hagedorn & Viet Thanh Nguyen Discuss Their Work
By Keith Miyake on March 29, 2017
THE WRITER IN THE WORLD JESSICA HAGEDORN & VIET THANH NGUYEN DISCUSS THEIR WORK Moderated by Nita Noveno, English...
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March 29, 2017
[April 7] Obsessions: A reading with Hossannah Asuncion, Chiwan Choi, and Ed Lin
By Keith Miyake on March 29, 2017
In observation of Asian Heritage Month, two poets and a fiction writer will read their newest work and share...
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March 13, 2017
[March 16] Book Event: “Unsettled: The Cambodian Refugee in the NYC Hyperghetto”
By Keith Miyake on March 13, 2017
Among the hundreds of thousands of survivors confined to refugee camps in the wake of the Khmer Rouge genocide,...
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March 3, 2017
[March 8] Workers Voices: Sramik Awaaz
By Keith Miyake on March 3, 2017
The Empire State College’s Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies in association with The Workers Unite Film...
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February 13, 2017
Symposium: Building Asian American Studies in Polycultural New York City
By Keith Miyake on February 13, 2017
SYMPOSIUM: Building Asian American Studies in Polycultural New York City Friday, March 10, 2017 BMCC Express (255 Greenwich St.,...
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December 2, 2016
Symposium/CFP: Building Asian American Studies in Polycultural New York
By Keith Miyake on December 2, 2016
This symposium is an opportunity for faculty to share their research within the context of a critical Asian American...
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November 2, 2016
11/ 11: Experiences of Illegality: Asian Immigrant Women Workers in Sexually Oriented Massage Parlors in NYC and LA County, with John J. Chin
By Keith Miyake on November 2, 2016
2016-2017 Speakers Series EXPERIENCES OF ILLEGALITY: ASIAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN WORKERS IN SEXUALLY ORIENTED MASSAGE PARLORS IN NYC AND LA...
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Building Asian American Studies across the Community College Classroom is a program to expand the teaching of Asian American Studies in community college classrooms across humanities disciplines. The program will begin with a Faculty Development Summer Institute for CUNY Community College Faculty and will be followed by a monthly public Colloquium in Asian American Studies at BMCC in the 2016-17 academic year.

Through engagement with academic scholarship, literary texts, community organizing and cultural work, this interdisciplinary Summer Institute for CUNY Community College Faculty will support participants to study and develop curricular materials for use in the classroom. The Institute will examine the following areas: critical concepts and frameworks in Asian American Studies; new Asian immigrant communities in New York City; gender and sexual labor; transnationalism and cultural production; Asian/American racialization, race and caste, cross-racial relationships, and diaspora. Being grounded in the diversity of our local communities allows us to cultivate what historian Robin Kelley calls a “polycultural” framework, or one that recognizes interrelationships between different cultures. By learning from texts by and about local Asian American communities, we can gain a better understanding of the dynamism and complexity of New York City itself.

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[March 9] A Suitable Girl: Film screening and discussion with director, Sarita Khurana

[Video] The Writer in the World: Jessica Hagedorn and Viet Thanh Nguyen Discuss Their Work

[May 9] CUNY for Ethnic Studies Interest Meeting

[May 4] The Writer in the World: Jessica Hagedorn & Viet Thanh Nguyen Discuss Their Work

[April 7] Obsessions: A reading with Hossannah Asuncion, Chiwan Choi, and Ed Lin

[March 16] Book Event: “Unsettled: The Cambodian Refugee in the NYC Hyperghetto”

[March 8] Workers Voices: Sramik Awaaz

Symposium: Building Asian American Studies in Polycultural New York City

Symposium/CFP: Building Asian American Studies in Polycultural New York

11/ 11: Experiences of Illegality: Asian Immigrant Women Workers in Sexually Oriented Massage Parlors in NYC and LA County, with John J. Chin

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