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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 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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April 27, 2017
Free ESL Seminar: Asian American Communities in New York City
By Keith Miyake on April 27, 2017
Are you interested in learning more about New York’s diverse Asian American communities? Do you speak English as a...
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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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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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February 10, 2017
Call for Applicants: CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor in Asian American Studies (2017 – 2018)
By Keith Miyake on February 10, 2017
CUNY Seeks Thomas Tam Visiting Professor in Asian American Studies (2017-2018) Application Deadline: April 15, 2017 The City University...
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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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October 17, 2016
10/21: To Linsanity and Beyond: Hero Making and Erasures with Stanley Thangaraj
By Keith Miyake on October 17, 2016
2016-2017 Speakers Series TO LINSANITY AND BEYOND: HERO MAKING AND ERASURES with Dr. Stanley Thangaraj Moderated by Dr. Linta...
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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

[May 9] CUNY for Ethnic Studies Interest Meeting

Free ESL Seminar: Asian American Communities in New York City

[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

Symposium: Building Asian American Studies in Polycultural New York City

Call for Applicants: CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor in Asian American Studies (2017 – 2018)

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

10/21: To Linsanity and Beyond: Hero Making and Erasures with Stanley Thangaraj

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