Colloquium Speakers

June 25, 2016
Patricia Park
By Keith Miyake on June 25, 2016
Patricia Park is the author of the debut novel Re Jane (Viking/Penguin, May 2015). She has written for the...
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May 7, 2016
Bushra Rehman
By Keith Miyake on May 7, 2016
Bushra Rehman’s first novel Corona, a dark comedy about being South Asian American, was noted by Poets & Writersamong...
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May 6, 2016
Stanley Thangaraj
By Keith Miyake on May 6, 2016
Dr. Stanley Thangaraj is a socio-cultural anthropologist with interests in race, gender, sexuality, class, and ethnicity in Asian America...
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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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