2024 CUNY Shorts Showcase
August 2 to 11, 2024
Films in this year’s CUNY Shorts Showcase, part of the 47th Asian American International Film Festival deal with topics/genres including: the Bengali dessert chomchom; a husband’s selfishness and regret; the work of textile artist and art historian Dr. Nazanin Hedeyat Munroe; isolation during Covid-19; and the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Dr. K. York & Noelle Chynn
The goal of the Chynn CUNY Ethics and Morality Essay Contest is to stimulate college students to ponder the topic of morality, and to broadcast the best essays, in an attempt to promote the teaching of morality in American education.
Submission Deadline
Friday, November 1, 2024
The Tam Scholarship awards $1,000 to an individual qualified undergraduate student that is currently enrolled at any of the twenty-one colleges within CUNY, Asian or non-Asian, who has demonstrated creativity in the communication of the concerns of the Asian American community in areas such as health, education, culture, media and advocacy.
Submission Deadline
Friday, November 1, 2024
10th Commemorative Edition
To mark this first decade of publication, CUNY FORUM: Asian American / Asian Studies, published by the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI), has gathered Asian American memoirs, personal accounts, essays, and public roundtables of writers that span at least a century and more. These authors cross the borders of states and nations, East and West: from New York to Michigan; Mississippi to California; and, China, Japan, India, Korea, and the Philippines to the United States.
Latest Event
MothSutra, an East to West Poetry Reading
Russell C. Leong, poet and editor, will read from his 2015 illustrated graphic poem, MothSutra, based on his living and working Manhattan’s Chinatown and the Bowery, and his study of Buddhism.
News / Opportunities
- Job Op – Graduate/Undergraduate Research Assistants for 2024-2025 School Year (AAARI-CUNY)
- Join Asian Student Civic Engagement Taskforce (ASCET)
- Job Op – Manager, Operations & Development (Act to Change)
- Job Op – Manager, Programs & Strategic Initiatives (Act to Change)
- Job Op – Legal Director (AALDEF)
- Call for Proposals – 2024 CUNY IT Conference (Due 9/13/24)
- Call for Entries – POV (Due 7/31/24)
- 2024 Asian American Voter Survey
- AAUW Fellowships Awarded to Two CUNY Grad Center English Ph.D. Candidates
- CUNY Board of Trustees and Chancellor Announce Creation of Center for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging in Ongoing Effort to Combat Discrimination