The Way You Want to Be Loved (Book Talk)

Lecture Series
Friday, October 18, 2024 | 6pm to 7:30pm
25 West 43rd Street | Zoom

The Way You Want to Be Loved (Book Talk)
By Aruni Kashyap

In agile and frank prose, The Way You Want to Be Loved (Gaudy Boy, 2024) tells the stories of queer, displaced lives from India’s Northeast, an underrepresented region in English fiction.

British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language

Lecture Series
Friday, October 18, 2024 | 6pm to 7:30pm
25 West 43rd Street | Zoom

British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language
By Fatima Rajina

Popular discourse around British Muslims has often been dominated by a focus on Muslim women and their sartorial choices, particularly the hijab and niqab. Dr. Fatima Rajina takes a different angle and focuses on Muslim men, examining how factors like the global war on terror influenced and changed their sartorial choices and use of language.

2024 CUNY Ethics and Morality Essay Contest: Virtue

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

2024 Thomas Tam Scholarship

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

Betty Lee Sung Research Endowment Fund

The fund is intended to support the research by providing funds for a research assistant, copywriter, research travel, acquisition or access to research material and similar costs so that the researcher can complete the project.

Submission Deadline:
Friday, December 20, 2024

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