Date: Friday, May 13, 2016 Time: 9AM to 4:30PM
Place: CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Concourse Level, Manhattan
Conference Program
9am to 9:30am
Registration & Breakfast
9:30am to 9:40am
Greetings
- Joyce Moy, Executive Director, AAARI-CUNY
9:40am to 10:40am
Plenary: Resurgent and New Issues in Asian American Studies
Moderator:
- Russell Leong, Editor, CUNY FORUM
Panel:
- Angie Y. Chung, CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor, CUNY Graduate Center & Associate Professor, Sociology, SUNY Albany
- Jennifer Hayashida, Director, Asian American Studies Program, Hunter College/CUNY
- Kevin Park, Undergraduate Student, Hunter College/CUNY & Member,, Coalition for the Revitalization of Asian American Studies at Hunter (CRAASH)
- Janelle Wong, Director, Asian American Studies, University of Maryland
10:50am to 11:50am
South Asia, South East Asia, the Middle East and More: A Part or Apart of the AA Syllabus?
Moderator:
- Prema Kurien, Professor, Sociology, Syracuse University
Panel:
- Moustafa Bayoumi, Professor, English, Brooklyn College/CUNY
- Kelvin Ng, Undergraduate Student, Columbia University
- Ravi Kalia, Professor, History, City College of New York/CUNY
12pm to 1pm
Lunch Session
Goals of East Coast APA Studies
Keynote Speaker
- Phil T. Nash, Lecturer, Asian American Studies, University of Maryland
1:10am to 2:10pm
Political Strategies for Advancing Asian American Studies on the East Coast
Moderator:
- Russell Leong, Editor, CUNY FORUM
Panel:
- Peter Kwong, Distinguished Professor, Urban Affairs & Planning, Hunter College/CUNY
- Phil T. Nash, Lecturer, Asian American Studies, University of Maryland
- Shirley Tang, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston
2:20pm to 3:20pm
Building Cultures, Creating New Media: Innovative Platforms
Moderator:
- Cindy Wong, Professor, Media Culture, College of Staten Island/CUNY
Panel:
- Theodore S. Gonzalves, Associate Professor, American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Eng-Beng Lim, Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Dartmouth College
- Antony Wong, Program Coordinator, AAARI-CUNY
3:20pm to 4:20pm
The Future is Now!: Leadership, Students, and Communities
Moderator:
- Phil T. Nash, Lecturer, Asian American Studies, University of Maryland
Panel:
- Emily Dong, Student, Cornell University
- Joyce Moy, Executive Director, AAARI-CUNY
- Mitchel Wu, Lecturer, Asian American Studies Program, Hunter College/CUNY & Program Manager, Coalition for Asian American Children & Familes (CACF)
- Luwei Xiong, Senior, Francis Lewis High School
