Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
AAARI The Asian American / Asian Research Institute is currently accepting submissions for our academic journal, CUNY FORUM Volume 12, scheduled for print in Winter 2026. Submission deadline Monday, June 30, 2025.
Across Continents employs Goan literary subjectivity as epistemology to critique a specific limitation of postcolonial thought, one that does not account for the situations or afterlife of Portuguese colonialism.
Films in this year’s CUNY Shorts Showcase, part of the 49th Asian American International Film Festival deal with topics/genres including: an intimate connection of hope and solidarity between a Filipino steward and a Black welder in 1940s Brooklyn, a Sikh MMA fighter navigating the balance between faith and the brutal world of combat sports, a golden but challenged friendship between a Jewish girl and a Muslim girl in Jerusalem, and an immigrant woman examining her past, identity, and regrets in the wake of her American ex-boyfriend’s death.
This year’s focused theme: AI Disruption and Opportunities. Artificial intelligence is reshaping higher education at extraordinary speed, altering how we teach, learn, conduct research, make decisions, design services, and imagine the future of our institutions. For many, AI represents disruption in its most immediate form—challenging long-standing assumptions about expertise, authorship, assessment, labor, privacy, and trust. … Read more
Inside Higher Ed reports the Department of Homeland Security Thursday eliminated a long-standing policy allowing these students to stay in the U.S. until they finished their education.
Two opinion pieces published in Vietnam’s leading national newspaper Tuổi Trẻ examine how AI, workforce disruption, and soft skills are redefining opportunities for students worldwide.