Lecture Series – Page 19 – Asian American / Asian Research Institute

Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System

November 24, 2025November 20, 2020 By Kevin Nadal

Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System examines the state of LGBTQ people within the criminal justice system. Intertwining legal cases, academic research, and popular media, Prof. Kevin Nadal reviews a wide range of issues—ranging from historical heterosexist and transphobic legislation to police brutality to the prison industrial complex to family law. Grounded in Queer Theory and intersectional lenses, each chapter provides recommendations for queering and disrupting the justice system. This book serves as both an academic resource and a call to action for readers who are interested in advocating for LGBTQ rights.

Nong: Playing Korean Wind Instruments

November 24, 2025November 13, 2020 By gamin

Musician and distinguished solist gamin will discuss and demonstrate traditional Korean music and wind instruments: the piri—a double reed instrument similar to the oboe; the taepyeonso (a double-reed horn); and saenghwang (a type of mouth organ).

Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z’s New Path to Success (Book Talk)

November 24, 2025March 6, 2020 By Shalini Shankar

Drawing on original ethnographic research, including interviews with participants, judges, and parents, Shalini Shankar examines the outsize impact of immigrant parents and explains why Gen Z kids are on a path to success.

2020 Census Hard To Count Map & the Asian American Community

June 28, 2023February 28, 2020 By Steven Romalewski and Howard Shih

Presentation on CUNY’s 2020 Census Hard To Count Map, and outreach efforts by the Asian American community to ensure a fair and accurate count.

American Exodus: Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949

November 24, 2025February 21, 2020 By Charlotte Brooks

In the first decades of the 20th century, almost half of the Chinese Americans born in the United States moved to China—a relocation they assumed would be permanent. At a time when people from around the world flocked to the United States, this little-noticed emigration belied America’s image as a magnet for immigrants and a land of upward mobility for all. Fleeing racism, Chinese Americans who sought greater opportunities saw China, a tottering empire and then a struggling republic, as their promised land. American Exodus is the first book to explore this extraordinary migration of Chinese Americans.

Planned Obsolescence, Strategic Resistance: Asian American Studies and the Neoliberal University (Cancelled)

March 16, 2020December 13, 2019 By Cathy V. Schlund-Vials

Set within an all-too-real administrative imaginary of budget cuts, metric-laden assessments, programmatic justifications, and shrinking faculty lines, Ethnic Studies (along with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) occupies a decidedly precarious position within the so-termed “corporate university.”If student strikes and Civil Rights movements instantiated the original institutionalization of ethnic studies as a necessary interdisciplinary field of inquiry, the current state of academic affairs reflects a long-standing neoconservative, laissez-faire “planned obsolescence” (to quickly access Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s provocative analytic). It is against this admittedly dystopic backdrop of planned obsolescence, which reflects and refracts the foci of Flashpoints for Asian American Studies (Fordham University Press 2017), that this presentation considers possible sites and administrative practices of strategic resistance.