Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Prof. Larry Tung will screen and discuss his 2018 documentary, Taiwan! Let’s Get Married, his 2019 follow-up documentary, A Big Fat Taiwanese Same-Sex Wedding Banquet, and the 2019 documentary, Double Dad & One Queer Teen: My Rainbow Family.
Prof. Karen B. Hanna (Connecticut College) will discuss her research, featured in CUNY FORUM Volume 6:1, into the KDP (Katipunan ng mga Demokratikong Pilipino) organization, from 1973 to 1986, and the exploration and views of sexuality during that era by its members.
Focusing on microlevel social interactions in the homeland, this lecture explores the projection and achievement of superiority within the context of Vietnamese diasporic and transnational repertoires. As a country undergoing dramatic economic transformation for more than two decades, Vietnam is a site of contradictory new hierarchies with the increasing return of overseas migrants who encounter a growing new monied class. Prof. Hung Cam Thai examines the formation of these hierarchies in situations where individuals seek to establish themselves as “social betters” in determining criteria of worthiness.
Setsuko Winchester, Japanese American ceramic artist, photographer and journalist will discuss her conceptual art work, Freedom from Fear/Yellow Bowl Project. The FFF/YBP is an attempt to shine a new light onto an old aspect of America’s history with race and ethnicity, prejudice and bias and how they shaped this country’s ideas of freedom, justice and citizenship.
Research on Asian-American career choice, career experience, work-related stress, and well-being has been extremely limited. Based on a comprehensive online survey with a total of 208 Asian-American social work administrators, supervisors, practitioners, and graduate social work students, Prof. Kenny Kwong will present on the career choices, barriers and prospects, work-related stress, and professional quality of life Asian-American social workers.
Based on her 2019 edited anthology, Eco–Art History in East and Southeast Asia, Prof. De-nin Lee will discuss the challenges of eco–art history in the age of climate change.