Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The study of Asian-American women’s experience is in a relatively nascent stage despite both an established base of feminist thought centered on Asian-American women and current efforts by young Asian-American women to achieve standing as individuals and as members of a unique gender and racially-based minority in the U.S. This lecture will discuss how … Read more
Mathematics professors from BMCC and New York City Public School 34 math teachers and educators under the BMCC Fulbright-Hays Grants spent four weeks in China this Summer 2004. During the four weeks in China, the Fulbright participants visited more than twenty historical sights, museums, libraries, and famous mathematicians’ special collections. They had the privilege and … Read more
I will speak briefly about the influence of East Asian aesthetics and texts on my own work, then read relevant pieces my new manuscript, The Narrow Road to the Interior (title inspired by the poet, Basho). Specifically, I will talk about The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu and the Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon; … Read more
Over the past twenty years Fuzhounese immigrants have transformed the face of New York’s Chinatown, supplanting the Cantonese as Chinatown’s largest ethnic Chinese community and vying for leadership in the area’s economics, politics, social life, and even language use. Drawing upon ongoing field research in New York and Fuzhou, this lecture will explore the emergence … Read more
Based on Ravi Kalia’s latest publication, Gandhinagar, this presentation traces India’s efforts to establish its twentieth-century architectural identity. Kalia explains that Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat in western India, became a battleground for the competing ideals that had surfaced during the building of Chandigarh and Bhubaneswar. Exploring the impact of modernist architecture on India as … Read more
This lecture will talk about unique features of CUNY-Asian-faculty-led study abroad in China program. In particular, the lecture will discuss various educational benefits of the program while students and faculty have real experience of China’s society, the people, the language, and culture. Topics: how the trip is organized prominent and unique features of the program … Read more