Lecture Series

Conflict Awareness and Management Training Through Bicultural Lens for Asian American Students

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This session will focus on a new project of the CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium titled, Conflict Awareness and Management Training through Bicultural Lens for Asian American Students. The presenters will discuss how the project will create a culturally-relevant conflict resolution curriculum which will provide Asian American students at CUNY with crucial conflict resolution skills vital … Read more

Balance

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Prof. Rishi Raj will give a preview of his upcoming book on “Balance.” Science has used this concept to derive many significant laws applicable to inanimate objects. These laws have lead to new technologies providing many comforts to humans. What is Balance in humans? Can it be achieved? Can Balance lead humans to individual success, … Read more

Chinese American Community and the 9/11 Tragedy

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The main source of information for this talk is the speaker’s recently published anthology on this subject. The anthology consists of records of oral interviews as well a large number of published reports and analysis. The focus of the talk will be on Chinese Americans’ involvement and contributions during and after the tragedy. Although in … Read more

Historical Revisionism and National Memory in Contemporary Japan

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The presentation will analyze the ongoing debate in Japan over how the past should be remembered, and how this impacts on issues of national identity. Prof. Weiner is speaking on a Diversity Grant obtained by Prof. Keming Liu (Medgar Evers College, CUNY) in part to celebrate the 80th birthday of Prof. Betty Lee Sung.

Guarding the Dead: Tomb Figurines of Medieval China

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This talk will examine figurines from tombs of the Chinese “medieval period” (c. 220-750 A.D.), a turbulent but seminal period in Chinese art after the fall of the Han Empire (206 B.C.-A.D. 220). Influences from Central Asia, ancient Persia, India, Northern Steppes, and the Byzantium Empire are evident on the art made for the service … Read more

From “Opium War” to “War on Drugs”: Asian Americans’ Transcultural Journey

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The lecture will focus on the cultural-psychological aspect of Asian Americans’ experiences. Both the international context for their early emigration and the American cultural environment for their acculturation process will be examined (adaptation = selective process vs. unconditional assimilation). The interrelatedness between the two larger contexts will be analyzed to interpret the behavioral patterns that … Read more