AAARI Reads Book Club Discussion – Antiman: a Hybrid Memoir
Please join our AAARI Reads Book Club discussion of Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman: a Hybrid Memoir. Bring a friend, your students, a colleague, a family member—all are welcome!
AA/AS Brown Bag Series
The Asian American / Asian Studies across CUNY Brown Bag Series for CUNY faculty, staff, and students, showcases research, scholarship, and/or creative projects that engage the complex and heterogeneous histories, issues, and experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The AA/AS across CUNY Brown Bag Series provides a regular space for CUNY members to present their work in an informal setting, as well as an opportunity for members of CUNY interested in Asian American / Asian Studies to connect, network, share information, and build cross-campus community.
If you have any questions about the Brown Bag Series or would like make a presentation, please e-mail us at info@aaari.info.
Fall 2023 - Spring 2024 Schedule
November 3, 2023
"Collisions of the Diasporic: Cambodian Cultural Production in the United States"
Sokunthary Svay (City College of New York)
December 15, 2023
"Globalized Filipino Activism: Resisting Neoliberalism and State Repression in Diaspora"
Jackelyn Mariano (Hunter College)
February 16, 2024
"Desire Paths & Han: Scholar Activism with NYC's Immigrant Food Delivery Workers"
Do Jun Lee (Queens College)
March 15, 2024
"Building the Southeast Asian Consortium at SUNY and CUNY"
Nerve V. Macaspac (Queens College/CUNY Graduate Center)
April 19, 2024
"Valiente Bangla: Bangladeshi Migrants Mobilize for Immigrants Rights in Spain"
Chaumtoli Huq (CUNY School of Law)
AANAPISIs at CUNY
Join us for a virtual conversation to learn more about the current AANAPISI projects at CUNY: QCAP (Queens College AANAPISI Project) and HCAP (Hunter College AANAPISI Project), which includes the ABI (AANAPISI Bridge Initiative), in collaboration with BMCC.
Asian American Faculty and Staff Associations (AAFSAs) at CUNY
Join us for a virtual cross-campus discussion about efforts at LaGuardia Community College and Brooklyn College to organize AAPI communities. Bring your questions, stories, and strategies from your experiences on your own campus!
Transtrauma: Conceptualizing the Lived Experiences of Vietnamese American Youth
Dr. Khánh Lê’s talk draws from his doctoral project with Vietnamese American youth in the Philadelphia area. During Fall 2020, the youth participated in eight workshops to learn about their Vietnamese history, culture and language, as well as their history in the U.S. The eight workshops utilized the arts and storytelling to guide the youth to collectively narrate their experiences living in the diaspora. The careful examination of the youth’s narratives during the workshops helped him develop a theory of what he called “transtrauma.”
Maneuvering Mixedness: Interpreting Dougla in the Caribbean Diaspora
The Dougla experience in Caribbean spaces and the diaspora provides an epistemology of mixedness, particularly as situated within an Indian/ African binary. Prof. Aleah N. Ranjitsingh centers maneuvering as a descriptive and explanatory tool that summarizes how Douglas contemplate their experience of mixedness outside of Caribbean homeland spaces—maneuvering defaults (Blackness), maneuvering ambiguity, and maneuvering privilege.
Where CHamoru Identity Continues: The Decolonial Poetics of the CHamoru Diaspora in California
Prof. Francisco Delgado’s current project examines how Chamorro poets reimagine the landscape of California as an extension of their home island. In particular, through a careful reading of works by Chamorro poets like Clarissa Mendiola and Lehua Taitano, both of whom are currently based out of California, he argues that the nature of Chamorro identity and community is as fluid and vast as the Pacific Ocean itself.