Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
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.
The entry of Cambodians in the United States was not simply a migration, but a crash-landing as refugees after an incredible loss of population, humanity, culture & arts, religion, and thinkers. How, then, do the diasporic inheritors of this history respond via cultural production? And how does artist-scholar Sokunthary Svay’s own work including her newly published memoir, Put It On Record, address this question?
Join us for an in-person follow-up discussion about efforts at LaGuardia Community College and across the City University of New York to organize AAPI communities. Bring questions, stories, and strategies from experiences on your own campus!
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!
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.
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!
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.”