Lisa Lowe: 2021-2022 Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence
A week of special programming with Lisa Lowe, Hess Scholar-in-Residence, organized by the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities – Brooklyn College/CUNY.
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2021 AAIFF: CUNY Shorts Showcase
Films in this year’s CUNY Shorts Showcase, part of the 44th Asian American International Film Festival, deal with topics/genres including mental health, childhood memories, coping with loss, ethnic food origins, and Lunar New Year traditions.
The Women Outside and Camp Arirang: Anti-Asian Misogyny and War
Join Third World Newsreel, Nodutdol for Korean Community Development, Korean Policy Institute, and The Documentary Forum at CCNY as they view two historical films about the U.S. in Korea – The Women Outside: Korean Women and the US Military and Camp Arirang, and hear from a panel of scholars and activists.
Unforgotten Song
Musician gamin has created “Unforgotten Song,” a music and multi-media work, to commemorate the anguish of Comfort Women, enslaved local women throughout Japanese-occupied East Asia, from 1932 to 1945.
Chinatown Heroes: Manhattan Chinatown in the 1990s
Chinatown Heroes was published in Chinese in 2020 and recently translated into an English edition in 2021. This book describes a selection of “community heroes,” from the unique viewpoint of Wai Wah Chan, a Chinese community newspaper journalist. It is a precious photo album of more than 200 images of people and places, leaders and community groups in Manhattan’s Chinatown from the 1990s taken by the author during her years as a community reporter. There are also recent photographs by Philip Wu taken during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic showing the stark contrast between old and new, busy and deserted.
Get the Scoop on Ranked Choice Voting!
Join APA Voice and partners to Get the Scoop on Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), a non-partisan education event to get out the vote for the upcoming 2021 New York City primary election through activities and games.