Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Date: Sunday, August 20, 2017 Time: 2pm to 4pm Place: Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel 135-20 39th Avenue, Flushing, NY 11354 Candidates competing to represent District 20 in the New York City Council will participate in a public forum. District 20 includes Downtown Flushing, Murray Hill and Queensboro Hill. Incumbent, Peter Koo, faces a challenge from … Read more
Date: Thursday, August 3, 2017 Time: 6pm to 8pm Place: 25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000 between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan Join Dharma Path for a discussion on the Buddhist practice of meditation, diligence and wisdom, with Ven. Changtzu, Ven. Shiyi & Ven. Yanrong. Ven. Changtzu (Lecturer, Fuyan Buddhist Institute, Taiwan) Pointers on Meditation … Read more
Description Since 2004, the Asian American / Asian Research Institute’s CUNY Asian American Film Festival (AAFF), presented by the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI), has recognized and awarded student filmmakers enrolled at the City University of New York, including City College, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, Lehman College, College of Staten Island, and Queens … Read more
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 Time: 9:30AM to 7PM JADE/APANO MULTICULTURAL SPACE 8114 SE DIVISION STREET PORTLAND, OR 97206 Join AAPI community leaders in Portland & educators from the Association for Asian American Studies conference in dialogue, as a means for bridging community, research, & policy. The day will end with an optional walking tour … Read more
Among the hundreds of thousands of survivors confined to refugee camps in the wake of the Khmer Rouge genocide, approximately 10,000 Cambodian refugees were eventually “resettled” in the Bronx over the course of the 1980s and ’90s. Chronicling their unfinished odyssey, through the eyes of one woman, Ra Pronh, Unsettled tells the story of an immigrant community’s survival and resistance amid the concentrated poverty of the Bronx. As the first book about Cambodian Americans in New York City, Unsettled also challenges commonly held notions of humanitarian rescue and relief. A community-embedded scholar, author Eric Tang argues that refuge cannot be found when resettlement efforts seek to mask the harsh urban conditions faced by poor people of color and immigrants in cities across the country.