Conference

The Weight We Carry: Navigating Family, Culture & Personal Agency

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This conference will explore and allow women to share their experiences in navigating family, culture, and personal agency. We hope to engage in an open, candid discussion around the complex relationships we may have with our families and cultures, and the practices we can utilize to work through the challenges we currently face and might encounter. Within this conversation, this conference will also provide participants with direction in strategizing around available resources and opportunities as they set out and work towards their short-term and long-term goals.

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Leading Women (Summer Conference)

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This summer conference hopes to facilitate a collaborative dialogue around how we can plan and realistically achieve our long-term goals and dreams. As people with busy lives, we often find that we do not have enough time to sit and reflect on our future. This conference provides student participants a space to reflect and discuss their personal goals and career ambitions, while strategizing adaptable practices that can help them work towards those goals. Some questions to be explored are: What do our dreams look like? How can we realistically and pragmatically achieve them? How do we navigate familial and cultural expectations while still exercising our own agency?

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2016 CUNY Conference on Resurgent Realities: East Coast Asian American Studies An East Coast Symposium & Initiative

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Date: Friday, May 13, 2016 Time: 9AM to 4:30PM Place: CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Concourse Level, Manhattan Free Admission Light Breakfast & Lunch Provided Why “resurgent realities”? What exactly are the realities for Asian American communities and AA Studies today? Why East Coast Asian American Studies? And what are the new realities of … Read more