Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The reception will introduce faculty and staff to the Asian American / Asian Research Institute; our mission as a university-wide scholarly research and resource center that focuses on policies and issues that affect Asians and Asian Americans; and available professional development programs and research award opportunities.
AAARI celebrated its 17th anniversary as part of CUNY, and honored leaders and CUNY alumni, John C. Liu (NYS Senate-elect) and Ava Chin (author/professor, College of Staten Island), as well as students award recipients for the CUNY Thomas Tam Scholarship and Chynn-CUNY Essay and Morality Essay Contest.
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.
Nadia Y. Kim is Professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University and the 2018 Thomas Tam Professor at City University of New York Graduate Center. Her research focuses on transnational experiences of US race and citizenship inequalities among Korean/Asian Americans and South Koreans in (neo)imperial context and among Asian and Latinx activists for Environmental (Health) Justice as well as immigration and education reform in Los Angeles; she also specializes in race/gender/class intersectionality, cultural globalization, and race theorizing.
Kim is author of Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA (Stanford, 2008), an exploration of how Koreans and Korean immigrants have navigated American (neo)imperial race inequality and ideology since World War II and by transnationally connecting both societies. In addition to garnering two American Sociological Association book awards for Imperial Citizens, Kim has won multiple best article awards, early career awards, and teaching honors. She is nearly done completing her current book, We the Polluted People: Immigrants Remap Race, Class, Gender & the Body to Remake Citizenship (Stanford University Press), which examines how legal Asian and unauthorized Latinx immigrants fight nativist racism by way of a new politics of citizenship, one that prioritizes transnational, communal, embodied, and emotive politics.
Join Dharma Path for a discussion on the Buddhist perspective on wisdom, wealth and peace, with Ven. Changtzu, Ven. Yanrong & Ven. Shiyi.
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?