2017 CUNY Conference on Leading Women: Political and Civic Engagement Program
Date: Friday, December 1, 2017 Time: 9AM to 12:30PM Place: Joseph S. Murphy Institute 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor, Manhattan
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2017 CUNY Conference on Leading Women: Political and Civic Engagement
Date: Friday, December 1, 2017 Time: 9AM to 12:30PM Place: Joseph S. Murphy Institute 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor, Manhattan Only Open to Invited CUNY Students
AAARI 16th Annual Gala (2017)
AAARI’s Annual Gala is attended by 450+ Asian and non-Asian academic, business, civic and community leaders, faculty, staff and students. At the gala we will honor distinguished alumni from The City University of New York, leaders from the community, and student scholarship recipients. Proceeds from the gala go towards our academic publications and public programs such as lectures, annual conference, and student film festival.
The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race
Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 Time: 5pm to 7pm Place: City College of New York 160 Convent Avenue, Manhattan – NAC Ballroom Free – Open to the Public In this talk, based on her new book The Limits of Whiteness (2017, Stanford University Press), sociologist Neda Maghbouleh shares the under-theorized and sometimes heartbreaking story of … Read more
Snakeheads: Chinese Mafia & the New Slave Trade
Museum of Chinese in America Date: Thursday, October 19, 2017 Time: 6:30pm to 8pm Place: Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, Manhattan In conjunction with the Museum of Chinese in America’s new exhibition, FOLD: Golden Venture Paper Structures, which presents the story of passengers of the Golden Venture which ran aground in 1993, … Read more
2017-2018 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor
Sujani K. Reddy is the 2017-2018 Thomas Tam Visiting Professor of Asian American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Dr. Reddy’s work focuses on histories of U.S. imperialism, immigration, and South Asian diaspora, as well as mass criminalization, immigrant rights, transnational feminism, and struggles for liberation. She is the author of Nursing & Empire: Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United States (UNC Press, 2015) and co-editor of The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power (NYU Press, 2013). Both books are also published in South Asia by Orient BlackSwan.