Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies – CUNY Presents Undocumented and Unafraid: Voices from the Immigrant Youth Movement Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012 Time: 6PM to 8PM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan PROGRAM Moderator Karen Judd, Acting Associate Director, Murphy Institute; Editor, New Labor Forum … Read more
Russell C. Leong Hunter College/CUNY Department of English / Asian American Studies Program Spring 2013 Course: Asian American Literatures: NY and LA New York – “the Big Apple” – and L.A. – “the Big Orange” – have spawned writers as well as their novels, essays, creative non-fiction and poetry since the settlement of the two … Read more
Date: August 23, 2012 Time: 8PM to 8:20PM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000 between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan Artist Chee Wang Ng discusses his photos and installations being exhibited at the Art and Food Symposium hosted by the Dunedin School of Art and the programme in the Culinary Arts at the Otago … Read more
The Chaser (South Korea, 2008) Running Time: 125 Minutes When his escorts start disappearing without settling their debts, cash-strapped pimp — and former police detective — Joong-ho (Yun-seok Kim) draws upon the skills of his old job to track down the recently missing Mi-Jin (Yeong-hie Seo). Cynical Joong-ho assumes a rival pimp has been siphoning … Read more
Owl and the Sparrow (Vietnam, 2007) Running Time: 97 Minutes After angering her stern uncle (Trong Hai), 10-year-old Thuy (Han Thi Pham) runs away and lands on the tough streets of Saigon. There, she befriends shy zookeeper Hai (The Lu Le) and flight attendant Lan (Cat Ly). Dreaming of a new family, Thuy plays matchmaker … Read more