Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
This event provides practical guidance for Asian American entrepreneurs and business owners on starting, managing, and growing businesses, navigating real estate and import/export, and accessing financing and government contracts. Through expert-led sessions and networking opportunities, participants gain tools and strategies to succeed in a competitive economic environment.
This event provides practical guidance for Asian American entrepreneurs and business owners on starting, managing, and growing businesses, navigating real estate and import/export, and accessing financing and government contracts. Through expert-led sessions and networking opportunities, participants gain tools and strategies to succeed in a competitive economic environment.
This talk examines the first wave of Korean immigration to the United States and its impact on American and Japanese policies toward Korea during the late Choson dynasty. It highlights the connections between Asian history and Asian American history, exploring the broader implications of migration and diplomacy.
Screening of Children of Invention (Running Time: 86 Minutes), followed by discussion with director Tze Chun.
The Town Hall is the Alliance’s regular monthly gathering of artists and arts workers. Taking place the first Tuesday of every month, from 10am to 12pm, the Town Hall is a lively forum for people to announce news, learn about opportunities, and meet each other. Participants are invited to bring flyers and postcards, and to contribute food to the pot-luck buffet.
This public dialogue on xenophobia/philia in the (Asian) American context, energized by some of the critical and creative voices from inside and outside the Ivory Tower, celebrates the beginning of a stimulating series of faculty seminars in Asian American Studies at the Asian American / Asian Research Institute. At this launch event, panelists will explore various embodiments of the “foreigner” question, the theme of the year 2010, focusing on its aesthetic, moral, and political harms, implications and future: how deep is its everydayness and randomness?