The Asian American / Asian Research Institute is currently accepting submissions for our academic journal, CUNY FORUM Volume 12, scheduled for print in Winter 2026. Submission deadline Monday, June 30, 2025.
Established in 2013, CUNY FORUM is a leading contemporary East Coast print and online independent journal dedicated to covering timely topics within Asian American and Asian Studies. Recent issues have included the only Asian American publication to devote over 200 pages to exploring how COVID-19 impacted communities in both Asia and the Americas; a history of LGBTQ+ activism in New York; and provocative literary and cultural contributions by scholars, artists, and activists from diverse backgrounds, including Guyanese, Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, Burmese, Malaysian, Bangladeshi, Filipino, Korean, Caribbean, Vietnamese, Khmer and other East, South, and Southeast Asian and Pacific communities.
Counterpoints & Counterparts
How do Asian and Pacific research, narratives and expression contribute to shaping the “counterpoints” and “counterparts” of our thinking and lives today?
- As retrograde regimes worldwide are on the rise it’s crucial to examine how Asian American, Pacific, and Asian Studies can offer thoughtful counterpoints which are inclusive, egalitarian and democratic—that shed needed light upon human, gender, environmental and indigenous rights and struggles. The pioneering journalist K.W. Lee reminds us that: “We are all entangled in an unbroken human chain of mutual survival.”
- What counterparts can we find in both our pasts and envisaged futures, and, also comparatively with other communities and nations in the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific? Examining both the local and global pathways of arts, literature, migration, settlement and social movements can provide us with bolder insights across borders. Activist Yuri Kochiyama urges: “Keep expanding your horizon, decolonize your mind, and cross borders.”
Call For Submissions
CUNY FORUM invites a broad array of research, literary, journalistic and community-based accounts, and visual-graphic and cultural works for review. We, the editors, board and staff encourage you to become a part of the “Counterpoints and Counterparts” publishing challenge and initiative.
We are accepting submissions in the following categories:
- Original social science and historical research
- Research summaries / practitioners’ essays
- Original essays
- Literary works
- Reviews of literature and media
- Graphic artworks
All submissions are reviewed by a combination of the FORUM’s editors and editorial advisors. Original research is subject to additional outside blind review.
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Articles for publication consideration should be sent to:
CUNY FORUM EDITOR
c/o Asian American and Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
25 West 43rd St., Suite 1000
New York, NY 10036
Two-print copies should be mailed to the address above, and one electronic copy should be sent to:
cunyforum@aaari.info
