AAARI Events

Through untapped archival materials, contemporary sources, and numerous interviews with filmmakers, magazine editors, and student activists, Po-Shek Fu explores how global conflicts were localized and intertwined with myriad local historical experiences and cultural formation.

Bangladeshi migration to Spain is resurging due to declining economic opportunities and political instabilities in Bangladesh. While a long standing community began to form in the 1980s, due to Spain’s liberal immigration laws, the community size ebbed and flowed as migrants moved to other parts of Europe. But as immigration laws have become restrictive in ... Read more

Join the CUNY Graduate Center's American Studies Certificate Program and the Advanced Research Collaborative for this special lunch with Ava Chin—author, performer, and professor—as she performs and talks about her new in paperback book Mott Street (Penguin Books), about the impact of the country’s first immigration restrictions on four generations of her family in New ... Read more

Join the CUNY School of Law for a screening and discussion of the documentary “Bay of Blood” (2023), about Bangladesh’s Liberation War: the bloody birth of a nation, a forgotten genocide and how the United States supported the Pakistani regime responsible for mass killings in 1971.