AAARI Events
Building the Southeast Asian Consortium at SUNY and CUNY
Funded by the Luce Foundation, Prof. Nerve Macaspac will discuss his four-year project to establish a Southeast Asian Studies network in the State University of New York (SUNY) and City University of New York (CUNY) systems. The SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium (SEAC) is an interdisciplinary initiative to promote research, teaching, and related efforts around Southeast ... Read more
The Children of This Madness
Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New YorkIn The Children of this Madness, Gemini Wahhaj pens a complex tale of modern Bengalis, one that illuminates the recent histories not only of Bangladesh, but America and Iraq. Told in multiple voices over successive eras, this is the story of Nasir Uddin and his daughter Beena, and the intersection of their distant, vastly different ... Read more