AAARI Events
In the Wake of Empires: Critical Reflections on 1898 and Its Afterlives
NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United StatesThis symposium invites scholars of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam, and Cuba to critically reflect upon several historical events and discuss the impacts and legacies that both Spanish and US empires have left and continue to leave in their wake.
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History
More than a century after her birth, Yunte Huang narrates Anna May Wong’s tragic life story, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent, prewar Shanghai, and capturing American television in its infancy.
Collisions of the Diasporic: Cambodian Cultural Production in the United States
The entry of Cambodians in the United States was not simply a migration, but a crash-landing as refugees after an incredible loss of population, humanity, cultural & arts, religion, and thinkers. How, then, do the diasporic inheritors of this history respond via cultural production? And how does artist-scholar Sokunthary Svay’s own work including her newly ... Read more
Asian American Mentorship Providing Opportunities to Women for Empowerment and Resilience at CUNY (Zoom Meeting)
The Asian American Mentorship Providing Opportunities to Women for Empowerment and Resilience (AAMPOWER) at CUNY group aims to build a community of practice that offers a safe and inclusive space for discussing and sharing issues concerning the Asian and Asian American experience in higher education. The group also aims to foster support, understanding, and growth ... Read more
Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools
CUNY Graduate Center (Sociology) 365 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, Room 6112, New York, NYThe American suburb conjures an image of picturesque privilege: manicured lawns, quiet streets, and—most important to parents—high-quality schools. These elite enclaves are also historically white, allowing many white Americans to safeguard their privileges by using public schools to help their children enter top colleges. That’s changing, however, as Asian American professionals increasingly move into wealthy ... Read more
CHOSEN (Documentary)
Macaulays Honors College/CUNY 35 W. 67th Street, New York, NYThis co-sponsored screening of the documentary CHOSEN is part of the 17th Annual Korean American Film Festival New York (KAFFNY), running from November 8 to 13, 2023 in-person and online. Preceding CHOSEN will be a screening of the short documentary THE TEMPLE OF NON-DUALITY.
Abandoned Women and Boudoir Resentment: The Feminine Voice in Chinese Literature
Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, United StatesAbandoned Women and Boudoir Resentment studies the formation of the male-constructed conventional voice of women in Chinese literature from the 3rd to 6th century.
Public Talk/Book Signing with Historian and Author Greg Robinson
Queens College - President's Lounge 65-30 Kissena Blvd - Q-side, Dining Hall, Flushing, NYGreg Robinson is professor of history at l’Université du Québec À Montréal. A specialist in U.S. political history, he has written several notable books, including By Order of the President (Harvard UP, 2001), which uncovers Franklin Roosevelt’s central involvement in Japanese American confinement, and A Tragedy of Democracy (Columbia UP, 2009), winner of the 2009 ... Read more
C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction
Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, United StatesC.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction recenters Wang’s extraordinary career in his own artistic practice to reveal an original quest for tradition and innovation in the global twentieth century. Spanning seven decades, the catalog focuses on the artist’s distinctive synthesis of Chinese ink painting and American postwar abstraction.
Soju: A Global History
Hyunhee Park offers the first global historical study of soju, the distinctive distilled drink of Korea. Searching for soju’s origins, Park leads us into the vast, complex world of premodern Eurasia.
Globalized Filipino Activism: Resisting Neoliberalism and State Repression in Diaspora
Jackelyn Mariano will discuss her research and community activism among diasporic Filipino social movements, particularly the Malaya Movement’s broad anti-fascist coalition building during the Philippine elections, and the Justice for Jollibee Workers campaign that has challenged the fast-food corporation’s systemic abuse of workers’ rights.
View former Asian/American Center Library Collection at Queens College
Former Asian/American Center - Queens College/CUNY 6513 Kissena Blvd - Kissena Hall, Room 312, Flushing, NYVisit the former Asian/American Center (now under the Asian American / Asian Research Institute) at Queens College for a rare opportunity to view the Center's Library Collection of books about Asian Americans, Asia, and the diaspora, including one-of-a-kind research about pan-Asian communities in Queens. The A/AC Collection was moved offsite before the campus closed during ... Read more
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects
Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, United StatesAsian Americans are the fastest growing group in the United States and include approximately 50 distinct ethnic groups, but their stories and experiences have often been sidelined or stereotyped. Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects offers a vital window into the triumphs and tragedies, strength and ingenuity, and traditions and ... Read more
Desire Paths & Han: Scholar Activism with NYC’s Immigrant Food Delivery Workers
In recent years, New York City’s food delivery workers, a largely Asian and Latina/o immigrant workforce, have struggled against being characterized and policed as public safety “problems” even as these same workers became essential but unprotected during the Covid-19 pandemic. To better unpack the temporality of desire paths of delivery workers, Prof. Do Jun Lee ... Read more