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