AAARI Events

Visit 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

Asian 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

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

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

In 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

In Disciplinary Futures, edited by Nadia Y. Kim and Pawan Dhingra, a cross-section of scholars comes together to engage sociology and the social sciences by way of these paradigms, particularly from the influence of disciplines of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies.

Based on Zai Liang's new book, this presentation explores the recent history of Chinese immigration within the United States and the fundamental changes in spatial settlement that have relocated many low-skilled Chinese immigrants from New York City’s Chinatown to new immigrant destinations.

Drawing on extensive archival and ethnographic data, paired with unprecedented access to rural Chinese courtrooms, Ke Li presents not only a stirring portrayal of how these women navigate divorce litigation, but also a uniquely in-depth account of the modern Chinese legal system.

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.

Screening of the documentary, Happily Ever After (形婚之后) , followed by a conversation between He Xiaopei (the director of the documentary)  and Duan Jiling (Assistant Professor of Practice in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) on same sex desires in China.