AAARI Events
AAIFF47 Screenplay Reading: MISSUS
CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (14th Floor) 25 West 43rd Street - Rooms 1425/1426, New York, NYAAIFF47 is pleased to present the annual live reading of the winning script of the Asian American International Screenplay Competition. This year’s winner is MISSUS, written by Marissa Carpio and produced by Angelo Santos. Please join us for the World Premiere of this screenplay reading. Afterwards, enjoy a casual happy hour at Snafu (127 E ... Read more
Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons (Networking Meet-Up)
Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, United StatesThe Asian American Mentorship Providing Opportunities to Women for Empowerment and Resilience (AAMPOWER) at CUNY invites you to join us at our next discussion/workshop on communication with author Jessica Chen to discuss her new book, Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons. At the networking meet-up, attendees will ... Read more
Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons (Workshop – Part 1)
Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, United StatesThe Asian American Mentorship Providing Opportunities to Women for Empowerment and Resilience (AAMPOWER) at CUNY invites you to join us at our next discussion/workshop on communication with author Jessica Chen to discuss her new book, Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons. Part 1 workshop will meet in-person ... Read more
Improving Services and Care for Parkinson’s Disease among Asian Americans
Catherine Chung and Johnny Nguyen (Asian Women For Health), and Preston Dang (WesternU College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific), will discuss their current collaborative two-year research study project, ACCESS-PD: Advancing Comprehensive Care & Enhancing Service Standards in Parkinson’s Disease among Asian Americans.
Career Paths in Insurance for College Students
Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, United StatesRepresentatives from Seneca Insurance Company, the Hartford Insurance Company, and director of the Columbia University Master’s in Insurance Management program, will discuss careers in the insurance industry and how they are not only an intricate part of everyday life, but also an exciting and rewarding career path for CUNY students.
Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons (Workshop – Part 2)
The Asian American Mentorship Providing Opportunities to Women for Empowerment and Resilience (AAMPOWER) at CUNY invites you to join us at our next discussion/workshop on communication with author Jessica Chen to discuss her new book, Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons. Part 2 workshop will take place ... Read more
The Way You Want to Be Loved (Book Talk)
Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, United StatesIn agile and frank prose, The Way You Want to Be Loved (Gaudy Boy, 2024) tells the stories of queer, displaced lives from India’s Northeast, an underrepresented region in English fiction.
British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language
Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, United StatesPopular discourse around British Muslims has often been dominated by a focus on Muslim women and their sartorial choices, particularly the hijab and niqab. Dr. Fatima Rajina takes a different angle and focuses on Muslim men, examining how factors like the global war on terror influenced and changed their sartorial choices and use of language.
Family Amnesia: Chinese American Resilience
Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, United StatesFamily Amnesia (Daylight Books, 2024) is a visual tribute and love letter honoring author Betty Yu’s Chinese American family roots in the United States. The art book explores her family’s multi-generational resilience and resistance through mixed-media collages, her grandfather’s photographs, and own captured images and archival material.
Special Lecture by Christine Balance
CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NYProf. Christine Balance, the 2024 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, will discuss current research for her single-authored manuscript, Making Sense of Martial Law, and collaborations with Prof. Lucy San Pablo Burns and Jessica Hagedorn on Renaissance Renegade.
Ginko Okazaki: a Japanese American Novelist in an Age of Ultranationalism
This panel presentation introduces an ongoing project to recover and translate the Japanese-language writings of the Issei novelist and teacher Ginko Okazaki (pen-name of Masue Shinozaki Orimo, 1895-1973).
Belonging in Higher Education: Perspectives and Lessons from Diverse Faculty
Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, United StatesCo-editors Nicholas D. Hartlep, Terrell L. Strayhorn, and Fred A. Bonner II will present on Belonging in Higher Education: Perspectives and Lessons from Diverse Faculty (Routledge, 2024), a new book that illuminates autoethnographic stories of belonging in higher education in the United States.