CUNY FORUM: Advancing Asian American Studies @ CUNY and APA Communities

This year’s conference will focus on the intersections of Asian American Studies and the community. The format will be interactive. Panelists will initially speak to their respective academic and community-based experiences, while the latter portion of each session will be devoted to outcomes-oriented discussion with the audience.

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Chinese American Literary Studies in China Today

This lecture will focus on the recent development of Chinese American literature teaching and research in China, by presenting both the data found online and the speaker’s own perspective of teaching and research of it. Prof. Yingguo Xu will first give an overview of Chinese American literature classes taught in universities, as well as Masters … Read more

2013 CUNY Asian American Film Festival

Date: Friday, May 31, 2013 | Time: 6PM to 8PM Place: CUNY Graduate Center – Martin E. Segal Theatre 365 Fifth Avenue (Corner of 34th Street), Manhattan https://youtu.be/NvXldESxQSo https://www.flickr.com/photos/aaaricuny/sets/72157633929047518/ 2013 Winners & Runner-ups Fiction Film Winner: Morning Song – Fan He (City College) Runner-up: This Moment – Girard Tecson (Hunter College) Documentary Film Winner: The … Read more

BIG FLOWER EATER: Women in Asian History and American Theater

Join Victoria Linchong, Kim Chinh and Katherine Yew in a conversation about their devised experimental play BIG FLOWER EATER, which explores the untold history of women in Asia through shamanism in three different Asian cultures. Excerpts of the play will be performed and screened. BIG FLOWER EATER is a scholarly and whimsical collage of folktale, ritual, dance and … Read more