Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
This conference seeks to answer the questions of who they are, where they have chosen to locate and how their communities have grown, how to preserve the culture and historical heritage of these communities for the older communities, to prepare new communities who will want to preserve their history in the US, and to connect scholars and community to identify trends and issues of concern for these communities.
Source: Asian American Federation
Visual artist Tomie Arai will shares her thoughts and observations about art, activism, and the Asian American movement in a dialogue with poet and editor Russell Leong. Tomie will discuss the process of being an artist, creating a new visual vocabulary in the emerging Asian American art scene in New York City. What were the … Read more
The reception will introduce faculty and staff to the Asian American / Asian Research Institute; our mission as a university-wide scholarly research and resource center that focuses on policies and issues that affect Asians and Asian Americans; and available professional development programs and research award opportunities.
This talk brings together community members and experts to engage in a critical discussion about key issues facing the Asian American community, emphasizing the importance of civic participation and collective action. It fosters dialogue on how to address challenges while promoting community resilience and empowerment.
This talk uses inter-Asian television love dramas to illustrate the issues pertinent to the discussions on the concept of “East Asian pop culture” as a sphere of production, circulation, and consumption. In particular, this talk uses Taiwan as a case study to unpack the tensions between the local and the regional, with women caught in … Read more