Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Come to a book talk featuring Leslie Li as she discusses her new book, The Forest for the Trees: a Novel. Alvin Eng and Ed Lin will drop by to read an excerpt or two of dialog from the novel. “A dark comedy about a clash of cultures and generations, a biracial coming-of-age story, and … Read more
Monument to ‘console spirits’ pieces together fragmented records to preserve history
Beginning in 1990, thousands of Spanish speakers emigrated to Japan. A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan focuses on the intellectuals, literature, translations, festivals, cultural associations, music (bolero, tropical music, and pop, including reggaeton), dance (flamenco, tango and salsa), radio, newspapers, magazines, libraries, and blogs produced in Spanish, in Japan, by Latin Americans and Spaniards who have lived in that country over the last three decades.
Based on her 2019 edited anthology, Eco–Art History in East and Southeast Asia, Prof. De-nin Lee will discuss the challenges of eco–art history in the age of climate change.
Professors Uwe Gielen and Sunghun Kim will discuss their new book, Global Changes in Children’s Lives (Cambridge University Press, 2019), comparing the nature of childhood and adolescence in three representative societies differing in their subsistence activities. The societies include Tibetan nomadic pastoralists, traditional farmers in India, and South Korean students growing up in a digital … Read more
Prof. Daniel H. Inouye will discuss his book, Distant Islands (University Press of Colorado, 2018), a modern narrative history of the Japanese American community in New York City between America’s centennial year and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Often overshadowed in historical literature by the Japanese diaspora on the West Coast, this community, which … Read more