On Performance, Poetics, and Authoritarianism
Prof. Christine Balance, the 2024 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, will present ongoing research and writing from her book project, Making Sense of Martial Law.
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Localized History Workshop Series: Filipino-American History, Activism, and Resistance
For October, Filipino American History Month, the Asian American / Asian Research Institute is excited to uplift the voices of student researchers and activists with presentations from Gabriela Sagan and members of the Filipino Curriculum Project on Filipino activism for women and school curriculum in Hawai’i.
Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (Performance & Talk)
Join 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 York City’s Chinatown.
Building the Southeast Asian Consortium at SUNY and CUNY
Funded by the Luce Foundation, Prof. Nerve Macaspac will discuss a collaborative 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 Asia and Southeast Asian Americans in New York’s public universities.
Dismantling Everyday Discrimination: Microaggressions Toward LGBTQ People
Distinguished Professor Kevin Nadal will discuss his new book, Dismantling Everyday Discrimination: Microaggressions Toward LGBTQ People, examining the microaggressions that LGBTQ people face on a daily basis, highlights their impact on mental health, and discusses ways mental health providers can help clients process and address microaggressions.
Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA
In Refusing Death, Nadia Y. Kim tells the stories of Asian and undocumented Latin@ immigrant women, finding that they are influential because of their ability to remap politics, community, and citizenship in the face of the country’s nativist racism and system of class injustice, defined not just by disproportionate environmental pollution but also by neglected schools, surveillance and deportation, and political marginalization.