Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
This co-sponsored screening of short films is part of the 18th Annual Korean American Film Festival New York (KAFFNY), running from November 13 to 15, 2024. Showcasing a diverse selection of short films that will leave you inspired and entertained, get ready to immerse yourself in a world of creativity and storytelling with filmmakers from around the globe.
Jackelyn Mariano will discuss her research and community activism among diasporic Filipino social movements, particularly the Malaya Movement’s broad anti-fascist coalition building during the Philippine elections, and the Justice for Jollibee Workers campaign that has challenged the fast-food corporation’s systemic abuse of workers’ rights.
C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction recenters Wang’s extraordinary career in his own artistic practice to reveal an original quest for tradition and innovation in the global twentieth century. Spanning seven decades, the catalog focuses on the artist’s distinctive synthesis of Chinese ink painting and American postwar abstraction.
Abandoned Women and Boudoir Resentment studies the formation of the male-constructed conventional voice of women in Chinese literature from the 3rd to 6th century.
This symposium invites scholars of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam, and Cuba to critically reflect upon several historical events and discuss the impacts and legacies that both Spanish and US empires have left and continue to leave in their wake.
Roundtable discussion on Teaching Asian American Studies at City University of New York (CUNY) for the Asian American Policy Review, a Harvard Kennedy School student publication. MODERATOR Soniya Munshi is Interim Executive Director of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) at CUNY, an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies … Read more