hunter college – Asian American / Asian Research Institute

2026-2027 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor

August 17, 2026 By R. Benedito Ferrão

R. Benedito Ferrão is Associate Professor of English and Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies at William & Mary, with affiliations in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. His honors include being named University Professor for Teaching Excellence (2025-28), the Jinlan Liu Award for Research in APIA Studies (2024-27), a Coco Faculty Fellowship (2026-27), a Fulbright-Nehru Research Award (2019-20), and fellowships with the American Institute of Indian Studies and the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at Bayreuth.

Serica Storytellers: The Presidents with David Wu & Frank Wu

December 9, 2025December 2, 2025 By AAARI

A hybrid panel with Queens and Baruch College presidents explores how student visa revocations are reshaping CUNY campuses, immigrant communities, and New York’s educational landscape.

A National Landscape of Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI): Exploring Historical Foundations and Current Dilemmas in Higher Education

March 21, 2025March 17, 2025 By Mike Hoa Nguyen, Caroline K. Hong, Linh An and Sau-fong Au

This presentation offers a national landscape of AANAPISIs, focusing on their history and influence in higher education, as well as current dilemmas in today’s political climate.

KAFFNY 2024: Shorts Panorama/Short Film Premieres

June 20, 2025November 13, 2024 By AAARI

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.

Globalized Filipino Activism: Resisting Neoliberalism and State Repression in Diaspora

December 15, 2023 By Jackelyn Mariano

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

November 25, 2025November 17, 2023 By Wen-shing Chou and Margaret Liu Clinton

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.