Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Celebrate the launch of WSQ: Asian Diasporas, co-sponsored by WSQ and the Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY. Join us for a free full-day event with engaging plenary panels and poetry reading to celebrate the launch of this special issue by WSQ. Breakfast, lunch and refreshments will be available.
Taking into account considerations of immigration, race, gender, and diaspora, AAARI’s 2019 annual conference asks: What does the meteoric rise of Trumpian racist white nationalism say about the nature of systemic racism in our country today? Why is it now primarily and explicitly rooted in anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim nativist racism, and where do Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) — their diverse ethnic groups — fit (or not fit) in these citizenship orders? How has the higher education research community and the activist community collaborated and how can they continue to strategically collaborate together?
This interactive session will introduce research exploring second generation, Vietnamese American perspectives of the Vietnam War. Examining these narratives provides an opportunity to engage with those stories, identify different spaces of learning of Vietnamese Americans, and provides tools to critically analyze who has the agency to construct and/or shift the national consciousness. By exploring narratives, … Read more
This book project assembles innovative research on the themes of dress reform ca. 1850s-1940s in East Asia. Professor Pyun’s lecture explores Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages of dress, body, and gender identity in the larger contexts of trade, power, modernization, and socio-political discourses. Essays in this volume illuminate, with an unprecedented scope and from a … Read more
In the face of such a panoply of identities, forming a pan-Asian/Pacific/American identity has historically proven to be difficult and complicated. AAARI’s conference will explore these challenges and complexities while also identifying and assessing historical instances of successful panethnic coalition building. Ultimately, this conference will provide an intersectional framework and understanding around how APA activists can center frontline leadership and the struggles of the community with which they are standing in solidarity.
How does Asian American identity shift or expand when considered in a queer context? What contradictions and conflicts arise? We will explore the intersection between queer and Asian American identities through the personal narratives told both in front and behind the camera in Andrew Ahn’s film work. Through the process of filmmaking, Ahn strives to … Read more