Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Baruch College, CUNY Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society Presents 2008 Induction Ceremony Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Time: 12:45PM to 2:15PM Place: Baruch College, CUNY 55 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan Newman Vertical Campus, Room 14-220 The 2008 Induction Ceremony of the Baruch College chapter of Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society took place on Tuesday, … Read more
Based on Ravi Kalia’s latest publication, Gandhinagar, this presentation traces India’s efforts to establish its twentieth-century architectural identity. Kalia explains that Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat in western India, became a battleground for the competing ideals that had surfaced during the building of Chandigarh and Bhubaneswar. Exploring the impact of modernist architecture on India as … Read more
The presentation will analyze the ongoing debate in Japan over how the past should be remembered, and how this impacts on issues of national identity. Prof. Weiner is speaking on a Diversity Grant obtained by Prof. Keming Liu (Medgar Evers College, CUNY) in part to celebrate the 80th birthday of Prof. Betty Lee Sung.
Ethnic boundaries between communities are age old. Geographic boundaries are established by nature. National boundaries are established on the basis of nationalities that control the land, the people and the natural resources of the land. Mother Earth has other boundaries that are important but not realized by most people except the geologists and those working … Read more