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Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)From Screen to Clay: Exploring the Relationships Between Image and MaterialDr. Yonghao Yan examines the development of contemporary ceramics in Jingdezhen, a prefecture in Jianxi, China, and the evolving creative practices at Jingdezhen Ceramic University. Through their own artistic projects, Dr. Yan explores how ceramic art intersects with moving-image practices, including documentary filmmaking, experimental video, and ceramic-based animation. By analyzing selected worksboth institutional and personalshe aims to demonstrate how image and material inform and transform one another, revealing new possibilities for contemporary ceramic expression.
2026-02-071h 00Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)'Godzilla Minus One' Meets 'Past Lives': Romantic Histories and Historic RomancesProf. Jayashree Kambl will present on her essay in CUNY FORUM Volume 11:1, focusing on love and gender roles in the recent globally successful films Godzilla Minus One and Past Lives. Prof. Kambl delves into how Godzilla unexpectedly challenges traditional cinematic depictions of romance and gender, offering fresh perspectives on themes of identity and geocultural representation. Both films show how popular culture can shape our understanding of history, belonging, and societal dynamics. She also goes beyond the article to invite connections between the philosophy of romance in Past Lives and its Korean-Canadian-American director Celine Songs 2025 movie, Materialists.
2025-12-221h 02Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Family Amnesia: Chinese American ResilienceFamily Amnesia (Daylight Books, 2025) is a visual tribute and love letter honoring author Betty Yus Chinese American family roots in the United States. The art book explores her familys multi-generational resilience and resistance through mixed-media collages, her grandfathers photographs, and own captured images and archival material.
2025-12-131h 01Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Transitions & Challenges: Chinatown Small Business after CovidProf. Zai Liang's presentation focuses on the substantial challenges faced by small businesses in Manhattan Chinatown and the subsequent transitions they have made in the post-Covid pandemic era. Attendees will gain insights into the key findings conducted during Summer 2025 by the specialized research team from SUNY Albany, in collaboration with the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation.
2025-12-0553 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Chinese-Caribbean Narratives: Migration, Identity and Belonging at Home and DiasporaProf. Aleah Ranjitingh will present her research on Chinese-Caribbean immigrants in the United States, and the ways in which they understand self in terms of race and ethnicity. Centering on identity formation as persons of Chinese descent, but also with a distinct ethnic identity as voluntary immigrants from the Caribbean (Rogers 2001), Prof. Ranjitsingh is interested in interrogating: identity and identification choices in the U.S.; how and if Chinese-Caribbean immigrants understood and experienced anti-Asian hate and discrimination at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if mixed race Chinese immigrants also maneuver mixedness and racial defaults (Barratt and Ranjitsingh 2001).
2025-11-2657 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)From Cool Japan to Your Japan in 2025: What Japan Gets Rightand WrongAbout Cultural PromotionJapans global appeal is undeniablebut how well do official narratives match what international audiences actually want? Drawing on his role as a Cool Japan Producer for the Japanese Cabinet Office, Benjamin W. Boas highlights the need to shift from a government-branded Cool Japan paradigm to the more participatory, fan-driven Your Japan. He examines whats working (content exports, inbound-tourism touchpoints, local city branding) and what still misses the mark (top-down campaigns, language access, and diversity). Boas shares behind-the-scenes examples from NHK WORLD programs and community-level projects in Nakano, and addresses todays so-called overtourism, arguing that many pain points are really problems...
2025-11-2146 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American CommunityIn Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community (Stanford University Press, 2024), historian William Gow argues that Chinese Americans in Los Angeles strategically used their performances in both Hollywood films and Chinatown tourist attractions to influence perceptions of race and national identity during the Chinese Exclusion Era. Drawing on oral histories and archival research, the book reveals how these performances were tied to restrictive immigration laws, beginning with the 1875 Page Act. By focusing on the experiences of everyday peoplefrom movie extras to merchantsPerforming Chinatown uncovers the long-overlooked history of how Los Angeless Chinatown and Hollywood shaped...
2025-11-0851 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Agbayani Worship: Mythmaking, Colonial Mentality, and the Problematics of a Filipino Captain AmericaVina Orden will present on her essay in CUNY FORUM Volume 11:1, examining how narratives in popular media can perpetuate or challenge existing power structures and colonial mentalities. Orden explores this through the complex dynamics behind the pop culture success of comics like The United States of Captain America. Her analysis delves into the diverse creative team behind these comics, including queer, Filipino, First Nation, and South African writers. And she critically questions whether Captain America, despite such diverse creative input, must still operate within a context of imperial power dynamics and the realities of the U.S. nation state.
2025-10-2549 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Propaganda, Communication and Empire: Western Intervention in AfghanistanMuch queer theory in America is based on white male experience and privilege, excluding people of color and severely limiting its relevance to third-world activism. Within the last three decades, chronicles from gay lesbian bisexual transgender intersex queer (GLBTIQ) communities within the South Asian diaspora in the United States have appeared, but the richness and contradictions that characterize these communities have been stifled. Too often, the limitations due to undertheorized South Asian American lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual historiescompounded by a queer canon overwrought with the East/West and tradition/modern equationsrender queer South Asian Americans as a monolithic homogeneous category...
2025-10-181h 30Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)On Remembering My Friends, My First Job, and My Second-Favorite Weezer CD: A NovellaFrancisco Delgado will read and discuss his novella, On Remembering My Friends, My First Job, and My Second-Favorite Weezer CD (TRP: The University Press of SHSU, July 2025). Winner of the 2024 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize, the book tells the story of Cody Taitano, a CHamoru man who reflects on his teenage years in 1999 while navigating the complexities of parenthood during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prof. Delgado will explore the novellas themes of race, class, and the enduring nature of friendship, as Cody recalls his first job at McDonalds and the music that shaped his life.
2025-10-1834 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)2025 AAARI Innovators Fellowship - Team Community CompassTeam Community Compass addressed the challenges faced by Asian immigrants in New York City with limited English proficiency, who struggle with language and cultural barriers when navigating the healthcare system. Initial community engagement, including a survey in three languages, revealed that while language-specific providers were often accessible, the most significant barrier was the complicated process of navigating insurance and benefits. Recognizing that many existing resources were underutilized, the team developed a Tableau dashboard that functions as an interactive directory for New York Citys Community Based Organizations (CBOs). This solution helps bridge the gap by allowing users to find specific resources...
2025-10-0811 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)2025 AAARI Innovators Fellowship - Team AmplifyTeam Amplify focused on addressing the digital struggles of Asian-owned small businesses, particularly restaurants, that were challenged by the post-pandemic relaunch. The projects core hypothesis was that improving a restaurants digital visibility would increase foot traffic, attract delivery customers, improve brand recognition, and strengthen customer loyalty. The team used Tang Pavilion, a Shanghainese Chinese restaurant in Midtown, as a case study, noting its lack of a central website, outdated social media, and underutilized customer reviews due to limited resources. The strategy involved building a modernized, mobile-friendly website to establish branding and services , enhancing social media with new content, and encouraging...
2025-10-0812 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Artist Talk with Leekyung Kang: Entombed in StaticLeekyung Kang, the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Queens College School of Arts (Fall 2024), will present on her recent work inspired by Buddhist cosmology's cyclical nature, creating a series of paintings, print, and installation that interrogate the formal aspects of what is architecturally defined as a form of chamber. Beginning with the visual language of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism (, ), Kang plans to incorporate imagery from various religions to illustrate how ancient beliefs interpret ideas of cosmic harmony and divine presence. Drawing from ancient tomb or chamber murals across religions and cultures, her work aims to reconcile diverse elements to...
2025-07-0844 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)AAARI 20th Annual Gala (2022)Join the celebration! AAARIs annual fundraiser is attended by Asian and non-Asian academic, business, civic and community leaders, faculty, staff and students. At the gala, AAARI will be honoring distinguished CUNY alumni, leaders from the community, and student scholarship recipients. Proceeds from the gala go towards AAARIs academic publications and public programs such as lectures, annual conference, and student film festival.
2025-07-0353 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)AAARI Symposium on Healing During Uncertainty - Close Out SessionThe Asian American / Asian Research Institutes 2025 symposium, co-organized with NYU Steinhardt, explores the intersections of identity, culture, history, and systemic factors in shaping mental health experiences within Asian and Asian American communities. Centered around three key themes, the symposium aims to address both longstanding and emerging challenges while equipping attendees with insights and practical strategies to advance mental health support.
2025-07-0332 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)AAARI Symposium on Healing During Uncertainty - WelcomeThe Asian American / Asian Research Institutes 2025 symposium, co-organized with NYU Steinhardt, explores the intersections of identity, culture, history, and systemic factors in shaping mental health experiences within Asian and Asian American communities. Centered around three key themes, the symposium aims to address both longstanding and emerging challenges while equipping attendees with insights and practical strategies to advance mental health support.
2025-07-0317 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)AAARI Symposium on Healing During Uncertainty - KeynoteThe Asian American / Asian Research Institutes 2025 symposium, co-organized with NYU Steinhardt, explores the intersections of identity, culture, history, and systemic factors in shaping mental health experiences within Asian and Asian American communities. Centered around three key themes, the symposium aims to address both longstanding and emerging challenges while equipping attendees with insights and practical strategies to advance mental health support.
2025-07-031h 03Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)AAARI 24th Annual Gala (2025)Join us to celebrate the Asian American / Asian Research Institutes 24th anniversary as part of The City University of New York! AAARIs fundraising gala will convene over 200 supporters, community leaders, and advocates committed to uplifting and advancing the Asian American Pacific Islander community. In line with our mission, this years event will honor the remarkable achievements of Asian American women in public service who have paved the way for greater representation, policy innovation, and community empowerment for all.
2025-06-261h 28Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Subversities: Interventions in Queer Activism Past & PresentJoin pioneering LGBTQ+ activist Daniel C. Tsang for a special conversation reflecting on his 50 years of activism, including his groundbreaking 1975 article Gay Awareness in Bridge Magazine, one of the first to address LGBTQ+ issues in the Asian American community. Tsang will discuss the evolution of LGBTQ+ rights, his personal journey, and the ongoing challenges facing the community. Moderated by the Museum of Chinese in America's Chief Curator Herb Tam, the event will conclude with a Q and A session for audience engagement.
2025-06-241h 14Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Localized Histories and Disrupting Colonial Logics: AANHPI Youth-Driven Curriculum in NY StateThis panel discusses the "Localized History Project," which addresses the lack of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) history in New York State's Eurocentric, test-driven curriculum. The Project advocates for both a "content and pedagogical revolution" to shift who is perceived as a historian and knowledge creator. The Project is youth-driven, centering young people through Youth Action Boards in various regions of New York, who develop resources for an archive and classroom use. Utilizing oral history, semi-structured interviews, and surveys, the project explores how the absence of AANHPI history impacts youth and aims to create a "living history"...
2025-06-2414 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Decoding Ambedkar: Ideas of Nation and Nation BuildingIn Decoding Ambedkar, Prof. Vivek Kumar re-examines Dr. B.R. Ambedkars vast intellectual contributions, challenging his reductive portrayal in Indian academia and media. It contrasts his domestic erasure with the significant global recognition of his ideas on society, politics, and justice. By analyzing his unique theories on the Hindu social order and his engagement with diverse thinkers, the book asserts Ambedkars crucial role as a pioneer in Indian sociology, demonstrating the capacity of Dalit intellectuals to develop profound theoretical frameworks.
2025-06-231h 00Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)2025 CUNY Asian American Film Festival (Award Ceremony)Since 2004, the CUNY Asian American Film Festival (AAFF) has celebrated the creativity and vision of student filmmakers from across the City University of New York. With over $15,400 in cash prizes awarded to CUNY students from City College, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, Lehman College, College of Staten Island, Queens College, and New York City College of Technology, this is an incredible opportunity to showcase your work and gain recognition. The festival not only promotes the artistic talents of CUNY students but also fosters meaningful connections among peers from different campuses, providing a central platform to display your creative projects. Past participants...
2025-06-2330 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Chinatown Rising (Q and A Session)Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute for a special AANHPI Heritage Month screening of the documentary Chinatown Rising, followed by Q and A with co-director Josh Chuck.
2025-06-2328 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and IdentityMuch queer theory in America is based on white male experience and privilege, excluding people of color and severely limiting its relevance to third-world activism. Within the last three decades, chronicles from gay lesbian bisexual transgender intersex queer (GLBTIQ) communities within the South Asian diaspora in the United States have appeared, but the richness and contradictions that characterize these communities have been stifled. Too often, the limitations due to undertheorized South Asian American lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual historiescompounded by a queer canon overwrought with the East/West and tradition/modern equationsrender queer South Asian Americans as a monolithic homogeneous category...
2025-04-1740 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and IdentityMuch queer theory in America is based on white male experience and privilege, excluding people of color and severely limiting its relevance to third-world activism. Within the last three decades, chronicles from gay lesbian bisexual transgender intersex queer (GLBTIQ) communities within the South Asian diaspora in the United States have appeared, but the richness and contradictions that characterize these communities have been stifled. Too often, the limitations due to undertheorized South Asian American lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual historiescompounded by a queer canon overwrought with the East/West and tradition/modern equationsrender queer South Asian Americans as a monolithic homogeneous category...
2025-04-1740 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Double-Conscious Formation of Organizational Life: Chinese Civil Society Organizations in the U.S., 1849-1911How does racism influence the formation and development of organizational life in a racialized community? In this paper, Prof. Simon Yamawaki Shachter extends on Du Boiss concept of double consciousness to explain community organizations roles and development. Combined with the concepts of oppositional consciousness from social movements and decoupling from organization theory, Prof. Yamawaki Shachter builds a processual model of organizational life for racialized communities. He shows how the model explains the development of 19th and early 20th century Chinese organizations in the U.S., and describes how the community formed an incomparably large, sophisticated, interconnected, and politically-active organizational field...
2025-03-291h 09Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Schooling in the Camps: The Effects of Wartime Incarceration on Japanese American YouthJoin Densho and the Localized History Project for a virtual workshop exploring the histories and stories of young Japanese Americans impacted by wartime incarceration. The workshop will share histories of schooling and resistance during Japanese American incarceration, the enduring legacies of this history in New York State, and how Densho utilizes oral histories to preserve, share and pass on this history.
2025-03-271h 00Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Love Can't Feed You: A NovelCherry Lou Sys debut novel Love Cant Feed You (Dutton, 2024) is a heartfelt and poignant exploration of love, sacrifice, and survival in the face of adversity. It follows the journey of a young immigrant woman from the Philippines having to navigate the complexities of a challenging relationship while grappling with the harsh realities of her life. As she faces the emotional and practical struggles of balancing her dreams and personal desires with the needs of those she loves, the story offers a raw and intimate portrayal of the ways love can both uplift and burden us.
2025-03-2256 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Destigmatizing Poverty: The Cost of Living Documentary, Narrative Change, and OrganizingThis presentation examines survey results from three screenings of The Cost of Living (2023, Sixty First Productions), a documentary highlighting the financial struggles of three families in Flushing. The film is part of the Undo Poverty: Flushing (UPF) collaboratives efforts to combat poverty and reduce stigma through a narrative change approach. The three separate screenings featured subtitles in Chinese, English, and Korean, respectively. UPF also organized community organizing training sessions for local residents during the 2024 grant cycle. The presenter will discuss key findings from the surveys, including community perceptions of poverty, primary concerns, and proposed solutions for addressing financial hardship in...
2025-03-0457 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Belonging in Higher Education: Perspectives and Lessons from Diverse FacultyCo-editors Nicholas D. Hartlep, Terrell L. Strayhorn, and Fred A. Bonner II will present on Belonging in Higher Education: Perspectives and Lessons from Diverse Faculty (Routledge, 2024), a new book that illuminates autoethnographic stories of belonging in higher education in the United States. These narratives celebrate diverse experiences and offer unique and useful insights about how to foster what foreword author, Michael Eric Dyson, refers to as, deep belonging. This critical volume is essential reading for researchers, faculty, administrators, and graduate students in Education, Sociology, Psychology, Student Affairs, African American Studies, and Asian American Studies. Additionally, it offers crucial insights for...
2025-02-241h 34Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)A Transformative Look at the Lives of Filipina Care Workers and Their Mutual Aid PracticesMigrant workers have long been called upon to sacrifice their own health to provide care in facilities and private homes throughout the United States. What draws them to such exploitative, low-wage work, and how do they care for themselves? In Caring for Caregivers: Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis (University of Washington Press, 2025), Valerie Francisco-Menchavez centers the perspectives of Filipino caregivers in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2013 to 2021, illuminating their transnational experiences and their strategies and practices to help each other navigate the crumbling U.S. healthcare system.
2025-02-241h 01Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969-2001)Co-curator Prof. Jayne Cole Southard will present on the exhibition, Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969-2001), an expansive survey of rarely-seen artwork and archival material by artists that constitute and exceed Asian American, a label denoting a cultural and national identity invented in 1968. Utilizing an interdisciplinary and research-driven praxis, Legacies uncovers how artists of Asian descent have historically negotiated identity in America as a set of situated practices and institutional structures amidst transnational diasporas, racial phantasms, and political imaginaries.
2024-12-171h 03Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Ginko Okazaki: a Japanese American Novelist in an Age of UltranationalismThis panel presentation introduces an ongoing project to recover and translate the Japanese-language writings of the Issei novelist and teacher Ginko Okazaki (pen-name of Masue Shinozaki Orimo, 1895-1973). Ginko was part of a cohort of highly educated Japanese women who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s. Alan K. Ota, nephew of Ginkos daughter, will present on how the study of Ginkos life and work may offer insights to aspiring artists, activists, and teachers as they confront new forms of oppression and ultranationalism in the 21st century. Andrew Way Leong (UC Berkeley) will present on the ongoing work involved...
2024-12-121h 25Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)On Performance, Poetics, and AuthoritarianismProf. 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. In it, she studies what the diverse and contradictory poetics of Philippine martial law (1972-1986) perform and reveal about authoritarianism and cultural memory, as illustrated by both U.S.- and Philippines-based performances and productions. Making Sense of Martial Law also aims to illuminate important facets of the relationship between art and politics in dictatorships across the globe.
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Uncomfortable Convo'sCatfish, Heightfish, and the Lies and even D*** FishingIn this spicy episode of Uncomfortable Convo's, we dive into the modern dating pool full of deception and half-truths. From catfishing and height-fishing to "dick-fishing," we uncover why some people bend the truth before a relationship even begins. But that’s not all—we tackle a sensitive topic: erectile dysfunction. Why do some men struggle to get it up, and what’s the role of stress, confidence, or even dating itself in the equation? Tune in for raw, real talk with no filters, plenty of laughs, and a few uncomfortable truths.
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2024-11-1849 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)But You're Not Black (Post-Screening Discussion)Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute, and the Committee on Institutional Equity and Diversity (CIED) at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, for a screening of the documentary, But Youre Not Black (2020), directed by Danilelle Ayow. Following the screening will be a discussion with our guest scholar speaker Dr. Aleah N. Ranjitsingh (Brooklyn College), moderated by Dr. Yung-Yi Diana Pan (Brooklyn College).
2024-11-1338 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and LanguagePopular discourse around British Muslims has often been dominated by a focus on Muslim women and their sartorial choices, particularly the hijab and niqab. Dr. Fatima Rajina takes a different angle and focuses on Muslim men, examining how factors like the global war on terror influenced and changed their sartorial choices and use of language. Rajinas new book denaturalises the ubiquitous and deeply problematic security lens through which knowledge of Muslims has been produced in the past two decades.
2024-10-281h 30Uncomfortable Convo'sAnswering Your Toughest Questions: Overcoming Relationship Trauma & Moving On | Uncomfortable Convo'sIn this episode of Uncomfortable Convo's, SkarxFace and Ariana dive into your most pressing questions! From dealing with trauma from past relationships to learning how to let go and move forward, we’re addressing the challenges that keep us stuck and the steps needed to heal. Join us for a raw, unfiltered conversation filled with personal stories, insights, and real talk. Don’t miss it – we’re here to keep things real and help you find your way through life’s toughest moments. Got a question? Leave it in the comments for our next episode!
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2024-10-281h 40Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)The Way You Want to Be Loved (Book Talk)Author/professor Aruni Kashyap will read from his new story collection, The Way You Want to Be Loved (Gaudy Boy, 2024).
2024-10-221h 20Uncomfortable Convo'sWhy People Cheat: Our Unfiltered Stories and Honest ReasonsThis week, Ariana and I dive deep into the topic of cheating—sharing our personal experiences, what led to those moments, and why it's never as simple as it seems. We explore the complexities behind why people cheat and what drives those decisions. It’s an uncomfortable convo, but an important one. Let’s break the silence and talk about what most people avoid.
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2024-10-211h 00Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Filipino-American History, Activism, and ResistanceFor October, Filipino American History Month, the Asian American / Asian Research Institute is excited to uplift the voices of student researchers and activists. During this interactive workshop, attendees will hear from Gabriela Sagun, a Ph.D. Student at Duke University studying Security, Peace, and Conflict, with a focus on conflict-related violence against women in the Philippines. Gabriela will speak on the entanglements of U.S. Empire in the Philippines and Filipino-American nurses. We will then hear from Mariah Iris Ramo, Marissa Halagao and Brix Kozuki from the Filipino Curriculum Project, a youth driven activist project in Hawaii. Their course, "Filipino...
2024-10-171h 24Uncomfortable Convo'sDating with ADHD: The Struggles and Surprising ProsToday, Edgar and Ari dive deep into the challenges of dating with ADHD. From impulsive moments to unexpected benefits, we’re unpacking it all. Can ADHD be a relationship strength? Tune in and find out how it plays a role in love and connection! #ADHDDating #Relationships #UncomfortableConvos
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2024-10-1449 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: A BiographyProf. Manu Bhagavan will present his biography, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Penguin, 2023), based on eight years of research and using material in five languages from seven countries and over forty archives. Pandit the most remarkable woman Eleanor Roosevelt had ever met, was a pioneering politician and diplomat celebrated internationally for her brilliance, charm and glamour.
2024-10-091h 19Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Career Paths in Insurance for College StudentsRepresentatives from Seneca Insurance Company, the Hartford Insurance Company, and director of the Columbia University Masters in Insurance Management program, will discuss careers in the insurance industry and how they are not only an intricate part of everyday life, but also an exciting and rewarding career path for CUNY students.
2024-09-2641 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Improving Services and Care for Parkinsons Disease among Asian Americans (Intro and Closing)Catherine Chung and Johnny Nguyen (Asian Women For Health), and Preston Dang (Western University-College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific), will discuss their current collaborative two-year research study project, ACCESS-PD: Advancing Comprehensive Care and Enhancing ServiceStandardsin Parkinsons Disease among Asian Americans.
2024-09-2415 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)MothSutra, an East to West Poetry ReadingPoet and editor Russell C. Leong will read from MothSutra, based upon drawings and poetry about an Asian delivery man who rides a bicycle throughout Manhattan as he cycles through his life from East to West. Leong hopes to evoke the inner lives, meditations, hopes and dreams of persons generally invisible to those who order takeout. MothSutra was first read at the Bowery Poetry Club, the University of Hong Kong Black Box Theatre, and the City University of New York. He will be introduced on video by the late Chinese American labor historian, Peter Kwong. A bilingual Q and A...
2024-09-2449 minUncomfortable Convo'sBreaking the Bare Minimum: Why Settling Shouldn't Be an OptionIn this episode of Uncomfortable Convo's, we dive into a conversation that many shy away from—why the bare minimum in life and relationships should never be accepted. We explore real-life examples of how settling for less can impact your growth and happiness, and why demanding more from yourself and others is essential. It’s time to raise the standard and break free from mediocrity. Tune in for an eye-opening discussion!
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2024-09-2450 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and AmericaBorn 1941 in Oakland, Californias Chinatown, William Gee Wong is the only son of his father, known as Pop. Born in Guangdong Province, China, Pop emigrated to Oakland as a teenager during the Chinese Exclusion era in 1912 and entered the U.S. legally as the son of a native, despite having partially false papers. 'Sons of Chinatown' is Wongs evocative dual memoir of his and his fathers parallel experiences in America.
2024-06-101h 13Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)2024 CUNY Asian American Film Festival (Award Ceremony)Since 2004, the CUNY Asian American Film Festival (AAFF) has recognized and awarded over $14,900 in cash prizes to student filmmakers enrolled at the City University of New York, including City College, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, Lehman College, College of Staten Island, and Queens College. The CUNY AAFF helps to promote the artistic visual talents and stimulate communication among CUNY students who are separated by the different campuses, and serve as a central location to display their creative works. Past participants have also had their films screened at the Asian American International Film Festival.
2024-06-0631 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)AAARI Symposium on Interrogating AAPI Identities - Morning KeynoteFor this symposium, AAARI has invited students, scholars, community organizers, and/or practitioners to share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, and other activities that address the broad scope of AAPI Identities."
2024-05-2355 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)AAARI Symposium on Interrogating AAPI Identities - WelcomeFor this symposium, AAARI has invited students, scholars, community organizers, and/or practitioners to share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, and other activities that address the broad scope of AAPI Identities."
2024-05-2316 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)AAARI Symposium on Interrogating AAPI Identities - Closing Session PerformanceFor this symposium, AAARI has invited students, scholars, community organizers, and/or practitioners to share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, and other activities that address the broad scope of AAPI Identities."
2024-05-2321 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)AAARI Symposium on Interrogating AAPI Identities - Lunch and NetworkingFor this symposium, AAARI has invited students, scholars, community organizers, and/or practitioners to share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, and other activities that address the broad scope of AAPI Identities."
2024-05-2305 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)AAARI Symposium on Interrogating AAPI Identities - Closing SessionFor this symposium, AAARI has invited students, scholars, community organizers, and/or practitioners to share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, and other activities that address the broad scope of AAPI Identities."
2024-05-2316 minAsian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold WarHong Kong was a key battlefield in Asia's cultural cold war. After 1948-1949, an influx of filmmakers, writers, and intellectuals from mainland China transformed British Hong Kong into a hub for mass entertainment and popular publications. Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War discusses how Communist China, Nationalist Taiwan, and the U.S. fought to mobilize Hong Kong cinema and print media to sway ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia and across the world. Central to this propaganda and psychological warfare was the emigre media industry. This period was the golden age of Mandarin cinema and popular culture. Throughout the 1967 Riots...
2024-04-161h 34Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary ChinaOn a hot summer day, Wang Guiping attended her divorce trial at the Xiqing Peoples Tribunal. Taking an unfaithful spouse to court would, Guiping thought, help her end a hopeless relationship and actualize her lawful rights upon divorce. Later that day, Guiping would find herself betrayed not only by her husband, but by the court system and her own legal counsel. Taking this case as a point of departure, Ke Li recounts decades-long research on divorce litigation in rural China in her book Marriage Unbound. Ultimately, this talk articulates a firm belief: divorce, seemingly prosaic, offers a unique window onto...
2024-04-081h 06
Querida Amiga PodcastYo Perreo SolaIn this week's episode, I discuss the 5 stages of grief.
Here is the link to the article on the stages of grief: https://www.verywellmind.com/five-stages-of-grief-4175361. Check out @educatedchingona on insta. She has a post from June 30th and @aaari.adhd hers is on Feb 4 that you guys should watch :) also @rupikaur_ post from Aug 9th and please continue watching their content. They help so much
2023-08-3132 min
CUNY TV's Asian American LifeCelebrating Women Trailblazer For Women’s History MonthSpecial on Asian American women who were the first in their fields, including CUNY Law School Dean Sudha Setty, Former Judge Doris Ling-Cohan; NY Senator Iwen Chu; Tribute to CUNY's AAARI Betty Sung Lee; History lesson on Afong Moy; Women Crossing DMZ
2023-03-0829 min
Power of Self-Mastery with SachiIdentity Beyond Society With Chris SiemerWe are covering the Second part of Zen mind and beginner mind by capturing the ideas of both sides of the co-arising interpersonal condition. We see identity as social product. so the question is, which identity are you trying to buy as your habit or trait off the shelves like a product?
Reference Links:
DT Suzuki
https://www.britannica.com/biography/D-T-Suzuki
Mulamadhyamikakarika
https://aaari.info/notes/03-06-06Tam2.pdf
bio of Ikkyu Sojun
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikkyū
2022-04-0122 minPower of Self-Mastery with SachiSociety in Identity with Chris, Writer / Directorwe cover Zen mind and beginner mind by capturing the ideas of both sides of the co-arising interpersonal condition. We see identity as social product. so the question is, which identity are you trying to buy as your habit or trait off the shelves like a product?
Reference Links:
DT Suzuki
https://www.britannica.com/biography/D-T-Suzuki
Mulamadhyamikakarika
https://aaari.info/notes/03-06-06Tam2.pdf
bio of Ikkyu Sojun
Here is the bio of Ikkyu Sojun
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikkyū
2022-03-2518 min
Brooklyn, USA47 | How We Want To Be Now That We KnowThis week, we’re sending radical love and care to our AAPI neighbors. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Khyriel Palmer, Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charlie Hoxie, and Mayumi Sato. If you have something to say and want us to share it on the show, here’s how you can send us a message: https://bit.ly/2Z3pfaW• Thank you to Hui and Jeffrey Su.• LINKS:Brooklyn, USA - bricartsmedia.org/Brooklyn-USABRIC statement on anti-AAPI violence: https://www.instagram.com/p/CMnVZ-zjyeq/Dr. Sherry Wang - https://bit.ly/3rcrhju...
2021-03-2442 min