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Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) - The City University of New York (CUNY)

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00:59:31

Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wongs Rendezvous...

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2023/10/30

Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (19051961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywoods most famous Chinese American actress, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her publicity photoswith a touch of defianceOrientally yours. Now, more than a century after her birth, Yunte Huang narrates Wongs tragic life story, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent, prewar

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01:00:16

Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States

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2023/10/23

Prof. Edward T. Chang will present on University of California, Riversides traveling exhibition to preserve and share the history of Americas first Koreatown Pachappa Camp a community of Korean migrant workers in Riverside who contributed to the citys citrus development. Among those workers was Koreas most influential independence activists, Dosan Ahn Chang Ho, who helped foment Koreas democratic movement.

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01:07:16

Filipinos in Greater Boston

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2023/10/16

As early as the Civil War, a dozen Filipino men living in Massachusetts enlisted in the Union army. In the 1900s, Filipino pensionados studied at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other colleges. After the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Filipino medical, military, and other professionals settled in and around Greater Boston in Cambridge, Lexington, Malden, and Quincy. To support their communities, Filipino immigrants founded civic organizations such as the Philippine

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00:59:55

Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent

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2023/09/29

Novelist Wendy Law-Yone, tracks Aung San Suu Kyis transformation from daughter of a national hero to materfamilias of Myanmar, placing her firmly within the context of the Burmese Buddhist notions of nationhood and motherhood and explaining her continuing role as the figurehead of the nations struggles. The result is a unique portrait of a living legend, rendered by a compatriot and contemporary. Once deified by the international community for her advocacy of democracy and human rights, yet later

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01:11:02

Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroines...

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2023/09/26

In Creating Identity, Prof. Jayashree Kambl examines the romance genre, with its sensile flexibility in retaining what audiences find desirable and discarding what is not, by asking an important question: Who is the romance heroine, and what does she want? To find the answer, Kambl explores how heroines in ten novels reject societal labels and instead remake themselves on their own terms with their own agency. Using a truly intersectional approach, Kambl combines gender and sexuality, Marxism,

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00:20:00

2019 CUNY Asian American Film Festival

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2023/06/08

Since 2004, the CUNY Asian American Film Festival (AAFF) has recognized and awarded over $12,000 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

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00:55:13

2023 CUNY Asian American Film Festival

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2023/06/08

Since 2004, the CUNY Asian American Film Festival (AAFF) has recognized and awarded over $14,300 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

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02:00:27

2023 NYC Council District 1 Candidate Forum

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2023/06/02

Join APA VOICE, the Asian American / Asian Research Institute, and other partners for a candidate forum for New York City Council District 1, representing neighborhoods including Chinatown, the Lower East Side, Two Bridges, NoHo, SoHo, and Financial Distinct.

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01:17:15

Love, Life, and Death in Transnational Adoptions from...

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2023/06/02

In this talk based on his upcoming book supported by the Betty Lee Sung Research Endowment Fund, Prof. Kit Myers explores how the orphan figure; birth and adoptive families; and sending (Asian) and receiving (United States) nations have been configured in transnational adoption discourse and law. Looking at popular television, legal journals, and congressional hearings, Prof. Myers considers how racialized notions of love, life, and death inform the best interest of the child determinations in

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00:37:15

Womens Studies Quarterly Feminism as a way of...

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2023/05/24

An interdisciplinary exploration of Asian diasporas as gendering spaces that host uneven movements of bodies, identities, histories, and hegemonies.

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00:23:15

Found in Korea (Documentary)

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2023/05/24

Abandoned and left in the streets as a newborn baby, KAD (Nam) returns home to find the world she lost as a baby. In search of her birth parents, she attempts to retrace her journey from birth to being adopted by a family in America, but old records and 35 years of economic growth have transformed the Korea of her infancy into a country where information held on paper is a thing of the past, leaving her with no trail to follow.

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00:43:54

Roundtable: Reflections on Asian American Studies at...

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2023/05/24

At this symposium, students, scholars, and/or practitioners, within and outside of CUNY, will share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, models for organizing and activism, and other activities at CUNY that address critical issues in Asian American studies and/or communities.

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00:12:27

AAARI Symposium on Asian American Studies across CUNY...

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2023/05/24

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00:45:17

Roundtable: Asian American Studies Futures

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2023/05/24

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00:51:31

Rajiv Mohabir, in conversation with DJ Rekha

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2023/05/24

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01:05:32

Mystical Forest: Collected Poems and Short Stories of...

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2023/05/10

Prof. Kenneth J. Yin will discuss his new book, Mystical Forest: Collected Poems and Short Stories of Dungan Ethnographer Ali Dzhon. Born in Shor-Tyube, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, in 1951, Dungan ethnographer and creative writer Ali Dzhon is widely regarded as the preeminent writer on the material and spiritual culture and history of the Dungan people, the Sinophone Muslims of Central Asia. Mystical Forest makes available for the first time in English a significant collection of Dzhons poems

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01:29:33

Immigrant, Refugee and Citizen Futures: Anti-Armenian...

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2023/05/02

Join us for a panel of scholars and community activists discussing Armenian American histories, from immigration bans in the late nineteenth century to Executive Order 13679 and ongoing displacement and marginalization from homelands and belonging today. Uplifting the long history of Armenian community activism in the US, this panel will inspire participants to envision Armenian futurity through the lens of collective action and social justice.

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00:59:39

Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion Queens Book Celebration

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2023/05/02

Join Kew and Willow Books for a celebration of Bushra Rehman novels Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer desire in a Pakistani-American community in Corona, Queens. This celebration will feature some of Queens most celebrated and beloved writers including Bushra Rehman, Christine Kandic Torres, Jai Dulani, Joseph O. Legaspi, Nadia Q. Ahmad, Patricia Park, Soniya Munshi!

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00:55:24

Monkey in Residence and Other Speculations

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2023/05/02

Observations of contemporary life that make monkeys of us, this existential disbelief thrums through speculative stories and essays in writer Xu Xis latest collection, Monkey in Residence and Other Speculations. These 16 short pieces, evenly divided between fiction and nonfiction, are in turn elegiac, satiric, darkly comic, lyrical, even confessional in tone, and traverse the inequities and abuse of power in sex, politics, race, history, culture, and language across a disquieting transnational

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01:10:57

In Search of Bengali Harlem (Panel Discussion)

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2023/04/29

Join us for a screening of the feature documentary, In Search of Bengali Harlem, directed by Vivek Bald and Alaudin Ullah. After the screening there will be a panel discussion with the co-directors and Bangladeshi artists, organizers, and community members including Nahar Alam, Nadia Q. Ahmad, DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving), and S. Nadia Hussain (moderator).

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