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

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01:18:36

Happy Cleaners (Virtual Discussion with the Filmmakers)

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2023/04/24

Join us for a discussion of the feature film, Happy Cleaners (2019), a heartfelt story that celebrates the survival of immigrants, the experiences of the Korean American community, and the value of family.

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00:58:17

Dear Corky (Q and A Session)

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2023/04/22

Join us for a screening and discussion of the short documentary Dear Corky, with director Curtis Chin. For over fifty years, New York native Corky Lee photographed his hometowns Chinatown, and Asian American communities around the country.

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01:29:29

Dismantling Everyday Discrimination: Microaggressions...

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2023/04/18

Distinguished Professor Kevin Nadal will discuss his new book, Dismantling Everyday Discrimination: Microaggressions Toward LGBTQ People, examining the microaggressions that LGBTQ people face on a daily basis, highlights their impact on mental health, and discusses ways mental health providers can help clients process and address microaggressions.

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01:40:16

Chinese Whispers: A Transpacific Journey in Poetics...

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2023/04/18

For this talk, Dr. Yunte Huang will speak on his new book, Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics, which explores the dynamics of poetry and poetics in the age of globalization, particularly questions of translatability, universality, and risk in the transpacific context. Chinese whispers refers to an American childrens game dating to the years of the Cold War, a period in which everything Chinese, or even Chinese sounding, was suspect. Taking up various manifestations of the phrase in the

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01:13:09

Gender Justice in lndo-Caribbean Communities

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2023/04/05

Indo-Caribbean community leaders discuss gender justice.

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00:24:44

Indo-Caribbean Community Leadership and Political...

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2023/03/15

Join us for a forum with Indo-Caribbean community leaders to discuss political priorities in Queens and their career paths.

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01:26:19

Building a Sustainable Platform and Pipeline for AAPI...

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2023/03/13

There is a glaring lack of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) representation in higher education leadership, although AAPIs may be well represented in the ranks of faculty and the student body. Participants will learn about the importance of creating a platform for collaboration and synergy among AAPI leaders who have reached the position of president/chancellor in higher education, and a sustainable pipeline to support ascending AAPI leaders.

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00:33:06

The Children of the People: Writings by and about...

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2023/03/06

In 1849, Horace Webster, the first president of the Free Academy said of the radical social experiment that would eventually become the City University of New York: The experiment is to be tried, whether the children of the people, the children of the whole people, can be educated, and whether an institution of the highest grade, can be controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few, but by the privileged many. More than 170 years later, The Children of the People, offers the perspective

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01:28:15

Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for...

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2023/03/06

In Refusing Death, Nadia Y. Kim tells the stories of Asian and undocumented Latin@ immigrant women, finding that they are influential because of their ability to remap politics, community, and citizenship in the face of the countrys nativist racism and system of class injustice, defined not just by disproportionate environmental pollution but also by neglected schools, surveillance and deportation, and political marginalization.

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00:48:13

Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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2023/02/11

Author Dorothy Moss will present on Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands, a catalogue of the stunning work by the late contemporary Chinese American artist Hung Liu (1948-2021), who blended painting and photography to offer new frameworks for understanding portraiture in relation to time, memory, and history. Often working from photographs, Liu used portraiture to elevate overlooked subjects, amplifying the stories of those who had historically been invisible or unheard. This richly illustrated

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00:46:03

Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfathers American...

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2023/02/06

Minoru Yamasaki described the feeling he sought to create in his buildings as serenity, surprise, and delight. In Shapes, Lines, and Light, Katie Yamasaki charts his life and work: his childhood in Seattles Japanese immigrant community, paying his way through college working in Alaskas notorious salmon canneries, his success in architectural school, and the transformative structures he imagined and built. A Japanese American man who faced brutal anti-Asian racism in postWorld War II America and an

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00:46:14

We Are Here: 30 Inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific...

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2023/01/31

A stunning anthology licensed in partnership with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center,We Are Herecelebrates 30of the most inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S. history. With over 23 million people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent living in the United States, their stories span across generations, as well as across the world. We Are Here highlights thirty noteworthy Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the impact theyve had on the cultural, social, and political

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01:13:42

Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty: Perspectives and...

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2022/12/19

Editors Nicholas D. Hartlep and Daisy Ball will discuss their book, Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty (Routledge, 2019) which examines the challenges faced by diverse faculty members in colleges and universities. Highlighting the experiences of faculty of colorincluding African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Indigenous populationsin higher education across a range of institutional types, chapter authors employ an autoethnographic approach to the telling of their stories. Chapters

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01:08:07

Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the Worlds...

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2022/12/07

China surpassed North America to become the world s largest movie market in 2020. Formerly the focus of exotic fascination in the golden age of Hollywood, today the Chinese are a make-or-break audience for Hollywoods biggest blockbusters. And movies are now an essential part of Chinas global soft power strategy: a Chinese real estate tycoon, who until recently was the major shareholder of the AMC theater chain, built the worlds largest film production facility. Behind the curtains, as this brilliant

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00:53:06

We Are American Soldiers (Documentary)

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2022/11/15

Since Americas inception, immigrants have shown their gratitude to this country through military service. We Are American Soldiers is a short documentary film capturing the stories of Chinese Americans who served this country during World War II, only to return home to face discrimination. We Are American Soldiers tells one mans story of immigrating to America, being drafted for the war, and serving with the 407th Air Service Squadron an all Chinese American unit, of the 14th Air Services Group in

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01:11:44

Celebrating Our Roots Panel Discussion to Honor the...

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2022/11/10

Panel speakers will share personal stories about growing up with sewing mothers and grandmothers during the decades when practically every Chinese immigrant family in New York City included garment factory workers - the hard work and long hours, the social environment and friendships, union benefits and programs, and the strength, solidarity and activism of the immigrant women workers. Speakers will discuss how they teach this history and legacy to new generations.

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00:54:19

The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming...

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2022/11/10

When the Berlin Wall fell, Germany united in a wave of euphoria and solidarity. Also caught in the current were Vietnamese border crossers who had left their homeland after its reunification in 1975. Unwilling to live under socialism, one group resettled in West Berlin as refugees. In the name of socialist solidarity, a second group arrived in East Berlin as contract workers. The Border Within paints a vivid portrait of these disparate Vietnamese migrants encounters with each other in the

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00:57:35

Black Henry: Charting New Ways Forward in Filipino...

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2022/10/31

In her CUNY FORUM essay, writer Vina Orden discusses quincentennial commemoration of the Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation across the Pacific to South America, through the Strait of Magellan, and across the Pacific to Guam and the Philippines. What exactly was being commemorated depended on who you asked. Here, Orden presents a critique of colonial Spanish and Filipino history, utilizing Filipino journalist, poet, and playwright Luis H. Francias play, Black Henry, as a radical work of imagination and

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01:17:55

Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American...

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2022/10/24

Despite the fact that two thirds of U.S. Buddhists identify as Asian American, mainstream perceptions about what it means to be Buddhist in America often whitewash and invisibilize the diverse, inclusive, and intersectional communities that lie at the heart of American Buddhism. Be the Refuge is both critique and celebration, calling out the erasure of Asian American Buddhists while uplifting the complexity and nuance of their authentic stories and vital, thriving communities. Drawn from in-depth

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01:11:59

Twilight: Zhang Lian A Contemporary Pastoral Poet of...

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2022/10/04

Zhang Lian is a struggling potato farmer who turned to poetry to describe the harsh beauty of his environment and his daily struggle to eke out an existence. In 2000 he borrowed money from friends to print and hand-sell his first book of poems; by 2012 he had been chosen as one of the Ten Best Rural Poets by the Chinese Writers Association and published his eighth collection. Zhangs work has appeared in more than one hundred anthologies and been translated into several languages, now including

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