NY-based print & online commons for scholars, practitioners, artists and activists committed to writ CUNY FORUM, edited by Russell C. Leong, is a New York-based print and on-line commons for scholars, writers, artists, practitioners and activists to develop research, to create dialogue, and to promote change around Asian American and Asian topics within the context of the Americas.
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9/28/22 - Talk on "Plague at the Golden Gate" | Reminder: 9/20 Book Talk by Charles Liu
More than 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world and set off a wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900 unleashed a similar furor. It was the first time in history that civilization’s most feared disease — the...
9/23/22 - Book Talk on "The Cosmos Explained" | National Voter Registration Day 9/20
The lectures series is back! Please join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute for a book talk on, The Cosmos Explained: A History of the Universe From Its Beginning to Today and Beyond, by Charles Liu, on Friday, September 23, 2022, from 5:30pm to 7pm. This will be a live online discussion,...
AAARI Receives BRESI Grant | Exit Poll/Poll Monitoring Volunteer
The Asian American / Asian Research Institute is the recipient of a $40,000 grant from the CUNY Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI) to support our work. We are honored to be among 126 awardees, selected out of a pool of over 500 proposals, to further BRESI’s mission to reimagine, de...
Fall Semester Begins - 2022 Student Award Opportunities
Reminder: Aug Primary Election Today - Polls Open to 9PM
Reminder: NY Congressional D10 Forum (8/8, Updated Panel) | CUNY Shorts Showcase / AAIFF45
8/3 to 13: CUNY Shorts Showcase & 45th Asian American International Film Festival
The only meaning left in Jenny’s life is her cat, Bowie. When an important package gets lost, she wonders whether she can carry on with what is missing
AAARI Welcomes New Interim Director | Gala Video/Photos | BRESI RFP Reminder
Join us in welcoming Dr. Soniya Munshi to AAARI! Dr. Munshi has been appointed, pending approval from the CUNY Board of Trustees, the new interim executive director of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute. She previously served as an associate professor of Ethnic + Race Studies at the Borou...
AAARI 20th Annual Gala (2022)
AAARI celebrated its 20th anniversary as part of CUNY, and honored leaders and CUNY alumni, Joyce Moy (former Executive Director of AAARI), Hon. John C. Liu ...
Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal | Law Journals | University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal formed in 2002 by a small group of committed and enterprising students to address the vacuum in legal scholarship pertaining to issues of race and poverty. Against many obstacles, it has grown into a coalition of law students dedicated to progressive lawyering i...
CUNY Asian American Film Festival (6/17) | Vincent Chin 40th Remembrance & Rededication (6/16-19)
Sponsors/Donors (In Formation) Blue Man Group, Museum of the City of New York, Museum of Illusions, New Victory Theater, Noguchi Museum & Yunah Hong
6/17/22 - 19th CUNY Asian American Film Festival (Online Screening)
Auction/Raffle Sponsors (In Formation) Blue Man Group, Museum of the City of New York, Museum of Illusions, New Victory Theater, Noguchi Museum & Yunah Hong
AAARI Gala in 4 Weeks | CUNY Pridefest | Voter Registration Deadline
In March 2022, CUNY Chancellor Matos Rodriguez established a Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative Council to focus on forging a University-wide community that will, for the first time, bring together the many faculty and students, centers and institutes engaged in the study of race and ethnic...
AAARI Gala in 5 Weeks | Support AAPI Curriculum Funding | BRESI Request for Proposals
In March 2022, CUNY Chancellor Matos Rodriguez established a Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative Council as a formal University-wide body. The Council’s first focus has been forging a University-wide community that will, for the first time, bring together the many faculty and students, cen...
NBC News' 'The Racism Virus' returns for special on anti-Asian hate and solutions
The special, airing Wednesday, features the nonprofit group Stop AAPI Hate, the NYPD, actor Daniel Dae Kim, writer of "Angry Asian Man" and others.
The Asian American Education Project & Movement for Asian American History in K-12 Curricula – Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The Asian American Education Project & Movement for Asian American History in K-12 Curricula May 16, 2022May 13, 2022 By Stewart Kwoh, Sophia Bae, Raghav Joshi and Lynn Lin Friday, May 13, 2022 | 5:30pm to 7pm Stewart Kwoh will introduce the Asian American Education Project, formed in 2021, and wide...
AAARI Gala in 6 Weeks | Film Festival Submissions Due 5/20
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Save the Date: AAARI 20th Annual Gala | CUNY Ethics & Morality Essay Contest Winners
Please join us in congratulating this year's winners and honorable mentions, and we look forward to receiving more submissions from students for the 2022 CUNY Ethics and Morality Essay Contest.
we remember Meena Alexander, CUNY FORUM contributor and AAARI friend
April is Poetry Month and we remember our dear friend Meena Alexander, poet and Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the The Graduate Center, CUNY. This photo is of Meena when she visited LA in 2016 and our CUNY FORUM editor Russell C. Leong took her to visit Union Station. You can watch Meena’s past poetry readings at AAARI at https://is.gd/bOObeJ
AAARI Executive Director to Depart March 31, 2022
The time has come for me to step down as executive director of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute. I have delayed my departure for nearly two years because it was imperative to support our Asian American faculty, staff and students during the twin crisis of the pandemic and the horrific,....
As anti-Asian incidents continue, read "Gold Mountain to Empire State: On the Coasts of Anti-Asian Hate," by Russell C. Leong, editor of CUNY FORUM, and Antony Wong, program coordinator of AAARI, a photographic essay on the Asian American community's response to recent Asian hate on the West and East coasts.https://aaari.info/assets/2022/02/CFV9-Leong-and-Wong.pdf
on the occasion of Penn Asian American Studies (ASAM) 25th anniversary, here's an essay from CUNY FORUM Vol 2:1 by Eiichiro Azuma, Grace Kao, Josephine Park and Fariha Khan on the 15th anniversary and Program's origins,https://aaari.info/assets/2022/03/CFV2-Azuma.pdf
Break the Silence: Justice for Asian Women - New York City
JUSTICE FOR ASIAN WOMEN MARCH 16, 2022 On the 1-year anniversary of the Atlanta Spa Shootings that massacred eight people, six of whom were Asian women, Jus...
Read in full Prof. John J. Chin (Hunter College) essay, "A Willing Blindness: Race, Gender, and Class in the Atlanta Spa Killings," featured in CUNY FORUM Volume 9:1 https://mailchi.mp/aaari/cuny-forum-vol9-chin
Submission Reminder: CUNY Asian American Film Festival | Purchase CUNY FORUM Vol 9:1
Photos from Asian American / Asian Research Institute - City University of New York's post
CUNY FORUM Vol 9:1 - The Coloring of Asian America (Available to Purchase)
Mar 1, 2022 - CUNY FORUM: Asian American / Asian Studies, published by The City University of New York’s Asian America / Asian Research Institute (AAARI), is a cutting-edge New York-based print and on-line commons for scholars, writers, artists, and activists to create new dialogue and to promote ...
Correction: 3/4/22 - Book Talk on "American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
Press check for CUNY FORUM Vol 9:1
Coming soon! CUNY FORUM Vol 9:1 - check out the preview below.
2/25/22 - Talk on "Kulintang Kultura: Danongan Kalanduyan and Gong Music of the Philippine Diaspora"
Theodore S. Gonzalves, Ph.D., is a scholar of comparative cultural studies, focusing on the experiences of Asian American / Filipino American communities. Theo is curator of Asian Pacific American history at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. His publications include....
Call for Submissions - 2022 CUNY Asian American Film Festival (Due: 5/6/22)
ICYMI: Photographic essay, "Gold Mountain to Empire State: On the Coasts of Anti-Asian Hate," by Russell C. Leong, editor of CUNY FORUM, and Antony Wong, program coordinator of AAARI, on the Asian American community's response to Asian hate on the West and East coasts during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Preview: CUNY FORUM Vol 9 - Essay by Leong & Wong | Korean American Day
CUNY FORUM editor Russell C. Leong supports Harvard and Cambridge area students in this first debut edition of their literary journal. See his contributing poem: “Azure in Angel City.” https://veritasreview.org/issue-i-fall-2021/
Below is the table of contents of the first issue of the Veritas Review. Editorial Statement, Jonathan Hart Reflections on T.S. Eliot, Loren Brown ’23 Poems, Marilyn Chin Beijing Haiku, Maril…
Extended Deadline: CUNY Thomas Tam Scholarship (12/31) | Catch Up on Fall Lectures
CUNY FORUM editor Russell C. Leong discusses the late poet Janice Mirikitani with Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
Remembering the life, poetry, and activism of Janice Mirikitani, plus a few words on love by bell hooks.
Extended Deadline: CUNY Thomas Tam Scholarship | Enroll "AA Queerness" Course
Extended Deadline: 2021 CUNY Ethics & Morality Essay Contest
Reminder: CUNY Ethics & Morality Essay Contest & Thomas Tam Scholarship
In the mail today, a thank you from Vice President Kamala Harris for our copy of CUNY FORUM Vol 8 - Corona Conversations. We hope you enjoy reading it!
BLS Research Award (Submissions Due 9/10) | CUNY FORUM (Fall Discount)
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