Beginning September 9, the NEH-funded Building Asian American Studies Project will launch a year long speaker series at BMCC. This series of talks is planned to cultivate discussion about teaching the vibrant array of academic and community-based scholarship, literary works, and other artistic/cultural productions that are emerging by and about Asian American communities in New York City.
Speakers/Topic: | Teaching/Writing Queens: a conversation with Patricia Park and Bushra Rehman, moderated by Nita Noveno (English, BMCC) | |
Location: | BMCC Express, 255 Greenwich Street (between Park and Murray) | |
Date/Time: | Friday, September 9, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Upcoming:
Stanley Thangaraj | Friday, October 11 | 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Speaker/Topic TBA | Friday, November 11 | 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Speakers/Topics TBA | Friday, March 10 | Day Long Symposium |
Speaker/Topic TBA | Friday, April 7 | 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Speaker/Topic TBA | Friday, May 5 | 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Contact
For more information, email Soniya Munshi at smunshi@bmcc.cuny.edu/ Dr. Munshi is the Project Director of the Asian American Studies Project. The project is hosted by The Center for Ethnic Studies at BMCC.
Asian American Studies Project Background
The year-long Building Asian American Studies Project, made possible through almost $100,000 in funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), aims to expand the teaching of Asian American Studies in community college classrooms across humanities disciplines. The program began with a Summer Institute that brought together 15 CUNY community college faculty participants to study and develop curricular materials for use in the classroom, and continues through this speaker series. More information about the project is available here:
https://buildingaas.commons.gc.cuny.edu/about/