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SUMMARY:Asian American Movements for Racial Justice: Resistance and Solidarity - The 2026 Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The 2026 Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture by Professor Russell M. Jeung\nIntroduction by:  Socioloy Professor Yung-Yi Diana Pan \nPresenters include: \n\nRussell M. Jeung\, the 2025-6 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence\, is Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University and co-founder of Stop AAIP Hate. Over the last 25 years his research has shaped the fields of Asian American Studies and Sociology of Religion. He is author of Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans; Moving Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies; At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors; Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race\, Ethnicity and Religion Among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation (with Carolyn Chen): and Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches. He co-produced the documentary\, The Oak Park Story (2010)\, about a landmark housing lawsuit involving Cambodian and Latino tenants. In March 2020\, Professor Jeung co-founded Stop AAPI Hate\, a coalition that was awarded the 2021 Webby Award for “Social Movement of the Year.” He was named as one of the TIME 100 Most Influential Persons in 2021.\n\n  \n\nYung-Yi Diana Pan is the director of the American Studies Program and Associate Professor of Sociology at CUNY\, Brooklyn College. She is also faculty of Sociology at the Graduate Center. Pan’s research broadly intersects race\, ethnicity\, immigration\, professions\, and culture. Mostly\, she is interested in examining how institutions not only maintain but reify racial norms and boundaries. Her first book\, Incidental Racialization: Performative Assimilation in Law School (Temple University\, 2017) examines how Asian American and Latinx law students are racialized as a part of their professional socialization. Her research has appeared in peer-reviewed sociology journals and interdisciplinary journals\, including Sociological Forum\, Journal for Asian American Studies\, and International Journal of Clinical Legal Education\, among others. She is co-PI on the Brooklyn College AANAPISI grant and has served in administrative positions at CUNY. Pan regularly teaches theory\, research methods\, and race and ethnicity courses\, and advises students on an array of independent research topics.
URL:https://www.brooklyn.edu/event/asian-american-movements-for-racial-justice-resistance-and-solidarity-the-2026-robert-l-hess-memorial-lecture/
LOCATION:Library\, Woody Tanger Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Best of BC,Brooklyn,Community,Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities,School of Humanities and Social Sciences,Sociology
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SUMMARY:Recuperating Collective Stories: Writing Chinese American Memoirs
DESCRIPTION:Ava Chin\, author of Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming\, joins Russell M. Jeung\, Rober L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence 2026 and author of At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors\, for a discussion on the important work of recuperating collective histories\, exploring the relationship of self and community\, and comparing East Coast to West Coast Chinese American experiences. Alvin Khiêm Bùi\, Brooklyn College\, will frame the discussion. \n\nAva Chin is the author of Mott Street\, winner of the CALA Best Book Award in Nonfiction and a PEN/Open Book Finalist\, and Eating Wildly\, winner of the M.F.K. Fisher Book Award for excellence in food writing. Mott Street\, an ALA Notable Book and one of People magazine’s top books by Asian American authors\, was a Best Book of the year by TIME\, the SF Chronicle\, Library Journal\, Kirkus and Elle. Chin is the recipient of grants from the NYPL’s Cullman Center\, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program\, NYFA\, Asian American Writers’ Workshop and MacDowell. She is Professor of Creative Nonfiction at CUNY\, head of the Grad Center’s American Studies Certificate Program\, and a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University. The Huff Post named her one of “9 Contemporary Authors You Should Be Reading.”\nRussell M. Jeung\, the 2025-6 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence\, is Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University and co-founder of Stop AAIP Hate. Over the last 25 years his research has shaped the fields of Asian American Studies and Sociology of Religion. He is author of Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans; Moving Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies; At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors; Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race\, Ethnicity and Religion Among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation (with Carolyn Chen): and Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches. He co-produced the documentary\, The Oak Park Story (2010)\, about a landmark housing lawsuit involving Cambodian and Latino tenants. In March 2020\, Professor Jeung co-founded Stop AAPI Hate\, a coalition that was awarded the 2021 Webby Award for “Social Movement of the Year.” He was named as one of the TIME 100 Most Influential Persons in 2021.\nAlvin Khiêm Bùi is Assistant Professor of History specializing in Asian and Asian diasporic histories. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Washington\, Seattle in modern Southeast Asian and East Asian history. His research is on ethnic Chinese in and from southern Vietnam. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the University of California\, Los Angeles\, in History and Asian American Studies\, after which he lived and worked in Vietnam in education and venture capital. He has published on Saigonese motorbike YouTubers and their diasporic Vietnamese audiences.
URL:https://www.brooklyn.edu/event/recuperating-collective-stories-writing-chinese-american-memoirs/
LOCATION:Library\, Woody Tanger Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Best of BC,Brooklyn,Community,Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities,Library,School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities":MAILTO:wolfe@brooklyn.cuny.edu
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SUMMARY:The Lives\, Rights\, and Civil Liberties of Asian Americans in an Age of Mass Deportation
DESCRIPTION:The panel will explore how current anti-immigrant attacks\, politics\, policies are affecting Asian American communities in the United States. Attention will be paid to tensions and solidarity building between Asian American communities and other immigrant communities. \nPresenters include: \n\nAnju Gupta\, Professor of Law and Judge Chester J. Straub Scholar; Director\, Immigrant Rights Clinic\, Rutgers Law School\, Newark\nRussell M. Jeung\, Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University\, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate; and Rober L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence 2026\nRev. Deborah Lee\, Co-Executive Director of Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity\nSocheatta Meng\, Executive Director\, Mekong NYC\n\nModerator: \n\nGunja SenGupta\, Professor of History\, Brooklyn College and the Graduate\nCenter\, CUNY
URL:https://www.brooklyn.edu/event/the-lives-rights-and-civil-liberties-of-asian-americans-in-an-age-of-mass-deportation/
LOCATION:Library\, Woody Tanger Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Best of BC,Brooklyn,Community,Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities,Library,School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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SUMMARY:Hess Week 2026 Welcome Ceremomy
DESCRIPTION:The Brooklyn College community welcomes 2025-26 Hess Scholar-in-Residence Russell M. Jeung to campus. \nPresenters include: \n\nCarolyn Chen\, Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley; Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative\nJerry Park\, Associate Professor of Sociology at Baylor University; President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion\nDr. David Kim\, scholar\, public intellectual\, educator\, and Founder and Principal of Being Human\nRussell M. Jeung\, Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University; co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate; and Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence 2026
URL:https://www.brooklyn.edu/event/hess-week-2026-welcome-ceremomy/
LOCATION:Library\, Woody Tanger Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Best of BC,Brooklyn,Community,Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities,School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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