Box 6

Abstract

The Asian/American Center, founded at Queens College in 1987, fostered community based research focused on the Asian diaspora and acted as a bridge between campus and community. The collection contains administrative materials such as newsletters and brochures, flyers and photographs of events, samples of translated documents from their Translation Program, materials from the Asian American Community Studies minor, and research produced by the A/AC.

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The A/AC connected with community members, students, community partners, and faculty through their public programming. This series contains outreach materials from lectures, freshman orientation, open house, seminars, conferences, student activities, campus-community partnerships, A/AC's 25th anniversary, and heritage events.

Scope and Contents The A/AC hosted many guest speakers and lecture series. This subseries contains promotional flyers and recordings of select lectures: “Campus Dialogues Series” “Year of China” Peter Kwong (2011-04-08) "AAPICS Lecture Series" DVD recordings and photographs available from the three sessions of Spring 2010 lectures. Below were the guest speakers in this series and titles of their talks: Lecture 1:...

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This series contains program outreach, event materials, Summer Institute materials, and scholarship program materials for the academic minor which began in 2010.

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This series contains reports, research from the 2000s census, and a "Working Papers" series produced by the Asian/American Center dating from the late 1980s up until the mid 2010s.

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This file contains flyers for two projects geared towards students of all majors: The Asian American Film Project and the Asian American Community Studies Fall 2011 project.

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This folder contains one invitation to the A/AC's 25th anniversary, which took place in May 2012.

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This file contains flyers advertising open house events for the AACS minor and a one page speech promoting the AACS minor at freshmen orientation. Original folder housing speech was labeled "Freshman Orientation."

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This file contains a checklist created by the A/AC of tasks to prepare prior to an event.

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This file contains a flyer advertising a 2019 film screening of "Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue" directed by Miki Dezaki.