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Event of interest

 The Asian American and Asian Research Institute at CUNY just sent me this e-mail about their upcoming Friday evening lecture: 

Dear Friend,

You're cordially invited to a talk on, "American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods", by Bonnie Tsui, on Friday, March 19, 2010, from 6PM to 8PM, at 25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000, between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan.

Top Five Proposals

ALL THE PROPOSALS ARE NOW POSTED.

After a marathon reading session last night, I chose what I think are the five best proposals in the class. I am still waiting for all the authors to e-mail me with electronic copies, but here's the list of finalists:

 

Dan Carabas, Chinatown

Joseph Franco, Borough Park

Adam Hashemi, Lower East Side

Vivian Lo, Chinatown

Maria Kamenetskaya, Brighton Beach

 

More on the "New York Intellectuals"

 For those who are interested, I'm posting a fairly recent (2008) blog entry from "Paper Cuts," the New York Times blog about books and writing. The entry is an exploration of "public intellectuals" in America and also discusses the group known as the "New York Intellectuals." Take a look if you have the time:

 

 

 

Map resource (kind of neat)

 A new resource mentioned in this morning's New York Times allows you to look at a map of NYC from above with a satellite view. Of course, that's simply Google Earth, but there's a little bar in the interface that you can move to see the same view in 2006...and in 1924. It's kind of neat to be able to do what's essentially a Google Earth satellite view for 1924, and also very useful to historians. Here's the link:

http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/

Note to discussion leaders

 Now that we're getting further along in the course, I'd like those of you who will be co-leading discussion with me to begin your class by talking a little bit about what you thought of the readings, including questions you had, issues you think they raised, etc. I don't want you to read from some sort of prepared text, although you can bring a few notes if you find them helpful. 

 

 

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