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SUMMARY:Staged Reading of The Butterfly Agreement
DESCRIPTION:About the Play \nThis play is a contemporary reimagining of the classic Chinese folk romance The Butterfly Lovers. In a world where marriage comes with a price tag\, self-branding has become a means of survival\, and ideals are quietly shaped by capital\, the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai takes root again in Shanghai and New York in 2026. \nTo escape a marriage arranged by the Ma family\, Zhu Yingtai assumes a false identity and leaves for the United States\, where she meets Liang Shanbo\, a struggling scholar kicked out of his lab and now working as an Uber driver. Both hiding behind carefully constructed personas and both measured by the world around them\, they enter into a marriage under “The Butterfly Agreement\,” trading a green card for research funding\, only to discover a feeling that cannot be calculated or measured. \nHow do we find an inner sanctuary that cannot be bought\, sold\, or measured in a digital age where identities\, feelings\, and ideals are all quantified? \nAdmission & Reservation Details \nAdmission: Free & open to the public. Advance registration is strongly encouraged. \nSeating: First-come\, first-served based on advance registration. Walk-ins are welcome\, subject to seat availability on the evening of the performance. \nEntry Requirements: Please be prepared to present a valid state-issued ID / Photo ID at campus security upon entry. \nArrival: Please plan to arrive 10–15 minutes prior to the start of the reading (7:00 PM).
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/staged-reading-of-the-butterfly-agreement/
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center (Martin Segal Theatre)\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016
CATEGORIES:Theater
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Immigration Detention Inc.: Deirdre Colon and Nancy Hiemstra in conversation with Gregory Donovan
DESCRIPTION:The trio of scholars will discuss “Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants” — the new book authored by Dr. Conlon and Dr. Hiemstra. \nNancy Hiemstra and a panel of scholars discuss her new co-authored book (with Deirdre Conlon)\, a damning exposé of the ways immigration detention generates income while those detained are starved\, sickened\, and exploited\, and how that profit making is driving the explosive growth of the U.S. detention system today. \nThe United States has the most extensive immigration detention system in the world\, expanding from a capacity of less than 5\,000 detainees per day in the 1980s to 52\,000 by 2019\, and even higher today. While the most vociferous anti-immigrant rhetoric may be attributed to Republicans\, US detention infrastructure has grown exponentially regardless of the political party in power as reports of abysmal detention conditions pile up. \nNancy Hiemstra is Associate Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, & Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook. A political geographer whose research focuses on US immigration enforcement policies\, she is co-author of Immigration Detention Inc: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants\, author of Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime\, and co-editor of Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention. \nDeirdre Conlon is Associate Professor of Geography based at the University of Leeds. A critical geographer working in the US and Britain\, her work focuses on how immigration and border controls are proliferating as they are monetized. She is co-author of Immigration Detention Inc: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants\, and co-editor of Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention and Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/author-talk-immigration-detention-inc-deirdre-colon-and-nancy-hiemstra-in-conversation-with-gregory-donovan/
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center\, 365 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Hybrid,In Person,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Reparations and the Human with David L. Eng
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation about David L. Eng’s latest book\, Reparations and the Human. Eng\, Joan Wallach Scott\, and Michelle Stephens will discuss reparations and human rights in the context of the Holocaust and the atomic bombings of Japan\, and with particular attention to how reparation functions across both political and psychoanalytic theory. In the wake of catastrophe\, how does the Transpacific in the Cold War era provide a limit case for the politics of repair and definitions of the human? Who can be recognized as victims\, who must be seen as perpetrators\, and who deserves repair?
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/reparations-and-the-human/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book,Virtual,Webinar
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