Date: Friday, March 19, 2004
Time: 8:30AM to 4:00PM

Place: Baruch College, CUNY
17 Lexington Avenue (Corner of 23rd Street), Manhattan
Room A306 - Skylight Room

Photographs

Breakfast and Registration
8:30AM - 9:00AM

Greetings
9:00AM - 9:15AM

Left: Parmatma Saran Greeted Attendees To The First CUNY South Asian Conference
Right: Conference Attendees

Session 1
9:15AM - 10:30AM  

Left: Thomas Tam Introduced The First General Session
Right: Sambhavi Lakshminarayanan Discussed How Parents Should Become Involved in Their Child's School Activities

Session 2
10:30AM - 12:45PM 

Left: Parmatma Saran Gave His Observations on Indian Communites
Right: Minhaj Qidwai Expressed the Need to Dial 911 During Times of Racial Discrimination

Left: Pyong Gap Min Presented His Research Study on 1.5 Generation Muslims
Right: Parmatma Saran, Pyong Gap Min, Minhaj Qidwai, and Moinudden Nasser

Lunch
12:45AM - 2:00PM

Left: Minhaj Qidwai, Thomas Tam, Pyong Gap Min, Betty Lee Sung, Rabindra Nath Panda, and Parmatma Saran
Right: Pyong Gap Min, Parmatma Saran, Betty Lee Sung, Madhulika Khandelwal, and Thomas Tam

Session 3
2:00PM - 3:00PM

Left: Wali Mondal Explained the Microcredit System in Bangladesh
Right: Vinit Parmar Explained The Tannery Process

Session 4
3:00PM - 4:00PM

Left: Siona Benjamin (2nd From Right) Explained Why She Paints Her Self-Portrait Blue
Right: Meena Alexander Introducing Panelists

Left: Sunita Peacock & Jaskiran Mathur
Right: Sunita Peacock Giving Presentation

Conference Chairperson:

Parmatma Saran

Conference Committee: Meena Alexander, Pyong Gap Min, Rohit Parikh, Thomas Tam

Conference Coordinator: Nick Feng

Contact Info:

Tel: 212-869-0182
Fax: 212-869-0181
E-Mail: info@aaari.info