Videos
A Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston
The legendary Maxine Hong Kingston joined us for an intimate conversation, moderated by Crystal Parikh (Department of English and Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU), about her oeuvre. Co-presented by …
System + Taste
How do colonial histories shape today’s sustainable food systems? The challenges surrounding Hawai‘i’s current food system have provoked critical attention to issues of land use and development, intersections between race …
Form Fitting
On March 26, 2014, the A/P/A Institute at NYU presented a guided tour through some of the most adventurous, formally innovative and unusual films and videos to emerge in the …
Information on Core Exchange Scholars
Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange Program, Director: Alexandra Chang Curator of Special Projects & Director of Global Arts Programs at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. 2015 Core Exchange Scholars Argentina Co-Regional Organizer …
Voices from the Canefields
Through the poetic lyrics of holehole bushi (Japanese folksongs), Franklin Odo (Founding Director, Smithsonian Institution’s Asian Pacific American Program) traces the experiences of Japanese immigrant plantation sugar workers caught in …
Celebrating the NYTWA
A 17,000-member strong union, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance builds power for one of the most visible, yet vulnerable, immigrant workforces in New York City. Through the A/P/A Institute’s …
“Coolie” Diaspora
Two groundbreaking works on the history of indentured labor and the Asian diaspora in the Caribbean came into conversation with one another on Wednesday, November 13, 2013. In Coolie Woman: …
2013-2014 AIR Welcome
On Thursday, October 10, 2013, A/P/A Institute at NYU welcomed Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani as its 2013-2014 Artists-in-Residence with a public program featuring the artists in conversation with Gayatri Gopinath. Here, …
YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT
On Wednesday, October 2, 2013, we screened Lynne Sachs‘s Your Day Is My Night. In the moving hybrid documentary/performance piece, the bed becomes stage as immigrant residents of a shift-bed …
Roger Shimomura
We marked Roger Shimomura’s 2012-13 residency with the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU with this short piece about his work, life, and inspiration.