Making Peace with Ghosts: War, Food, and Memory in Korea and Hawaiʻi

NYU Kimball Hall Lounge 246 Greene Street, New York , NY

REGISTER Curated by Mariko Whitenack. Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the NYU Native Studies Forum. This interdisciplinary panel explores collective modes of recovery and repair to living in ongoing histories of war and US military occupation, specifically focusing on Korea and Hawaiʻi. Although histories of the Korean War and foodways in ...

A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Workshop: Mariko Chin Whitenack

20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor, Room 372 20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor, New York, NY

REGISTER   The A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group reconvenes on Friday, March 24 at 1:00 p.m. Working group member Mariko Chin Whitenack (PhD Candidate, NYU American Studies) presents, "Settler Sustainability and 'Self-Propagating' Nonnative Forests." The paper (abstract below) will be circulated in advance to those who register for the workshop. Lunch will be served.   The A/P/A Graduate Student Working ...

Archive as Memorial: Closing

Storefront for Ideas 127 Walker Street, New York, NY

REGISTER Join us for the closing of Archive as Memorial, an A/P/A Voices: A COVID-19 Public Memory Project exhibition. Project volunteers, narrators, donors, and collaborators will read and perform creative pieces. Hear from co-curators Tomie Arai and Diane Wong, along with Taiyo Na, Thria Bernabe, Kristina Wong, Kai Williams, Issei Herr, Vivian Truong, Lena Sze, Mi ...

Migrant Workers and Disaster Economics

NYU Cantor Film Center, Theater 200 36 E. 8th Street, New York, NY

Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER From 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina to the coronavirus pandemic, the US has relied on migrant workers to perform dangerous emergency labor for the public good. In times of crisis, these workers have salvaged and restored our physical infrastructure, kept our food systems functioning, and tended to the ...

This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the US

Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor, New York, NY

Presented by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER This Flame Within (Duke University Press, December 2022), Manijeh Moradian (Barnard College), tells the story of Iranian foreign students who came to the US in the 1960s and 1970s and joined a global uprising against US ...