• Impossible Desires: New Directions in Queer Diaspora Studies

    The Bowery Electric 327 Bowery

    Presented by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER The publication of Gayatri Gopinath’s Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press) in 2005 heralded a new moment in transnational scholarship in gender and sexuality studies. The book theorized queer and

  • Closing Artist Talk: Hawai‘i is not the United States, but it is your Future

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands. The artist Sean Connelly reflects on his year-long residency at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, and shares his curatorial process and vision for Hawai‘i is not the United States, but it is your Future. The installation,

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  • “Cultural Appropriation, Cultural Authenticity and the Diasporic South Asian/Australian Experience(s) of Multiculturalism”: Lauren Nilsson-Siu

    244 Greene St 244 Greene Street, room 106, New York, NY, United States

    Presented by the NYU Department of English. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Postcolonial, Race, and Diaspora Studies Colloquium. REGISTER Professor Lauren Nilsson-Siu delivers a lecture entitled, "Cultural Appropriation, Cultural Authenticity and the Diasporic South Asian/Australian Experience(s) of Multiculturalism." Nilsson-Siu (NYU Sydney) specializes in critical race and ethnic studies. Her research broadly explores

  • A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting & Social

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER This year, the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group's annual symposium (to be hosted March 5-6, 2026) will be organized around the theme of "Grounds of Displacement," alongside the A/P/A Institute's continued theme of "Asian/Pacific/American Prospects." Join the group for their

  • Palestine ABC: 2025 Edition

    NYU Cantor Film Center, Theater 102 36 E. 8th Street, New York, NY

    Presented by NYU Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, Department of English, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Gallatin Human Rights Initiative, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of History, and Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. This teach-in is part of NYU Faculty and

  • A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting: Elliott Jun

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

    Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Elliott Jun (PhD candidate, CUNY Graduate Center English Department with a certificate in American Studies) presents "'The Wind Blows From All Directions': Chinese Settler Labour, Indigenous Differences, and Transpacific Imperialisms in the Eighteenth Century" at this session of the

  • Trans Caribbean: Queer and Trans Arts, Rights, and Activism

    Espacio de Culturas 53 Washington Square South, New York, United States

    Co-organized by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and The Latinx Project at NYU. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), Hemispheric Institute, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, and the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD). DETAILS & REGISTRATION As trans rights and

  • “Archival Interregnum: Caste, Sexuality, Indenture,” A Lecture by Anjali Arondekar

    19 University Place, Great Room 19 University Place, first floor, New York, NY

    Presented by the Comparative Approaches to the Literatures of Africa, the Middle East, and the Global South (CALAMEGS) 2025-26 Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, and Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality at NYU. RSVP While Mauritius remains the place from which my

  • Grounds of Displacement: The 2026 A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Symposium

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    UPDATE: Pre-registration for Thursday is now closed. Please feel free to attend and we will register you onsite.    Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Keynote by Professor Mingwei Huang, Dartmouth College The current administration of the United States has bombastically escalated two constitutive strategies of

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  • “Divas, Drag Queens, Aunties, and Other Academic Personas” with Kareem Khubchandani

    NYU Silver Center, Room 405 31 Washington Place, New York, NY

    Presented by the NYU Program in XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, and NYU Department of Art & Public Policy. RSVP (open to the NYU community) Where the scholar’s body is often obscured in preference for their mind, evacuating

  • POSTPONED: The Health Impacts of Immigration Policy

    To Be Announced

    UPDATE: This event has been postponed, and will be rescheduled in Spring 2027. Presented by the NYU Migration Network. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Held monthly over the semester, these public conversations bring together scholars, artists, and practitioners for cross-disciplinary exchanges to develop and refine understandings of migration and mobility, its histories, and

  • Asian Americans and STEM Conference 2026: Science in a De-Globalizing World

    370 Jay St, New York University, Brooklyn, NY 11201 370 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Presented by Yale University Asian Americans and STEM. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU Computer Science Department, and NYU Tandon School of Engineering; The City University of New York; Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration, Yale School of Engineering & Applied