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SUMMARY:Performing Vulnerability: A Talk by Emily L. Hue with Linda Luu
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.  \nREGISTER \nProfessor Emily L. Hue and Dr. Linda Luu discuss Hue’s recent publication Performing Vulnerability: Risking Art and Life in the Burmese Diaspora (University of Washington Press\, 2025). \nA groundbreaking exploration of how diasporic Burmese artists navigate the intricate intersections of art\, politics\, and humanitarianism\, Performing Vulnerability delves into the complexities of vulnerability as both a personal and a performative act. These diasporic artists\, exiled due to state repression and political turmoil\, find themselves in a precarious balance between expressing their traumas and engaging with the international art market’s expectations. They use their bodies as canvases to communicate the scars of surveillance\, imprisonment\, and censorship inflicted by their home state while simultaneously confronting the commodification of their suffering by global humanitarian industries. \nEmily Hue\, associate professor of Ethnic studies and core faculty in SEATRiP\, is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in studies of humanitarianism\, Asian American Studies\, visual art\, performance\, queer studies\, Southeast Asia\, and diaspora. She earned her PhD at New York University in Social and Cultural Analysis in the field of American Studies and BA in Women’s Studies from Vassar College. She has previously held a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Comparative Literature and Languages at UC Riverside. She sits on the editorial board of the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal and is a US Area Editor at the Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Culture in the Americas. \nLinda Luu is an interdisciplinary scholar of US empire\, race\, and therapeutic culture. Luu’s research looks at the role of psychological expertise in US liberal counterinsurgency both abroad and at home through the lens of the Vietnam War. Luu holds a PhD in American Studies. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event open to the public. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are all gender restrooms available. If you have any access needs\, please email mwb9975@nyu.edu.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/performing-vulnerability-a-talk-by-emily-l-hue-with-linda-luu/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 4th floor\, 20 Cooper Square\, New York\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tatou Festival Screening: Ea
DESCRIPTION:A Tatou Festival Program. Presented by Te Ao Mana. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nTICKETS \nIn partnership with the Tatou Festival\, the A/P/A Institute at NYU co-sponsors a screening of short films featuring stories of Ea (alive & free). Through the voices and visions of Indigenous and Pacific-based artists and filmmakers\, the films explore cultural resurgence\, reclamation\, identity\, and resistance. \nThe program will feature: \n\nPatutiki: The Guardians of the Marquesan Tattoo (Heretu Tetahiotupa) centers traditional Marquesan tattoo practice and explores its cultural significance. The film is presented in partnership with the Festival International du Film Documentare Oceanien (FIFO)\, Tahiti’s prestigious International Oceanian Documentary Film Festival\, where the film won the Audience Prize in 2019.\nEa (Sovereign) (Sancia Miala Shiba Nash and Noah Keone Viernes) focuses on the fight for ceded/kuleana lands in Hawai‘i.\nRemastered especially for Te Ao Mana’s 2026 Tatou Festival\, Justice Advancing Architecture Tour (Sean Connelly) counters the 250th anniversary commemoration of the United States\, “A Death Country\,” calling attention to the immense impact of the US Military and global operations on Hawai’i and the Pacific.\n\nA Q&A with the filmmakers will follow. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are all gender restrooms available. If you have any access needs\, please email teaomanainc@gmail.com. \nImage: Still from Patutiki: The Guardians of the Marquesan Tattoo. Courtesy the filmmaker.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/tatou-festival-screening/
LOCATION:Five Angels Theater NYC\, 789 Tenth Avenue\, New York\, 10036\, United States
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SUMMARY:Opening for Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nThis fall\, we are honored to present Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong\, the artist’s first photographic exhibition in New York City. One of the most celebrated writers of our time\, Vuong invites visitors to gaze through his aperture and offers a meditation on loss\, labor\, and kinship through the refugee condition. The exhibition spans nearly twenty years of Vuong’s photographs\, which foreground Vietnamese diasporic working-class life in Hartford\, Connecticut\, where his family settled after leaving Vietnam in the wake of the US war. \nSống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong opens with a reception on Thursday\, October 29 at the 20 Cooper Square Gallery.  \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Space is limited and registration is required.  \nAccessibility note: This venue is accessible for wheelchair users. All gender restrooms are available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu.  \n  \nAbout the Arist\nWriter\, professor\, and photographer Ocean Vuong is the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\, winner of the American Book Award\, The Mark Twain Award\, and The New England Book Award. The novel debuted for six weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and has since sold more than two million copies in 41 languages. He is also the author of The Emperor of Gladness\, an Oprah Book Club selection and finalist for the Dublin Literary Award. A nominee for the National Book Award and a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant\, his books of poems include Time is a Mother\, a finalist for the Griffin prize\, and Night Sky with Exit Wounds\, a New York Times Top 10 Book\, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize\, the Whiting Award\, and the Thom Gunn Award. He was the 2019-20 A/P/A Institute at NYU Artist-in-Residence.\n\nSelected by Time magazine as one of its 100 Rising Cultural Influencers\, Vuong’s writings have been featured in The Atlantic\, Granta\, Harpers\, The Nation\, New Republic\, The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Paris Review\, The Village Voice\, and American Poetry Review\, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets.  \nBorn in Saigon\, Vietnam and raised in Hartford\, Connecticut in a working-class family of nail salon and factory laborers\, he was educated at nearby Manchester Community College before transferring to Pace University to study international marketing. Without completing his first term\, he dropped out and enrolled at Brooklyn College\, where he graduated with a BA in nineteenth century American literature. He subsequently received his MFA in poetry from NYU. In 2026\, he will serve as a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. \n  \nImage: Ocean Vuong\, Phuong feeding Sara. 2009\, Inkjet print\, 8 x 12 inches.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/opening-for-song-photographs-by-ocean-vuong/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square Gallery\, 20 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting: Featuring Nancy Billings
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.  \nREGISTRATION (open to all graduate students) \nA/P/A Institute Research Affiliate Nancy Billings (PhD candidate\, Yale University) presents\, “1906 Escape from the SS Chile: Chinese Exclusion and the Panama Canal” at this session of the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting. Lunch will be served. \nThe meeting is open to all graduate students working in and around the field of A/P/A studies. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to graduate students from NYU and nearby universities. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. \nNancy Billings\, “1906 Escape from the SS Chile: Chinese Exclusion and the Panama Canal” \nIn May 1906\, twenty-six Chinese passengers escaped from the British steamship Chile as it departed La Boca\, the Pacific terminus harbor of the Canal Zone\, for the southern ports of South America. Despite implementing and enforcing many precautionary measures to prevent the landing of Chinese\, these passengers were able to evade the Chinese exclusion laws that were in effect and surreptitiously gain entrance to both the Canal Zone and the Republic of Panama. This presentation examines this escape\, and the ensuing investigations into it\, to explore the history of Chinese exclusion in the greater Canal Zone. Billings argues that moments like this escape ruptured the bureaucratic fantasies of state control that underwrote these laws and revealed the integral role they played in the region\, even as they were erased\, surveilled and excluded from US and Panamanian political projects. \nNancy Billings is a fourth-year PhD candidate in American studies at Yale University and a current research affiliate at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Her dissertation turns to the Chinese who resided in and around the Panama Canal to examine both the formation and operation of the greater Canal Zone through their unique position in its social and economic fabric and their role in the expansion of global capitalism that conditions Central American state building and US ascendance. \nPhoto of “Payday at Miraflores.” Circa 1905-13. taken by presenter at the Museo del Canal Interoceánico de Panamá\, 2025.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/a-p-a-graduate-student-working-group-meeting-featuring-nancy-billings/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:An Evening With Tae Won Yu
DESCRIPTION:Presented by The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nGrowing up as an immigrant teenager in New York in the 1980s\, Tae Won Yu attempted to navigate his new surroundings by browsing the city’s libraries\, used bookstores\, record stores\, and junk shops\, collecting scraps and ephemera that seemed to hold clues that might help him decode this world. That lifelong hunger for looking and collecting informs his work such as the acclaimed Antiquarian Sticker Book series which transforms historical residues into richly layered collages and “printed hallucinations.” \nThis evening\, in conversation with Andrew Lampert\, Yu traces the influence of chromolithography on desire\, collecting\, and popular visual culture—from the rise of printed ephemera through pop art and punk rock—while sharing his own journey through the streets\, antiquarian palaces and dust havens of New York City. \nTae Won Yu is an artist\, designer and musician known for his handmade approach to typography\, illustration and graphic design. A founding member of Kicking Giant\, he has also created album artwork for artists such as Built to Spill. He is the author of the bestselling Antiquarian Sticker Book series. \nAndrew Lampert is either an artist\, archivist\, curator\, writer\, or book editor. No one knows for sure. He co-publishes The Further Reading Library with Christine Burgin\, and co-authors the art advice column Hard Truths with Howie Chen for Art in America. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event open to the public. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are all gender restrooms available. If you have any access needs\, please email ss162@nyu.edu.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/an-evening-with-tae-won-yu/
LOCATION:244 Greene Street\, 244 Greene Street\, New York\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Ocean Vuong in Conversation with Tommy Kha
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.  \nThis program brings together artist and writer Ocean Vuong and photographer Tommy Kha to discuss Vuong’s photography practice and his exhibition\, Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong\, on view at the A/P/A Institute at NYU. A book signing will follow the conversation. \nSống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong\, the artist’s first New York City exhibition\, foregrounds working-class diasporic Vietnamese life through a photographic archive spanning nearly twenty years. The photographs on view echo the narratives from Vuong’s literary works by drawing attention to the quotidian and the deeply personal – Vuong’s brother’s shoes\, home altars\, a mother feeding her baby\, an embrace between friends\, an American flag.  \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. \nAccessibility note: This venue is accessible for wheelchair users. All gender restrooms are available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. \n  \nAbout the Artists\nWriter\, professor\, and photographer Ocean Vuong is the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\, winner of the American Book Award\, The Mark Twain Award\, and The New England Book Award. The novel debuted for six weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and has since sold more than two million copies in forty-one languages. He is also the author of The Emperor of Gladness\, an Oprah Book Club selection and finalist for the Dublin Literary Award. A nominee for the National Book Award and a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant\, his books of poems include Time is a Mother\, a finalist for the Griffin prize\, and Night Sky with Exit Wounds\, a New York Times Top 10 Book\, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize\, the Whiting Award\, and the Thom Gunn Award. He was the 2019-20 A/P/A Institute at NYU Artist-in-Residence.\n\nSelected by Time magazine as one of its 100 Rising Cultural Influencers\, Vuong’s writings have been featured in The Atlantic\, Granta\, Harpers\, The Nation\, New Republic\, The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Paris Review\, The Village Voice\, and American Poetry Review\, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets.  \nBorn in Saigon\, Vietnam and raised in Hartford\, Connecticut in a working-class family of nail salon and factory laborers\, he was educated at nearby Manchester Community College before transferring to Pace University to study international marketing. Without completing his first term\, he dropped out and enrolled at Brooklyn College\, where he graduated with a BA in nineteenth century American literature. He subsequently received his MFA in poetry from NYU. In 2026\, he will serve as a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. \n  \nTommy Kha is a photographer currently based in Brooklyn\, New York. Kha holds an MFA in Photography from Yale University\, where he teaches.  \nHe is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow\, a previous recipient of the Hayes Prize\, Next Step Award\, Foam Talent\, and NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow. He has had solo shows at Higher Pictures\, Addison Gallery of American Art\, BAXTER ST (Camera Club of New York)\, and Blue Sky Gallery. Kha’s work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Aperture\, the New Yorker\, among other publications\, and most recently was an artist-in-resident at Shadowcliff Residency\, Pioneer Works\, and Lighthouse Works. He joined Higher Pictures in 2022. His first major publication\, Half\, Full\, Quarter was published by Aperture in February 2023.  \nKha’s first museum solo\, Other Things Uttered\, opened at the Addison Gallery of American Art in September 2025. He has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art\, SFMoMA\, High Museum\, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts\, and George Eastman House. \n  \nLeft Image: Photograph of Ocean Vuong by Gioncarlo Valentine. \nRight Image: Photograph of Tommy Kha by James Amrahs.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/artist-talk-ocean-vuong-in-conversation-with-tommy-kha/
LOCATION:Eisner & Lubin Auditorium in the Kimmel Center\, New York\, NY\, United States
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