Through the Queer Diasporic Gaze: A Panel and Screening of Queer Asian Films 

721 Broadway, Room 1027 721 Broadway, New York, NY

Hosted by NYU Graduate Film Department. Sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, the NYU Center for Multicultural Education and Programs (CMEP), Tisch Institute for Creative Research, Rita Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, and the Asian Film & Media Initiative at the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies. REGISTER (open to all NYU community members) ...

A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Workshop: Ayami Hatanaka

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

REGISTER   The A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group reconvenes on Friday, February 24 at 1:00 p.m. Working group member Ayami Hatanaka (PhD Candidate, NYU American Studies) will workshop a paper, "Carceral Feminism in Sex Work, Legislative Influence, and Anti-Trafficking Discourse." The paper (abstract below) will be circulated in advance to those who register for the workshop. Lunch will be ...

NOURISHMENT: Practices of Cultural Healing

20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY, United States

Curated by Lehuanani DeFranco. Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the NYU Native Studies Forum. REGISTER This gathering will bring together those who nourish our communities through film, movement, food sovereignty, education, and culture. Asian and Pacific traditions of creation and healing shift based on community needs and social relations. As we ...

A/P/A Reads: A Non-fiction Writing Workshop with E. Tammy Kim

REGISTER (NYU students only) E. Tammy Kim (Writer-in-Residence, A/P/A Institute at NYU) facilitates a non-fiction writing workshop for A/P/A Reads. This workshop is open to NYU students interested in exploring personal essay writing, and will be hosted at the The New Yorker offices, where Kim is a contributing writer. Space is limited and students must ...

In Search of Bengali Harlem: Screening & Discussion

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

Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the NYC Center for Global Asia, Center for Black Visual Culture at the Institute of African American Affairs, and Asian Film and Media Initiative at the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. REGISTER The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU is ...

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

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

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, United States

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 ...

A/P/A Reads x A/P/A BRIDGE: “Where is the Reciprocity? Notes on Solidarity from the Field” by Naoko Shibusawa

20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor

REGISTER A/P/A Reads and A/P/A BRIDGE invite NYU students to join them for a co-hosted screening, conversation, and dinner. The meeting will center discussions of Black-Asian relations and the question of cross-racial solidarity by examining scholarly and creative texts inspired by A/P/A BRIDGE's political focus and A/P/A Reads's literary focus. The selected text is "Where ...

Migrant Workers and Disaster Economics

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

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 ...

A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group: Jacinda Tran

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

REGISTER   The A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group reconvenes on Friday, April 21 at 1:00 p.m. Working group member Jacinda Tran (PhD candidate, Yale University) presents, “Visualizing Warfare through Disability, Race, and the Family in the Aftermath of Vietnam” (abstract below). Lunch will be served.   The A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary working group ...

This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the US

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

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 ...

Black Asian Coalitions Across Generations

NYU Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Dean's Conference Room, 12th floor New York, NY, United States

Curated and moderated by Jess X. Snow and Casiano Hamer.   Presented by the NYU Tisch IBDEA Coalition and The Bandung Residency (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts & Asian American Arts Alliance). Co-sponsored by NYU Tisch Graduate Film, NYU Tisch Undergraduate Film and TV, NYU Tisch Creative Research, NYU Department of Social and Cultural ...

From Food Dependence to Food Sovereignty

Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center 100 Washington Square East (enter at 31 Washington Place), New York, NY, United States

Presented by Power 4 Puerto Rico. Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Women across the US territories are leading ground-up action to reclaim the Caribbean and Pacific Islands ability to feed themselves. Join this conversation with visiting women leaders and have the opportunity to ...

Mere Mortals: Recovering the Model Minority

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

Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.   REGISTER More than simply a “myth” or a stereotype, the model minority is a racial form that brings with it very real expectations and consequences for Asian Americans. What kinds of harm are done when Asian Americans too often and too readily invest in the idea of the ...

A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Workshop & End-of-Year Mixer

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

REGISTER   The A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group reconvenes on Friday, May 5 at 1:00 p.m. Working group member Toby Wu (PhD Student, NYU Educational Leadership & Policy Studies) presents, “Unpacking Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: A Qualitative Study of Elementary School Teachers and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Practitioners” (abstract below). Lunch will be served.   Following ...

A/P/A Reads: Princess Mononoke

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

REGISTER For their final meeting of the semester, A/P/A Reads watches excerpts of Princess Mononoke directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Dealing with themes of environmentalism, Shintoism, and industrialization, the animated movie is set in a fantastical version of medieval Japan where humans, animals, and gods live together harmoniously — but this harmony has recently begun to crumble. ...

Opening Ceremony for KŪKULU: Pillars Standing Together

Schwartz Plaza New York, NY

Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Mauna Kea Education and Awareness. REGISTER Join us for an opening ceremony for KŪKULU: Pillars Standing Together featuring remarks from co-curator Lehuanani DeFranco (Kānaka ʻŌiwi); Chief Dwaine Perry (Ramapough-Lunaape Nation); Chenae Bullock (Shinnecock/Montauk), Founder/CEO of Moskehtu Consulting and Cultural Preservationist; Roberto Mukaro Burrero (Taino), Human Rights Advocate and ...

Asian American Studies across CUNY: Reflections, Connections, Futures

Fiterman Hall 245 Greenwich Street, New York, NY

Presented by the Asian American / Asian Research Institute at the City University of New York. Co-sponsored by the Borough of Manhattan Community College, Queens College, Department of Ethnic and Race Studies at BMCC, and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTRATION & SCHEDULE The City University of New York (CUNY) has a long history of ...

Mỹ Việt Story Slam: Ba, Mẹ ơi

Online event

Presented by Vietnamese Boat People. TICKETS (by donation) The fourth annual Mỹ Việt Story Slam celebrates stories from the Vietnamese diaspora, and explores the theme of Ba, Mẹ ơi. This live, virtual event features Cindy Truong (Connecticut), Vanessa “Nessa” Nguyễn (New York), Kim Thai (New York), Geoff “G” Vu (Liverpool), and Nicole Ngo (Sydney).