CANCELLED: A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group: Fall Social

20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor

Update: Today's (9/29) social has been cancelled due to the inclement weather. We hope to be able to reschedule later in the semester.   Join the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group for its first gathering of the fall semester. Meet and connect with other students from across NYU interested in and working on Asian/Pacific/American issues and ...

CANCELLED: A/P/A Reads: “Without Enhancements: Sexual Violence in the Everyday Lives of Asian American Women” by erin Khuê Ninh

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

Update: Today’s (9/29) A/P/A Reads meeting been cancelled due to the inclement weather. We hope to be able to reschedule later in the semester.   Join A/P/A Reads for our first session of the semester. We will delve into erin Khuê Ninhs essay, “Without Enhancements: Sexual Violence in the Everyday Lives of Asian American Women." ...

Indigenous Peoples Day New York City (IPDNYC) 2023

Randall's Island New York, NY, United States

Organized by the Redhawk Native American Arts Council. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.   SCHEDULE   Indigenous Peoples Day brings together Indigenous leaders, elders, medicine people, artists, and performers from across the globe to celebrate the rich history, art, and culture of Indigenous people. First Peoples from the Americas will once again convene ...

Border Crossings: Global Migration in a Queer/Feminist Frame

20 Cooper Square, 101 20 Cooper Square, 101, New York, NY, United States

Organized by NYU’s Intersectional Feminist/Queer Studies Collective. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. SCHEDULE & REGISTRATION War and militarism, the global right turn and nationalist populism, racial capitalism in crisis, environmental degradation, and the heightened persecution of people due to sexual orientation and gender identification, have all been leading causes of the contemporary crisis ...

In Conversation: Isabel Sandoval & Clint Ramos

NYU Cantor Film Center, Theater 102 36 East 8th Street, New York, NY, United States

Update: This event will now take place at NYU Cantor Film Center (36 E. 8th Street), Theater 102. REGISTER Isabel Sandoval and creative director Clint Ramos discuss major projects, including Sandoval’s Apparition and Ramos’s Here Lies Love, which explore life under martial law in the Philippines. Lingua Franca, on which the two artists collaborated, will ...

POSTPONED: Community Discussion: 2023 Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action

20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor

Update: This event has been postponed. A new date and time will be announced.   Hosted by A/P/A BRIDGE and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. This NYU student community discussion on the 2023 Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action will center the experiences of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities. The program will ...

Dear Readers Beyond Bars: Banned Manga and Explicitness in US Prison Censorship

Jefferson Market Library 425 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, United States

Presented by Readers Beyond Bars. Co-sponsored by NYC Books Through Bars, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, and Arko. Why do prisons and public schools often deem manga sexually explicit? How can protecting incarcerated and young adult readers’ right to read protect sexual speech more broadly? Meet three experts with deep knowledge on these matters. Paul ...

In the Wake of Empires: Critical Reflections on 1898 and Its Afterlives

NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, NY

Organized by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. Co-sponsored by Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, Asian American/Asian Research Institute at CUNY,  Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYU Center for the Humanities, NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, Latinx Project at NYU, Hemispheric Institute at NYU, and New York Southeast ...

A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Workshop & Social

20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor

Hosted by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER (open to NYU graduate students) Join the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group for its first gathering of the fall semester! Meet and connect with other students from across NYU interested in and working on Asian/Pacific/American issues and communities. From 1:00-2:30 ...

A/P/A Reads: Translation with Jennifer Hayashida

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

Hosted by A/P/A Reads. Sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Join A/P/A Reads for a discussion with translator, writer, and artist Jennifer Hayashida, who will join virtually from Sweden. This month's readings include Hayashida's essay "Translating Guling," forthcoming in Global Anti-Asian Racism, an edited volume from Columbia University Press (edited by Jennifer Ho), ...

The Hālāwai Film Festival

Multiple See description for details, New York, NY, United States

Presented by Hālāwai, Inc. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.  PROGRAM & TICKETS The Hālāwai Film Festival (HFF), a platform for Indigenous Pacific Island voices in New York, runs from October 28-29, 2023. The inaugural Hālāwai Film Festival will feature speakers, performances, and screenings that showcase the talent of Pacific Island filmmakers, including screenings ...

Opening Reception: Our Inner Quarters: Spaces of Work & Care

20 Cooper Square, first floor gallery 20 Cooper Square, first floor, New York

Presented by Red Canary Song in collaboration with the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, and Intersectional Feminist/Queer Studies Collective. REGISTER Join us to mark the opening of Our Inner Quarters: Spaces of Work & Care, curated by Yin Q and Chong Gu of Red Canary Song (RCS). The ...

The Infrastructures of Asian/Pacific/American Studies

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

Hosted by the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. Sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER In recent years, the concept of "infrastructure" has been picked up by scholars working at the intersections of Asian/Pacific/American Studies, critical ethnic studies, American studies, and other cognate disciplines. These conversations have emphasized the urgent intellectual ...

One Century after Thind: Continuing the Conversation

Online event

Presented by the Asian American / Asian Research Institute at the City University of New York. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies at Borough of Manhattan Community College, Ethnic Studies Review (University of California Press), and the Urban Studies Department at Queens College. REGISTER Join the Asian ...

Asians on Demand with Feng-Mei Heberer, S. Heijin Lee, and Pacharee Sudhinaraset

20 Cooper Square, 101 20 Cooper Square, 101, New York, NY, United States

Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies. REGISTER Surveying a contemporary, cutting-edge archive of video works from the Asian diaspora, Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism by Feng-Mei Heberer (NYU Department of Cinema Studies) uncovers the ways that diasporic artists challenge the narrow—and damaging—conceptions ...

Unghosted! A Virtual Reading Room Celebrating Asian Diasporic Trans, Nonbinary & Gender-Expansive Writers

Online event

Co-presented by the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, Brew & Forge, Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS), Kaya Press, Kundiman, Lambda Literary, Loyalty Bookstores, and Palah Light Lab at The New School.  REGISTER Uncanceled, unghosted, and still here. Join a virtual reading in celebration of Asian diasporic trans, non-binary, and gender-expansive ...

Horse Barbie: A Conversation and Celebration with Geena Rocero

Eisner & Lubin Auditorium in the Kimmel Center New York, NY, United States

Presented by NYU LGBTQ+ Center. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Join NYU Trans Awareness Week for a conversation with model, producer, and activist Geena Rocero about her powerful new memoir, Horse Barbie: A Memoir (Penguin Random House, 2023). Horse Barbie takes readers on a journey through Rocero’s life—exploring her experiences as a ...

Radioactive Landscapes: A Two-Day Symposium

Multiple See description for details, New York, NY, United States

Presented the NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, and NYU Native Studies Forum. REGISTRATION & SCHEDULE Through performance, research presentations, and discussions based in the local and the trans-national, "Radioactive Landscapes" will illuminate the entanglements and scale of ...

POSTPONED: A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Workshop: Hieu Huynh

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

UPDATE: This workshop has been postponed. A new date will be announced soon. Hosted by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Join the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group for a discussion with graduate student Hieu Huynh (NYU Steinhardt) about her upcoming play Workshop, which is set to be produced ...

Fly in Power: Screening & Discussion

20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor

Organized by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality and Intersectional Feminist/Queer Studies Collective. REGISTER In conjunction with the exhibition, Our Inner Quarters: Spaces of Work & Care, curated by Yin Q and Chong Gu of Red Canary Song (RCS), we present a screening of ...