Screening and Q&A: Isabel Sandoval, Director of Apparition (Aparisyon)

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

Co-presented by the NYU Graduate Film Center, Asian Film and Media Initiative at the Department of Cinema Studies NYU, International Filipino Association at NYU, Sulo, New York Southeast Asian Network, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER (open to NYU guests only) The renowned director, Isabel Sandoval, presents ...

Archive Generation: Godzilla Asian American Arts Network

New York, NY

Presented by NYU Special Collections and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER To celebrate the publication of Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network 1990-2001 (Primary Information, 2021), NYU Special Collections and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU welcome editor Howie Chen and founding members Margo Machida and Ken Chu for a virtual conversation on Godzilla's forebears and origins, and the ...

From the Gardens of Our Grief: A Reading

NYU Silver Center, Jurow Hall & Silverstein Lounge 31 Washington Place, 1st Floor, New York, NY

Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.  REGISTER (open to the NYU community only) “In grief, we seldom arrive with the language to help us translate the pain of our losses; even when the sorrow is shared by others, the act of grieving can be quite solitary. Particularly in diasporic communities, where war and displacement ...

A/P/A Reads: Pachinko Virtual Screening

New York, NY

A/P/A Reads is a virtual book club for NYU students with an interest in Asian/Pacific/American literature. Members meet monthly to discuss selected works and engage in meaningful dialogue together. This month, A/P/A Reads organizes a virtual screening of Pachinko, the Apple TV adaptation of the 2017 novel by Min Jin Lee. An extraordinary epic following four ...

2022 Fred T. Korematsu Lecture: Yuh-Line Niou

NYU Law School, Lipton Hall 108 West Third Street, Accessible entrance at at 110 West 3rd Street, New York, NY

Presented by the Asian-Pacific American Law Students Association of NYU Law. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER (to attend in person) REGISTER (to attend on Zoom) New York Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou delivers the 2022 Fred T. Korematsu Lecture. Founded in 2000, this lecture series serves as a forum for Asian American perspectives on ...

Our Communities Are Stronger Together: An A/P/A Gathering 

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

Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and NYU A/P/A BRIDGE.   REGISTER   As a follow-up to the student check-in, "Life in the Time of COVID-19: Countering Isolation and Anti-Asian Violence through Community," we invite you to come together with other members of the A/P/A NYU community for conversation, crafts, and joy. Graduate students ...

A/P/A Graduate Student Happy Hour

New York, NY

REGISTER The A/P/A Institute at NYU welcomes A/P/A graduate students and graduate students working in the field of A/P/A Studies at NYU to a Graduate Student Happy Hour. Come meet other students and mingle over refreshments in the Grief Garden, an immersive poetry installation by Khaty Xiong, the Spring 2022 A/P/A Institute at NYU Artist-in-Residence. ...

Global Indigenous Intimacies

New York, NY

Co-presented by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality and NYU’s Intersectional Feminist/Queer Collective. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER In Intimacies of Four Continents, Lisa Lowe shows how capitalism and modernity emerged from the history of colonial encounters, which coerced intimacies among America’s Indigenous peoples and the Africans and Asians brought ...

Chinatown Heroes: Book Launch and 1982 Strike Retrospective

Online event

Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, LaborArts, and the NYU Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. REGISTER This event honors the publication of Wai Wah Chan's Chinatown Heroes and draws a historical bridge between the 1982 Garment Workers Strike and 1990s Chinatown. Winifred Chin, co-author of Paper Son: One Man's Story, moderates a discussion ...

Mỹ Việt Story Slam

Online event

Presented by Vietnamese Boat People. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Vietnamese Boat People host its annual story slam event showcasing Việt stories on a live virtual platform. Five storytellers will explore the theme, "lost and found," focusing on Vietnamese diasporic experiences. From the organizers: "Many of us have experienced losses that have ...

Visiting Paradise Camp: Indigenous and Asian Art Agency from Gauguin to Climate Crisis

Online event

REGISTER Curator Natalie King leads a virtual tour of artist Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp, presented in the New Zealand Pavilion at this year’s 59th Venice Biennale. A conversation with Kihara and Jacqueline Lo (University of Adelaide and the Australian National University) on topics related to the Fa’afafine community, Gauguin, and climate change will follow. This ...

Indigenous Art and Archives: Care and the Global Community

Online event

REGISTER Curators, scholars, and researchers Liisa-Ravna Finbog, Biung Ismahasan, Việt Lê, and Annie Jael Kwan discuss their work on the Sámi Pavilion and (People of Remarkable Talents) PORT Perak Pera + Flora + Fauna at the 59th Venice Biennale. The panelists will discuss Trans-Indigenous art practices, global networks, and “invisible” archives that sit outside the ...

The 45th Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF)

Presented by Asian CineVision. Sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. PROGRAM AND TICKETS This year's Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) festival will be hybrid, with online and in-person screenings and events. AAIFF is proudly known as "The First Home to Asian American Cinema." Organized by Asian CineVision, it's the first and longest-running festival ...

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

Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, 20 Cooper Square 20 Cooper Square, third floor, New York, NY

REGISTER   Join the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group for its first workshop of the semester on Friday, September 16 at 1:00 p.m. The group will discuss plans and goals for the upcoming semester and year. Working group member Linda Luu (PhD Candidate, NYU American Studies) will workshop a conference paper, “Race, Landscape, and Affect ...

Cane Fire: Screening and Discussion

Presented by the NYU Center for the Study of Media, Culture, and History. Co-sponsored by NYU Native Studies Forum, NYU Department of Anthropology, and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER This virtual screening of Cane Fire (2020, 90 mins.) will be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Anthony Banua-Simon and Kanaka Maoli scholar and filmmaker ...

Gastrodiplomacy: Book Talk with Heather R. Lee

Online event

Presented by the New York Center for Global Asia. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. REGISTER Heather Ruth Lee's Gastrodiplomacy: Chinese Exclusion and the Ascent of Chinese Restaurants in New York, 1870-1949 (forthcoming) shows that a handful of Chinese immigrant men in New York changed the ...

NYU-Fordham Collaboration: Asian American Cultural Studies in Relational and Comparative Perspectives

Online event

Hosted by Stephen Hong Sohn and Crystal Parikh. Co-presented by Fordham University and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER “White Anality in The Help: A Theory of the Karen.” James Kim is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University, specializing in Asian American literature and culture. His scholarship has appeared in ...

A/P/A Reads Welcome Back Meeting

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

Hosted by A/P/A Reads. Sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.   REGISTER (NYU students only)   Launched in Fall 2020, A/P/A Reads is a student-run book club for NYU students with an interest in A/P/A writing and literature. Members meet monthly to discuss selected works, and engage in meaningful dialogue together.   We welcome new ...

Singapore Unbound: Diasporic Poetics

244 Greene Street 244 Greene Street, New York, NY

Presented by the 2022 Singapore Literature Festival. Co-sponsored by the NYU Postcolonial, Race and Diaspora Studies Colloquium and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER In Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia, poetry scholar Timothy Yu argues that “racialized and nationally bounded 'Asian' identities often emerge from transnational political solidarities, from 'Third ...

America’s Forever Wars in Asia

Online event

Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER A virtual talk on US empire in Asia with 2022-23 A/P/A Institute at NYU Writer-in-Residence E. Tammy Kim in South Korea, writer Akemi Johnson in California, and journalist Jonathan de Santos in the Philippines. Accessibility note: This event will be hosted virtually on Zoom. A Zoom account, ...