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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

REGISTER   The A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group reconvenes on Friday, October 21 at 1:00 p.m. Working group member Dang Weiyu (PhD Candidate, NYU American Studies) will workshop a conference paper, “The Inner Asian Business: Inter-Area Studies and the Asian Heartland in US Imperial Fantasies.” The paper (abstract below) will be circulated in advance to ...

Presented by Think!Chinatown in partnership with Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Sponsored by Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA).  DETAILS Think!Chinatown hosts its last block party of the year. YiuYiu 瑶瑶 brings her special collection of Chinese records inherited from Chinatown neighbors and ...

Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the New York Center for Global Asia. REGISTER This panel considers the lasting impact of twentieth-century US warfare in Asia on transpacific cultural memory and political life. It will bring together the authors of recently published monographs about US military and economic imperialism in Asia and ...

REGISTER   For its November meeting, A/P/A Reads will discuss Human Acts (Hogarth, 2017) by Han Kang. Set during the democratization uprising of May 1980, Human Acts is a fictionalized story about the death of a young boy named Dong-ho amidst a violent student uprising in South Korea. This tragic episode unfolds in a sequence ...

REGISTER Presented by the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture & The Fales Downtown Collection. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. "To me, he's a master. I am just a little student of him." —Marina Abramovich Where to start with Tehching Hsieh? Born in Taiwan, a high school dropout, a nascent artist who created a piece ...

REGISTER   The A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group reconvenes on Friday, November 18 at 1:00 p.m. Working group member Cindy Gao (PhD Candidate, NYU American Studies) will workshop, "From Third Worldism to the Rainbow Coalition: The League of Revolutionary Struggle and the US Left in Transition, 1978-1990." The paper (abstract below) will be circulated in ...

Presented by Firehouse: DCTV's Cinema for Documentary Film. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. TICKETS The Hawaiian island of Kaua'i is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers, and destructive environmental extraction that have actually shaped life on the island ...

Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. TICKETS (SOLD OUT!) A Time to Say Goodbye IRL podcast jam with co-hosts E. Tammy Kim (Writer-in-Residence, A/P/A Institute at NYU) and Jay Caspian Kang, celebrating the new memoir, Stay True (Penguin Random House, 2022), by special guest Hua Hsu. Time to Say Goodbye is a podcast and a ...

REGISTER (event now on Zoom!)   For its December meeting, A/P/A Reads will discuss the spoken word poetry of William Nuʻutupu Giles, an afakasi Samoan writer and arts educator from Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Giles's poems dig for the political seeds in personal stories. Their work connects contemporary poetry with the oral traditions of Polynesian genealogy and ...

Presented by the NYU Department of Nutrition and Food Studies's Feast and Famine Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTRATION REQUIRED How can a thermal analysis of Indigenous dispossession help us envision decolonial futures beyond the artificial cold? Across two centuries of Western presence in Hawaiʻi, freezing and refrigeration technology facilitated the ...

Co-presented by Asian American Writers’ Workshop and the Strand. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and South Asian Womxn's Creative Collective. TICKETS (this event is now sold out, but will the AAWW will go live on Instagram at 7:00 p.m.) Bushra Rehman discusses her new novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion (Flatiron Books, 2022) with Rajiv Mohabir author of Antiman: ...

REGISTER (NYU students only)   For its first meeting of the semester, A/P/A Reads will discuss, over dinner, "The Name on My Coffee Cup" by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh. Attendees are encouraged to read the article, which was published by the New Yorker, in advance, but copies will also be provided.   Launched in Fall 2020, A/P/A Reads is a student-run book club ...

Presented by the NYU Tisch Grad Film Mentorship series. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. The NYU Tisch Grad Film Mentorship series welcomes queer Korean filmmaker Andrew Ahn to NYU to share his work. Events include a Tuesday, February 14, 4:15 p.m. screening of Spa Night, and Q&A with Ahn about his first indie ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...