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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...