Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. SCHEDULE & TICKETS The Pacific Island Film Festival (PIFF) of New York City is dedicated to telling a richer, more comprehensive story of the Pacific Islands. PIFF endeavors to be a platform for indigenous Pacific Island voices to be heard and recognized—celebrating, showcasing and cultivating the stories, art,
Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the NYU Migration Network, NYU Center for Black Visual Culture, and NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. Registration for this program is now closed. Walk-in guests with a valid NYU ID will be admitted as capacity allows. International students studying in the United States have
Registration for this event is now closed. Walk-in guests will be accommodated as capacity allows. A Tatou Festival Program. Presented by Te Ao Mana. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. In partnership with the Tatou Festival, the A/P/A Institute at NYU hosts a special screening of poignant short films by Native filmmakers from the
Presented by the NYU Migration Network. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Join the NYU Migration Network for a full-day conference exploring detention and deportation from multiple angles—past, present, and future. Through four panels with scholars, journalists, policy experts, and activists, we’ll examine how these practices shape US politics and immigration policy, from
Presented by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Alvin K. Wong (University of Hong Kong) joins the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality for a discussion about his new book Unruly Comparison Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone (Duke University Press,
Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Professor Minju Bae (NYU Gallatin) joins the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group's October workshop session for an open discussion on preparing for the academic job market. Topics covered will include C.V.s, cover letters, and job talks. Attendees are encouraged to
Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. A solo exhibition by Sean Connelly (2025 Artist-in-Residence), Hawai‘i is not the United States, but it is your Future invites viewers to consider the built environment as oceanic, an interconnected system requiring collective cultural efforts to sustain. Join us for the opening, which will feature remarks from the
Presented by the NYU Critical Racial Anti Colonial Study Co-Lab. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, and NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. REGISTER Edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews, Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power (Duke University Press, 2025) is the first
Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Dang Weiyu (PhD candidate, NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis) presents "Weaponized Understanding: Foreign Study, National Security, and the Philanthropic Foundations of a Humanistic Empire" at this session of the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. This meeting is
UPDATE: This event is sold out. If we receive cancellations, tickets will automatically be released via a form below. Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands. A collaborative conversation between the artist Sean Connelly (2025 Artist-in-Residence), Professor Albert Refiti (Auckland University of Technology), and
Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. When he is inaugurated in January 2026, Zohran Mamdani will become New York City's first South Asian American and Muslim mayor. The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU is pleased to host a dialogue about the prospects opened with this historic election. Please join us for a discussion about the issues on
Presented by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER The publication of Gayatri Gopinath’s Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press) in 2005 heralded a new moment in transnational scholarship in gender and sexuality studies. The book theorized queer and
