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
Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands. The artist Sean Connelly reflects on his year-long residency at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, and shares his curatorial process and vision for Hawai‘i is not the United States, but it is your Future. The installation,
Presented by the NYU Department of English. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Postcolonial, Race, and Diaspora Studies Colloquium. REGISTER Professor Lauren Nilsson-Siu delivers a lecture entitled, "Cultural Appropriation, Cultural Authenticity and the Diasporic South Asian/Australian Experience(s) of Multiculturalism." Nilsson-Siu (NYU Sydney) specializes in critical race and ethnic studies. Her research broadly explores
Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER This year, the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group's annual symposium (to be hosted March 5-6, 2026) will be organized around the theme of "Grounds of Displacement," alongside the A/P/A Institute's continued theme of "Asian/Pacific/American Prospects." Join the group for their
Presented by NYU Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, Department of English, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Gallatin Human Rights Initiative, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of History, and Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. This teach-in is part of NYU Faculty and
Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Elliott Jun (PhD candidate, CUNY Graduate Center English Department with a certificate in American Studies) presents "'The Wind Blows From All Directions': Chinese Settler Labour, Indigenous Differences, and Transpacific Imperialisms in the Eighteenth Century" at this session of the
Co-organized by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and The Latinx Project at NYU. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), Hemispheric Institute, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, and the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD). DETAILS & REGISTRATION As trans rights and
