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SUMMARY:Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power
DESCRIPTION: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. \nREGISTER \nEdited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews\, Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power (Duke University Press\, 2025) is the first comprehensive volume to explore the impact of empire on Afghanistan’s past and present. It features cross-disciplinary\, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan and paths to decolonial futures. With a particular focus on the US intervention that began in 2001\, the collection marks a decolonial turn in Afghanistan and American studies. \nThis event will feature contributors speaking on topics from media\, developmentalism\, and funding practices to anthropological approaches to US military tactics and autoethnographic work on Indigeneity and migration: \nMatthieu Aikins\, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\nWazhmah Osman\, Temple University\nZohra Saed\, Macaulay Honors College & CUNY Graduate Center\nMorwari Zafar\, Georgetown University\nPaula Chakravartty\, NYU Critical Racial Anti Colonial Study Co-Lab \nwith discussants:\nManan Ahmed\, Columbia University\nOla Galal\, NYU \n  \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. \nAccessibility note: This venue is accessible via elevator. If you have any access needs\, please email mcc@nyu.edu.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/decolonizing-afghanistan-countering-imperial-knowledge-and-power/
LOCATION:239 Greene St\, 239 Greene St\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting: Dang Weiyu
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nDang 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 open to all graduate students working in and around the field of A/P/A Studies. Lunch will be served. \n\nWeaponized Understanding: Foreign Study\, National Security\, and the Philanthropic Foundations of a Humanistic Empire \nAs Allied victory beckoned in 1943\, the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) avidly promoted multilingualism and international understanding as hallmarks of US postwar leadership. “Oriental languages” were indispensable for conventional and psychological warfare in the Pacific\, but perhaps more importantly for the occupation and “liberation” of Japanese and European colonies into a US-led global order. Alongside the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)\, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)\, and elite universities\, the RF created centers devoted to international understanding through language and cultural study. While Cold War area studies has been amply critiqued\, the transformation of foreign study into intellectual ammunition for US national security remains understudied. As these programs have been disemboweled and demonized over the past year\, their origins illuminate how international understanding has become so contentious for contemporary national security and self-understanding. \n“Weaponized Understanding: Foreign Study\, National Security\, and the Philanthropic Foundations of a Humanistic Empire” locates the origins of foreign study in the interwar invention of the humanities. This dissertation chapter shows how the RF articulated a “humanistic empire” by deputizing the ACLS and SSRC along racial and geopolitical lines to reorganize US knowledge production between the wars. While its newly formed Division of Social Sciences investigated domestic social ills through the SSRC’s supposedly race-neutral methods\, a companion Division of Humanities deployed the ACLS to remedy international racial prejudice through foreign study. Crucially\, this managerial remit secularized a Protestant missionary pursuit of foreign souls into a domestic project of redemption by cultivating a moral public capable of sympathizing with foreign peoples and cultures. In weaponizing international understanding for geopolitical ends\, philanthropic–academic partnerships laid the ideological and institutional groundwork of the Cold War battle for hearts and minds. Yet\, framing intolerance as national security risks also positioned the United States as an imperfect society to be civilized through humanistic education in foreign ideas—a show of humility that catalyzed a McCarthyist backlash now hardened into an enduring suspicion toward foreign sympathy as an anti-American menace from within. \n\nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to graduate students from NYU and nearby universities. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. \n  \nImage credit: “Oriental Languages Become Weapons\,” March 1943 Trustees Bulletin\, Folder “Program and Policy\, 1915-1959\,” Series 911 “Humanities\,” Record Group 3.1 “Administration\, Program and Policy\,” Rockefeller Foundation Records\, Rockefeller Archive Center.
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LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, room 372\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:Vā Moana and Hawai‘i Futures
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: This event is sold out. If we receive cancellations\, tickets will automatically be released via a form below. \nPresented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands. \nA collaborative conversation between the artist Sean Connelly (2025 Artist-in-Residence)\, Professor Albert Refiti (Auckland University of Technology)\, and the audience. ‘Awa (kava) will be available for those who wish to partake. Connelly’s exhibition\, Hawai’i is not the United States\, but it is your Future\, will remain open during the program for special viewing hours. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. Space is limited. \nAccessibility note: This venue is accessible for wheelchair users. There are all gender restrooms. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu \n  \nAbout the Artists \nBorn and raised in Honolulu\, Sean Connelly is an artist and building practitioner working collaboratively across sculpture\, architecture\, film\, and cartography. Connelly’s practice engages deeply with grassroots interventions and supports Native liberation\, food sovereignty\, land justice\, and cultural resurgence centering ‘āina (Land / That Which Feeds). \nAs founding director of After Oceanic Built Environments Lab and the nonprofit Hawai‘i Nonlinear\, Connelly actively cultivates ancestral knowledge\, ecological insight\, and social justice to transform built environments into living archives of intergenerational healing. Collaborating closely with cultural bearers\, creative practitioners\, and Indigenous experts across Pae ‘Āina Hawai‘i (Hawaiian Islands)\, Connelly’s work contributes to a grassroots community of care\, actively shaping liberated oceanic futures. He is the 2025 Artist-in-Residence at the A/P/A Institute at NYU. \nLeali’ifano Dr. Albert Refiti is the leader in critical studies research on spatial design and architectural environments in the Pacific\, with a focus on material culture and ethnography on the subject. He advanced the discipline by creating a method of spatial exposition to examine the notion of vā (space) and wā (time) as central mechanisms to understand Pacific societies and their buildings\, artifacts\, and social system. \nRefiti practised architecture in Auckland (1990\, 1994-2002) and London (1991-1993) before beginning his academic career at Auckland University of Technology in 2002. He founded Vā Moana Research Cluster with Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul in 2012\, a successful platform setting the agenda for international research that engages Indigenous Pacific and Western thought to study Pacific notions of space. Based at Auckland University of Technology’s School of Art and Design\, Vā Moana has created a far-reaching network of international scholars whose research transforms ways of thinking about contemporary and customary Pacific understandings of the world\, by examining Indigenous Moana modes of producing space\, objects\, rituals\, and performance; develop new to promote discussion and publications from Pacific perspectives; focus on how Pacific concepts affect the production of space and the use of the built environment\, re-exploring and extending customary knowledge alongside academic discourse. \n  \n  \nImage: Photograph of Hawai’i is not the United States\, but it is your Future. Installation by Sean Connelly. ©Creighton: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/va-moana-and-hawaii-futures/
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SUMMARY:"Mamdani Mubarak!": A/P/A Prospects in the Mayor’s Office
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nWhen 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 which Mamdani campaigned\, the coalition he built in New York City\, and what his mayoralty might mean for Asian/Pacific/Americans locally and across the United States. \nThe program will begin with brief reflections from organizers Sumathy Kumar\, Jagpreet Singh\, Ritti Singh\, Jay Wu\, and others to be announced. Moderated by Professor Paula Chakravartty (NYU Department of Media\, Culture and Communication)\, a robust discussion with the audience will follow. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. \nAccessibility note: This venue is accessible for wheelchair users. There are all gender restrooms. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu \n  \nPaula Chakravartty is James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor at the Gallatin School and the Department of Media\, Culture and Communication at New York University. She has published widely. Her current research includes a forthcoming co-edited volume with Denise Ferreira da Silva titled “An Anti-Colonial Feminist Critique of Capital: A Contribution to the Critique of the Global Political Economy” with Duke University Press\, and a manuscript in progress on Media as Economic Violence. Chakravartty is the Co-Director of the CRACS Co-Lab and the Editor of the journal Communication\, Culture and Critique. She has been an active member of NYU’s Coalition for Fair Labor and the NYU Sanctuary Coalition. She is a current member of NYU’s Faculty and Staff  for Justice in Palestine and the incoming president of the NYU chapter of the AAUP.  \nSumathy Kumar is the managing director of the NYS Tenant Bloc\, an organization focused on building the power of tenants from their buildings to the ballot box. She has organized tenants across the state for the last eight years and served as co-chair of the NYC chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America from 2020 to 2022. As co-chair\, she helped found and lead the chapter’s Socialists in Office committee\, organizing  endorsed elected officials like Zohran Mamdani into close partnership with the socialist movement.  \nRitti Singh is the communications director for Housing Justice for All and the NYS Tenant Bloc. She spearheaded the communications strategy to win Good Cause Eviction\, New York state’s largest expansion of tenant rights in five decades\, and led the narrative work for the Freeze the Rent campaign\, which organized over 20\,000 tenant voters to elect Zohran Mamdani. Now based in Brooklyn\, Singh was previously a tenant organizer in upstate New York with the City-Wide Tenant Union of Rochester. She has trained tenant leaders and organizers across the state in media strategy and storytelling\, secured hundreds of press placements\, mobilized thousands of digital supporters\, and taught narrative strategy at City College of New York and Social Movement Technologies. She approaches communications as a form of organizing: making working class power undeniable\, relentlessly inviting tenants into the fight\, and building the belief that we can win. \nJay Wu is a policy strategist and organizer with the Democratic Socialists of America. As a former co-chair of NYC-DSA’s Build Public Renewables Campaign\, he led member onboarding\, legislative development\, and grassroots mobilization. As a result of the campaign’s advocacy\, New York State passed the Build Public Renewables Act in 2023\, empowering the largest state public power organization in the country to build renewable energy and create thousands of union jobs. During his term as campaign co-chair\, Wu also served as a multilingual field coordinator for Illapa Sairitupac’s Assembly campaign to represent District 65. In his professional capacity\, Wu holds an MS in Urban Sustainability from the City College of New York and works at the intersection of climate and labor policy. \n  \nImage: “Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani @ Taxi Workers Alliance Rally @ City Hall” by InformedImages is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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