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SUMMARY:A/P/A Institute at the 2026 AAAS Annual Conference
DESCRIPTION:Are you attending the 2026 Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference from April 2-4\, 2026? Join the A/P/A Institute at NYU at our sponsored conference activities: \n25th Anniversary of Asian Settler Colonial Critique: Transnational Asian-Indigenous Relationaties\nFriday\, April 3\, 2026\, 10:00-11:30 a.m.\nHonolulu III \nThis panel will feature Hady A. Elrafei (NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis)\, recipient of the 2026 AAAS Conference Award granted by the C.V. Starr Fund for A/P/A Research and administered by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Elrafei will present  “Gaza 2035: AI (de)generation and visual cultures of dispossession” in From the Rivers to the Seas: On the Politics of Inter/Nationalism and Solidarity with Palestine\, Amerasia Journal 51 (2026). \n  \nSWANA Sponsored Panel: Southwest Asias\, Minor Geographies\, and the Transpacific\nFriday\, April 3\, 2026\, 2:45-4:15 p.m.\nIolani V \nHady A. Elrafei (NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis) will chair this panel. Elrafei is the recipient of the 2026 AAAS Conference Award granted by the C.V. Starr Fund for A/P/A Research and administered by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \n  \n‘ĀINAVIS: A Mapping Workshop with Sean Connelly & Dawn Mahi. Sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.\nFriday\, April 3\, 2026\, 4:30-6:00 p.m.\nLehua Room \nSean Connelly (After Oceanic) & Dawn Mahi (Consuelo Zobel Alger Foundation) lead a workshop on their collaborative project ʻĀINAVIS.  An interactive map\, currently indexing nearly 300 nonprofit ‘āina organizations across the Hawaiian Islands\, ʻĀINAVIS highlights network connections between these groups. The map uses GIS data layers to map place\, risk\, and wellbeing. \nCreated by After Oceanic and Consuelo Foundation\, with support from Pu’uhonua Society/Andy Warhol\, Mellon Foundation\, KUA\, DOFA/Kaulunani\, UH Mānoa\, and Hauʻoli Mau Loa Foundation\, this effort has brought together artists\, students\, researchers\, culture bearers\, and community leaders to visualize the living systems of land and care across Hawaiʻi since 2019. \n  \nMixer Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU\nFriday\, April 3\, 2026\, 6:15-7:15 p.m.\nExhibitor Hall \nFollowing the ‘ĀINAVIS: A Mapping Workshop with Sean Connelly & Dawn Mahi\, join A/P/A Institute at NYU in the exhibitor hall to connect with friends and colleagues. Light refreshments will be served. \nAccessibility note: These sessions are open to registered conference attendees. No RSVP required. Please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu with any access needs.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/ainavis-a-mapping-workshop-with-sean-connelly-dawn-mahi/
LOCATION:Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort\, 2005 Kālia Road\, Honolulu\, HI
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SUMMARY:Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NYU Center for Black Visual Culture. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nJeff Chang and cultural critic Bakari Kitwana discuss Chang’s new publication Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America (Mariner\, 2025). This conversation will be followed by a book signing\, during which copies will be available for purchase. \nAs the best-known martial artist and one of the most celebrated action stars ever\, Bruce Lee is a global icon. He symbolizes swagger\, strength\, and the unbeatable spirit of the underdog. But in more than fifty years since his untimely death at age thirty-two\, the legend has eclipsed the real man. During his lifetime\, Lee fought to be seen—from Hong Kong to Hollywood\, Asian tenements to American ghettos\, the lonely garret to the international screen. He emerged as a star in an era when Asian Americans were fighting against exclusion and invisibility. Now\, drawing on private letters\, rare documents and photos\, and interviews with his closest confidants\, Water Mirror Echo reveals the Bruce many never saw and places his complicated life within a revolution from which it cannot be separated: the emergence of Asian America. \n\n\n\nJeff Chang’s first book\, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\, was called one of the best nonfiction books of the last quarter century. His latest\, Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America\, was named one of 2025’s Best by Publisher’s Weekly\, Alta\, Vogue\, Kirkus\, and NPR. He authored the award-winning Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America\, and We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation. He has written for the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, The Guardian\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and many more. He is the host of the Signal award-winning podcast\, Edge of Reason\, and of KALW Public Media’s podcast\, Notes From the Edge. \nBakari Kitwana an internationally known cultural critic\, journalist\, activist\, and thought leader in the area of hip-hop\, youth culture\, and Black political engagement. Kitwana is the executive director of Rap Sessions\, which for the last fourteen years has conducted over 150 townhall meetings around the nation on difficult dialogues facing the hip-hop and millennial generations. Kitwana is the author of Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop and co-editor (with David Orr\, Andrew Gumbel and William Becker) of Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government For the People (The New Press\, 2020). His groundbreaking 2002 book The Hip-Hop Generation popularized the expression and has been adopted as a coursebook in classrooms at over 100 college and universities. \n  \n\nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. 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 and a lactation room available. If you have any access needs\, please email cbvc@nyu.edu.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/water-mirror-echo-bruce-lee-and-the-making-of-asian-america/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting: Kinjal Dave
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nKinjal Dave (A/P/A Institute at NYU Visiting Academic and PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication) presents her dissertation chapter\, “Bethak: Sitting Between Work and Life in the Diaspora” at this session of the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Dave’s dissertation\, tentatively titled “Gujarati Aunties on the Integrated Circuit: Women’s Manufacturing Labor in 1980s New Jersey\,” is framed by broad theoretical questions such as: how does the West relate to the non-West in empirical terms\, particularly in the creation of a political world order following the Second World War (Williams 1976)? What are the symbolic relations which reflect a situation of postmodernity (Harvey 1989\, Trouillot 1991)? The tradition of global communication studies has argued that ethnographic perspectives are valuable resources with which to understand the arrangement of symbols and meanings of globalization as a post-structural process (Kraidy & Murphy\, eds. 2003). How do Gujarati American technical workers in military subcontracting help tell the story of globalization? \nThis meeting is open to all graduate students working in and around the field of A/P/A Studies. Lunch will be served. \n  \nBethak: Sitting Between Work and Life in the Diaspora \nThis methods chapter employs the bethak as an ethnographic and to an extent autoethnographic vignette from which to begin to delineate stories about a diaspora and the gendered social construction of their labor at the intersection of wage labor and social reproduction labor theories (Federici). The chapter sits as part of a broader dissertation project engaging immigrants from the nation-state of India\, specifically from the state of Gujarat\, who came to the United States in the 1980s as unskilled workers and established themselves into the manufacturing industry. \nSpecifically\, many ended up working in military subcontracting facilities in New Jersey. Engaging an ethnographic encounter at an interviewee’s home\, a bethak constructed in a peri-urban New Jersey home and the community members visiting the bethak are impacted by several different binaries: the United States as a different geographic and political territory from India\, men and women as subjects socialized by their nation states and its cultural histories\, and home with its relation to work. Since the project engages the author’s own family and family network\, the chapter explores methodological distinction between autoethnography and reflexivity in the feminist ethnographic practices. Further\, the chapter attempts to make a case for of collecting “boring stories” particularly from women who are not socialized to understand their own work history as important or worthy of storytelling practices as a feminist method with which to build working class immigrant women’s history. \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 and a lactation room available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. \n  \nImage courtesy Kinjal Dave.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/a-p-a-graduate-student-working-group-meeting-kinjal-dave/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, room 372\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:Moving Objects: Modes of Conveyance & the Making of Global Asias
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Pennsylvania State University’s Global Asias Initiative. \nThe Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Pennsylvania State University’s Global Asias Initiative are pleased to present “Moving Objects: Modes of Conveyance & the Making of Global Asias\,”  a one-day symposium at NYU and a Convergence feature for a special issue of the journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias. “Moving Objects” examines  the varied modes of conveyance and the material infrastructures that facilitate the movements of people\, cultural objects\, and materials\, by which Global Asias come into existence. \nWhat are the objects\, vehicles\, and vessels of migration\, circulation\, and exchange that connect Asians to one another and to others? What are the platforms and material environments through which Global Asias are built? How do cultural and political representations of such moving objects serve to make diasporic passages possible? How are such passages re-routed with the arrival of new modes and technologies of travel and transit? How do moving objects shape the national\, ethnic\, racial\, and religious subjectivities of those who inhabit Global Asias? What cultural and political meanings attach to the objects of movement and the paths they take? \nOnline registration will close at 9:00 a.m. on Friday\, April 24. Guests will also be able to register onsite.  \nSymposium schedule\n9:45 a.m. Registration \n10:00-10:15 a.m. Opening Remarks\n \nCrystal Parikh\, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU\nTina Chen\, Penn State’s Global Asias Initiative \n10:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m. Objects Moving People \nAnel Rakhimzhanova\, “Performing Transit: Mobility and the Spatial Imagination in Central Asia”\nAnn Ngoc Tran\, “Boat Materialities: The Maritime Objects of Vietnam’s Postwar Exodus”\nChristopher Capozzola\, “Trapik\, or\, How Manila Got Hooked on Cars”\nJulia H. Lee\, “Tracking Global Asias”\nModerated by Junyoung Verónica Kim\, New York University\n \n12:05-2:00 p.m. Break \n2:00-3:40 p.m. People Moving Objects  \nKyoungjin Bae\, “The Crisis of Portable Infrastructure: Tea Chests between Nineteenth-Century China and India”\nEve Oishi\, “Correspondences: Three Missing Letters\, the Postal Service\, and Global Asias”\nAlisha Elizabeth Cherian\, “Kavadis in Motion: Routes of Belonging across Tamil Singapore and Malaysia”\nModerated by Krishnendu Ray\, New York University \n3:45-4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks\n \nCrystal Parikh\, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU\nTina Chen\, Penn State’s Global Asias Initiative \n4:00 p.m. Reception \n  \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. 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 and a lactation room available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. \n  \nCredit: “Kavadi Thaipusam” by hams37 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. \n 
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/moving-objects-modes-of-conveyance-the-making-of-global-asias/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:Data Storytelling in Practice with Visualizing Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU\, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, Department of Art and Art Professions\, Department of English\, Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication\, Gallatin Human Rights Initiative\, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Middle East and Islamic Studies Department\, NYU Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine\, and Program in International Relations. \nREGISTRATION REQUIRED \nFeaturing Visualizing Palestine\, practitioners who visualize systems of oppression while working in partnership with movements for justice and accountability\, this event will focus on key questions about data\, research\, and visual communication as tools for narrative interventions and advocacy. Through a discussion of Visualizing Palestine’s production process—based on rigorous research\, creative design strategies\, and critical inquiry into visual language and representational politics—attendees will arrive at both a theoretical and practical understanding of data storytelling. Panelists will focus on the history\, evolution\, and placement of Visualizing Palestine\, and its role in supporting the movement for Palestinian liberation. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. 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 and a lactation room available. If you have any access needs\, please email kevorkian.center@nyu.edu. \n\nImage credit: Photograph courtesy Visualizing Palestine.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/data-storytelling-in-practice-with-visualizing-palestine/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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