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SUMMARY:A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Publishing Workshop & Social: Featuring Eric Schwartz (NYU Press) & Andy Hsiao (Haymarket Books)
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTRATION (open to all graduate students) \nEditors Eric Schwartz (NYU Press) and Andy Hsiao (Haymarket Books) join the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group for a discussion on publishing from 1:00-2:30 p.m. Topics covered will include developing a book proposal\, pitching editors\, and editing a dissertation into a book. Come with questions on both academic and non-academic publishing. Lunch will be served. \nA graduate student social (2:30-4:00 p.m.) will follow the meeting. \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 by Lamai Prasitsuwan.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/a-p-a-graduate-student-working-group-publishing-workshop-social-featuring-eric-schwartz-nyu-press-andy-hsiao-haymarket-books/
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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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/
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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/
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SUMMARY:Grounds of Displacement: The 2026 A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Symposium
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: Pre-registration for Thursday is now closed. Please feel free to attend and we will register you onsite.  \n  \nPresented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.\nKeynote by Professor Mingwei Huang\, Dartmouth College \nThe current administration of the United States has bombastically escalated two constitutive strategies of imperial expansion: extraction and displacement. Through trade and border wars\, arms and chips races\, US promises of power and prosperity have become inextricable from a hardened national security vocabulary of critical mineral resources\, alien enemies\, and unbounded technological progress. \nTo scholars of Asian/Pacific/American studies\, these contemporary trends do not break new ground for US empire\, but rather renew its foundational forms. The lust for rare earths extends the rapacity of westward expansion through the continued dispossession of Indigenous nations and exploitation of enslaved and racialized labor. The weaponization of artificial intelligence in border and citizenship regimes reiterates the modern security state’s emergence through the criminalization of migrant workers and radical political movements. Fortifying the boundaries of the nation and scouring the depths of the earth may produce new commodities and technological breakthroughs\, but these processes remain rooted in enduring logics of racial capitalism and settler colonialism.  \nThe A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group’s 2026 symposium\, “Grounds of Displacement\,” highlights interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the structures of accumulation\, removal\, extraction\, and dehumanization that have shaped Asian/Pacific/American worlds through the construction of global empires and superpowers. A series of panels featuring graduate students from across the US\, and a keynote by Professor Mingwei Huang (Dartmouth College) will explore these topics. \n  \nThe A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary working group for graduate students from local universities interested in and/or working on Asian/Pacific/American studies broadly defined. \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\nSymposium Schedule\nThursday\, March 5\, 2026\n12:30 p.m. Coffee and Registration \n1:00 p.m. Opening Remarks \nCrystal Parikh\, Director\, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU\nAyami Ono-Hatanaka\, NYU \n1:15 p.m. Knowledge\, Use\, and Power Through Land \nChair: Aanchal Saraf\, Assistant Professor of Social Science and Cultural Studies\, Pratt Institute\nMay Wang\, NYU\, “American Volcanology\, Aridity\, and Settler Colonialism in Hawai‘i\, 1882–83”\nMalaya Caligtan-Tran\, Harvard University\, “Kasiyana\, we will overcome: Indigenous Futures and the Workings of Slow Violence”\nDang Weiyu\, NYU\, “From the Yellow River to the Jordan Valley: The Moral Economy of Soil Erosion and Settler Stewardship in US Global Ambition During the Long WWII” \n2:30 p.m. Break \n3:30 p.m. Liberal Care and the Security State \nChair: Mich Ling\, Rutgers University\nRichard Lim\, University of Minnesota\, “‘Working Relationships’: The Anxieties Around Defining Community Autonomy Over Public Safety”\nKelsey Ichikawa\, Harvard University\, “Care of the Counterterror State: Configurations of ‘Health’ in Extremism Prevention Programs”\nLinda Luu\, NYU\, “‘How Different Is Different?’: Militarized Refuge\, Ethnic Psychology\, and the Containment of Difference” \n5:00 p.m. Keynote: “China and the Postcolony: Racial Extractivism\, Then and Now” by Dr. Mingwei Huang\, Assistant Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College \nModerator: Dang Weiyu  \n6:15-7:15 p.m. Keynote reception \n  \nFriday\, March 6\, 2026\n10:00 a.m. Coffee  \n10:30 a.m. Revisiting Nineteenth Century Asian Migration \nChair: Elliott Jun\, CUNY Graduate Center\nNaomi Louie\, NYU\, “Exclusion Versus Restriction: The Legal Structure of Chinese Exclusion in Canada and the United States”\nNicholas (Nick) Liou\, Yale University\, “Captive Testimony: Carceral Photography\, Dispossession\, and Temporality in 1870s California”\nK Yin\, Brown University\, “‘Laborers and Rocks’: Geologic Memory and the Asian American Archive” \n12:00 p.m. Theorizing Hemispheric Claims to Land \nChair: Lou Cornum\, Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis\, NYU\nEugenia Morales Viana\, Brown University\, “Navigating Impunity in States of Exception”\nItzél Delgado-Gonzalez\, NYU\, “Dying Abroad\, Going Home: Indigenous Posthumous Repatriation as Land Reclamation”\nEmelia Gold\, Brown University\, “Common(s) Struggles: Land\, Labor\, and U.S. Settler Colonialism” \n1:15 p.m. Break \n2:00 p.m. Commodities and Extraction \nChair: Tenn Joe Lim\, CUNY Graduate Center\nIsabelle A. Tan\, Princeton University\, “Alien Landings: Granite\, Gold\, and Coolie Labor”\nIssay Matsumoto\, University of Southern California\, “Dole Philippines and the Transpacific Division of Labor in Statehood Hawaiʻi”\nLauren Casey Ribancos\, UCLA\, “Complicit Coffee Cultivation: Emergent Coffee Production Between the Philippines\, US\, and Diaspora” \n  \n3:15 p.m. Closing Remarks \nAyami Ono-Hatanaka\, NYU \n3:30-4:30 p.m. Closing Reception \n  \nImage: “Cargill’s Problems With Palm Oil” by Rainforest Action Network is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/grounds-of-displacement-the-2026-a-p-a-graduate-student-working-group-symposium/
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SUMMARY:A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting & Social
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nThis 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.” \nJoin the group for their final meeting of the semester to plan for the annual symposium over food and drink. \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.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/a-p-a-graduate-student-working-group-meeting-social-4/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:Closing Artist Talk: Hawai‘i is not the United States\, but it is your Future
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands. \nThe 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\, on view at 20 Cooper Square Gallery\, invites viewers to consider the built environment as oceanic\, an interconnected system requiring collective cultural efforts to sustain. \nDoors open at 5:30 p.m. and selections of Connelly’s video work will screen before the talk begins. \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  \nAbout the Artist \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. \n  \nPhotograph ©Creighton: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/closing-artist-talk-for-hawaii-is-not-the-united-states-but-it-is-your-future/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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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.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/mamdani-mubarak-a-p-a-prospects-in-the-mayors-office/
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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/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:Unruly Comparison: Queerness\, Hong Kong\, and the Sinophone
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nAlvin 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\, 2025). \nThe book examines queerness in Hong Kong through a transdisciplinary analysis of Sinophone literature\, cinema\, visual culture\, and civil society. Moving beyond Eurocentrism in queer theory and China-centrism in area studies\, Wong frames Hong Kong as a model for global comparison by theorizing a method of unruly comparison—acknowledging the incommensurability of cultural texts and queer figures across different temporal and spatial locations. Here\, unruly comparison positions Hong Kong as an undefinable time-space that troubles historicist\, colonial\, and China-centric renderings of the city as merely a site of British colonial legacy\, Chinese rule\, or global capital. Wong analyzes queer interracial desire in World War II; a cinema of gay male cosmopolitanism; queer intimacy among migrant workers; trans visuality and legality; cross-border sex work; and the queer diaspora of Hong Kong after the 2019 protests. Through Wong’s readings\, Hong Kong becomes a queer region of racial\, gender\, and sexual incommensurability. By foregrounding the friction\, asymmetry\, and perverse juxtapositions of unruly comparison of Hong Kong with the Sinophone world\, Wong reframes key debates in queer theory and East Asian studies. \nA limited number of free copies will be available at the event. \nAlvin K. Wong is assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He is also the Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures. His research covers Hong Kong literature and cinema\, Sinophone studies\, queer theory\, and transnational feminism. His book Unruly Comparison: Queerness\, Hong Kong\, and the Sinophone is published by Duke University Press in 2025. He has also published in journals such as Journal of Lesbian Studies\, Gender\, Place & Culture\, Culture\, Theory\, and Critique\, Cultural Dynamics\, Continuum\, Diacritics\, Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, Interventions\, and Screen. He also coedited the volume Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies (Routledge\, 2020). Alvin is the editor of the journal Continuum and Chair of the Society of Sinophone Studies. \n  \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. \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 csgs@nyu.edu.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/unruly-comparison-queerness-hong-kong-and-the-sinophone/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:Tatou Festival: Action\, Climate Awareness\, Activism
DESCRIPTION:Registration for this event is now closed. Walk-in guests will be accommodated as capacity allows. \nA Tatou Festival Program. Presented by Te Ao Mana. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nIn 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 Pacific\, followed by wala’au with the artists and their collaborators. \nThe program will feature artists Dakota Camacho (Etak and Mali’e’)\, Lanihuli Kanahele (The Uluwehi Project)\, Leilehua Lanzilotti (the sky in our hands\, our hands in the sky)\, Hāwane Rios (Standing Above the Clouds)\, and Sancia Miala Shiba Nash (Ho’oulu Hou by kekahi wahi). Madilyne Nguyen-Acosta moderates the conversation. \nDoors open at 6:00 p.m.\, and the program begins with an immersive experience featuring the work of Kanaka Maoli composer and Pulitzer Prize nominee Leilehua Lanzilotti. The screenings will begin at 6:30 p.m. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. \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: Leilehua Lanzilotti\, still from the sky in our hands\, our hands in the sky\, 2023. Single-channel video\, 46 minutes. Directed by Leilehua Lanzilotti; music by Leilehua Lanzilotti; cinematography by Gahlord Dewald. Courtesy of the artist. \n 
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/action-climate-awareness-activism/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:International Students in Limbo
DESCRIPTION: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. \nRegistration for this program is now closed. Walk-in guests with a valid NYU ID will be admitted as capacity allows. \nInternational students studying in the United States have found themselves in the cross-hairs of many current federal policies and strategies. A majority of international students hail from Asian nations\, the rate of those arriving from Sub-Saharan Africa is growing at the fastest rate\, and Latinx students make up more than half of those who are undocumented and now increasingly being treated as international\, despite having lived in the United States for many years. From travel bans to visa revocations\, punitive measures against campus protests and cuts in federal funding of research\, recent actions have made the position of all these students quite precarious.      \nOf institutions with large shares of international students\, NYU ranks amongst the highest. With approximately 44% of its student body made up of international students\, this is an issue of particular urgency on our campus. This panel brings together scholars and experts to understand the historical and contemporary contexts of international educational exchange\, along with the implications and effects of current circumstances for the well-being of international and undocumented students. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to current NYU students\, staff\, and faculty. Registration is required. \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  \n  \nImage: Photograph of the “Right to Learn Rally” which began at Washington Square Park and ended in Foley Square\, April 17\, 2025. Courtesy Professor Asli Perker.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/international-students-in-limbo/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting & Social
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nThis year\, the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group‘s monthly workshops and 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.” \nTo that end\, on Friday\, September 12 from 1:00-2:30 p.m.\, the group will be discussing the following readings to consider how the “Grounds of Displacement” can be applicable to various fields and topics and can be uniquely uniting amongst all of our projects during this political moment. \n\nReadings \n\n\n\nMegan Black\, “Empire Underground: The Stakes of U.S. Claims to Vertical Power”\nHarsha Walia\, “There is No ‘Migrant Crisis'”\n\n\n\nSuggested further reading \n\n\n\nLauren Carasik\, “The American ‘Deportation Mill'”\nAndrew Curley\, Carbon Sovereignty: Coal\, Development\, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation\nVictor Seow\, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia\n\n\n\n\nFollowing the workshop\, the group hosts a social (2:30-4:00 p.m.) for attendees to connect with fellow graduate students from NYU and nearby universities working in the field of Asian/Pacific/American Studies. \n\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.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/a-p-a-graduate-student-working-group-meeting-social-3/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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