NYU Kimmel Center, Room 914

Join curator and author Karen Ishizuka as she discusses her book, Lost & Found, and presentsimages from the exhibition "America's Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience," which created national debate over historical terminology when it was mounted at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. The images in Lost & Found speak to the enduring images of the Japanese American internment camps and the realities of life in the camps. Co-sponsored by: Japanese American National Museum

A little-known but important chapter of Chinese and Latin American history is told through interviews with Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, and Moises Sio Wong, three Chinese-Cubans who fought in the revolutionary war that brought down the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship and became generals in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. In Our History is Still Being Written , the three men explore the unique weight of Chinese immigration to Cuba and its importance in Cuba's revolutionary history from 1868 to the present. They talk about…

Join us for a special reading and author reception for This Is a Bust, the second novel by award-winning author Ed Lin. Lin turns the conventions of hard-boiled pulp stories on their head by exploring the unexotic and very real complexities of New York City’s Chinatown, circa 1976, through the eyes of a Chinese American cop. A Vietnam vet and an alcoholic, Robert Chow’s troubles are compounded by the fact that he’s basically community-relations window-dressing for the NYPD: he’s the only…

Known as the “Pope of Greenwich Village,” Jose Garcia Villa had a special status as the only Asian poet among a group of modern literary giants in 1940’s New York that included E. E. Cummings, Mark Van Doren, W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, and a young Gore Vidal. But beyond his exotic ethnicity, Villa was a global poet who was admired for “the reverence, the raptness, the depth of concentration in bravely deep poems” (Marianne Moore). Doveglion (Villa’s pen name—for…