Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
AAARI The 2026 Art as Witness Fund is seeking to commission new work from artists and culture bearers with commissions ranging from $2,500 to $5,000. The Art as a Witness Fund is an invitation to artists and culture bearers to submit new commissioned work that tells stories of freedom the 250th U.S. anniversary leaves out. The … Read more
The PEAK Writers Fellowship (PWF) discovers and nurtures new and emerging Pasifika writers launching their careers in television. Founded by PEAK Co-Founder, Director, Screenwriter and Showrunner, Dana Ledoux Miller, this is the only writing program in Hollywood created by a Pasifika creative.
Films in this year’s CUNY Shorts Showcase, part of the 49th Asian American International Film Festival deal with topics/genres including: an intimate connection of hope and solidarity between a Filipino steward and a Black welder in 1940s Brooklyn, a Sikh MMA fighter navigating the balance between faith and the brutal world of combat sports, a golden but challenged friendship between a Jewish girl and a Muslim girl in Jerusalem, and an immigrant woman examining her past, identity, and regrets in the wake of her American ex-boyfriend’s death.
In Trump’s latest executive order, children born to parents from countries designated as enemy aliens would not qualify for birthright citizenship. NAPABA said the restriction conjures up memories of the incarceration of 120,000 residents of Japanese ancestry, most of whom were American citizens.
The Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Japan-US Friendship Commission, supports a variety of grant programs in Japanese studies designed to facilitate the research of individual scholars, to improve the quality of teaching about Japan on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study … Read more
Ph.D. candidate Zubaida Marufee Islam seeks to root out rotavirus with research that may help identify new targets for treating the stealthy killer.