Changing Cultures: Zhen Guo, A Retrospective
Artist Zhen Guo will discuss her recent milestone exhibition at Baruch College’s Mishkin Gallery, Changing Cultures: Zhen Guo, A Retrospective.
Fall 2026 – Spring 2027
Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty
Author Kaila Yu as she discusses her memoir-in-essays, Fetishized, exploring how she reclaimed her identity after growing up in a media culture that forced Asian women to sexualize themselves to be seen.
An American Meo: A Tale of Remembering and Forgetting
Author Anisa Rahim will discuss her book, An American Meo, a hybrid work of nonfiction, fiction, and myth that explores identity, heritage, and the weight of generational memory.
Livonia Chow Mein: A Novel
Author Abigail Savitch-Lew will discuss her debut novel Livonia Chow Mein — a gripping, four-generation saga set in Brownsville, Brooklyn, centered on a Chinese family-owned restaurant and its deep roots in a neighborhood shaped by waves of immigrant and working-class communities.
Koreatown, NYC: The Consumption of a Transnational Brand
This book explores how Manhattan’s Koreatown transformed into a “transclave”—a commercialized ethnic hub driven by South Korea’s global nation-branding strategy and the diverse cultural mosaic of New York City.
Across Continents: Writing Goans, Making Worlds
Across Continents employs Goan literary subjectivity as epistemology to critique a specific limitation of postcolonial thought, one that does not account for the situations or afterlife of Portuguese colonialism.