Events for Oct/27/2025
Play – Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?)
DID YOU EAT? (밥 먹었니?) is Zoë Kim’s autobiographical journey through love’s many forms–how it’s learned, given, and reflected inward. In a nimble and tender solo performance, Zoë shapeshifts into the souls of her family through a landscape of memories where tears and laughter collide. It’s not just a story, but a reckoning—weaving through the ... Read more
Screening – The Paradox of Seabrook Farms: Shattered Dreams, Restored Hopes
The moving and complex story of Seabrook Farms in New Jersey where 2,500 Japanese Americans worked and settled after being released from World War II Incarceration Camps. There they were joined by people of around 21 other nationalities including Eastern European refugees fleeing persecution and African Americans escaping the Jim Crow laws in the Deep ... Read more
The Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture: This is Not War
Rashid Khalidi will deliver the Fall 2025 Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture titled This is Not War. Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He received a BA from Yale University in 1970 and a DPhil from Oxford University in 1974, and has taught at the Lebanese ... Read more
Dismantling the Stigmas Around Mental Health
The event addresses how stigma—characterized by societal prejudice and discrimination—profoundly influences psychiatric care. The discussion will cover how deeply embedded stigma creates barriers to timely recognition and treatment of mental health disorders, leading to delayed care, worsened outcomes, and a diminished quality of life for patients and their families.