Events for Nov/06/2025

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

Join us for the 19th Annual KAFFNY Film Festival, showcasing an exciting lineup of new cinema from the Asian diaspora. The program features compelling short films, documentaries, and narrative features, including Attachment Project (Feature Doc) and Water Lilies (Feature Narrative), with many screenings followed by Q&A sessions with the directors.

Edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews, Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power (Duke University Press, 2025) is the first comprehensive volume to explore the impact of empire on Afghanistan’s past and present. It features cross-disciplinary, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan and paths to decolonial futures. With a particular focus on ... Read more

Deutsches Haus at NYU, the University of Cologne North America Office, the German Research Foundation (DFG) North America, and the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New York present “Adoption and Re-Kinning” as part of the conference “The Legacies of Mixed-Race Children Born of War: Kinship, Belonging and Transnational Adoption after World War II.” ... Read more

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to a special conversation with Beth Lew-Williams, Professor of History and Director of the Program in Asian American Studies at Princeton University, on her new book John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law. In this revelatory work, Prof. Lew-Williams ... Read more

Modern architecture in Korea is characterized by open and dynamic attitudes formed through a unique set of historical circumstances. Through colonial rule, war, and poverty, it was cut off from its older building traditions, emerging only in the latter half of the twentieth century as part of a condensed process of modernization. It is enigmatic ... Read more

The Internet was once celebrated as a democratizing force promising widespread prosperity. In his new book, The Age of Extraction, Tim Wu explores how it has instead fueled the rise of new economic hierarchies and widened the wealth gap and deepened inequality. Wu, who famously coined the term “net neutrality,” charts the ascent of dominant tech ... Read more