AAARI Events

Drawing on his role as a Cool Japan Producer for the Japanese Cabinet Office, Benjamin W. Boas highlights the need to shift from a government-branded “Cool Japan” paradigm to the more participatory, fan-driven “Your Japan.”

Prof. Aleah Ranjitingh will present her research on Chinese-Caribbean immigrants in the United States, and the ways in which they understand self in terms of race and ethnicity.

Prof. Zai Liang’s presentation focuses on the substantial challenges faced by small businesses in Manhattan Chinatown and the subsequent transitions they have made in the post-Covid pandemic era. Attendees will gain insights into the key findings conducted during Summer 2025 by the specialized research team from SUNY Albany, in collaboration with the Chinatown Partnership Local ... Read more

A hybrid panel with Queens and Baruch College presidents explores how student visa revocations are reshaping CUNY campuses, immigrant communities, and New York’s educational landscape.

Family Amnesia (Daylight Books, 2025) is a visual tribute and love letter honoring author Betty Yu’s Chinese American family roots in the United States. The art book explores her family’s multi-generational resilience and resistance through mixed-media collages, her grandfather’s photographs, and own captured images and archival material.

Prof. Jayashree Kamblé will present on her essay in CUNY FORUM Volume 11:1, focusing on love and gender roles in the recent globally successful films Godzilla Minus One and Past Lives.

Join this free information session to learn about the 2026 AAARI Innovators Fellowship, a 16-week program empowering changemakers to address complex challenges facing Asian American communities. The AAARI Innovation Fellowship is open to CUNY undergraduate and graduate students, interested in social impact. No prior experience required.

Join this free information session to learn about the 2026 AAARI Innovators Fellowship, a 16-week program empowering changemakers to address complex challenges facing Asian American communities. The AAARI Innovation Fellowship is open to CUNY undergraduate and graduate students, interested in social impact. No prior experience required.

Join this free information session to learn about the 2026 AAARI Innovators Fellowship, a 16-week program empowering changemakers to address complex challenges facing Asian American communities. The AAARI Innovation Fellowship is open to CUNY undergraduate and graduate students, interested in social impact. No prior experience required.

Editor Meqin Wang, with contributors Midori Yamamura, Vicki Kwon and Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier examine how contemporary art in East and Southeast Asia confronts environmental destruction, ecological degradation, and social injustice in the backdrop of global ecological crises.

The Asian American / Asian Research Institute’s Localized History Project, and The Asian American Education Project, are building New York City’s K-12 Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Studies curriculum! New York City teachers, community members, and youth are invited for an interactive day of storytelling, community building, and curriculum development on the localized history ... Read more

The Coalition for Asian Pacific Americans (CAPA), in partnership with the Asian American Bar Association of New York and the Asian American Law Fund of New York, invites you to a screening of "Voices Against Anti-Asian Hate," hosted by Philippine Consulate General. The documentary, produced by AABANY and AALFNY, features a series of interviews with ... Read more

Prof. Sally Wen Mao will present on Sally Forth, Sad Girl!, a novel-in-progress following a Chinese American poet living in an artist residency in Shanghai.