AAARI Events

The Asian American Mentorship Providing Opportunities to Women for Empowerment and Resilience (AAMPOWER) at CUNY invites you to join us for an in-person bystander intervention training workshop, presented by Sakhi for South Asian Survivors.

This talk discusses preliminary results from archaeological collaboration with Dr. Dudley Gardner and Chinese American descendants on the Wyoming Chinatowns.

This Filipino American History Month, the Office of Assemblymember Steven Raga, together with the Office of Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, Woodside on the Move, Bright Spot Community Development Center, NaFFAA New York State Chapter, and FANHS Metro New York Chapter, will host the first-ever Filipino American History Month Little Manila Parade & Block Party ... Read more

In its 250-year existence, the United States has welcomed, nurtured, while also barred and deported Americans who hail from all parts of the world. The Asian American experience is at once unique and familiar. From the first migrants to these shores in the late 1500s, to the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, to the incarceration ... Read more

Do you have a story only you can tell? Vietnamese Boat People is back at the Think!Chinatown Studio for their 7th Annual Story Slam—an evening of live storytelling, community, and connection. Starting as the Mỹ Việt Story Slam, an online performance focusing on stories from the Vietnamese diaspora, this collaboration with Think!Chinatown features in-person live ... Read more

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.

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.

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.

Larry Tung and Mehrunnisa Wani will screen and discuss their documentary Invisible No More (2025), highlighting how Asian Americans are no longer just an emerging force in New York City politics, but are making sweeping strides at all levels of government.

Artist Zhen Guo will discuss her recent milestone exhibition at Baruch College’s Mishkin Gallery, Changing Cultures: Zhen Guo, A Retrospective.

Issay Matsumoto will present research on the history of postwar Hawaiʻi’s tourism industry and labor movement. This research was completed with the support of the 2023 Betty Lee Sung Research Endowment Fund.

Susan Miyo Asai examines how music functions as a performance of social, cultural, and political identification for a population historically excluded from the racial boundaries of American citizenship, provoking a broader discussion on national identity and the challenges of nation-building.