Non AAARI Events

This webinar examines Waikīkī as a critical site of capitalist and colonial struggle. Featuring two Kānaka ʻŌiwi, Brandy Nālani McDougall (scholar/2023-25 Hawaiʻi Poet Laureate) and Corey Asano (labor organizer with UNITE HERE Local 5), this webinar will share the critical work they have done to transform the unequal conditions of power in Waikīkī. Corey will ... Read more

We invite you and a guest to join us for a matinee performance of this world premiere production of Chinese Republicans, which explores themes of assimilation, intergnerational conflict, and gender politics in the workplace. A special post-show discussion will follow with playwright Alex Lin and renowned librettist, award-winning playwright, and screenwriter David Henry Hwang. PRICE: PAY ... Read more

Join the New York Chinese Cultural Center and the Museum of Chinese in America to celebrate the Lunar New Year with a performance by NYCCC’s resident company and guest artists.

Rin Seo is a Korean composer, conductor and pianist based in New York City. Raised in a rich musical environment encompassing Western classical, jazz, theater, and Korean folk music, Seo creates genre-defying works that blend eclectic idioms with a distinctive voice and inventive spirit. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Classical Composition from the ... Read more

Join us at Pier 57 for a free afternoon of learning and discovery as we celebrate Holi in partnership with The Culture Tree. The Holi holiday welcomes spring and honors the triumph of good. Dating back thousands of years, this jubilant festival of colors has spread from India throughout the world. Mark this vibrant holiday ... Read more

Please join us for a final, celebratory gathering for our beloved exhibition, Red Horizon: Art. Heritage. New Energy. We’ll close this Lunar New Year celebration with warmth and inspiration through an intimate artist talk and live musical demonstration by participating artist Eugenie Chao. 

So you want to attend a professional conference being held in Hawaiʻi. You're a self-reflective enough scholar to recognize that such a trip may merit some ethical reckoning given the past and present realities of settler colonialism in Hawaiʻi. What do you do? This webinar does not offer one answer as to how to be ... Read more

In Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life, historian Ellen Carol DuBois presents a definitive portrait of one of the most influential figures in the American struggles for women’s suffrage and rights. From the 1840s until her death in 1902, Stanton fought for women’s emancipation, advocating on issues that went far beyond the vote. Drawing on ... Read more

Have something to say to the world? Of course you do! But you might not know where to start. Maybe you’re afraid of putting something clumsy or incomplete out there. Maybe you don’t feel like you’ve got the skills to make something nice. Maybe you’re not sure where exactly this story might fit. If so, ... Read more

Mr. Ghose is a Founding Partner and CEO of System Two Advisors, LP, where he focuses on the start‐up business operations and strategic direction of the firm. Prior to System Two, Mr. Ghose was the Co‐President and Chief Strategy Officer of Roc Capital, responsible for overseeing the firm's marketing and investor relations as well as ... Read more

The Asian American Feminists Section graduate representatives Phuong and Shebati will be hosting an event on March 4 on Alternative Career Pathways beyond academia. Please see the sign up information below. Please feel free to invite your friends and students.  We have four amazing panelists, who will talk about leveraging academic skills to forge an alternate pathway, ... Read more

The Lunar New Year is just around the corner, join us for our annual Celebration on Monday, February 23 at Borough Hall! We'll have cultural performances, honors for local community leaders, refreshments and much more.

This exhibition brings together four artists—Kakyoung Lee, Buhm Hong, Hong Seon Jang, and Sun You—whose practices unfold between movement and becoming. Transit functions as a condition of passage through time, labor, and cultural frameworks, while formation describes processes through which forms and identities take shape without closure. Working across sculpture, installation, animation, and video, the ... Read more

The U.S.-Japan alliance now stands at a crossroads. Under an America First approach, Japan is being called upon to take a more active role in supporting regional and global stability. President Trump and Prime Minister Takaichi met in Japan last October, reaffirming their shared commitment to advancing toward a New Golden Age for the U.S.-Japan ... Read more

Join Aperture and Japan Society for a panel discussion celebrating the impact and influence of Takuma Nakahira, a crucial figure within the history of Japanese photography. This special event is organized on the occasion of the release of At the Limits of the Gaze, the first English-language collection of Nakahira’s influential writings on photography. The ... Read more