LGBTQ Immigration: Contemporary Struggles Globally and in New York
2025-11-17 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, 47-49 East 65th Street, New York, NY, 10065
The LGBTQ Policy Center is pleased to present an urgent discussion—featuring leading policymakers and advocates—about the impact of recent immigration policies on global LGBTQ migration, with a spotlight on New York.
For decades, the United States has recognized the threat, and reality, of state violence against LGBTQ people as a legitimate reason to grant asylum. However, recent policy changes at the federal level have called into question the country’s commitment to protecting the human rights of LGBTQ immigrants. For example, earlier this year, the Trump administration deported Andry Hernandez Romero, a gay makeup artist who came to the United States seeking asylum, to a maximum security prison in El Salvador. Recent increases in ICE presence at courthouses and on the streets has created an environment of fear that discourages LGBTQ immigrants from accessing the social services they need to survive. Human Rights Watch has documented worsening discrimination, harassment, and violence against LGBTQ people both at home and abroad.

NYC Health & Dialogue - Caregiver Awareness Month - Long Term Care Planning
2025-11-17 18:30 - 19:30 | NY
Aligned with the CUNY School of Medicine’s commitment to under-resourced communities, the NYCenter for Advancing Translational Research and Health focuses on Harlem and the South Bronx, areas where significant health and education gaps have historically persisted.
As part of the Center’s efforts to connect with community, The Community Engagement Core, coordinates a monthly seminars – NYC Health & Dialogue – to build capacity among researchers and community stakeholders, promoting shared learning and co-creation of knowledge.

Fair Pricing Act 101 Community Webinar
2025-11-18 13:30 - 14:30 | NY
The Fair Pricing Act (S705/A2140) is proposed state legislation designed to bring transparency and equity to hospital pricing.
Its core mission:

Standardize the cost of routine medical procedures.

Require hospitals to publicly justify any additional charges.

Why does this matter? Disparate and predatory pricing is a significant barrier to necessary, affordable care, directly leading to delayed diagnoses and poorer long-term health outcomes in our communities. For many—especially groups like AAPI New Yorkers—cost is the main hurdle to seeking routine preventative care. No family should have to choose between medical bills and basic needs like rent or groceries.
Join us to discuss how the Fair Pricing Act is a crucial step toward building an equitable and affordable healthcare landscape for all.

Learning Without Borders: Immigrants Transforming Higher Education
2025-11-18 16:30 - 18:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016
Join us for a lively discussion on how immigrants are reshaping the landscape of higher education!

Immigrants have long faced structural challenges when accessing and thriving within educational systems and academic spaces. These include linguistic barriers, precarious legal status, limited access to financial aid, cultural exclusion, and the emotional toll of navigating institutions not designed for their realities.
Under the current political climate, many of these challenges have intensified due to shifts in immigration policies, tightening of visa regulations, and increasing social and economic precarity for immigrant communities.
In this conversation, we will discuss both the historic and structural dimensions of these barriers and the new challenges emerging today. Bringing together scholars, students, and advocates, we will explore how immigrant communities continue to transform academic spaces, and what possibilities for solidarity, policy change, and institutional transformation might shape the future of higher education.

Simulcast Screening - Vietnamerica
2025-11-18 17:00 - 19:00 | NY
Executive Producer Nancy Bui of the Vietnamese Heritage Foundation joins GETSEA and 25 universities across North America to watch Vietnamerica together simultaneously and connect via Zoom for a discussion with the filmmaker about the Vietnamese diaspora, their struggle, and how Master Hoa’s story is a prism to see the larger group.
Vietnamerica follows Master Nguyen Hoa as he returns to former refugee camps in Southeast Asia after three decades abroad to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Having fled Vietnam in 1981 on a boat with his family and friends, Hoa was the only survivor.

Cinema with a Cause: "Blackboards & Barriers"
2025-11-19 18:00 - 20:30 | Medgar Evers College, 1637 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11225
“Blackboards & Barriers” is a documentary that takes us to Cecil County, Maryland’s Colored Schools through interviews with former students. This film tells a story of how community members endured and fought against civil rights issues and impacted the broader Civil Rights movement. Filmmaker, Joseph Piner, will be speaking to the audience afterwards.

At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China
2025-11-19 18:30 - 19:30 | Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY, 10013
The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to a special conversation with Edward Wong, diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times and author of At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China. The son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, D.C., Wong grew up among family secrets, especially those surrounding his father Yook Kearn Wong, who served in Mao’s People’s Liberation Army before making a perilous escape to Hong Kong in 1962. As Beijing bureau chief, Wong retraced elements of that past while examining the forces behind a resurgent China: intensified nationalism under President Xi Jinping, ethnic conflict in Xinjiang and Tibet, and pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong.
This program will also highlight the history of southern Chinese migration to the United States, especially from Taishan County in Guangdong, and the enduring transnational ties among Chinese migrants. By connecting geopolitics with family memory and community networks, the talk will show how cross-Pacific migration continues to shape Chinese American life today.

November 2025 AANHPI Community DNA Forum
2025-11-20 16:00 - 17:00 | NY
NCAPA will share important federal policy updates following the re-opening of the government. AAPI Data will share key findings on healthcare data and updates on our SMARTT framework for data security. We’ll also hear from Felicia Singh, director of policy and government relations for the Coalition for Asian American Children + Families (CACF), who will share recent policy wins and updates from CACF.

Citizen Enough? Race and Belonging Now and Then
2025-11-20 18:00 - 19:15 | NY
Join us for an online conversation with Professor Neda Maghbouleh, author of The Limits of Whiteness, and Professor Dana Y. Nakano, author of Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform. The discussion, moderated by BC Sociology Professor Diana Pan, will examine how racial ideologies structure non-white US citizens’ experiences of national belonging.

GUT (굿): A Korean Spiritual Rite of Gratitude, Harmony, and Blessing for All
2025-11-21 - 2025-11-22 | Korean Cultural Center NY, 122 E 32nd St, New York, NY, 10016
Korean Cultural Center New York presents GUT on November 21 and 22 — a traditional Korean shamanistic ritual performance that embodies the purest form of Korea’s total art, combining music, dance, and spiritual expression. As one of Korea’s Intangible Cultural Heritages, Cheolmuri-GUT bridges art and life, humanity and divinity, offering audiences a profound encounter with Korea’s centuries-old spiritual tradition.

Central Asia Speaker Series: Conversations on Diaspora, Identity, and New Futures
2025-11-21 11:30 - 13:30 | NY
Join us for the Central Asia Speaker Series, a space for urgent, imaginative conversations featuring three remarkable guest speakers:

Cholpon: Migration, Identity & Displacement
Zumrad Mirzalieva: Ecological Storytelling & Extraction
Nat Sultan: Queer Art, Faith & Exile

Come listen, learn, and be in community with Central Asian voices shaping new futures
To Register: Please ontact Prof. Zohra Saed to receive Zoom link, Zohra.Saed@mhc.cuny.edu

PAGE TURNER: The 2025 AAWW Publishing Conference
2025-11-23 11:00 - 12:00 | Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW), 18 West 21st Street, Suite 900, New York, NY, 10010, United States
Our publishing conference will center the work and experiences of writers of color, convening experts and authors across industries and genres to share candid insights, advice, and experiences.

Conversations – “Recollections, Pioneers and Heroes” Featuring The Honorable Elaine Chao
2025-11-25 18:00 - 18:45 | NY
We are pleased to invite you to attend Committee of 100’s Conversations—”Recollections, Pioneers, and Heroes” featuring The Honorable Elaine Chao, who will reflect on her remarkable journey as an immigrant, trailblazer, and leader at the highest levels of government, and her insights on leadership, resilience, and service to the nation.

Rethinking "Race" within Asia: The Act of "Korean-passing" through K-beauty
2025-11-26 03:00 - 04:30 | NY
This fifth lecture will examine how Vietnamese middle-class female students who moved to Korea reimagine race and belonging through the practice of adorning their appearance to embody “Koreanness.”
Speaker: Khánh Linh Phạm (Harin) (M.A., Women’s Studies, Ewha Womans University)
Discussant: Minji Yoo (Research Fellow, Asian Center for Women’s Studies)
Date & Time: November 26, 2025 (Wed), 5:00–6:30 PM (KST)
Location: Zoom (https://ewha.zoom.us/j/5736905575)
Language : English (with live text translation in Korean available / 한국어 AI 문자 통역 제공)

History Walk: Asian Americans and the Downtown Arts Scene, 1980–2000
2025-12-01 13:00 - 15:00 | NY
Many talented artists of Asian descent helped define the vibrant art scene in downtown New York in the last decades of the 20th century, including some in China Institute Gallery’s current exhibition, Metamorphosis: Chinese Imagination and Transformation. On World AIDS Day, we will remember their contributions and those who lost their lives during the AIDS crisis, by tracing their steps on the trendy Lower East Side and East Village. Artists highlighted in this walk may include Ching Ho Cheng, Chuang Che, David Diao, Ming Fay, Tehching Hsieh, Ma Hao, Anna Sui, Tan Dun, Tseng Kwong Chi, Muna Tseng, and Martin Wong. The sites to be visited include where they exhibited, worked, and hung out with peers.
The tour begins from the Lower East Side, inside the Delancey St – Essex St subway station on the downtown F-Train platform at 1 PM. Run time is approximately 2 hours. The tour totals 3 miles of walking on uneven terrain on the Lower East Side, East Village, SoHo, Tribeca, and Chinatown, making brief standing stops at each selected site. Please wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for the weather. The tour will proceed rain or shine; in the event of extreme weather that requires a tour cancellation, we will contact registered guests in advance.

Crossing Boundaries 24: Between Breaths: A Sonic Memoir with gamin
2025-12-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery, New York, NY, 10002
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), Fridman Gallery, and New Ear, Inc. present Crossing Boundaries 24: Between Breaths: A Sonic Memoir with gamin, an intimate multimedia performance by Korean-born, U.S.-based musician gamin, a multi-instrumentalist and designated Yisuja (official holder of Korea’s Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46). In this work, gamin invites audiences into a sonic memoir woven from breath, memory, and ancestral voice.

History of Anti-AANHPI Laws and Legal Battles Wehinar Series
2025-12-01 20:00 - 21:00 | NY
Join us for Citizenship as Architecture, the first event in our two-part History of Anti-AANHPI Laws and Legal Battles series.
From the 1790 Naturalization Act to Wong Kim Ark, this conversation uncovers how American law built the very idea of citizenship through exclusion, loyalty, and race, and how those boundaries still shape belonging today.
Featuring: Robert S. Chang, Aziz Rana, and Hiroshi Motomura

Comedy: Hasan Hates Ronny | Ronny Hates Hasan
2025-12-02 - 2025-12-05 | Beacon Theatre, 2124 Broadway, New York, NY, 10023, United States
During these divided times, many people believe that open dialogue and discourse are the only tools to mend a divided nation. Comedians Hasan Minhaj and Ronny Chieng believe the opposite: hatred is the answer.
For one night only — in 19 cities — Hasan and Ronny will face off in a no-holds-barred live debate where they will take each other to task personally and professionally. If hate is your love language, don’t miss out.

Solo Plays - FULL CONTACT and X#*! YOU VERY MUCH, MOM!
2025-12-02 - 2025-12-07 | TheaterLab, 357 West 36th Street, New York, NY, 10018
Leviathan Lab’s WinterFest proudly presents a double feature of two new, compelling solo performances and a staged reading of a new dark comedy: The National New Play Network NYC Rolling World Premiere of FULL CONTACT; a developmental workshop of X#*! YOU VERY MUCH, MOM; and a one-night staged reading of BLOOD/SUCKER.
In FULL CONTACT, after a week alone in his apartment, Filipino American Ariel Estrada* unravels under the weight of his memories: a violent cult, a lost faith, and the echo of his late father’s demands. Caught between guilt and survival, he fights to take the first step toward healing before his mind pulls him under. Presented by Leviathan Lab and Mixed Asian Media.
In X#*! YOU VERY MUCH, MOM, theatre meets TED Talk meets dark family secrets. With whimsy, sardonic humor, and heart, Đavid Lee Huỳnh* shares how the effects of French colonialism shaped Vietnam, rippled out, and made it so #%@#ing hard for his mom to say “I love you.” Presented by Second Generation Productions in association with Leviathan Lab.
Writer/actors Ariel Estrada and Đavid Lee Huỳnh will each perform their respective stories in TheaterLab’s intimate white box space—an evening of two, hour-long solo works that challenge what it means to be Asian American now.
Community partner tickets ($20) are available for 12/5 Vietnamese community night performance using the code: nguyennguyensituation

From Momentum to Movement: Reflecting on 2025 and Building Early for 2026
2025-12-02 14:00 - 15:00 | NY
Join us for a one-hour webinar where we’ll celebrate our shared successes, reflect on lessons learned, and chart the path ahead towards the 2026 midterms. You’ll hear best practices from fellow partners, learn how to get a head start on your 2026 plans, gain insight into what’s next for the voter engagement landscape, and get inspired on why we have to continue this work – TOGETHER.

HUMANitiesxTech Series
2025-12-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10065
WHO GETS TO SHAPE AI… AND WHO IS LEFT OUT?
Using his prototype robots, our Computer Science Professor Raj Korpan and his students explore how Al development often reflects narrow cultural assumptions, and why diverse and underrepresented communities are essential in rethinking what Al is and who it serves.

Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared | The Curatorial Roundtable
2025-12-02 18:00 - 19:00 | NY
In a conversation with The Korea Society, three curators from the National Museum of Asian Art–Carol Huh, J. Keith Wilson, and Sunwoo Hwang–explore the depth and diversity of Korean art and reflect on the practice of collecting in Korea.

Impossible Desires: New Directions in Queer Diaspora Studies
2025-12-02 18:00 - 22:00 | The Bowery Electric, 327 Bowery, New York, NY, 10003
The publication of Gayatri Gopinath’s Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press) in 2005 heralded a new moment in transnational scholarship in gender and sexuality studies. The book theorized queer and feminist cultural practices in the context of South Asian diasporic migration, and served as a precursor to subsequent scholarship in queer diaspora studies that has radically reshaped the fields of queer and feminist studies in the past two decades.
We mark the twentieth anniversary of Impossible Desires by showcasing the work of a new generation of queer diaspora scholars whose work spans South Asia, the SWANA region, South Africa, and the Caribbean. Scholars Kareem Khubchandani, Suzanne Persard, Medjuline Shomali, and Jordache Ellapen will reflect on their own groundbreaking work in light of Gopinath’s book; and artists Al-An deSouza, Chitra Ganesh, Shahzia Sikander, and Felipe Baeza – all of whom have engaged in long-standing dialogues with Gopinath over the years—will reflect on the artist-critic relationship. The evening will conclude with a DJ set by Arshia Fatima Haq, artist and founder of Discostan.

JUSTICE: A Conversation With Hess Scholars Melissa Murray and Russell M. Jeung
2025-12-03 18:00 - 19:00 | NY
What is justice and how do we get it? Join Robert L. Hess Scholars Melissa Murray and Russell M. Jeung in conversation as they draw on their personal and professional journeys to address these questions.
Melissa Murray, the 2024–25 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence, is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. Murray teaches constitutional law, family law, criminal law, and reproductive rights and justice. She is a co-author (with Andrew Weissman) of The New York Times bestselling book The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary. She is a legal analyst for MSNBC and served as a judicial clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Russell M. Jeung, the 2025–26 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence, is professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University and co-founder of Stop AAIP Hate. He is author of Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans; Moving Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies; At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors; and Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches. He co-produced the documentary The Oak Park Story (2010), about a landmark housing lawsuit involving Cambodian and Latino tenants. He was named as one of the TIME‘s 100 Most Influential Persons in 2021.

Cameras, Crosswalks, and Change: Exploring the Policy and Design of Better Streets with Streetfilms
2025-12-03 18:00 - 19:30 | Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, 47-49 East 65th Street, New York, NY, 10065
The new Sam Schwartz Transportation Research Program at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a special screening of selections from Streetfilms, an online documentary project and leading platform for educational films on sustainable transportation. These “shorts” will feature Streetfilms’ signature “man on the ground” storytelling approach, capturing how smart transportation design and policy in Paris, Montreal, London, and beyond are creating more vibrant, healthy, and livable communities.
Following the screening, Sam Schwartz, Chair and Founder of the Transportation Research Program, will lead a discussion with director and founder of Streetfilms, Clarence Eckerson Jr. They will explore which of the policies and infrastructure approaches portrayed in the films could be adapted for New York City, as well as the opportunities and challenges involved in doing so.
Please join us as we consider questions such as: What is Paris doing to protect children walking, and rolling, to school? How is Montreal innovating with bicycling infrastructure? How important was congestion pricing in allowing the city of London to rethink its streets?

Closing Artist Talk for Hawai‘i is not the United States, but it is your Future
2025-12-03 18:00 - 20:00 | 20 Cooper Square – NYU, 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY, 10003, United States
The artist Sean Connelly reflects on his year-long residency at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, and shares his curatorial process and vision for Hawai‘i is not the United States, but it is your Future. The exhibition, on view at 20 Cooper Square, first floor gallery, invites viewers to consider the built environment as oceanic, an interconnected system requiring collective cultural efforts to sustain.

MOCA PRESENTS – Meet Us Where We're At, A Day With(out) Art
2025-12-03 19:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY, 10013
Continuing MOCA’s LGBTQ AANHPI Program Series, we are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2025 to present Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.
Meet Us Where We’re At features newly commissioned works by Kenneth Idongesit Usoro (Nigeria), Hoàng Thái Anh (Vietnam), Gustavo Vinagre & Vinicius Couto (Brazil/Portugal), Camilo Tapia Flores (Chile/Brazil), Camila Flores-Fernández (Peru/Germany), and José Luis Cortés (Puerto Rico).
The hour-long video program will premiere on December 1, in observance of World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art. Visual AIDS has collaborated with museums, galleries, universities, and community organizations worldwide to host free public screenings. Based in New York City, Visual AIDS is a non-profit organization that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.

WEBINAR: Paperwork as Power
2025-12-03 20:00 - 21:00 | NY
From exclusion laws to “foreign ownership” bans, bureaucracy has always been a border.
Join us for Paperwork as Power, the second event in our two-part History of Anti-AANHPI Laws and Legal Battles series.
From the Geary Act to the Alien Land Laws, learn how documents, data, and property restrictions turned suspicion into control, and how those systems still shape belonging today.

24th Annual CUNY IT Conference
2025-12-04 - 2025-12-05 | John Jay College, 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY, 10019
Over the years, the CUNY IT Conference has invited us to explore the challenges and opportunities presented by technology — from “Good Moves in Hard Times,” to “Opening Access,” to “Us and It: CUNY in the Age of Generative AI.” Along the way, we’ve examined how to connect across systems, collaborate intentionally, and reimagine the way we teach, learn, and work.
In 2025, we turn toward the future.
With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and automation, how do we move forward—thoughtfully, strategically, and ethically—at CUNY? What does it mean to reimagine higher education in an AI-enhanced world, where intelligent systems are reshaping everything from the classroom to the laboratory to the library?
What opportunities—and responsibilities—do we have as educators, researchers, technologists, and administrators?

How is AI influencing the way we conduct, support, or disseminate research? What new questions are we asking, and what new methods are emerging?
How do we design curricula, teaching practices, and learning environments that account for AI as both a tool and a topic?
What does academic integrity look like in an age of machine-generated content and decision-making?
Where is AI helping us streamline operations, improve access, and reduce friction for students and faculty—and where does it raise new concerns?
How do we foster inclusive, human-centered innovation—and what ethical frameworks should guide our use of AI across disciplines, departments, and roles?
We invite proposals from across the CUNY community—as well as our colleagues in industry—that explore how AI is reshaping the work we do, the questions we ask, and the futures we imagine.

Whether you are testing new tools, designing new courses, advancing your research, refining digital pedagogy, or developing critical perspectives on emerging technologies, we hope you’ll join us in this university-wide conversation.
Let’s move forward—together.

Korea-China Relations: A History of Intervention with Dr. Ji-Young Lee
2025-12-04 16:00 - 17:00 | NY
Join us for a discussion with Dr. Ji-Young Lee for an examination of the circumstances and methods of Chinese military intervention in the Korean Peninsula. Dr. Lee is Associate Professor of International Relations at American University’s School of International Service, and author of China’s Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination (2016) and an upcoming work under contract titled: The Great Power Next Door, a historically informed analysis of when and how China has chosen to militarily intervene in the Korean Peninsula. Dr. Lee’s 2020 article, “The Geopolitics of South Korea–China Relations,” speaks to the contemporary dimension of the evolving relationship. The moderator of the program is policy director Jonathan Corrado.
