On Performance, Poetics, and Authoritarianism
CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NYProf. Christine Balance, the 2024 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, will present ongoing research and writing from her book project, Making Sense of Martial Law. In it, she studies what the diverse and contradictory poetics of Philippine martial law (1972-1986) perform and reveal about authoritarianism and cultural memory, as illustrated ... Read more
The Politics of The Silence of Love in Colonial Korea with David Krolikoski
The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NYThe lecture explores how Han uses fiction and symbols to collapse the boundary between private and public address, transmuting the individual voice of his poetic speaker into a platform for a community. Dr. Krolikoski also contextualizes The Silence of Love within the history of the translation of foreign poetic forms into Korea during the 1920s, ... Read more
2024 Economics & Finance Forum: U.S. Presidential Election & Its Global Impact
Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY, United StatesJoin us for the Economics and Finance Forum, where leading experts explore the current state of the U.S., Japanese and global economies and explore key trends in capital markets following recent political developments in the U.S. and Japan. The Liberal Democratic Party’s loss of its majority in Japan’s lower house election on October 27 has ... Read more
Inclusive Curriculum Convening
This convening is for community members, students, parents, educators, and community-based organizations interested in learning more about the curriculum advocacy landscape in Albany and the current push by CACF and our partners to advocate for an AANHPI curriculum in New York State’s public schools. Throughout the briefing, you’ll hear from CACF, elected officials, educators, and curriculum ... Read more
Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans with Corinne Sugino
From the debate over affirmative action to the increasingly visible racism amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans have emerged as key figures in a number of contemporary social controversies. In Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans, Corinne Sugino offers the lens of racial allegory to consider how media, institutional, and cultural narratives mobilize ... Read more
Chasing Hope: A Conversation with Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NYNicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have traveled the world and lived for many years in Asia, where their work won them the first Pulitzer Prize granted to a husband and wife. They join Orville Schell of the Center on U.S.-China Relations for a conversation on Kristof’s latest book, Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life.
November Town Hall: Memoir
Bric Media 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NYFor our November Town Hall, A4 takes a deeper look at the art of memoir. How do artists explore deeply personal experiences and create connections in the process? Writer, educator, activist, and performer Alvin Eng (Our Laundry, Our Town) will share his artistic journey of writing plays and adapting them into memoirs. We’ll also hear ... Read more
Korean–Western Architecture in Modern Korea and Beyond By Dr. Suzie Kim
Charles B. Wang Center - Stony Brook University 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY, United StatesPhotographs taken by early American missionaries to Korea, such as Samuel Austin Moffett (1864–1939) and Edmund de Schweinitz Brunner (1889–1973), capture what life was like in Korea during the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, including people, buildings, streets, cityscapes, and rural landscapes. Focusing on in-depth research of rare images of now-vanished early modern architecture in ... Read more
Bystander Intervention to Stop Anti-Asian/American and Xenophobic Harassment
Bystander Intervention Training – This one-hour, interactive training will teach you Right To Be’s 5Ds of bystander intervention methodology and why this training is so important now. We’ll show you the positive impact that bystander intervention has on individuals and communities. We’ll talk through five strategies for safe intervention: distract, delegate, document, delay and direct, ... Read more
Ascend New York Metro – Stretching Beyond Your Comfort Zones
Beyond the comfort zone is the growth zone, where you learn new things, meet new people, travel to new places, and try new experiences. While it may be a challenge, the growth zone can help expand your world and find your passions and goals in life. When you are not able to accomplish things that ... Read more
Author Talk: In Celebration of Find Me as the Creature I Am
Asian American Writers' Workshop 112 West 27th Street #600, New York, NY, United StatesJoin AAWW in-person and online for a celebration of Emily Jungmin Yoon’s Find Me as the Creature I Am! Emily will be joined by writers Monica Sok and Sally Wen Mao. Find Me as the Creature I Am is a book full of tenderness and violence, longing and love. Ranging from inherited family tales to ... Read more
Author Talk and Signing: Natalie Anna Jacobsen, author of Yokai Fantasy Ghost Train
Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY, United StatesJapan Society is honored to welcome debut author Natalie Anna Jacobsen for a special talk and signing in celebration of the release of her first book, Ghost Train, a Young Adult historical fantasy set in 1877 Kyoto during the early years of the Meiji Restoration. Ghost Train tells the story of Maru Hosokawa, a samurai ... Read more
MĀYĀ – The Musical
PETER NORTON SYMPHONY SPACE 2537 Broadway at 95th St., New York, NYIn the twilight of the British Empire, an aspiring poet named Maya Mehta sets out to make her mark on the world. When Mahatma Gandhi’s famous Salt March passes through her hometown, Maya is torn between duty to her family and the passionate ideals of her freedom-fighting friends in the Indian Independence Movement. Ultimately, through ... Read more
Post-Election Analysis in the South Asian Context
Wondering how the U.S. election results could impact South Asia and South Asian Americans? Our panel of experts will break it down and explore what to expect in the coming years. Don’t miss this chance to get an in-depth perspective from those in the know!