Events

With the ever-growing need to understand ourselves and humanity as a whole, it is necessary to examine the concepts of morality, ethics and universal values as guiding principles of the human condition. With generous support from Y.T. Hwang Family Foundation, The Korea Society presents a Series on Ethics and Common Values. This series promotes the ... Read more

Join the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) — alongside its New York and CUNY J-School chapters — in partnership with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW), for a thought-provoking conversation on the transformative power of storytelling. This panel brings together journalists and writers whose work spans memoir, data journalism, features, and cultural criticism. From AAJA ... Read more

Cantonese opera has been part of New York’s story for more than 170 years. Beginning in the 1850s, touring troupes performed in Chinatowns across the United States from San Francisco to Chicago, New York, and even Spokane (plus smaller cities in between). In 1853, the 40-member Tong Hook Tong opera company appeared at New York’s ... Read more

Join us for an evening with Kimiko Hahn, recently appointed Poet Laureate of New York State by the New York State Writers Institute and a distinguished professor in the MFA Program at Queens College. The author of eleven collections including The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems, Foreign Bodies, Brain Fever, and The Unbearable Heart, winner of the American Book ... Read more

Quickly evolving artificial intelligence technology is emerging as a potentially powerful journalism tool, including for harnessing data in stories. But AI needs to be wielded carefully and correctly to get accurate, trustable results in storytelling. Join Sandeep Junnarkar, Data Journalism Director at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, for a three-part training ... Read more

Join Borough President Donovan Richards for a Job Recruitment Fair, featuring a wide variety of local employers looking to hire Queens residents today. Participating employers include the Council for Airport Opportunity, the NYC Department of Veteran Services, the NYS Department of Civil Services, New York Life, Queens Workforce 1 Career Center, the U.S. Army, Urban ... Read more

Session 3 of CACF x FALDEF "Know Your Rights" Workshop Series will cover the Rights of the Undocumented. Participants will be provided information about the rights and protections for undocumented individuals, to help bring awareness and highlight available resources. Participants are encouraged to bring their questions! This session will be facilitated by Angela Torregoza, Esq.

This Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative will feature insights from four trailblazing Asian American women who have both witnessed and personally experienced the challenges of breaking through the “career ceiling” in the legal profession. Despite decades of advancement in education and representation at entry levels, Asian American women remain underrepresented in leadership ... Read more

Join NYSEAN and the Southeast Asia Coalition for Academic Freedom for a conference examining attacks on intellectual and academic freedom in Southeast Asia and the United States. Scholars, journalists, and activists will gather to look at how universities and intellectuals often become the first target of rising authoritarianism, the costs and benefits of collective action, ... Read more

The Mills Institute is pleased to welcome President Frank Wu of Queens College, a distinguished legal scholar and a nationally respected higher education leader, for a special conversation on his remarkable career journey. Following his remarks, Christie Chung, Executive Director of The Mills Institute at Northeastern University, will moderate an engaging Q&A.  This event will ... Read more

Breaking Through: Emerging Filipino Filmmakers showcases NYU student filmmakers from across the United States and around the world who are rising visionaries telling powerful stories about the Filipino experience. Presented by Likha Labs, in collaboration with Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Espacio de Culturas, and New York Southeast ... Read more

Get ready for a night of mistaken identities and chaotic romance as we take you on a journey back to Hong Kong and Macau in the early 20th century. In a shabby love hotel, a group of confused couples, jealous spouses, and eccentric hotel staff stumble through a whirlwind of misunderstandings. Packed with sharp wit, ... Read more

In this generative workshop, we’ll discuss and experiment with a variety of daring approaches that writers today are taking toward the prose poem. These approaches allow each writer to get closer to truths at once difficult and strange.

The moving and complex story of Seabrook Farms in New Jersey where 2,500 Japanese Americans worked and settled after being released from World War II Incarceration Camps. There they were joined by people of around 21 other nationalities including Eastern European refugees fleeing persecution and African Americans escaping the Jim Crow laws in the Deep ... Read more

Rashid Khalidi will deliver the Fall 2025 Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture titled This is Not War.  Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He received a BA from Yale University in 1970 and a DPhil from Oxford University in 1974, and has taught at the Lebanese ... Read more

The event addresses how stigma—characterized by societal prejudice and discrimination—profoundly influences psychiatric care. The discussion will cover how deeply embedded stigma creates barriers to timely recognition and treatment of mental health disorders, leading to delayed care, worsened outcomes, and a diminished quality of life for patients and their families.