Events

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 ... Read more

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.

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.

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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: ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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. 

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.

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more