[Asian American Literature Festival] MOONRISE: AN INVOCATION
Join organizers and participants of the 2024 Asian American Literature Festival for a gathering to mark the beginning of our week of cosmic kinship.
The Meena Alexander Reading Room
Asian American Writers' Workshop(AAWW) 112 W 27th St #600, New York, NY, United StatesJoin the Asian American Writers’ Workshop for an exhibition of the late poet Meena Alexander’s library, which the Workshop acquired for our 30th anniversary. The reading room will include a curated display of titles by Meena Alexander, as well as books from her collection with original annotations, notes exchanged between friends and loved ones, rare ... Read more
Re-Enactment of 1944 Trial Upholding the Internment of Japanese Americans
Hofstra University - Deane School of Law 121 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NYHofstra University’s Maurice A. Deane School of Law is marking Constitution Day 2024 by staging a re-enactment of Korematsu v. United States, the 1944 trial and appeal that upheld the constitutionality of interning Japanese Americans solely on the basis of race. The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Korematsu v. United States maintained that the internment ... Read more
The Meena Alexander Reading Room
Asian American Writers' Workshop(AAWW) 112 W 27th St #600, New York, NY, United StatesJoin the Asian American Writers’ Workshop for an exhibition of the late poet Meena Alexander’s library, which the Workshop acquired for our 30th anniversary. The reading room will include a curated display of titles by Meena Alexander, as well as books from her collection with original annotations, notes exchanged between friends and loved ones, rare ... Read more
Hunter College AANAPISI Project Open House
Hunter College 695 Park Avenue, New York, NYLearn about HCAP programs, make friends, and connect with Hunter resources. Join our decorating contest to win a prize. We’ll have games, free food, and snacks! ALL Hunter students are welcome!
TULOY ANG LABAN! People’s Lawyering in the Philippines
NYU Furman Hall 326 245 Sullivan St, New York, NYPlease join us on Tuesday, September 17th from 6 - 8 PM in Furman Hall 326 for TULOY ANG LABAN! People’s Lawyering in the Philippines! This event is co-sponsored by APALSA, EPIC, and LSJP at NYU School of Law. This past summer, a group of NYU Law students went on a solidarity trip to the ... Read more
Connie Chung with Walter Isaacson
NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY, United StatesConnie Chung is the first woman to co-anchor the CBS Evening News and the first Asian to anchor any news program in the U.S. Profoundly influenced by her family’s cultural traditions, yet growing up completely Americanized in the United States, Chung describes her career in a white, male-centered world. Overt sexism was a way of ... Read more
In Celebration of The Lucky Ones
Asian American Writers' Workshop(AAWW) 112 W 27th St #600, New York, NY, United StatesJoin AAWW in-person and online for a celebration of Zara Chowdhary’s memoir The Lucky Ones! Zara will be joined by journalist, television producer, and writer Nur Nasreen Ibrahim. The Lucky Ones traces the past of a multigenerational Muslim family to India’s brave but bloody origins, a segregated city’s ancient past, and the lingering hurt causing ... Read more
What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say…
Have you ever felt like someone needs help but didn't know how to start the conversation? Afraid you'll make things worse if you bring it up? You're not alone. Many of us-even professionals-struggle to start these important conversations. Sometimes the pressure feels overwhelming, we're uncomfortable, or we just don't know how to help if something ... Read more
Asian American is Not a Color by Dr. OiYan A. Poon
Yu & Me Books 44 Mulberry Street, New York, NY, United StatesOiYan Poon conducts interviews with Asian Americans throughout the US who have been actively engaged in policy debates over race-conscious admissions or affirmative action. Through these exchanges, she finds that Asian American identity remains deeply unsettled in a contest between those invested in reaching the top of the racial hierarchy alongside whiteness and those working ... Read more
Opening Reception – Tiny Grains: Chinatown Forever Changed, Forever Changing
Pearl River 452 Broadway, New York, NYDuring the shutdown of 2020, Edward Cheng roamed the streets of Chinatown with his camera. Businesses were closed. Work had dried up. There was nothing else to do. On these treks he ran into people he knew. He saw the same friends, acquaintances, and community members time and again. Eventually he asked to photograph them. ... Read more
Untold Vietnamese American History: The Vietnamese Fishermen’s Association v. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Join the Asian American Education Project for a live, virtual workshop that will focus on the “untold story” of the Vietnamese Fishermen’s Association vs. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1981). This workshop will feature guest speaker Dr. Thao L. Ha.
Asian American Identity: Immigration History and Transgenerational Impact
This workshop is designed to help educators deepen their understanding of Asian American identity through the lens of immigration history and its transgenerational impact on culture and identity. Participants will explore the historical context of Asian immigration to the United States, examine the diverse experiences of Asian American communities, and gain insights into how these ... Read more
Improving Services and Care for Parkinson’s Disease among Asian Americans
Catherine Chung and Johnny Nguyen (Asian Women For Health), and Preston Dang (WesternU College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific), will discuss their current collaborative two-year research study project, ACCESS-PD: Advancing Comprehensive Care & Enhancing Service Standards in Parkinson’s Disease among Asian Americans.
Pan Asian Rep 2024 Fall Reading Series – Calligraphy
520 8th Avenue - 3rd Floor Bruce Michell Room 520 8th Avenue - 3rd Floor Bruce Mitchell Room, New York, NYTwo cousins and their mothers confront changes generated by the past and the passing of time. In Los Angeles, one cousin faces her immigrant mother’s dementia while, in Tokyo, the other is challenged by her mother’s physical decline. Family history of the immigrant mother having married an African American and left Japan behind complicates all ... Read more
Cultural Icon, Cultural Ambassador: Yue-Sai Kan, “The Most Famous Woman in China”
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NYA trailblazer in promoting understanding between Asia and the rest of the world, anchor, entrepreneur, and author Yue-Sai Kan will discuss her memoir with Asia Society Trustee Lulu C. Wang.
Patricia Tanumihardja – Mortar and Pestle: Classic Indonesian Recipes for the Modern Kitchen
Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, New York, NYThe Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to an insightful discussion with acclaimed food writer and cookbook author Patricia Tanumihardja, as she explores her latest culinary work, Mortar and Pestle: Classic Indonesian Recipes for the Modern Kitchen. Co-authored with her mother, Juliana Evari Suparman, this cookbook presents a vibrant collection of 80 ... Read more
Bandung Community Conversation: Echo Chambers
A4 and MoCADA present Bandung Community Conversation: Echo Chambers with Mohiba Ahmed, a dedicated community organizer at DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving). Ahmed brings extensive experience from grassroots feminist movements and student rights organizations in Pakistan and is a founding member of the Progressive Students’ Collective and Haqooq-e-Khalq Party Pakistan.
Book Launch: Ordinary Disasters by Anne Anlin Cheng in conversation with Kevin Lozano
Yu & Me Books 44 Mulberry Street, New York, NY, United StatesOrdinary Disasters explores with lyricism and surgical precision the often difficult-to-articulate consequences of race, gender, migration, and empire. It is the story of Chinese mothers and daughters, of race and nationality, of ambition and gender, of memory and forgetting, and the intricate ways in which we struggle for interracial and intergenerational intimacies in a world ... Read more
The World is Family — Film Screening with director Anand Patwardhan
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Film Center 36 East 8th Street, New York, NYVasudhaiva Kutumbakam, a Sanskrit phrase meaning “the world is family,” is a universalist idea that competes with dominant, exclusivist Hindu notions of caste. Anand grew up in a milieu that questioned the latter. The family’s elders had fought for India’s Independence but rarely spoken about it. ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,’ words enshrined in India’s Constitution, were ... Read more