Events

In celebration of America's 250th Anniversary next year, our commissioned artists present a series of pieces exploring the theme of honoring and celebrating Chinese immigrants who embark on their life journeys in the United States while preserving their cultural heritage.

A training that will equip participants with the knowledge and advocacy tools needed to advocate on issues that directly impact them, such as the China Initiative, research security, fundamental rights and academic freedom in our country.

Join us for an in-depth, one-on-one dialogue between Raj Subramaniam, President and CEO of FedEx Corporation, and CNBC’s global markets correspondent Seema Mody. The conversation delves into Subramaniam’s dynamic leadership philosophy, his bold strategic vision for guiding one of the world’s largest transportation and logistics companies, and his approach to navigating the complexities of today’s ... Read more

The award-winning host of Taste the Nation is joined by special guests including Michelle Buteau to launch her vibrant new cookbook, Padma’s All American, with an unforgettable evening of stories, laughter, and conversation. Based on her acclaimed Hulu series, this deeply personal book is a love letter to the immigrant and Indigenous communities who shape the flavors of America.

China Institute and Asia Art Archive in America bring together Asian and Asian Diasporic artists Bing Lee, Jean Shin, Saya Woolfalk, and Parker Fay (who will represent Ming Fay) to share the stories behind their own subway commission projects while addressing questions around the possibilities, promise, and practicalities of public art. The conversation will be ... Read more

The Korea Society and International Student Conferences are pleased to present “Connect with Korea: Opportunities for U.S. Students,” a virtual session highlighting ways for U.S. college and university students to engage with Korea. Discover a range of Korea-related activities and academic programs, including study abroad opportunities, cultural exchanges, and professional networking. Participants will have the ... Read more

  Instructor: Mike Reilley, Senior Lecturer at University of Illinois Chicago and founder of JournalistsToolbox.ai   This 90-minute training will cover the following: - Prompt Crafting: Learn how to write and refine prompts to create compelling AI-generated images and videos. - Fact-Checking Visuals: Practice using the newest tools and techniques to detect whether an image or video was created by ... Read more

Across the country, Southeast Asian refugee and immigrant communities face devastating deportation impacts. Decades after families resettled in the United States as refugees, thousands remain vulnerable to removal because of old criminal convictions, many tied to the challenges of poverty, trauma, and lack of support. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of ... Read more

As the holiday season approaches, NCAPA is holding a series of community calls on holding difficult conversations with loved ones and community members. The purpose of these events is to equip and prepare attendees to approach difficult conversations strategically in order to effectively address sensitive or controversial topics. At this community call, attendees will hear ... Read more

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) invites you to a captivating conversation with artist and photographer Pok Chi Lau. For more than five decades, Lau has traced the journeys of the Toishan/Taishan diaspora from the Pearl River Delta to Hong Kong and across the Americas. Grounded in his own family’s migrations dating back to ... Read more

Join us for the 19th Annual KAFFNY Film Festival, showcasing an exciting lineup of new cinema from the Asian diaspora. The program features compelling short films, documentaries, and narrative features, including Attachment Project (Feature Doc) and Water Lilies (Feature Narrative), with many screenings followed by Q&A sessions with the directors.

Edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews, Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power (Duke University Press, 2025) is the first comprehensive volume to explore the impact of empire on Afghanistan’s past and present. It features cross-disciplinary, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan and paths to decolonial futures. With a particular focus on ... Read more

Deutsches Haus at NYU, the University of Cologne North America Office, the German Research Foundation (DFG) North America, and the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New York present “Adoption and Re-Kinning” as part of the conference “The Legacies of Mixed-Race Children Born of War: Kinship, Belonging and Transnational Adoption after World War II.” ... Read more

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to a special conversation with Beth Lew-Williams, Professor of History and Director of the Program in Asian American Studies at Princeton University, on her new book John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law. In this revelatory work, Prof. Lew-Williams ... Read more

Modern architecture in Korea is characterized by open and dynamic attitudes formed through a unique set of historical circumstances. Through colonial rule, war, and poverty, it was cut off from its older building traditions, emerging only in the latter half of the twentieth century as part of a condensed process of modernization. It is enigmatic ... Read more

The Internet was once celebrated as a democratizing force promising widespread prosperity. In his new book, The Age of Extraction, Tim Wu explores how it has instead fueled the rise of new economic hierarchies and widened the wealth gap and deepened inequality. Wu, who famously coined the term “net neutrality,” charts the ascent of dominant tech ... Read more

On November 7th and 8th, the Municipal Archives and Library will hold a book sale of unique items removed from the collections. Whether you like history, politics, culture, theater, art, food, or iconic landmarks, there are books for everyone who loves New York City. Hundreds of books, all at great prices. Don’t miss your chance ... Read more

Join us for a performance produced and created by the artist Yusuke Mori as part of the LEIMAY Constellation Series, co-presented with LEIMAY within WEAVE. Spider’s Thread is a performance, led by dancers Yusuke Mori and Alaisha Sharma, based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s well-known short story. A simple tale based on Buddhist teachings, in which a convict is given a slim passageway from eternal damnation. ... Read more

The Asian American Education Project is proud to host “Changing the Narrative: AAPIs in North Carolina,” an in-person professional development program focused on the teaching of Asian American and Pacific Islander histories and experiences in the K-12 classroom. In this one-day institute, we will explore some narratives that exist about Asian Americans in North Carolina ... Read more

Throughout history, young people have had an irrepressible desire to study histories of struggle—or the efforts that came before them to fight for a more liberatory and just world. What is it that young people gain when they anchor themselves in truthful histories, histories that are often not taught, or are erased, by the state? ... Read more

The Korea Society is pleased to announce that the ninth annual Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Awardee is Dr. Peter Na, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine.  In his lecture, Reframing Suicide as a Shared Social Responsibility in Korea, he casts suicide not as an individual failure or “extreme choice (극단적 ... Read more

In partnership with the US-China Education Trust and the Serica Initiative, we cordially invite you to join us for the launch of Bad Bad Girl, the latest semi-autobiographical novel by Gish Jen. The book traces her mother’s journey exploring gender, migration, and cultural identity through Jen’s poetic prose. The event features a reading and fireside ... Read more