Events

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

Join us for a discussion with Dr. Ji-Young Lee for an examination of the circumstances and methods of Chinese military intervention in the Korean Peninsula. Dr. Lee is Associate Professor of International Relations at American University's School of International Service, and author of China's Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination (2016) and an ... Read more

The Gracie Mansion Conservancy proudly presents the second concert in its Live at Gracie series: Graceful Keys and Lyrical Strings, an intimate evening of virtuosic performance featuring acclaimed musicians: violinist SoHyun Ko and pianist Yadi Liang. Held on December 4th inside the historic People’s House, this special concert continues the Conservancy’s commitment to offering enriching, inspiring, ... Read more

Join us for a conversation with Tae Kim, author of The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant. Now as the world's leading AI chipmaker, Nvidia offers a fascinating window into the new era of global entrepreneurship vis-à-vis its partnership with Korea; Nvidia's commitment to provide 260,000 GPUs to South Korean ... Read more