Events

On view on the third floor of Cooperman Library through Sept 2025, CRAASH in Focus: Revitalizing Asian American Studies explores the history of student activism surrounding the Asian American Studies Program (AASP) at Hunter College, from its early foundation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the revitalization of it in the 2000s and 2010s by ... Read more

Join QCAP (the Queens College AANAPISI Project) and AACS (QC’s Asian American Community Studies program) on Monday, September 29, 2025, from 12:15-1:30pm, in the Muyskens Conference Room in the Summit (see campus map) for our Fall Kick-off event! We’ll be decorating paper lanterns together. Participating at the kick-off also grants you entry to a free ... Read more

Over this past year, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities have faced increasing attacks. Massive federal budget cuts and spending freezes. Immigration enforcement targeting legal residents and students. The elimination of civil rights protections that took decades to build. AANHPI-serving organizations are operating in survival mode. Many face closure. Join AAPIP, NCAPA, AAPI ... Read more

The program will feature: A conversation with former ASAPer and ELL student, Aqida Rama, and community leaders about the unique challenges facing AAPI ELL students and families. The official launch of our new case study which centers student perspectives that shed light on barriers AAPI ELL students may face and recommendations for how best to ... Read more

Join The Serica Initiative and the Stanford Asian Pacific American Alumni Club as author & activist Omar El Akkad interviews talented author Yiming Ma on his debut novel and his thoughts on technology evolving – and possibly, corrupting – in this modern society.

This event will feature insights from two accomplished panelists who have expertise on this topic from their current professional responsibilities as well as their own personal careers: Albert Cheng, Vice President, Head of Prime Video, Richard Lui, NBC/MSNBC News Anchor, and Nicole Dungca, Reporter, The Washington Post and President, Asian American Journalists Association. Peter Young, ... Read more

In partnership with the Tatou Festival, the A/P/A Institute at NYU hosts a special screening several poignant short films by Native filmmakers from the Pacific, followed by wala’au with the artists and their collaborators. The program will feature artists Dakota Camacho (Etak and Mali’e’), Lanihuli Kanaka’ole (The Uluwehi Project), Leilehua Lanzilotti (the sky in our ... Read more

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) invites you to an insightful conversation with Laura W. Ng, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Grinnell College and a historical archaeologist specializing in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Chinese migrants and their transpacific lives.

Situated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam is an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and politics of our times.

This workshop provides an overview of the Asian American Education Project’s lesson plans and the five thematic units on citizenship; civil rights; identity; immigration; and racism. It will cover the importance of including APIDA history in school curriculums through exploring the contributions of APIDAs in labor activism; the fight for school integration and citizenship rights; ... Read more

Join us for the 2nd Inter-grant Festival, featuring artists from India, Guadeloupe, Trinidad and Tobago, Cyprus, Taiwan, Philippines, China, and Japan. In addition to the live performances, the festival will include screenings of three films co-produced with Mobile Dance Film Associate.

Presented by Korean Cultural Center New York & Korean National Opera Founded in 1962 and established as an independent foundation in 2000, the Korea National Opera (KNO) is Korea’s leading opera company. As a national arts organization, KNO presents world-class productions and plays a central role in the development of opera in Korea. The company ... Read more

Resonance is an immersive AAPI+ dance and night market experience created by choreographer David Cartahena Lee and Samaw Dance. On October 4–5, 2025, We Are Here Brooklyn will come alive with interactive booths, art, and community offerings, followed by a performance exploring identity, resilience, and queer AAPI+ stories through contemporary and street dance.