• Play – Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?)

    The Public Theater 425 Lafayette St, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    DID YOU EAT? (밥 먹었니?) is Zoë Kim’s autobiographical journey through love’s many forms–how it’s learned, given, and reflected inward. In a nimble and tender solo performance, Zoë shapeshifts into the souls of her family through a landscape of memories where tears and laughter collide. It’s not just a story, but a reckoning—weaving through the ... Read more

    $80
  • Art on the Move: NYC’s Iconic Subway Murals

    China Institute 40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    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

  • Connect with Korea: Opportunities for U.S. Students

    Non AAARI Events

    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

  • Image and Video Creation Using AI

    Non AAARI Events

      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

  • Protecting Southeast Asian Communities

    Non AAARI Events

    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

  • Communicating with Empathy: Having Conversations Across Differences

    Non AAARI Events

    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

  • Toishan Diaspora in the Americas

    Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    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

    $10
  • 2025 Korean American Film Festival New York

    Village East Cinemas 181-189 2nd Avenue, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    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.

    $17.85
  • Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power

    NYU Steinhardt (239 Greene St) 239 Greene St, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    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

  • Adoption and Re-Kinning: An Evening with Deann Borshay Liem, Rosemarie Peña, and Silke Hackenesch

    Deutsches Haus at NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    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

  • John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law

    Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    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

    $10
  • Modern Architecture in Korea: Travels through Terra Incognita

    The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    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

  • Tim Wu with Lina Khan: The Age of Extraction

    NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    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