Qui Nguyen, the wildly inventive playwright (and screenwriter for Marvel and Disney) known for his use of pop culture, pop music, and puppetry, reunites with director May Adrales for this funny, sexy, and brash new play. A young Vietnamese family attempts to put down roots in Arkansas, a place as different from home as it ... Read more

The Hālāwai Film Festival (HFF) endeavors to celebrate, showcase and cultivate talent and cultural resources of the Pacific Islands in the New York metropolitan area. Hālāwai translates to “meeting” as well as "horizon". HFF is dedicated to broadening horizons, to tell a richer, more comprehensive story of the Pacific Islands beyond the common experiences of ... Read more

Join us to mark the opening of Our Inner Quarters: Spaces of Work & Care, curated by Yin Q and Chong Gu of Red Canary Song (RCS). The curators and members of the grassroots collective of migrant massage workers, sex workers, and allies of the Asian diaspora lead a walk through the exhibition. Traditional Korean ... Read more

In recent years, many of China’s most distinguished journalists have found themselves living and working outside of China. Some have joined international media organizations while others have built their own platforms, forging a new landscape for understanding China from beyond its borders and outside of the structures its government places on expression. Their work is ... Read more

Renowned photographer Shahidul Alam on the role of photo journalism in resistance to authoritarianism in Bangladesh. Alam was arrested and jailed in Bangladesh in 2018 for having shared photographs of - and his views about - ongoing student protests, which was deemed a violation of the Information and Communication Technology Act. A feature of de-democratization ... Read more

In recent years, the concept of “infrastructure” has been picked up by scholars working at the intersections of Asian/Pacific/American Studies, critical ethnic studies, American studies, and other cognate disciplines. These conversations have emphasized the urgent intellectual and political need for a more capacious understanding of infrastructure that, to paraphrase the geographer Deborah Cowen, “exceeds its ... Read more

The Korea Society is pleased to announce that the winner of the 7th Annual Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Competition is Dr. Munseob Lee, Assistant Professor at the University of California San Diego. Dr. Lee will address The Return of Industrial Policy: Lessons from Korea. Industrial policy is making a comeback. Signs of government intervention ... Read more

Learn more about the MA program in International Migration Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center from faculty and students: Learn about international migration from top migration faculty throughout CUNY in disciplines including Sociology, Political Science, Urban Studies, Anthropology, English, History, Public Policy, Psychology, and more. This multidisciplinary master’s program is the only one of its ... Read more

For the last seven decades, world politics has been dominated by American leadership, the institutions it has designed, and putatively liberal norms. This international order is facing severe challenges due to the rise of new powers, breakdown of old economic arrangements, and a redistribution of technological and infrastructural activity. This academic year, we are planning ... Read more

As we emerge from the COVID pandemic in NYC, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) are taking stock of the aftermath and impact on our lives and mental health. How do we address this when there are structural and systemic constraints in the current mental healthcare system? How do we re-envision wellness outside of Western ... Read more

Are you new to grant writing? Do you just want to learn? In this workshop you will learn about the grant lifecycle and process. Covering topics of grant application basics, organizational readiness, solicitation, reporting and stewardship. After, you will learn about current trends in the philanthropic sector. As a grants manager and volunteer grant writer, ... Read more

This Lancet Webinar will highlight the ongoing harms and maltreatment of serious mental illnesses in the USA and explore alternative models, such as the Trieste Model. Dr. Sarah Vinson, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Morehouse School of Medicine, will frame the current mental healthcare system’s deficits and harms in ... Read more

Join Curator Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe and Art Historian Midori Yamamura for a discussion moderated by Lisa Kim of the Ford Foundation on how Asian artists made alliances and created networks of exchange in order to come to the United States and make sustainable studio practices in New York in the 1960s.

Professor Tinajero will be using the Stuart Z. Katz Professorship to advance in her book manuscript: "Asia in the Caribbean/El Caribe in Asia." This project focuses on the work of contemporary Caribbean writers and artists that represent elements of the Far East (China, India, and Japan) in their works as well as in the cultural ... Read more

Thursday, November 2nd, from 5 to 6pm EST Virtual Free RSVP: https://www.chineseamericanmuseum.org/chinatown-philly   Join us for a discussion about the threats facing Chinatowns all across America, with a special focus on Philadelphia on Thursday, November 2nd, from 5 to 6 p.m. The conversation will go over how historically Chinatowns have been a targeted space and then ... Read more

Join us at the Museum of Chinese in America for a delightful evening of culinary exploration with Detroit-based chef and renowned food content creator, Jon Kung. He will share insights from his debut cookbook, Kung Food: Chinese American Recipes from a Third Culture Kitchen. Dive into an expansive collection of over 100 recipes that transcend ... Read more

Join us for a conversation between artists and educators Ji Woo Kim, Yin Ming Wong, Aya Rodriguez-Izumi and Dr. Catherine Rosamond on the harmful effects of the Model Minority myth. Presented by MFA Fine Arts in collaboration with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at SVA. This panel aims to share discourse on inclusivity and community, specifically ... Read more

Join us for a conversation between artists and educators Ji Woo Kim, Yin Ming Wong, Aya Rodriguez-Izumi and Dr. Catherine Rosamond on the harmful effects of the Model Minority myth. Presented by MFA Fine Arts in collaboration with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at SVA. This panel aims to share discourse on inclusivity and community, specifically delving into ... Read more

Indulge in the mastery of distinguished pianist and Van Cliburn competition laureate Yekwon Sunwoo as he soulfully performs Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto, showcasing his remarkable artistry. The evening's program begins with David Ludwig's brilliant Moto perpetuo for solo violin, followed by Tchaikovsky's profoundly poignant Pezzo Capriccioso. The night concludes with Tchaikovsky's iconic Serenade for Strings ... Read more