Play – Poor Yella Rednecks
New York City Center 131 West 55th Street, New York, NYQui 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
In the Wake of Empires: Critical Reflections on 1898 and Its Afterlives
NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United StatesThis symposium invites scholars of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam, and Cuba to critically reflect upon several historical events and discuss the impacts and legacies that both Spanish and US empires have left and continue to leave in their wake.
Dr. Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Why Has the State Administration Council Failed to Gain Control of Myanmar?
In August 1988, university students in Myanmar organized a nationwide pro-democracy movement that brought down the government of the military-dominated Burma Socialist Program Party. However, the military cracked down on the protests and, within three weeks, had succeeded in reasserting control, although an underground resistance movement continued. This history shaped expectations for the aftermath of ... Read more
The Dance Historian Is In: Wendy Perron and Muna Tseng on Michio Ito
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NYAs part of the Library’s efforts to recognize the artists featured in the exhibition Border Crossings, the Jerome Robbins Dance Division welcomes scholar Wendy Perron and choreographer Muna Tseng to discuss the legacy of Japanese-American dance artist, Michio Ito, a key figure in early American modern dance.
Film Screening: The Cord of Life
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NYJoin us at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, October 25 for a screening of Chinese director Qiao Sixue's award-winning debut feature The Cord of Life, introduced by Yao Chen, producer, co-founder of Bad Rabbit Pictures, and award-winning actor. This poignant, personal film discusses themes of nostalgia, nature, and the return to one's motherland. "The Cord of Life is a triumph", says CinemaEscapist's ... Read more
Leadership in a Fragmenting World: A Conversation with Dr. Morris Chang of TSMC and Joe Tsai of Alibaba Group
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NYJoin us for a unique and powerful conversation with Dr. Morris Chang, Founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Joe Tsai, Co-Founder and Chairman of Alibaba Group — two of the truly visionary business leaders and innovators of our time. In a rare public conversation, they will reflect on leadership, education and innovation for the ... Read more
Prachi Gupta, Author of “They Called Us Exceptional”
Prachi Gupta’s family embodied the American Dream: a doctor father and nurturing mother who raised two high-achieving children with one foot in the Indian American community, and the other in Pennsylvania’s white suburbia. In “They Called Us Exceptional,” Gupta articulates the dissonance, shame, and isolation of being upheld as an American success story while privately ... Read more
R.F. Kuang with musical guest mxmtoon
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) 455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NYJoin WNYC's Alison Stewart and R.F. Kuang for a live conversation about her newest book, Yellowface, followed by a special musical performance from mxmtoon. With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, ... Read more
Li-Ming Hu: Can it be I’m not meant to play this part?
The 8th Floor 17 West 17th Street, New York, NYCombining narration, reenactment, found footage, karaoke, animation and a sprinkling of augmented reality, Li-Ming Hu’s Can it be I’m not meant to play this part? explores representation, identity and cultural production through the artist’s experiences as a professional actor and emerging artist, in conversation with key moments in the history of Asian American theater. This ... Read more
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History
More than a century after her birth, Yunte Huang narrates Anna May Wong’s tragic life story, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent, prewar Shanghai, and capturing American television in its infancy.
Poor Yella Rednecks 2nd AANHPI Night + “Beyond the Stage” Talkback
Classic Stage Company 136 East 13th Street, New York, NYA4’s community can use the discount code AANHPI to access $35 tickets Join after the October 27 show for the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Beyond the Stage talkback examining the birth of hip hop and the last years of the Vietnam War, both coinciding with the early 1970s. Panelists include Tony Bui (film director and screenwriter, ... Read more
2023 Hālāwai Film Festival
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
Lives of 3 Canners: New York’s Chinese Elderly Immigrants-OPENING RECEPTION
GALLERY 456 at Chinese American Arts Council (CAAC) 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NYLives of Three Canners: New York’s Chinese Elderly Immigrants presents Siyan Wong’s nine new oil paintings of today’s elderly Chinese immigrants who collect cans and bottles for redemption. These oil paintings visually situate the viewers in the past and present moments lived by each of the three canners - as young adults in 1960s to ... Read more
Opening Reception: Our Inner Quarters: Spaces of Work & Care
20 Cooper Square, 101 20 Cooper Square, 101, New York, NYJoin 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
ChinaFile Presents: China Reporting in Exile
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NYIn 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
Using our lenses to dismantle power
NYU School of Professional Studies - Center for Global Affairs 7 East 12th Street - Room 321, New York, NYRenowned 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
The Infrastructures of Asian/Pacific/American Studies
20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor 20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor, New York, NYIn 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 Return of Industrial Policy: Lessons from Korea
The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NYThe 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
Virtual Open House: MA program in International Migration Studies at CUNY
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
Transforming Global Governance Institutions in a Shifting World Order
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
Decolonizing Mental Health for AAPI Youth & Families – A Symposium
NYU Medical Science Building 540 1st Ave, New York, NYAs 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
APCF Capacity Building Webinar: Intro to the Grant Lifecycle and Process
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
Reimagining Care for Americans with Severe Mental Illness
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
Alliances and Exchange: Asian American Diasporic Artists in 1960s NY
Colonel's Room, Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue, New York, NYJoin 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.
Asia in the Caribbean/El Caribe in Asia
CUNY Advanced Science Research Center 85 Saint Nicholas Terrace - Auditorium, New York, NYProfessor 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
Saving America’s Chinatowns: Philadelphia
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