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  • AAUC Town Hall: In Challenging Times, Our Voices Matter

    Non AAARI Events

    Many Asian Americans are feeling the weight of today’s global conflicts, especially with the war in Iran. The news is painful and the uncertainty is real, leaving us searching for clarity and a sense of grounding. At moments like this, it becomes even more important to remember who we are as a community and the ... Read more

  • Book Talk and Signing: Spent Bullets with Author Terao Tetsuya

    Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    We push through one trial after another in pursuit of so-called success in a foreign land. But is all that effort worth it? How are expectations of masculinity tested in the lives of contemporary Taiwanese immigrants? How does queer identity complicate the choice to build a life abroad or to return home? Join author Terao ... Read more

    $15

  • Passing, Performance, and the Price of Fame

    The Asian American Writers’ Workshop 18 West 21st Street, Suite 900, New York, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    What does it take to be seen and what must be hidden to survive? In Chapal Rani, Sandip Roy resurrects the life of Chapal Bhaduri, the last great female impersonator of Bengali jatra theatre, whose art blurred gender and performance even as the world around him narrowed. In Love, Queenie, Mayukh Sen reclaims the story ... Read more

  • Music: Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East

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

    Called “One of the leading figures in North America’s burgeoning Asian music scene. A global musical alchemist and cultural agent provocateur” by Songlines (UK), Sunny Jain is a composer, drummer, dhol player and thought leader. Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East, encompasses a myriad facets of Jain’s identity and sonically paints the journey of his own family’s immigration story. He ... Read more

    $30

  • Hiroaki Umeda: assimilating and Moving State 1

    Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    Hiroaki Umeda’s choreography and eye for digital design have been celebrated throughout Europe, Asia, South America and the U.S. Critically acclaimed for his almost impossibly fluid movement style bordering on street dance – subtle, radical, and provocative – his dance pieces frequently synthesize ultramodern video, dramatic lighting and crackling soundscapes as interlocking components interacting with ... Read more

    $51

  • Artist Talk: Ran Hwang

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

    In her solo exhibition, Ran Hwang presents large-scale installations that are both intricate and poetic, delicate yet dramatic, as they explore the cyclical patterns of life and the fleeting nature of beauty.

  • Beyond Headlines: The Human Story of Americans in China An Official Book Launch and Conversation with Author William Brown

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

    Behind the headlines and geopolitics lies a rarely heard story, the lives of ordinary Americans who became part of China’s history. For decades, Professor William Brown traveled more than 200,000 kilometers across China and the United States to uncover letters, photographs, and memories of Americans who lived in China across generations — teachers, doctors, diplomats, ... Read more

  • MOCA TALKS with Dr. Richard A. Pegg – Unpacking the Chinese Blue Maps

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

    Presented during Asia Week New York, the Museum of Chinese in America invites you to an insightful presentation by Dr. Richard A. Pegg, Director and Curator of Asian Art at the MacLean Collection and curator of MOCA’s special exhibition Heaven & Earth: The Blue Maps of China (on view through March 29, 2026). The presentation will be followed by ... Read more

    $15

  • MOCA TALKS with Dr. Richard A. Pegg – Unpacking the Chinese Blue Maps: Heaven and Earth in the Early 19th Century

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

    Presented during Asia Week New York, MOCA invites you to an insightful presentation by Dr. Richard A. Pegg, Director and Curator of Asian Art at the MacLean Collection and curator of MOCA’s special exhibition Heaven & Earth: The Blue Maps of China (on view through March 29, 2026). The presentation will be followed by a ... Read more

    $15

  • Siyan Wang: Mother Warriors (Artist Talk)

    Equity Gallery 245 Broome Street, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    Siyan Wong’s paintings depict immigrant Chinese women working in garment factories, restaurants, homecare, and street vendors. Inspired by the immigrant dreams of a better life and the reality of survival in a dehumanizing economy, Wong notes that her paintings, “make the lives of Chinese women, and the working poor, visible while directing the viewers’ gaze ... Read more

  • Bo-Young Kim New York State College Book Talk Series

    New York University 60 Fifth Avenue, Room C10, New York, NY, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    In this visually rich and philosophically provocative lecture, acclaimed Korean SF writer Kim Bo-Young explores the deep currents of Korean shamanism, ghost lore, and myth that continue to shape contemporary Korean science fiction and popular culture—often in ways invisible to Western viewers. Drawing on her own National Book Award–nominated SF novels as well as the ... Read more

  • Pedagogies of Writing Workshop

    Queens College - Library (President's Conference Room) 65-30 Kissena Blvd - QNS01 - RO525, Flushing, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    Facilitated by Amy Wan (Special Assistant to the Provost on Writing and Professor of English) How can we use our writing assignments to help students prepare for their future classes and careers?   Join us to learn about developing career-oriented and disciplinary writing assignments. Hear from colleagues across campus about assignments they’ve developed with these kinds of future ... Read more