2023 marked a significant year for U.S. diplomacy in Southeast Asia as the United States signed comprehensive strategic partnerships with both Vietnam and Indonesia, advanced negotiations on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), and established the first U.S.–ASEAN center in Washington, DC. While Southeast Asia serves as a key driver of economic growth in ... Read more

From the early ’70s onwards, Indian cinematographer Navroze Contractor—who passed away last year at age 80—blazed a trail of radical image-making. Trained in fine arts, photography, and cinematography, Contractor wielded the camera as a weapon and a paintbrush, capturing both the thrills and the throes of popular uprisings in films that defined political documentary in ... Read more

Ayoung Kim joins us to present a selection of her speculative fiction–inspired shorts, including the US premiere of Delivery Dancer’s Sphere (2023), for which she was the first Korean artist to receive the Prix Ars Electronica. While Kim’s practice draws on legacies of cyberfeminism and video game design, her videos, installations, and performances are equally ... Read more

This book talk will take place in person at Chatham Square Library AND online.  Come celebrate the paperback book launch of Ava Chin’s Mott Street: a Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming. Ava will be in conversation with Lucy Yu, proprietor of Yu and Me Books, Ken Chen, Assistant Professor and Associate Director ... Read more

Guest speakers reviewing Annual Filings, State Registration, Financial Audits, and IRS 99. This is part of a series of six (6) training workshops to help LGBTQ and BIPOC leaders survive and thrive. The trainings are over video digital conference. FREE but $5 donation requested for this training provided after registration. These trainings are supported by ... Read more

What are the current cultural challenges AAPI as well as LGBTQ+ students face in the educational pipeline to law school? Securing work in NYC? Join us for a virtual panel to discuss the current landscape and learn about resources and support for those wanting to apply to law school or on their way into the ... Read more

Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila’s Resource Frontier explores the multiple, paradoxical stories of urban provisioning through the example of Manila’s socio-ecological relations with nearby Laguna Lake. The book received the 2022 AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography and the 2024 Benda Prize for First Book on Southeast Asian Studies.

Join us for an in-person event with San Franciscan attorney and Cartoonist-in-Residence, Eddie Ahn, for a discussion of his debut graphic memoir Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice. Joining Eddie in conversation is critically acclaimed writer Kristen Radtke. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's ... Read more

We are pleased to announce Asian American Studies in the 2020s: Disciplinary, Ethnic, Diasporic Identities as the theme for our 2024 conference. Since its inception, Asian American Studies has been particularly sensitive to histories of inclusion, marginalization, exclusion, and elision—in political life, narratives, and canons. In our (post) 9/11 and COVID moment of heightened political ... Read more

Join the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders and women leaders from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front side in the autonomous region of Muslim Mindanao, including  Atty. Sha Elijah Dumama-Alba, for a discussion about their peacebuilding/government-building work. In-Person at 8th Floor, UN Church Center & Virtual Attendance

Join bestselling author Stacey Lee, The New York Public Library, and teens across the country for a special virtual discussion of The Downstairs Girl, the latest title in our national Teen Banned Book Club. About the Book By day, 17-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady’s maid for the cruel daughter of one of the ... Read more

You’ve got a great idea for a book, but you don’t have a publisher. Choosing to publish your own work is a viable and powerful alternative to the traditional approach. Should you do it yourself or pay a company to do it? In this informative and practical Toolbox you’ll learn the essential steps of self-publishing. ... Read more