Events

Educators today face the urgent challenge of helping students navigate rampant misinformation and disinformation, alongside a broader erosion of public trust in history and journalism. This free webinar for K–12 educators, featuring panelists from Densho and the Southern Poverty Law Center, explores how teachers can equip students with the tools to evaluate digital sources, recognize ... Read more

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to a special conversation featuring Thomas Lee, Leitner Family Professor of International Law and Co-Director of the Center on Asian Americans and the Law at Fordham Law School. In this timely discussion, Professor Lee will explore the landmark Supreme Court case of Wong Kim Ark and the ... Read more

Join AAWW for a celebration of Seabeast by Rajiv Mohabir, featuring Megan Pinto, Ashna Ali, and Rosamond King! Organized as an alphabetical bestiary, Seabeast lyrically catalogues whale species by common name and behaviors, resulting in a poetic compendium that defies pathetic fallacy even as it sings the similarities between homo sapiens and the marine mammoths ... Read more

From the perspective of the West, China is easily misunderstood. Is it capitalist or communist, an adversary or a vital economic partner, a modernized nation or a retrograde regime? A panel of experts demystifies the vast economic and societal changes that have transformed China in recent decades. They discuss China’s remarkable strides toward eradicating poverty ... Read more

The Pacific Island Film Festival (PIFF) of New York City is an annual festival dedicated to telling a richer, more comprehensive story of the Pacific Islands. PIFF endeavors to be a platform for indigenous Pacific Island voices to be heard and recognized—celebrating, showcasing and cultivating the stories, art, talent and cultural resources of the Pacific ... Read more

Join Roosevelt House's Public Policy Program alongside the Department of Economics at Hunter College for a book talk on the new book After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso. In After the Spike, economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso sound a wakeup call, explaining why global depopulation ... Read more

From Tumblr threads to self-published novels, alternative literature is rewriting how we tell stories and who gets to tell them. Ctrl+Alt+Lit will explore how alt-lit remixes cultural narratives and creates community beyond traditional publishing, diving into a world shaped by parasocial relationships, the internet, and all of the media therein, including fan fiction, zines, newsletters, ... Read more

Giannela Vargas is a 1.5 generation Filipina American from San Diego, California. She currently is a Program Coordinator & Curriculum Developer for The Asian American Education Project and the Assistant Coordinator for the SDSU APIDA Center. She earned a B.A. in Liberal Studies, with an emphasis in Elementary Education and a Multiple Subjects Credential from ... Read more

The 2025 National ACE Annual Conference is one of the largest gatherings of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander entrepreneurs and all small business leaders in the country.

What happens if you refuse to fly for work? For gallerists, curators, and others working in the globalized field of contemporary visual art, air travel and other carbon-intensive infrastructures are a necessity. Underwritten by nations in pursuit of soft power, or by patrons jet-setting their way through a global art-fair circuit, the forms of exchange ... Read more

Join AAWW and Brooklyn Bookfest for a roundtable of Korean/American authors, featuring Alice Sola Kim, Cathy Park Hong, Ed Park, Gina Chung, Hannah Bae, and Jane Kim!

Join us for the 2025 Chinatown Beautification Day (CBD) hosted by the Chinatown Youth Initiatives, a 2-day annual youth conference and clean up event focused on beautifying Chinatown. This year, CBD is scheduled for September 20th (conference day) and will taking place at FPWA at 40 Broad St, New York, NY 10004.  The clean-up day on ... Read more