Events

Metamorphosis: Chinese Imagination and Transformation at China Institute Gallery presents a one-day symposium where featured artists, curators, and scholars explore and address key themes and questions raised by the exhibition. Through seven talks and panels, we will explore the breadth and depth of cultural, historical, and artistic themes related to Chinese imagination and transformation.

Imported 35mm Print. Known as Ichikawa’s favorite of his own films, Conflagration is the pinnacle of the many acclaimed literary adaptations he and his wife Natto Wada worked on together. Based on Yukio Mishima’s novel The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, the film involves the spiritual and psychological breakdown of an introverted, troubled youth named ... Read more

Join QCAP (the Queens College AANAPISI Project) and AACS (QC’s Asian American Community Studies program) on Monday, September 29, 2025, from 12:15-1:30pm, in the Muyskens Conference Room in the Summit (see campus map) for our Fall Kick-off event! We’ll be decorating paper lanterns together. Participating at the kick-off also grants you entry to a free ... Read more

Over this past year, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities have faced increasing attacks. Massive federal budget cuts and spending freezes. Immigration enforcement targeting legal residents and students. The elimination of civil rights protections that took decades to build. AANHPI-serving organizations are operating in survival mode. Many face closure. Join AAPIP, NCAPA, AAPI ... Read more

The program will feature: A conversation with former ASAPer and ELL student, Aqida Rama, and community leaders about the unique challenges facing AAPI ELL students and families. The official launch of our new case study which centers student perspectives that shed light on barriers AAPI ELL students may face and recommendations for how best to ... Read more

Join The Serica Initiative and the Stanford Asian Pacific American Alumni Club as author & activist Omar El Akkad interviews talented author Yiming Ma on his debut novel and his thoughts on technology evolving – and possibly, corrupting – in this modern society.

This event will feature insights from two accomplished panelists who have expertise on this topic from their current professional responsibilities as well as their own personal careers: Albert Cheng, Vice President, Head of Prime Video, Richard Lui, NBC/MSNBC News Anchor, and Nicole Dungca, Reporter, The Washington Post and President, Asian American Journalists Association. Peter Young, ... Read more

In partnership with the Tatou Festival, the A/P/A Institute at NYU hosts a special screening several poignant short films by Native filmmakers from the Pacific, followed by wala’au with the artists and their collaborators. The program will feature artists Dakota Camacho (Etak and Mali’e’), Lanihuli Kanaka’ole (The Uluwehi Project), Leilehua Lanzilotti (the sky in our ... Read more

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) invites you to an insightful conversation with Laura W. Ng, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Grinnell College and a historical archaeologist specializing in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Chinese migrants and their transpacific lives.