conversation – Asian American / Asian Research Institute

Facing the Fracture: How to Navigate the Challenges of Living in a Divided Nation: Dr. Tania Israel in conversation with Deanna Lee

Join us for a conversation with Tania Israel, author of Facing the Fracture: How to Navigate the Challenges of Living in a Divided Nation, and media expert Deanna Lee. Dr. Israel’s research and guidance will leave you feeling informed, empowered, and optimistic. Note: This program will take place ONLINE via Zoom. Participants will receive a Zoom link 24 hours … Read more

Book Launch: Ordinary Disasters by Anne Anlin Cheng in conversation with Kevin Lozano

Ordinary Disasters explores with lyricism and surgical precision the often difficult-to-articulate consequences of race, gender, migration, and empire. It is the story of Chinese mothers and daughters, of race and nationality, of ambition and gender, of memory and forgetting, and the intricate ways in which we struggle for interracial and intergenerational intimacies in a world … Read more

Quarterlife: A Conversation with Devika Rege & Merve Emre

P&T Knitwear, in conjunction with the Asian American Writer’s Workshop, is pleased to welcome Devika Rege to celebrate the U.S. publication of her critically acclaimed debut novel, Quarterlife: a reflective narrative about India’s political pulse and changing value systems circa 2014. Following a mosaic of characters amidst a shifting socio-political landscape, Quarterlife offers a thoughtful … Read more

Stop Anti-Asian Violence: A Conversation about Discrimination towards the AAPI Community

Since the start of COVID-19, there has been a rise in hate incidents against Asians and Asian Americans on a national scale. Join our distinguished guests and experts for a discussion of the issues and how we can provide better allyship to local AAPI communities.

Author and nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer, in conversation with Brooklyn based Afghan American poet Zohra Saed, will discuss her book We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future. Many of us can recall the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of … Read more

A Conversation on Asian American Art with Tomie Arai

Visual artist Tomie Arai will shares her thoughts and observations about art, activism, and the Asian American movement in a dialogue with poet and editor Russell Leong. Tomie will discuss the process of being an artist, creating a new visual vocabulary in the emerging Asian American art scene in New York City. What were the … Read more