Fuchsia tackles the "five tastes" which a Chinese chef needs to be able to marshal harmoniously: salty, sweet, sour, bitter and pungent. 'Fuchsia Dunlop has done more to explain real […]
Join us this Thursday at 6:30 for a chat with some of the artists featured in our inaugural group show! Daniel Hughes, Minji Choi, and Becky Moon will chat with […]
Author Abigail Savitch-Lew will discuss her debut novel Livonia Chow Mein — a gripping, four-generation saga set in Brownsville, Brooklyn, centered on a Chinese family-owned restaurant and its deep roots in a neighborhood shaped by waves of immigrant and working-class communities.
Seat at the Table with filmmakers and special guests in person Followed by a conversation with filmmakers and special guests Dirs. Sarita Khurana and Yoav Attias. 2026, 90 mins. U.S. […]
A Funder Briefing on Securing Economic Justice for AANHPI Women+ and Families On Zoom - Monday, October 26, 2026 | 10:00-11:00 AM PT / 1:00-2:00 PM ET Motherhood and caregiving […]
Lainie Sakakura and Asian American and Pacific Islander Broadway veterans reflect on their history and the modern theater landscape. We are celebrating the Asian American and Pacific Islander Broadway veterans […]
Bestselling author Marie Lu is back with another exciting young adult fantasy novel Mortal Things. On a journey to save her best friend, Rose Lin Fairchild is forced to test her abilities against the gods and unravel the truth of the immortal world. How far is Rose willing to go? If you loved her Legend series, then you're […]
We all know cooks whose fingertips seem to infuse every meal with deliciousness. In Korean, that magic touch is called sohn-mat, or “hand taste”―but you don’t have to be born with it. Esther Choi picked hers up from her halmoni, or grandmother, who used her hands for everything from smearing cabbage with pepper paste to make […]
Join us for a timely conversation with NPR journalist Emily Feng on her groundbreaking new book Our Hearts Burned for Home: Uyghur Militants in Syria’s Civil War (Columbia Global Reports, October 2026), an extraordinary work of reportage tracing one of the most surprising and consequential stories to emerge from the global war on terror. Drawing on years of reporting […]
A Poets & Writers First Fiction 2026 Debut SelectionIn the late 1970s, Ziad Idilbi a Palestinian refugee from Lebanon, marries Salma, a Lebanese refugee escaping the war in Beirut. Resolving to start over for the very last time, the couple opens a corner store in Toledo, Ohio. Over the decades, whether it’s bigotry (pre- and post-9/11), […]
As the Korean war (1950–1953) drew to a close and South Korea began to rebuild, American GI Roger Marshutz (1929–2007) was stationed in Pusan to photograph U.S. reconstruction efforts. In his spare time, Marshutz also wandered the streets, documenting the daily life of Korean civilians. The Forgotten Home Front: Roger Marshutz’s Photographs of Pusan, South […]
The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) and Asian American Diasporic Writers Series present a book talk by Kevin Nguyen about his 2025 novel Mỹ Documents, followed by a discussion with CSER’s Writer-in-Residence, Marie Myung-Ok Lee. Dinner provided. Non-CU affiliates should email cser@columbia.edu to be registered for campus access. Location: CSER Seminar […]