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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260729T130000
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SUMMARY:Fandom-First: Reaching Gen Z Through Stories and Community on Webtoon
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sienna Park\, Client Partner\, US Ads at WEBTOON\nIn this session\, Sienna will unpack what makes WEBTOON a cultural epicenter for Gen Z and how fandom-led campaigns turn real attention into real outcomes for brands.\nDo not miss your chance to hear directly from one of the platforms shaping how the next generation builds loyalty. \nGen Z lives beyond the feed — deeply immersed in the worlds they actually care about: serialized stories\, creator communities\, and fandoms that shape what goes mainstream. \nAsk any young person about WEBTOON\, and chances are\, they’re a fan. In this session\, we’ll unpack what makes WEBTOON a Gen Z cultural epicenter — where readers spend real time\, money\, and attention inside the stories they love — and how brands can show up natively in the spaces where this generation builds loyalty. You’ll leave with a clearer picture of Gen Z’s media habits\, what makes a fandom-led campaign work\, and how culture-defining platforms like WEBTOON help brands turn attention into real outcomes.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/fandom-first-reaching-gen-z-through-stories-and-community-on-webtoon/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Business,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260806T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260806T120000
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SUMMARY:Webinar: State of AAPIs in US and NYC Reports
DESCRIPTION:Unlock the Findings in our Live Webinar \nTo learn more about what comes next for AAPIs across NYC’s five boroughs and identify opportunities for collaboration\, join us for a webinar on Thursday\, August 6 at 8am PT/11am ET. Hosted by Shamina Singh\, TAAF Board Member and Founder and President of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth\, we’ll dive into how to turn the findings into solutions. Kindly RSVP to events@taaf.org. \nTAAF Launches State of AAPIs Research Series to Shed Light on the Lived Experiences of AAPIs\nTAAF launched the State of AAPIs research series\, beginning with a national report to set a baseline of the lived experiences of AAPIs across the country and paired with a first-of-its-kind\, borough-level primary data analysis of AAPIs in New York City. TAAF will draw on these findings to convene leaders across sectors and drive solutions through the TAAF Cities initiative. \nThe State of AAPIs national report offers an in-depth look at how AAPIs are navigating economic insecurity\, safety concerns\, and feelings of belonging across the country. According to a nationally representative survey of 1\,500 AAPI adults:  https://taaf.org/our-work/state-of-aapis-national-report \n\n51% struggled to save money or build financial security in the past 12 months\, a figure that rose to 60% or higher among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI)\, Vietnamese\, and Korean respondents.\n31% struggled to access safe and stable housing and 30% received government or community assistance in the past year\, with nearly as many (28%) reporting difficulty accessing those benefits.\nMore than half adopted avoidance behaviors\, such as carrying identification or avoiding certain places out of fear of bias from police or immigration officials\, rising to 62% among Vietnamese respondents.\n\nThe State of AAPIs New York City report presents a borough-level analysis of the experiences and needs of AAPIs in the city. TAAF surveyed 1\,400 AAPI residents across all five boroughs and found: https://taaf.org/our-work/taaf-nyc#state-of-aapis-report \n\n59% struggled to save toward a financial future\, and 50% worried about affording essentials like food\, housing\, and utilities\, in the past year.\nMore than 1 in 3 AAPIs (37%) experienced adverse treatment in the past year in their borough\, including: being insulted or called names; being harassed or threatened; being victim to physical attack; and being unfairly stopped\, searched\, questioned or abused by police.\nMore than 1 in 4 AAPIs said they faced challenges related to voting (27%)\, accessing immigration services (28%)\, and everyday communication due to language barriers (29%) in the past year.\n\n  \n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/webinar/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Report,Survey,Virtual
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260808
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260819
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SUMMARY:Chinatown Storytelling Festival 2026
DESCRIPTION:From August 8 to 18\, 2026\, Chinatown Storytelling Festival is back for its third year! This August\, look out for screenings at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema\, workshops and presentations at Think!Chinatown’s Studio\, and walking tours in the neighborhood. Chinatown Records will also be launching their Radio Station on August 8th\, listen LIVE! Chinatown Storytelling Festival is here to cultivate the creation and viewership of projects featuring our under-told stories. The Festival celebrates stories from within the Chinatown community and informs our next generations of storytellers to come.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/chinatown-storytelling-festival-2026/
LOCATION:Multiple NYC locations
CATEGORIES:Arts and Cultural Programs,Festival,Hybrid,In Person,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T140000
DTSTAMP:20260721T141054Z
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SUMMARY:Images of America: Chinese in Tehama County
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a webinar on Images of America: Chinese in Tehama County with Jessica Chew. During the California Gold Rush\, Red Bluff emerged as one of Northern California’s most important transportation hubs. Called the “head of navigation” on the Sacramento River\, travelers\, merchants\, miners\, loggers\, and agricultural workers journeyed here and continued north in California\, seeking their fortunes. Chinese immigrants established a thriving Chinatown that served as a center of economic development providing lodging for seasonal workers\, employment opportunities\, banking\, and correspondence services that linked laborers to their families in China. \nJessica will share insights from her research into her family history\, uncovering historical records\, newspaper archives\, family photographs and recording oral history interviews. She will describe how forgotten family stories were pieced together to illustrate the history of Red Bluff’s Chinatown. Her presentation will demonstrate how genealogy research can help bring forgotten communities back to life\, preserve stories before they are lost\, and reconnect families with a shared heritage spanning more than 150 years. \nDate: Saturday\, August 8\, 2026\, Time: 10:00 AM (US Pacific Time)/ 1PM EST \nVenue (online): Zoom \nJessica Chew is the founder of the Helen and Joe Chew Foundation and the only grandchild of Joe You Chew\, a Chinese American born in Red Bluff\, California’s Historic Chinatown in 1921. As a sixth generation Chinese American whose family immigrated to America in 1865 as herbalist’s physicians\, Jessica is dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of Red Bluff’s Chinatown and its importance as the last steamboat stop on the Sacramento River during the Gold Rush.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/24263/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260811T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260811T150000
DTSTAMP:20260807T111139Z
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SUMMARY:Our Shared Legacy: The Power of Place In AAPI Advocacy Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This event will explore why historic preservation is an important policy issue for AAPI communities and how it connects to broader work across immigration\, civil rights\, housing\, health\, education\, and other issues. Attendees will learn about the federal policies and funding that support historic preservation\, current and emerging threats to these efforts\, and recent policy changes shaping the field. This educational event will highlight opportunities for coalition partners to engage in preserving and protecting AAPI histories\, communities\, and cultural heritage.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/our-shared-legacy-the-power-of-place-in-aapi-advocacy-webinar/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260813T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260813T200000
DTSTAMP:20260731T115348Z
CREATED:20260731T115348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260731T115348Z
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SUMMARY:Asian American Forum: Pioneering Radio Program Reunion Panel
DESCRIPTION:A virtual panel discussion of former guests on the “Asian American Forum\,” a pioneering weekly radio program that aired on public radio in Connecticut from 1990 to 1996. Moderated by Edward Lim\, former Business Librarian at the University of Connecticut. \nThe Asian American Forum (AAF) was created and hosted by Dr. Paul Bock and Mrs. Phoebe Ten Yin Ho Bock\, and was the first Asian American college radio program on the East Coast. The collection represents vital oral history documenting Asian American perspectives primarily from the Northeast corridor\, with additional representation from Washington\, California\, Hawaii\, and other U.S. regions. Later in life\, the Bocks moved to Seattle and donated their collection of AAF episodes originally recorded on audio tape to the Wing Luke Museum. \nPresented by University of Connecticut and Wing Luke Museum. \nPresented online in a webinar format. No in-person seating. This presentation will be recorded.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/asian-american-forum-pioneering-radio-program-reunion-panel/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Radio,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T163000
DTSTAMP:20260807T182644Z
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SUMMARY:Filipino Canadian Book Festival: Across the Page\, Across Canada: A Community Reading and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual community reading and conversation celebrating Filipino Canadian literature and diasporic storytelling.\n\n\nFacilitated by award-winning Filipino Canadian author Renato Gandia\, this special gathering brings together authors Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez\, Chris Gatchalian and Mark Sy for readings and a thoughtful discussion about migration\, faith\, memory\, sexuality and belonging. \nRecently named the first Filipino recipient of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and winner of the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize from PRISM international\, Gandia’s work offers a powerful meditation on the complexities of identity\, history and home. \nThrough featured readings and an open discussion\, we will reflect on how writing can connect communities across distance\, hold complicated histories and create space for recognition\, tenderness and possibility. \nTime: 12:30–1:30 p.m. PST\nFormat: Virtual panel with a live audience \nThis event will also be streamed live at the Museum of Vancouver. If you’d like to attend in person\, please RSVP here. To attend virtually\, please RSVP using this page!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/across-the-page-across-canada-a-community-reading-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Book,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260816T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260816T160000
DTSTAMP:20260812T071824Z
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SUMMARY:Eastwind Summer Book Club: Orphan Bachelors by Fae Myenne Ng(Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our second annual Summer Book Club where we’ll be discussing Fae Myenne Ng’s intimate and striking memoir Orphan Bachelors!\n\n\nJoin us for an heartfelt discussion on Orphan Bachelors\, the Fae Myenne Ng’s award-winning memoir on being a confession baby\, Chinatown daughter\, baa-bai sister\, caretaker of exotics\, literary balloon peddler\, and grand historian of a doomed American family. \nPlease RSVP for the Zoom link. This will be a virtual event\, so come in your comfiest clothes and have your favorite snacks on hand. We encourage you to finish the book before the event\, but you’re more than welcome to join us no matter how far you’ve read. We look forward to seeing you! \nThere is also a special book club sale for the book on our website. The paperback is $5 off for book club attendees! \nAbout the Book \nIn pre-Communist China\, Fae Myenne Ng’s father memorized a book of lies and gained entry to the United States as a stranger’s son\, evading the Exclusion Act\, an immigration law which he believed was meant to extinguish the Chinese American family. During the McCarthy era\, he entered the Confession Program in a failed attempt to salvage his marriage only to have his citizenship revoked to resident alien. Exclusion and Confession\, America’s two slamming doors. As Ng’s father said\, “America didn’t have to kill any Chinese\, the Exclusion Act ensured none would be born.” \nNg was her parents’ precocious first born\, the translator\, the bossy eldest sister. A child raised by a seafaring father and a seamstress mother\, by San Francisco’s Chinatown and its legendary Orphan Bachelors — men without wives or children\, Exclusion’s living legacy. She and her siblings were their stand-in descendants\, Ng’s family grocery store their haven. \nEach Orphan Bachelor bequeathed the children their true American inheritance. Ng absorbed their suspicious\, lonely\, barren nature; she found storytelling and chosen children in the form of her students. Exclusion’s legacy followed her from the back alleys of Chinatown in the 60s\, to Manhattan in the 80s\, to the high desert of California in the 90s\, until her return home in the 2000s when the untimely deaths of her youngest brother and her father devastated the family. A a child\, Ng believed her father’s lies; as an adult\, she returned to her childhood home to write his truth.Orphan Bachelors weaves together the history of one family\, lucky to exist and nevertheless doomed; an elegy for brothers estranged and for elders lost; and insights into writing between languages and teaching between generations. It also features Cantonese profanity\, snakes that cure fear and opium that conquers sorrow\, and a seemingly immortal creep of tortoises. In this powerful remembrance\, Fae Myenne Ng gives voice to her valiant ancestors\, her bold and ruthless Orphan Bachelors\, and her own inner self\, howling in Cantonese\, impossible to translate but determined to be heard.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/eastwind-summer-book-club-orphan-bachelors/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260816T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260816T193000
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SUMMARY:Model ShakesParody: A Comedy Night of Errors (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:Come see Shakespeare as skewered by one of the most acclaimed sketch comedy teams in New York (or come see Model Majority inspired by one of the most acclaimed playwrights in history\, depending on your point of view). \nModel Majority is proud to be a feature selection of the Little Shakespeare Festival\, brought to New York by Frigid NYC. With a festival theme of “ShakesPUNK”\, Model Majority’s talented writers and performers will bring a variety of hysterical comedy sketches inspired by the works of the Bard for a fun and memorable evening. \nFeaturing:\nVeronica Dang\nKevin Chew\nCarol Lee\nElijah Guo\nNicole Hendrickson\nAllie Sharma Nelson
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/model-shakesparody-a-comedy-night-of-errors-hybrid/
LOCATION:Under St Marks Theater\, 94 St Mark's Place\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Hybrid,In Person,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260826T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260826T140000
DTSTAMP:20260807T125158Z
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SUMMARY:Asian American Voter Survey 2026 Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a briefing on newly released findings from the 2026 Asian American Voter Survey\, the longest-running pre-election survey that focuses on how Asian Americans think about the election\, presidential candidates\, party identification\, key issues shaping their political engagement\, and more. This is our movement’s #YearOfAction \nPresented by APIAVote\, AAPI Data\, NCAPA
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/asian-american-voter-survey-2026-webinar/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Data,Survey,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260830T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260830T133000
DTSTAMP:20260820T133007Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T133007Z
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Mao and the Cultural Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on a new biography\, Bao Pu challenges received opinion on Jiang Qing\, Chairman Mao’s wife\, and her role in the Cultural Revolution. \n\n\nFull Talk Title: Rethinking Mao and the Cultural Revolution: Insights from a New Chronology of Jiang Qing \nFor non-Columbia affiliates\, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a valid government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00pm on Sept. 11 for campus access. \nNames will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event. NOTE: You cannot access campus using the QR code from Eventbrite. \nSpeaker: Bao Pu\, Founder of New Century Press\, Hong Kong \nModerator: Andrew J. Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science\, Columbia University \nJiang Qing (1914–1991)\, Mao Zedong’s wife for 38 years and a leading figure in the Cultural Revolution\, was purged after his death and officially blamed for much of its destruction. This talk drawing on renowned author Yu Ruxin’s new chronological biography\, challenges the official verdict and offers fresh insights into Mao’s thinking\, his intentions for the Cultural Revolution\, and how the political movement shaped modern China and continues to have major influences today. \nThis event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/rethinking-mao-and-the-cultural-revolution/
LOCATION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute (located at the School of International and Public Affairs)\, 420 West 118th Street\, Room 918\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T220000
DTSTAMP:20260514T131339Z
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SUMMARY:Ma-Yi Theatre Free FALL Playwriting Workshop with Lisa Sanaye Dring
DESCRIPTION:Ma-Yi Theatre Free FALL Playwriting Workshop with Lisa Sanaye Dring\n\n\nDue to the overwhelming response to our summer Free Playwriting Workshop\, Ma-Yi Theater Company is thrilled to announce two additional FREE playwriting workshops in Fall 2026\, taught by award-winning playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring\, author of SUMO and HAPPY FALL. \nCreated for Filipino American and AANHPI aspiring writers\, these workshops are open to writers who are ready to begin\, grow\, experiment\, or finally say: Yes. I’m writing the play. \nBoth classes are completely FREE and will offer participants a supportive\, rigorous\, and energizing space to explore the fundamentals of playwriting\, including character\, dialogue\, action\, structure\, theme\, and theatrical style. Through writing prompts\, discussion\, readings\, and feedback\, participants will generate new pages and develop their voices in community with fellow writers. \nThe first six sessions will meet online\, making the workshop accessible for working adults and busy schedules. The workshop will then culminate in an in-person showcase presentation\, where participants’ work will be brought to life by professional actors and directors. \nThis is more than a class. It is a chance to write\, dream\, build\, revise\, and hear your words leap off the page. \nFree. Online. Fun. Limited slots available. Register early. \nMondays 7pm-10pm – September 21 – November 9 \nor \nTuesdays 7pm-10pm – September 22 – November 10 \nFor more information: info@ma-yitheatre.org \nSpace is limited— signing up does not guarantee entry into class.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/ma-yi-theatre-free-fall-playwriting-workshop-with-lisa-sanaye-dring/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Hybrid,In Person,Theater,Virtual,Writing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T213000
DTSTAMP:20260902T212025Z
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SUMMARY:Between China and the West: Gu Hongming’s Cultural Homecoming
DESCRIPTION:Few figures in modern Chinese intellectual history have generated as much fascination and controversy as Gu Hongming (1857–1928). His extraordinary life\, lived across cultures and civilizations\, continues to raise profound questions about cultural identity\, intellectual tradition\, and the relationship between China and the West. As discussions of global order and intercultural dialogue take on renewed urgency\, revisiting Gu Hongming’s life and thought offers a timely opportunity to reflect on the historical encounters between China and the wider world. \nThe Renwen Society of China Institute is pleased to present an online lecture by Dr. Chunmei Du\, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Lingnan University\, Hong Kong\, on September 12\, 2026 (8:00–9:30 PM EDT). Based on her newly published Chinese book\, Gu Hongming’s Eccentric Chinese Odyssey (Qishi Yilü: Gu Hongming Huanxiang Ji\, 2026)\, the lecture offers a fresh perspective on one of the most intriguing figures in modern Chinese history. \nGu Hongming (1857–1928) remains one of the most controversial figures in modern Chinese intellectual history. Born in British Malaya and educated in Europe\, he stunned many by remaking himself as a loyal supporter of the Qing dynasty and a devoted defender of Confucianism. He championed monarchy and Confucian morality\, even defending practices such as footbinding and the queue\, while proclaiming the superiority of the “spirit of the Chinese people” over modern Western civilization. Seen by many of his Chinese contemporaries as an ultraconservative\, he nonetheless rose to prominence in the West as a prophetic voice from the East \nToday\, as shifting geopolitics revive debates about “the West versus the Non-West\,” Gu Hongming’s reflections feel strikingly contemporary. His critique opens up space for intercultural dialogue from a perspective that is at once insider and outsider. His legacy also speaks to ongoing efforts to reimagine “authentic” Chinese culture as a powerful vehicle for projecting global soft power. \nPublished in 2026 by Social Sciences Academic Press\, the Chinese edition of Gu Hongming’s Eccentric Chinese Odyssey traces Gu’s intellectual and psychological journey against the sweeping currents of global history. Following this “cultural amphibian” across geographical\, cultural\, and racial boundaries\, the book explores his lifelong search for belonging. It brings to life a trickster-sage who moved restlessly between worlds\, never fully at home in either. That in-between existence shadowed him with personal loss\, yet it also gave him the distinctive voice that carried his ideas into global civilizational debates. \nIn this lecture\, Professor Du will draw on her research and the writing of Gu Hongming’s Eccentric Chinese Odyssey to reexamine Gu Hongming’s intellectual world and his lifelong search for cultural belonging. Through the story of this remarkable “cultural amphibian\,” she will explore how Gu crossed geographical\, cultural\, and racial boundaries while navigating between civilizations\, and how his complex legacy continues to illuminate questions of intercultural understanding\, dialogue\, and identity in today’s world.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/between-china-and-the-west-gu-hongmings-cultural-homecoming/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Lecture,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reading America: Viet Thanh Nguyen on Maxine Hong Kingston: Acclaimed Authors on Great Writing That Resonates Today
DESCRIPTION:An eight-part series of online classes with Annette Gordon-Reed\, Joshua Cohen\, Colm Tóibín\, Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and more\n\n\nStarting this June\, Library of America presents an eight-part series of online classes featuring leading contemporary authors on the LOA writers that resonate deeply with them and have something vital to tell us at this moment. \n\n\nYou can purchase access to the entire series and save on the per-session cost\, or pick and choose individual sessions to attend. See below for more information on registration. \n\n\n  \nREGISTRATON INFO \n\nNov. 17: Viet Thanh Nguyen on Maxine Hong Kingston\nBeginning with her stunning 1976 memoir The Woman Warrior\, Maxine Hong Kingston has forged a profound\, richly imagined\, and genre-defying narrative of the American experience from her vantage as the daughter of Chinese immigrants. In this session\, we explore Kingston’s most influential books\, The Woman Warrior and China Men\, as she intended—back-to-back\, as one longer epic about Chinese Americans. These hybrid books move between fiction and nonfiction\, imagination and history\, realism and fantasy\, as they weave Chinese immigrants and their descendants into the fabric of the United States\, where they have belonged since the middle of the nineteenth century.\n\nEight Sessions (scroll down for full descriptions) \n\nJune 1: Annette Gordon-Reed on the Declaration of Independence and Lemuel Haynes’s “Liberty Further Extended”\nJuly 9: Joanne B. Freeman on Alexander Hamilton and Alexis de Tocqueville\nJuly 28: Nell Painter on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Sojourner Truth\nAug. 18: Joshua Cohen on Isaac Bashevis Singer\nSept. 24: Parul Sehgal on Arthur Miller\nOct. 29: Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop\nNov. 17: Viet Thanh Nguyen on Maxine Hong Kingston\nDec. 3: Namwali Serpell on William Faulkner and Toni Morrison\n\n\n\nSessions will take place on Zoom and last 75 minutes. Attendees are encouraged to share questions in advance and during the class. Each session will be recorded and shared with registrants to watch anytime. Space is limited and registration will be on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n  \nPRICING \nSeries pass: $350 (includes access to all sessions and 25% off all titles on the LOA Web Store) \nLOA Members get the special members’ rate of $300 ($50 off). Learn more about the perks of becoming an LOA Member. \nIndividual session: $50 ($40 for LOA Members) \n\n\n  \nSCHOLARSHIPS \nLOA is committed to making our programming accessible to as many people as possible. \nIf the cost to attend this series presents a hardship\, or you are a teacher interested in attending for professional development\, we are pleased to offer a number of scholarship places at a reduced rate. For more information and to request a tuition waiver\, please e-mail support@loa.org. \nIf you would like to support Library of America’s online programming and help sponsor a reduced-rate scholarship for a deserving student or teacher\, please consider making a $50 donation at checkout on Eventbrite or reach out to support@loa.org. \n\n\n  \nSESSION DESCRIPTIONS \nAll sessions meet at 2 pm ET. \nAnnette Gordon-Reed on the Declaration of Independence and Lemuel Haynes’s “Liberty Further Extended”\nMonday\, June 1\n“The American story\, from the very beginning\, has been multifaceted\, multicultured\, and multiracial\,” writes Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed. “People of color\, even in the most dire situations\, have always found ways to make their thoughts and feelings known.” Lemuel Haynes (1753–1833) was a Revolutionary War veteran\, the first ordained Black minister in the United States\, and the first African American to receive an advanced degree. In the opening session of Reading America\, we will discuss the Declaration of Independence and Haynes’s response to it\, a 1776 essay entitled “Liberty Further Extended: Or Free Thoughts on the Illegality of Slave-Keeping.” \nJoanne B. Freeman on Alexander Hamilton and Alexis de Tocqueville\nThursday\, July 9\nThroughout our nation’s history\, its citizens\, residents\, and foreign observers have wrestled with the meaning of American democracy. In this session\, we look at two writers with much to say on the topic: Alexander Hamilton and Alexis de Tocqueville. Hamilton had lifelong doubts about democracy\, even as he worked to create and uphold America’s new democratic republic. Tocqueville\, a French visitor to the United States in 1831–32\, was a witness par excellence\, describing and judging American democracy as only an outsider could. Putting these men in conversation reveals democracy in all its complexity\, and exposes the beating heart of America. \nNell Painter on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Sojourner Truth\nTuesday\, July 28\nRalph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)\, giant of American letters\, and Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797-1883)\, feminist abolitionist stalwart\, were near contemporaries\, living ninety-five miles apart in Massachusetts in the 1840s. Emerson’s classic books\, Essays and Self-Reliance\, were published in the 1840s\, while Truth’s self-published Narrative of Sojourner Truth appeared in 1850. Both promoted and sold their books in person on the lecture circuit\, but they never met. In this session\, we stage a meeting of Emerson and Truth’s minds through a closer look at their lives and works. \nJoshua Cohen on Isaac Bashevis Singer\nTuesday\, August 18\nWhat makes a writer an American writer? Is it the accident of his birth\, or perhaps the circumstances of his exile? His language? His themes? His audience? The works of Isaac Bashevis Singer\, the seventh American citizen to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature\, raise these questions in fascinating ways. This session discusses three short classics by America’s great Yiddish writer: “Gimpel the Fool\,” “The Destruction of Kreshev\,” and “The Cafeteria.” Together\, they bring the reader from Galician Poland to Manhattan’s East Side\, and illuminate starkly different jewels—sweet\, bitter\, humorous\, sexual—in the crown of this impish giant. \nParul Sehgal on Arthur Miller\nThursday\, September 24\nArthur Miller’s plays of the 1940s and 1950s—All My Sons\, Death of a Salesman\, The Crucible\, A View from the Bridge—electrified theatergoers and established him as one of the indispensable voices of the postwar era in America. With a particular focus on All My Sons\, this session explores some of the characteristic conflicts of Miller’s work—between fathers and sons\, desire and obligation\, self and community—while paying close attention to the effect his mastery of dramatic devices such as motive\, psychology\, and resolution has on readers and audience members. \nColm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop\nThursday\, October 28\nThe poems of Elizabeth Bishop are “more wryly radiant\, more touching\, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime\,” wrote James Merrill. She is “our greatest national treasure.” Bishop’s work is notable for its use of narrative\, its precision and reliance on exact detail\, its reticence and power. This session will explore\, via poems and letters\, her ideas of loss and exile\, plus the tone she takes: melancholy\, precise\, hushed\, attentive\, and careful to say nothing more than what each occasion demands. \nViet Thanh Nguyen on Maxine Hong Kingston\nTuesday\, November 17\nBeginning with her stunning 1976 memoir The Woman Warrior\, Maxine Hong Kingston has forged a profound\, richly imagined\, and genre-defying narrative of the American experience from her vantage as the daughter of Chinese immigrants. In this session\, we explore Kingston’s most influential books\, The Woman Warrior and China Men\, as she intended—back-to-back\, as one longer epic about Chinese Americans. These hybrid books move between fiction and nonfiction\, imagination and history\, realism and fantasy\, as they weave Chinese immigrants and their descendants into the fabric of the United States\, where they have belonged since the middle of the nineteenth century. \nNamwali Serpell on William Faulkner and Toni Morrison\nThursday\, December 3\nWhile delivering the keynote address at a 1985 Faulkner conference in Oxford\, Mississippi\, Toni Morrison remarked that “in a very personal way\, as a reader\, he had an enormous effect” on her. Morrison’s engagement with Faulkner was a lifelong project\, from her examination of The Sound and the Fury in her master’s thesis to ongoing reflections on his work in university lectures. This session delves into novels by Faulkner and Morrison—Absalom\, Absalom! and A Mercy\, respectively—to explore their treatment of Native Americans\, their interest in co-created stories and invented language\, Sutpen’s Hundred in relation to Jacob Vaark’s unfinished house\, and the overlapping themes of possessive love and stopped time. \n\n\nCourse curator: Bernard Schwartz \n\n\nLibrary of America\, a nonprofit organization\, champions our nation’s cultural heritage by publishing America’s greatest writing in authoritative new editions and providing resources for readers to explore this rich\, living legacy.
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CATEGORIES:Book,Virtual,Writing
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