• “Mamdani Mubarak!”: A/P/A Prospects in the Mayor’s Office

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. When he is inaugurated in January 2026, Zohran Mamdani will become New York City’s first South Asian American and Muslim mayor. The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU is pleased to host a dialogue about the prospects opened with this historic election. Please join us for a discussion about the issues on […]

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    Vā Moana and Hawai‘i Futures

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands. A collaborative conversation between the artist Sean Connelly (2025 Artist-in-Residence), Professor Albert Refiti (Auckland University of Technology), and the audience. ‘Awa (kava) will be available for those who wish to partake. Connelly’s exhibition, Hawai’i is not the […]

  • Author Talk: Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    Presented by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Alvin K. Wong (University of Hong Kong) joins the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality for a discussion about his new book Unruly Comparison Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone (Duke University Press, […]

    Tatou Festival- Short Films: Action, Climate Awareness, Activism

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    iA Tatou Festival Program. Presented by Te Ao Mana. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. 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 […]

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  • BRIDGE FOR FRIDGE: A Mutual Aid Event

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    Hosted by AP/A BRIDGE. Sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER A/P/A BRIDGE hosts a teach-in about the effects of NYU’s gentrification of New York City, with a specific focus on neighboring A/P/A communities. Featured speakers include a representative from CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities. BRIDGE welcomes all members of the NYU and non-NYU community […]

    The Security of Identity Politics: The 2025 A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Symposium

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. This symposium will interrogate how different forms of Asian/Pacific/American identity politics both serve and challenge notions of security amid the intensification of the border crisis, chauvinist populism, and forever wars. On one hand, representation-based identity politics offer security and comfort […]

  • Know Your Rights: An Immigrant Rights Teach-in for the NYU Community

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    Presented by the NYU CRACS Sanctuary Working Group. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, Institute of Human Development and Social Change, Latinx Project, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, and Urban Democracy Lab. REGISTER Please join us in this Know […]

    Too Dark for the World: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the Black Pacific

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY
    Hybrid Event

    Presented by the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Quito J. Swan’s talk, Too Dark for the World, explores Black internationalism and decolonization in Oceania. Drawing from archival research conducted across Oceania, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, it will discuss how Melanesian liberation struggles engaged Black Power, […]

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  • Nadine Fattaleh & Josh MacPhee: A Conversation on Archiving Student Movements

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. A conversation about the archiving of student movement materials and ephemera with Nadine Fattaleh (Fall 2024 Student Artist-in-Residence) and Josh MacPhee (Founder, Interference Archive). Vani Natarajan (Librarians and Archivists with Palestine) offers introductory remarks.   NYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event, open to the public. Registration […]

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  • Materials of Solidarity: A Tour with Nadine Fattaleh

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    UPDATE: The tour has reached full capacity. If we receive cancellations, tickets will automatically be released on this page. Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Join researcher and curator Nadine Fattaleh (A/P/A Institute Fall 2024 Student Artist-in-Residence) for a special tour of Materials of Solidarity. Fattaleh will present an overview of the exhibition, and […]

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    Poetry Night at Materials of Solidarity: Featuring Special Guest Suheir Hammad

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    Presented by NYU Students for Justice in Palestine and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. As part of her residency with the A/P/A Institute at NYU, Nadine Fattaleh curates an evening of poetry within her exhibition Materials of Solidarity, “a multivocal response to the age-old question of the relationship between graphic production and social transformation.” Hear […]

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