• Data Storytelling in Practice with Visualizing Palestine

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of Art and Art Professions, Department of English, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, Gallatin Human Rights Initiative, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Middle East and Islamic Studies Department, NYU Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, and Program […]

    Moving Objects: Modes of Conveyance & the Making of Global Asias

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Pennsylvania State University’s Global Asias Initiative. The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Pennsylvania State University’s Global Asias Initiative are pleased to present “Moving Objects: Modes of Conveyance & the Making of Global Asias,”  a one-day symposium at NYU and a Convergence feature for a special issue of the […]

    Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America

    20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY

    Presented by the NYU Center for Black Visual Culture. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Jeff Chang and cultural critic Bakari Kitwana discuss Chang’s new publication Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America (Mariner, 2025). This conversation will be followed by a book signing, during which copies will be available […]

  • “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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