Presented by the NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Professor Emily L. Hue and Dr. Linda Luu discuss Hue's recent publication Performing Vulnerability: Risking Art and Life in the Burmese Diaspora (University of Washington Press, 2025). A groundbreaking exploration of how diasporic Burmese artists navigate the
A Tatou Festival Program. Presented by Te Ao Mana. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. TICKETS In partnership with the Tatou Festival, the A/P/A Institute at NYU co-sponsors a screening of short films featuring stories of Ea (alive & free). Through the voices and visions of Indigenous and Pacific-based artists and filmmakers, the films
Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. This fall, we are honored to present Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong, the artist’s first photographic exhibition in New York City. One of the most celebrated writers of our time, Vuong invites visitors to gaze through his aperture and offers a meditation on loss, labor, and kinship through
Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTRATION (open to all graduate students) A/P/A Institute Research Affiliate Nancy Billings (PhD candidate, Yale University) presents, “1906 Escape from the SS Chile: Chinese Exclusion and the Panama Canal” at this session of the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting.
Presented by The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Growing up as an immigrant teenager in New York in the 1980s, Tae Won Yu attempted to navigate his new surroundings by browsing the city's libraries, used bookstores, record stores, and junk shops, collecting scraps and ephemera that seemed to
Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. This program brings together artist and writer Ocean Vuong and photographer Tommy Kha to discuss Vuong’s photography practice and his exhibition, Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong, on view at the A/P/A Institute at NYU. A book signing will follow the conversation. Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong, the artist’s
