How are artists and performers of Asian descent disrupting the art world, including the world of classical ballet? What are current trends in Asian American art and theater? How can ...
Special screening: “About Face: Disrupting Ballet” (Jennifer Lin, 2025, 60 min, USA, English, DCP) ABOUT FACE: DISRUPTING BALLET is a feature-length documentary that spotlights Georgina Pazcoguin and Phil Chan, two ...
APSI’s summer book club is back by popular demand. This year, the books have been chosen to set the stage for APSI’s annual keynote talk (November 2026) which will feature ...
APSI’s summer book club is back by popular demand. This year, the books have been chosen to set the stage for APSI’s annual keynote talk (November 2026) which will feature ...
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A feeling and an affliction, torn provokes a sense of woundedness and oscillation. It can describe a literal splitting of one thing into two. It can speak to a state ...
–Thandi Cai, 2024, 47 min, USA, in English– Introduction and post-screening discussion moderated by Professor Eileen Chow. ***Two storytellers, one community, and 150 years of untold history.*** “Bluff City Chinese” ...
Join us as Yun Emily Wang, Assistant Professor of Music, takes us through an “ethnography of listening” drawing from her fieldwork at a care home for Chinese immigrants in one ...
Film Screening: “Dìdi” (Sean Wang, 2024, 91 min, USA, English and Mandarin with English subtitles, DCP) In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable ...
Please join the author of the award-winning memoir, as we discuss Chinese food, Detroit, and family.
**Changfu Chang, 2025, 80 minutes, USA, in English with English subtitles** Join APSI and the Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program for a special screening of a powerful new documentary ...
Movie screening of Mama Dancers
FACES OF SEOUL (Gina Kim, 2009, 93 min, South Korea and USA, Korean and English w/English subtitles, Digital) — Virtual Q&A to follow with director Gina Kim FACES OF SEOUL ...
The rise of China and its great power competition with the U.S. will be one of the defining issues of our generation. But to understand modern China, one has to ...
Lenora Lee, Artistic Director of Lenora Lee Dance, will share her approaches to creating large-scale multimedia, immersive, and interactive dance experiences, heavily focused on her research in communities, created specifically ...
WITHIN THESE WALLS (Lenora Lee & Tatsu Aoki, 2024, 76 min, USA, English, Digital) In association with Lenora Lee Dance, Lenora Lee Productions, Innocent Eyes and Lenses Films, and Asian ...
A film screening of the documentary, Israelism, followed by a Q&A with Simone Zimmerman, a protagonist of the film and co-founder of IfNotNow. Tuesday, Jan 21 7pm (doors at 6:30pm) ...
We invite you to join a screening of The Palestine Exception, a documentary directed by JAN HAAKEN and JENNIFER RUTH, followed by a panel discussion including the directors. At Duke ...
What can the Netflix series Beef show us about racial guilt and racial rage? Do cute, Asianized objects spark joy or fetishize race? How can a self-described “favorite South Asian ...
The event begins at 7PM (EDT) with opening remarks by Professor Ralph Litzinger (Cultural Anthropology). Following the documentary screening, stay for a conversation with producers Jewher Ilham and Janice Englehart, ...
Film Screening: “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World” (Radu Jude, 2023, 164 min, Romania, Romanian with English subtitles, DCP) As he proved with his scandalous, ...