Worldwide Locations
Worldwide Locations
Calendar
Feb 1, 2013 -
12:30pm
to 2:00pm
Hong Kong
Discussion
Women and Gender
Luncheon Presentation by Dame Joan Stringer, Principal & Vice-Chancellor, Edinburgh Napier University
Besides combatting ingrained attitudes from male-dominated board...
Feb 1, 2013 -
5:00pm
to 8:00pm
Hong Kong
Other
Future Exhibitions
Workshop with Wendy W Fok, designer
“A shape, a volume, a color, a surface is something itself. It shouldn't be concealed as part of a fairly different whole....
Feb 2, 2013 -
1:00pm
to 2:00pm
Texas
These opportunities to see Yoshio Taniguchi's first free-standing structure in the United States will focus on the materials, influences, and ambience of the building...
Feb 2, 2013 -
1:00pm
to 5:30pm
Hong Kong
Discussion
Education
Workshop with Dylan Kwok & Maarit Eskola, Designers
“For us, the Asia Society Hong Kong Center building's finest quality is the way it embraces nature...
Feb 2, 2013 -
1:00pm
to 5:30pm
Hong Kong
Discussion
Arts
Workshop with Nicolas Cheng & Beatrice Brovia, Artists and Designers
Looking at everything from exquisitely tiny jewelry and small objects that enrich our daily lives...
Feb 2, 2013 -
2:00pm
to 3:00pm
Texas
Docent-led tours of Asia Society Texas Center’s exhibitions allow visitors to experience art on a personal level, learn about art historical periods and styles, and...
Feb 3, 2013 -
12:00pm
to 4:00pm
Hong Kong
Special Event
Come one, come all for a day of fun and festivities as the Asia Society Hong Kong Center and Morgan Stanley bring you exciting Chinese New Year cultural events for the en...
Feb 4, 2013 -
6:30pm
to 8:00pm
Hong Kong
Discussion
Visual Arts
Evening Presentation by Emily Cheng, Artist
Drinks Reception at 6:30pm
Presentation at 7:00pm
Close at 8:00pm
“The beauty of the static nature of art is the space i...
Feb 5, 2013 -
5:30pm
to 8:00pm
Northern California
Other
Asia Society Northern California is pleased to co-sponsor the 3rd Annual Networking and Chinese New Year Celebration hosted by the Bay Area Council on February 5 at the J...
Feb 5, 2013 -
6:30pm
to 8:00pm
New York
Panel Discussion
Center on U.S.-China Relations
Reporting on the fast-changing land that is China has long been an adventure and a challenge. To celebrate the launch of Asia Society's new online magazine, Chin...
Feb 5, 2013 -
6:30pm
to 8:00pm
Hong Kong
Discussion
Social Issues
Evening Discussion with: Shanthi Flynn, Walmart; Alistair Lamont, The Alphaeight Institute; Dee Poon, Chief Brand Officer, PYE & CEO, China Retail, Esquel Group;...
Feb 6, 2013 -
6:00pm
to 8:00pm
Northern California
Film
Asia Society Northern California is pleased to co-sponsor the U.S. premiere of Shanghai Calling with ChinaSF on Wednesday, February 6 at The Premier Theatre at...
Feb 6, 2013 -
6:30pm
to 8:00pm
New York
Meet the Author
Policy
Please join Kishore Mahbubani, in conversation with Ian Bremmer, for a discussion on the policies and approaches necessary to govern in an increasingly interconnected and...
Feb 6, 2013 -
7:30pm
to 7:30pm
Texas
One person out of every thousand is born with autism. It follows that China has over one million autism patients.
David/Dafu (Wen Zhang) is one of them: he looks absent-m...
Feb 7, 2013 -
6:00pm
to 8:00pm
Texas
Celebrate the Year of the Snake in style at Asia Society Texas Center. The first Leo Bar of 2013 takes on the lunar new year, with generous underwriting by Texas Capital...
Feb 7, 2013 -
6:00pm
to 8:30pm
India
Panel Discussion
Women and Gender
After the horrific December incident in New Delhi and the strong and immediate response that reverberated around the world, this event provides a forum for diverse speake...
Feb 7, 2013 -
8:00pm
to 10:00pm
New York
Performance
Music
Renowned pipa virtuoso Wu Man performs classic and contemporary chamber orchestra works with progressive New York classical ensemble The Knights.
Igor Stravinsky
Concert...
Feb 8, 2013 -
6:00pm
to 9:00pm
New York
Special Event
Popular Culture
Please note: This event has been canceled to inclement weather.
Expand your circle and connect with new peers from other companies while adding a dash of culture to your...
Feb 8, 2013 -
6:00pm
to 8:00pm
India
Exhibition
Visual Arts
Award-winning artist Risham Syed will talk about Metropolyptical: A Tale of a City, her exhibition at Project 88 gallery. Syed's current work addresses the huge influ...
Feb 8, 2013 -
7:00pm
to 7:00pm
Southern California
Film
Film
SOLD OUT!
Join us for a free screening of Shanghai Calling, followed by a Q&A with producer Janet Yang.
Written/Directed by SCA Alumnus Danuel Hsia
Pro...
Feb 9, 2013 -
11:00am
to 11:00am
Texas
Performing Arts
Asia Society Texas Center Members are invited to brunch with Korean American fine art photographer CYJO, whose KYOPO project is featured in Portraiture Now: Asian Am...
Feb 9, 2013 -
1:00pm
to 4:00pm
New York
Special Event
UPDATE: This event IS happening rain or shine! Come on by!
Moon Over Manhattan: Lunar New Year Family Day
Celebrate the Year of the Snake
Asia Society rings in the...
Feb 9, 2013 -
2:00pm
to 2:00pm
Texas
Performing Arts
America is a nation brimming with cultural collisions, collaborations, and coexistences. Artist CYJO, who immigrated from Korea to the United States at the age of two, ex...
Feb 10, 2013 -
2:00pm
to 2:00pm
Texas
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the internment of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens...
Feb 12, 2013 -
7:30pm
to 10:30pm
GAME: Warriors vs. Rockets
Join the Golden State Warriors' Asian Heritage Night on February, 12, 2013 at Oracle Arena for an evening of fun and exciting...
Feb 13, 2013 -
6:30pm
to 8:30pm
New York
Film
Arts
Shanghai Calling
Director Daniel Hsia | USA/China | 100 min.
Shanghai Calling is a romantic comedy about modern-day American immigrants in an unfamiliar land. When an amb...
Feb 14, 2013 -
9:00am
to 11:00am
India
Special Event
U.S.-Asia
During this interactive and off-the-record discussion, Malone will draw on his extensive experience in India, Nepal, Bhutan and other regions to explore how development c...
Feb 15, 2013 -
11:30am
to 1:00pm
Texas
Special Event
Popular Culture
Former Rockets center, Yao Ming, stops by Asia Society Texas Center to share good food, great wine, and a unique look at the impact of his path-breaking career, in conver...
Feb 15, 2013 - Feb 17, 2013 -
3:00pm
to 5:00pm
Northern California
Exhibition
Literature
Welcome to the 46th California International Antiquarian Book Fair, co-sponsored by Asia Society Northern California, from February 15 to 17 at Concourse Exhibition Cente...
Feb 15, 2013 -
6:00pm
to 9:00pm
New York
Special Event
Popular Culture
Enjoy a fabulous evening of networking, art and ambiance with the LGBT community, and make new professional and personal connections. Join host Asia Society Corporate Mem...
Feb 15, 2013 -
8:00pm
to 9:30pm
New York
Performance
Theater
Master puppeteer Michika Iida of Yumehina Puppet Company leads the audience into a world of dreams and fantasies with two stunning solo plays.
Nekohime Kugutsu Mai (Cat P...
Feb 16, 2013 -
7:30pm
to 9:30pm
New York
Performance
Music
Please note: This concert is being held at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. Click here for more information
The American debut of the ground-breaking initiative I SING B...
Feb 18, 2013 - Feb 20, 2013 -
(All day)
to (All day)
Hong Kong
Special Event
Sustainable Cities
Cities across the Pacific Rim are facing growing competition to create more livable cities to attract top talent and business investment while protecting the envi...
Feb 18, 2013 -
6:30pm
to 8:00pm
Hong Kong
Discussion
Sustainable Cities
Evening Presentation by Christine Loh, Under Secretary for the Environment, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and moderated by Roger Platt, Senior V...
Feb 19, 2013 -
12:00pm
to 1:30pm
Korea
Lecture
Policy
On February 24-25, Italy will hold general elections to determine the new prime minister, following the resignation of Mr. Monti and dissolution of the parliament in Dece...
Feb 19, 2013 -
4:00pm
to 5:30pm
Philippines
Discussion
On February 19, 2013, Asia Society Philippines will be featuring 2 of their Asia 21 Young Leaders, Mark Ruiz, Co-Founder and President of MicroVentures and Hapin...
Feb 19, 2013 -
6:00pm
to 9:00pm
Southern California
Special Event
Registration Now Open!
Asia Society Southern California's 2013 Annual Gala Dinner
February 19, 2013
HONOREES
2013 Visionary of the Year Yao Ming and...
Feb 19, 2013 -
6:30pm
to 8:30pm
New York
Discussion
Finance
Please note: This event is by invitation only. For more information please contact: membership@asiasociety.org or (212) 327-9338
6:30 - 7:30 pm: Program
7:30 - 8:30 pm:...
Feb 20, 2013 -
5:00pm
to 6:30pm
New York
Discussion
Strategic Challenges
Click here to watch the complete video of this program.
Since diplomatic relations were severed in 1980, the U.S.–Iran relationship has faced a towering legacy of m...
Feb 20, 2013 -
6:30pm
to 8:30pm
India
Panel Discussion
Policy
The checks and balances thought to be boons of democracies are now coming in for scrutiny as countries like the USA and India struggle to implement much needed economic r...
Feb 20, 2013 -
7:00pm
to 8:00pm
Texas
Western powers continue to accuse Iran of attempting to develop nuclear weapons while Tehran insists that the program is only for civilian nuclear energy. Dr. Eugene Ghol...
Feb 21, 2013 -
6:30pm
to 8:00pm
New York
Lecture
Center on U.S.-China Relations
Join National Geographic magazine photographer Michael Yamashita as he shares images and stories from his newest publication, Shangri-La: Along the Tea Road to Lhasa. Yam...
Feb 21, 2013 -
7:00pm
to 9:00pm
Texas
Panel Discussion
Religions & Philosophies
As Houston claims its title as “the most diverse city in the United States,” there is a unique opportunity to understand better the depth and breadth of that...
Feb 21, 2013 -
7:30pm
to 7:30pm
Texas
Born in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan, Michika Iida is considered one of the leading lights in contemporary puppetry. Her use of life-sized puppets as well as masks to tell...
Feb 22, 2013 -
11:00am
to 6:00pm
New York
Special Event
Lifestyle
Save 20%-50% on select jewelry by Grace Chan, Zina Kao, Kai Yin Lo, Mickey Lynn, Jill Pearson, Rosena Sammi, and Mousumi Shaw; apparel, scarves and shawls by Harshita, Ro...
Feb 22, 2013 -
12:00pm
to 12:00pm
Northern California
Meet the Author
The Asia Society and Mechanics’ Institute are pleased to host celebrated author Gretel Ehrlich, the winner of PEN New England’s Henry David Thoreau Prize for...
Feb 22, 2013 -
12:00pm
to 4:00pm
Hong Kong
Special Event
Arts
Complimentary VIP tickets for Asia Society President's Circle and Corporate members
Over 60 premier galleries are represented in the Asia Hotel Art Fair Hong Kong 201...
Feb 22, 2013 -
12:30pm
to 2:00pm
Hong Kong
Discussion
Economic Trends
Luncheon Panel Discussion with: J. Frank Brown, General Atlantic, Jamshyd Godrej, Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd., Kyongsoo Lho, Seoul National University, James E....
Feb 22, 2013 -
6:30pm
to 10:00pm
Hong Kong
Special Event
Hong Kong
Celebrate the year of the snake and 1st anniversary of Asia Society Hong Kong Center at the Hong Kong Jockey Club Former Explosives Magazine. Join us at AsiaVersary to co...
Feb 22, 2013 -
7:00pm
to 7:00pm
Texas
Full-length documentaries, powerful short films, avant garde animation, adrenaline flicks, and panel discussions. Mountainfilm, through a dynamic spectrum of content...
Feb 23, 2013 -
9:00am
to 10:15am
Hong Kong
Discussion
Education
Discussion with leading education experts
Through globalization, advancement of information technology and development of knowledge-based economies, education in the 21st...
Feb 23, 2013 -
10:45am
to 12:00pm
Hong Kong
Discussion
Current Exhibitions
"Design today [then] is nothing more or less than the art of creating how we will live tomorrow."
— Fumio Nanjo, Chief Curator of Imminent Domain exhibit...
Feb 23, 2013 -
6:00pm
to 6:00pm
Texas
Full-length documentaries, powerful short films, avant garde animation, adrenaline flicks, and panel discussions. Mountainfilm, through a dynamic spectrum of content...
Feb 24, 2013 -
1:00pm
to 4:00pm
Texas
Special Event
Asia Society Texas Center’s fifth Family Day since opening will celebrate storytelling and the current exhibitions, Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Enc...
Feb 26, 2013 -
5:30pm
to 8:00pm
Northern California
Panel Discussion
U.S.-Asia
Over the last decade, America’s diplomatic, military, and strategic resources have mainly centered in the Middle East and South Asia. With the U.S. having withdrawn...
Feb 27, 2013 -
6:30pm
to 8:30pm
New York
Meet the Author
U.S.-Asia
Join eminent China scholar David Shambaugh (Tangled Titans: The United States and China and Charting China's Future) in conversation with Orville Schell, Arthur Ross...
Feb 27, 2013 -
6:30pm
to 6:30pm
Texas
Sociologist Dr. Stephen Klineberg and author Claudia Kolker explore the impact and influence of immigrant communities on Houston's changing demographics and the contr...
Feb 27, 2013 -
6:30pm
to 8:00pm
Hong Kong
Discussion
Current Exhibitions
Evening forum with architect and designer Lo Chi Wing; designer Kai-Yin Lo; designer Lee Chi Wing; and Prof. Leslie Lu, Principal, Hong Kong Design Institute (moderator)...
Feb 28, 2013 -
12:30pm
to 2:00pm
Hong Kong
Discussion
Economic Trends
Luncheon presentation by Adam Posen, President, Peterson Institute for International Economics
The near-term outlook for the global economy is more promising than the med...
Feb 28, 2013 -
6:00pm
to 8:00pm
Northern California
Special Event
Join Asia Society Northern California for our second monthly Mandarin Language Happy Hour at Tommy Toy's in San Francisco! This is a great opportunity for Mandarin sp...
Feb 28, 2013 -
6:30pm
to 8:00pm
Hong Kong
Discussion
Theater
The playwright in conversation with S. Alice Mong, Executive Director, Asia Society Hong Kong Center
"To me, to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to c...
