Presented by Northeastern’s Global Asian Studies and Center for the Arts and the Brown Arts Institute (BAI) at Brown University.

Join us for the inaugural event in the “Intimacies of Black Asia” series, a multi-year collaboration that explores the many dimensions in which Africana and Global Asian histories, cultures, and creativities overlap, intermingle, and entangle across Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean worlds.

A two-part event at Northeastern University and Brown University with filmmaker and scholar Richard Fung, whose video work focuses on subjects ranging from the role of the Asian male in gay pornography to colonialism, immigration, racism, homophobia, AIDS, justice in Israel/Palestine, and his own family history. Using a 20-year archive of video interviews, his latest film The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo (2024) explores the mysterious death of Harold Sonny Ladoo, the first Trinidadian and the second Caribbean novelist published in Canada.
 

Thursday, October 10
4:30-6:30pm

Northeastern University Alumni Center
716 Columbus Ave.
Sixth Floor
Boston, MA 02120

• Framing remarks by Kris Manjapra, Stearns Trustee Professor of History and Global Studies at Northeastern.
• Artist conversation moderated by Denise Khor, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Visual Studies at Northeastern.
   

Friday, October 11
6:00-8:00pm

Brown University's Martinos Auditorium
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell St.
Providence, RI 02906

• The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo (2024) film premiere and conversation with the artist. Moderated by Thea Quiray Tagle, Associate Curator of The Bell Gallery at Brown University.
   

Co-sponsored by Northeastern’s Humanities Center, the Brown Arts Institute, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, The Department of American Studies at Brown, and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University.