In July 2026, MAARC will be launching a webinar series on the second Wednesday of each month at 7pm ET / 6pm CT / 5pm MT / 4pm PT. Each webinar will last approximately one hour and is open to the public. Registration is required, but free. The webinars’ formats are varied, and include film screenings with discussion, lectures, panel discussions and talks about recent books, exhibits, multimedia projects, and so on. Pending permission from presenters, recordings of this series will be available on this page.
The inaugural set of webinars are a part of the “Amplify! Festival of Asian American Music, Sound and Scholarship!” The in-person segment of the festival will take place at Asian Improv aRts Midwest and Elastic Arts in Chicago from September 24 to 26, 2026.
Webinar Schedule (Click on date for more information and to register):
July 8: Tina Huynh, “Songs of Little Saigon”
August 12: Chiara Cox, “Belonging: Asian Perspectives in Opera”
September 9: Yiqi Guo, “Transnational Musical Exchange and Community Building through Pe̍h-ōe-jī“ and Zechary Phouthavong, “Constructing Lao American Identity Through Music and Performance at Lao New Year Festivals Across the United States”
October 21 (please note this is the third Wednesday of October): Christine Kaford, “Between Two Stages: Vietnamese American Identity, Music, and the Quiet Journey Toward Nursing Education”
November 11: C. Shen Yuan, “Community Making and Creative Expression in East/Southeast Asian-Interest Collegiate A Cappella Groups” and conversation with Elizabeth Ipe, Music Director of University of Maryland’s all-gender South Asian a cappella group Anokha.