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.

“The Worlds of Richard Fung” is 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.

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.

This is part two of a two-part series. To learn more about part one, click here.

Presented by Northeastern’s Global Asian Studies, the Center for the Arts, and the Brown Arts Institute (BAI) at Brown University. Organized by Kris Manjapra, Denise Khor, Juliana Barton, and Thea Quiray Tagle (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.