Join the Stimson Center for a panel discussion on why unregulated mining is expanding in mainland Southeast Asia despite widespread awareness of its impacts. Speakers include Pianporn (Pai) Deetes, Executive Director of Rivers and Rights; Kevin Woods, Research Associate at Chulalongkorn University, and Regan Kwan, Southeast Asia Program Research Analyst at the Stimson Center. Brian Eyler, Senior Fellow and Director of the Southeast Asia and Energy, Water, and Sustainability Programs at the Stimson Center will moderate the discussion.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a panel reflecting on 60 years of Philippine engagement with ASEAN as well as the opportunities and limitations of regional cooperation in advancing Philippine security, development, and welfare. Panelists include Anna Mae Tuazon, independent ASEAN engagement advisor, and from the Department of Political Science at the University of the Philippines Diliman: Edcel John A. Ibarra, Assistant Professor; Matteo Piasentini, Senior Lecturer; Aaron Abel T. Mallari, Assistant Professor; Dr. Virgemarie A. Salazar, Assistant Professor; Emmanuel Alba, Teaching Associate, and Angelie Genotiva, PhD student.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of Sociology at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Intan Suwandi, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University. She will discuss the exploitation of Indonesian labor in global value chains dominated by multinational firms from the Global North.

Join NYSEAN for a talk by Taomo Zhou, Associate Professor and Dean’s Chair in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore. In this talk, Dr. Zhou presents a simultaneously global and local history of Shenzhen by tracing how the city’s development was entangled with China’s Cold War engagements with Southeast Asia.