Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Visiting Scholar Aung Thura Ko Ko, former research fellow at the Pacific Forum, a U.S. policy think tank based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. This talk explores how China’s strategic intervention in post-coup Myanmar presents a complex mix of geopolitical ambition, economic necessity, and security entanglement.

Join NYSEAN, Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, Espacio de Culturas at NYU, and the NYU Department of History for a book talk by Dr. Adrian De Leon, Assistant Professor of History at NYU. Dr. De Leon will be in conversation with Dr. Karen Miller, Professor of History and American Studies at LaGuardia Community College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and Dr. Chris Cañete Rodriguez Kelly, Mellon Teaching Fellow and Lecturer of English at Columbia University.

Join Joseph O. Legaspi in celebrating Amphibian, his third poetry collection which explores queerness, belonging, and the meaning of home through the lens of a Filipino American. Legaspi will be in conversation with acclaimed writers Jessica Hagedorn and Sarah Gambito. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Join Deconstructing Indonesia, NYSEAN, and the Indonesia Film Forum New York for a screening of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) directed by Cypri Dale and Dandhy Laksono. This investigative documentary exposes the human cost of the world’s largest forest-conversion project: 2.5 million hectares of Papua turned into biofuel plantations. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Cypri Dale and representatives of the Malind Indigenous Community about the Red Cross Movement and resistance on the frontlines.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Dr. Daphne Weber, Program Officer of Buddhist Studies at the American Council of Learned Societies. Dr. Weber will discuss generational influences on Thailand’s first Theravada Bhikkhuni (Buddhist nun).

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a panel that examines how disruptions to trade channels from the Straits of Hormuz are affecting farms, supply chains, and consumers in Southeast Asia. Speakers include Professor Paul Teng, Visiting Senior Fellow in the Climate Change in Southeast Asia Program at ISEAS, and Dr. Siang Hee Tan, Executive Director of CropLife Asia. Professor Sean De Cleene (Singapore Institute of Technology) and Dr. Alisher Mirzabaev (International Rice Research Institute) will serve as discussants, and Elyssa Ludher (ISEAS Visiting Fellow) will moderate the panel.

Join the Asian American Education Project for a workshop that provides an overview of The Asian American Education Project’s lesson plans and the five thematic units on citizenship, civil rights, identity, immigration, and racism. The workshop will be facilitated by Laura Ouk, board president of the National Cambodian Heritage Museum and board member of the Cambodian Association of Illinois.

Join the Southeast Asia Digital Library for an online discussion on colonial collections in and on the Philippines, featuring speakers from Yale University: Dr. Cheryl Beredo, Director of Collections and Chief Curator, and Dr. Aurélie Vialette, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese.

Join NYSEAN for a talk by Dr. Kevin M. Woods, senior policy analyst at Forest Trends, who will present the findings of a new report on how the Mekong Region—particularly the tri-border “Golden Triangle” of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand—has become a hub where environmental exploitation and criminal activity converge, collectively generating billions of dollars annually for transnational enterprises. Sidney Jones, adjunct professor of International Relations at NYU and executive committee member of NYSEAN, will moderate the discussion.

Join the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute for a conversation with Maria Ressa on journalism in the age of disinformation, AI, and social media, and the growing use of the legal system against journalists and the press. Maria Ressa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rappler, Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate with decades of working experience as a lead investigative reporter.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a conference unveiling the full release of the Digitizing Vietnam multi-functional Digital Humanities Hub and AI platform, and hosting workshops that gauge the need, efficacy, and limits of Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in the field of Vietnamese Studies. Speakers include Peter Bol, Đinh Điền, Albert Errickson, Judith Henchy, Tuấn Hoàng, Lê Hoàng Phúc, Lê Nguyễn Tường Vân, Jeremiah Mercurio, Nagasaki Kiyonori, Cindy Nguyễn, Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, Nguyễn Tuấn Cường, John Phan, Virginia Shih, Shimizu Masaaki, Kwok-Leong Tang, Ann Thornton, Trương Minh Hoà, Vũ Minh Hoàng, Hilde De Weerdt, Lou Vargas, and Emily Zinger.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan for a talk by Chris Hulshof, GETSEA Director of Community Engagement and History PhD Candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Hulshof will discuss how the British psychological warfare campaign in Indonesia not only flooded the Indonesian market with black propaganda leaflets and radio broadcasts, but deftly manipulated the international news circuit to spread Indonesian Army propaganda across the globe.

Join the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU for a talk by Dr. Anissa Rahadiningtyas, curator of Islamic Aesthetics in Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asia at the National Gallery Singapore. This presentation aims to rethink the established categorical boundaries of Islamic art through the works of Arahmaiani (b. 1961, Indonesia), Shooshie Sulaiman (b. 1973, Malaysia), and Zarina Muhammad (b. 1982, Singapore).

Join the Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) consortium for a community book read with Dr. Faizah Zakaria, Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, author of The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia, and winner of the 2025 Benda Prize. Dr. Juno Salazar Parreñas, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University, will moderate the discussion.

Join NYSEAN, Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, and the NYU Espacio de Culturas for an evening of standout Philippine short films that premiered at the Cinemalaya and Sundance Film Festivals over the past decade. Featured films include Cross My Heart and Hope to Die, The Headhunter’s Daughter, Abogbaybay/ Shoredust, An Sadit na Planeta/ The Little Planet, The Next 24 Hours, Black Rainbow, and Vox Humana.

Join the Office of International Studies in Education at Michigan State University (MSU) for a webinar on the challenges and possibilities of education in rural contexts around the world. Speakers include Dr. Iwan Syahril, Director General for Early Childhood, Primary, and Secondary Education in Indonesia; Dr. Rishikesh B.S., Professor of Education at Azim Premji University, India; Dr. Nancy Romig, Senior Curriculum and Program Coordinator, Global Education Engagement, MSU; Dr. Amita Chudgar, Professor and Associate Dean of International Studies in Education, MSU; Dr. Sheneka Williams, Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Educational Administration, MSU, and Dr. Julie Sinclair, Associate Director, Office of International Studies in Education, MSU.

Join NYSEAN for a book talk by Bradley R. Simpson, Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Connecticut and Founder/Director of the Indonesia and East Timor Documentation Project at the National Security Archive.

Join the Harvard University Asia Center for a talk by Michitake Aso, Associate Professor of History at the University at Albany, SUNY. Dr. Aso’s talk examines how Vietnamese scientists and medical doctors built the evidentiary case against Agent Orange and its contaminant TCDD dioxin during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a seminar on how Malaysia’s multi-leveled governance structure enables and constrains economic governance and policy innovation. Speakers include YB Tuan Dr. Mohammad Fahmi Bin Ngah, State Assemblyman for Seri Setia, and YB Encik Zairil Khir Johari, State Assemblyman for Tanjong Bunga (Penang).

Join the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies for a book talk by Richard Quang-Anh Tran, indepedent scholar. Queer Vietnam recovers the forgotten stories of variant genders and sexualities in early twentieth-century Vietnam.

Join Difference Engine, a Singaporean comics collective, for a webinar about production and circulation in Southeast Asia, from envisioning comics projects, soliciting ideas from and collaborating with comics creators, to publishing and distributing Southeast Asian comics regionally and worldwide. Speakers include Difference Engine’s Publisher and Co-Founder Felicia Low-Jimenez and Senior Editor Aditi Shivaramakrishnan.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Dr. Mai Van Tran, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. Dr. Tran will examine the extent to which pro-democracy platform advocacy might affect Big Tech’s practices and curb platform-mediated repression in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia.

Join NYSEAN and the Program in International Relations at NYU for a brown bag roundtable on Gen-Z and resisting authoritarianism in Burma, hosted by Professor Frances O'Morchoe. Featured speakers include Morgane Dussud, PhD graduate of SOAS University of London with a professional background in human rights, and Kota Watanabe, Visiting Scholar at NYU Wagner studying civil wars and transnational organised crime in Southeast Asia.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar on crypto scams in Southeast Asia, specifically how crypto’s much-touted transparency can be put to practical use and what it might take to make exchanges part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Speakers include Kevin Mei, financial economics researcher at the University of Texas–Austin; Cezary Podkul, investigative reporter, and Tom Luo, crypto solutions leader and Managing Director at Merkle Science.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for a book talk by Maryann Bylander, Professor of Sociology at Lewis and Clark College. The Trade-Offs of Legal Status is the first book to explore the lives of Cambodian migrants in Thailand, and it offers a rare ethnographic portrait of migration and development in Southeast Asia.

Join the Asia Society Museum and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a special dialogue between acclaimed French-Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung and filmmaker and professor Tony Bui. The evening explores Tran’s distinctive cinematic language and creative evolution, featuring carefully selected scenes from across his celebrated body of work.

Join the Indonesia Studies Program at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar on challenges to Indonesia’s political party cartel system, which aims to increase the role of negotiations within increasing coalitions. Speakers include Dr. Maxwell Lane, Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, and Professor Leo Suryadinata, Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute and Professor (Adjunct) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University.

Join the ASEAN Studies Center at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for the e-launch of The State of Southeast Asia: 2026 Survey Report on the prevailing attitudes of Southeast Asian opinion leaders on regional strategic developments and issues affecting ASEAN and its member states. Joanne Lin, Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the ASEAN Studies Center, will present the key findings of the survey. The following speakers will discuss the survey’s major findings: Scot Marciel, Senior Advisor of BowerGroupAsia; Dr. Saya Kiba, Associate Professor at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies; Dr. Huiyao Wang, Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization, and Herman Kraft, Professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines at Diliman.

Join NYSEAN and GETSEA for a screening of Sotong and Against This Messy World,  two short films highlighting the challenges to art and expression in Malaysia’s complex political, legal, and societal landscape. The documentary screenings are followed by an online discussion with the filmmakers.