Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Eddy Chong Kwong Mei, Associate Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Nanyang Technological University, who will discuss the musical fusion of Wang Chenwei, Composer-in-Residence of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra.

Join Hunter College - CUNY, and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center (AASC) for an exclusive preview of Foundations & Futures: Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook with Dr. Karen Umemoto, UCLA AASC Director. An unprecedented resource featuring 50 unique chapters and 250+ corresponding lesson plans, Foundations and Futures will be the most comprehensive collection of Asian American and Pacific Islanders available for free and online for high school, college, and lifelong learners.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Andrew Mertha,  the George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, Director of the China Studies Program, and Director of the SAIS China Research Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Dr. Mertha will discuss his new book on the Khmer Rouge, revolution, and leadership struggles.

Join the Stimson Center for a talk by insurgency expert Zachary Abuza and Indo-Pacific security scholar Nyein Nyein Thant Aung to discuss their recent issue brief examining Chinese military aid to the Myanmar junta.

Join the New York Public Library for a talk by Vicky Nguyễn, NBC News senior consumer investigative correspondent, anchor of NBC News Daily, and author of Boat Baby: A Memoir. Tracey Nguyễn Mang, founder of Vietnamese Boat People—a podcast and nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and sharing the stories of the Vietnamese diaspora through innovative storytelling programs—will moderate the discussion.

Join NYU Silver School of Social Work and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a talk by Bianca Mabute-Louie, PhD student in Sociology at Rice University, who will discuss her book on Asian American political identity and community building.

Join the Asian American Education Project, the Wisconsin Council for Social Studies, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction for a workshop facilitated by Dr. Kaila Vue, scholar of Teaching and Learning. This workshop delves into the complex history, life stories, and resilience of Hmong Americans in Wisconsin, and offers teaching resources on this community.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Benjamin Tausig, Associate Professor of Critical Music Studies at SUNY-Stony Brook University, who will discuss his forthcoming book on Maurice Rocco, a queer Black American jazz pianist murdered in 1976 Bangkok. The talk explores how Rocco’s life and death reflect profound shifts in the definitions and valuations of race, sex, and gender identity in Cold War-era Thailand.

Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop for a talk by Mai Der Vang, recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and professor of Creative Writing at Fresno State University, who will discuss her new poetry book on the collective trauma and resilience experienced by Hmong people and communities. Topics covered by Mai Der Vang include the ongoing cultural and environmental repercussions of the war in Vietnam, the lives of refugees afterward, and the postmemory carried by their descendants. Cambodian American poet and instructor at Barnard College Monica Sok will moderate the discussion.

Join GETSEA and AIFIS for a workshop on how to conduct research in Indonesia. Learn about research permits, visas, and preparing for fieldwork, and hear from experienced researchers sharing tips, insights, and lessons learned from conducting research across Indonesia.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo for a talk by Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, who will discuss her new book. In Caring for Caregivers, Dr. Francisco-Menchavez centers the perspectives of Filipino caregivers in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2013 to 2021, illuminating their transnational experiences and the strategies and practices they employ to help each other navigate the crumbling US healthcare system.

Join the the Southeast Asia Initiative at Harvard University Asia Center for a talk by Cheeno Mario M. Sayuno, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Associate Professor at University of the Philippines Los Baños. Dr. Sayuno will analyze discuss water- and forest-themed children's storybooks from Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia alongside the experiences of long-term expatriates from Southeast Asia, in order to explore how both narratives negotiate concepts of home, belonging, and cultural identity in foreign lands

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Micah Morton, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, who will discuss his book on the Indigenous Akha community’s work to decolonize and reclaim their collective ancestral identity.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies ath the University of Michigan for a talk by Lwin Moe, PhD Candidate in Computer Science at York University Lassonde School of Engineering, who will discuss the creation of datasets and tools for fact checking in Burmese and other low resource languages to combat misinformation online.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Michael K. Miller, History PhD Candidate, who will discuss the history of Ambonese masculinity and colonialism.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for a talk by Kisho Tsuchiya, Assistant Professor in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University, who will discuss the history of East Timor through the relationship between the cycle of regime changes and knowledge production.

Join the Center for Intercultural Engagement and Support, the Center for Ethics and Public Engagement, and the History Department at Luther College for a talk by Jeffrey Wassertorm, who will discuss how youth activism in Asia has evolved, transnationalizing their common struggles and aspirations, and forging solidarity from the late 2010s to the present.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Nhung Tuyet Tran, Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, who will discuss how historians of Vietnam interpret and analyze the logics of coloniality from China, France, the United States, Russia, and settler colonialism of the Indigenous communities in Vietnam.

Join the NYU MA Program in International Relations and NYSEAN for a talk by Professor Michael Oppenheimer and Dr. Hendrik Ohnesorge, who will discuss U.S. soft power and its future during the Trump administration. Please RSVP by Monday, April 14.

Join the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Southeast Asia Initiative at Harvard University for a talk by Catherine H. Nguyen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College, who will discuss the longue durée of Western imperialism from French colonial Indochina to the American War in Vietnam through a comparative study of the writings of Vietnamese mixed-race authors Kim Lefèvre and Kien Nguyen.

Join the Indonesia Studies Program at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a panel featuring Elyssa Ludher, Visiting Fellow and food security researcher and urban planner; Marihot Nasution, State Budget Analyst in the Secretariat General of Indonesia’s House of Representatives (DPR), and Adriana Viola Miranda, MD, Program Director of 1000 Days Fund. These experts will discuss President Prabowo Subianto’s plan to feed Indonesia’s schoolchildren and pregnant mothers, including issues such as the meals’ nutritional value, governance, and fiscal and social sustainability.

Join Sciences Po International Research Center for “Whispers to the Ancestors,” an immersive performance by artist XM Tran. This collective commemoration of 50 years of exile brings together voices, memories, and wishes from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, North America, and Europe.

Join Yu & Me Bookstore for a meet and greet with Woldy Reyes, queer Filipino American chef and author of In the Kusina.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for a talk by Dr. Abdul Haque Chang, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Karachi, Pakistan. Dr. Chang will discuss divergence and alterity by examining the interplay between sacrality and performing arts in South and Southeast Asia, with a focus on Java and Sindh.

Join the Southeast Asia Program and the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University for a talk by Joseph R. Klein, Research Associate with the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) and the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This lecture explores how property and belonging are dynamically negotiated at sea in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, through indigenous customs, state permits, spiritual permissions, and coastal land reclamation.

Join NYSEAN for a talk by Rianne Subijanto, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York. Her book, Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia, tells a story of the processes through which ordinary people mobilized an anticolonial communist resistance against Dutch rule through the production of revolutionary communication in the 1920s. NYSEAN co-founder Margaret Scott will moderate the discussion. 

Join the Columbia University School of Journalism, the Alliance Program, Sciences Po American Foundation, and Sciences Po Centre de Recherches Internationales for a transatlantic dialogue bringing together the voices of Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian exiles in France and the United States, as well as experts, activists, and artists from both sides of the Atlantic. Featured speakers include Ombeline Bois, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Hélène Le Bail, Khatharya Um, Fabien Truong, Kalyanee Mam, and Krysada Phounsiri.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Martina Thucnhi Nguyen, Associate Professor of History at Baruch College (CUNY), who will discuss the female writing persona of early 20th-century Vietnamese intellectual Nguyễn Văn Vĩnh.