Join the Southeast Asia Program at Stanford for a conference which will cover geopolitical competition, environmental sustainability, and gender inequality, and reflections on scholarship, learning, and intellectual exchange.

Hosted by the Vietnamese Boat People and co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, this event will offer storytellers a place to articulate their unique and multifaceted connections to Vietnam and its profound influence on shaping both familial bonds and individual identities across time.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan for a panel discussion that will reflect on the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars’ efforts to practice anti-imperialist research and address the question, “What does it mean to be a scholar concerned about Asia in the US today?” 

Hosted by the East-West Center, Dr. Shuxian Luo, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, will present her findings on China and Russia’s ongoing fight for power and influence in Vietnam and how the US Indo-Pacific strategy could effectively safeguard America’s interests.

Join the Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley for a talk with Dr. Joseph Ching Velasco, Associate Professor of Political Science at De La Salle University, Manila, who will examine the production of exclusionary discourses and the collective anxieties against Chinese people in the Philippines.

Join NYSEAN and the Center for Foreign Policy Studies, Seton Hall University, for a discussion

of Vietnam’s efforts to integrate itself into the global economy and forge ties with its ASEAN

Join NYSEAN and the Center for Foreign Policy Studies, Seton Hall University, for a discussion of Vietnam’s efforts to integrate itself into the global economy and forge ties with its ASEAN neighbors that were interrupted by the outbreak of the Third Indochina War but ultimately successful after its conclusion with Vu Minh Hoang, Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute. The talk will be moderated by Jacob Weger, Lecturer and Ann Marie Murphy, Professor, Seton Hall University and NYSEAN co-founder.

Hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, Kelly Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Classics at UCLA, will discuss the experiences of Vietnamese refugees by analyzing the intersectional works of two contemporary writers, Linda Lê and Ocean Vuong, and how their work challenges the “good refugee” myth.

Join the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University for a discussion with Daniel Whitehouse, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of London, who will present his findings on a series of “network institutions'' which underpin the political culture and distribution of power in contemporary Thailand. 

Join the Asia Society for a discussion with Neil Ruiz, Head of New Research Initiatives at Pew Research Center, who will present findings from a recent study on experiences, attitudes and views of Asians living in the U.S. on several topics, including identity, discrimination, affirmative action and global affairs.

Join the Stimson Center for a discussion on what was accomplished at COP28, what is ahead for the Philippines, and opportunities for US-Philippines cooperation.

Join ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a discussion with Dr. Mirza Huda, Lead Researcher at the Climate Change in Southeast Asia Programme, Sharon Seah, Senior Fellow and concurrent Coordinator of the ASEAN Studies Centre, and Qiu Jiahui, Research Officer in the Climate Change in the Southeast Asia Programme, where they will present a newly published policy report which synthesizes and draws recommendations for the development of the ASEAN Power Grid 2.0.

Join a collection of various Asian musicians as they close out the Fall 2023 Festival of Asian Music at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Join the Center for Khmer Studies in a discussion with Junior Resident fellows Sokleap Leam and Sokraksa Mean where they will reflect on their experiences after completing the program.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a discussion with Dr. Tan Lee Ooi, researcher at the Penang Institute, which will examine the evolution of Chinese Buddhism in Malaysia in the context of nation-building.

Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, will join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan to discuss how state governing structures have evolved in different local contexts in the post-coup period and how local authorities in Myanmar responded to the military’s coup.

Join the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute for their 24th ASEAN Lecture on the Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s Chairmanship within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. H.E. Mr Saleumxay Kommasith, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Lao PDR will speak at the lecture, and Choi Shing Kwok, Director and CEO of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute and Head of the ASEAN Studies Centre will deliver the opening remarks.

Join the Center for Khmer Studies for a presentation by Dr. Nhu Truong, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Denison University, where she will examine how the political developments of the Vietnamese Communist Party have profoundly shaped the ways in which the current government responds to and incorporates societal input.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a film screening of About US But Not US, where a literature professor meets up with his student months after the death of his longtime partner.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, for a talk by Joe Errington, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Yale, where he will sketch a “linguistic success story” about contemporary Indonesia to help to draw out what has been called the “valuable paradox” of language within the country.

Join the Department of Music and Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a double bill of gamelan and gamelan-inspired music where the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble will present a sampling of traditional Central Javanese gamelan music.

Join ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar where Dr. Tricia Yeoh, CEO of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs Malaysia, and Dr. Nungsari A Radhiwill, member of the Advisory Committee to the Finance Minister, will critically examine the inaugural year of the Anwar Ibrahim administration, and the complexities inherent to changing Malaysia’s federal government and economy.

Join the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University for a talk by NYSEAN member Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz, Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, who will discuss the relationship between the elite class and nature through close analysis of the Philippines fine arts.

Transnational poet Ko Ko Thett will join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a reading of his poetry book Bamboophobia, while reflecting on his intertwined use of Burmese and English in the poem collection.