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 the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) at Columbia University for a book talk by Kevin Nguyen about his 2025 novel Mỹ Documents, followed by a discussion with CSER’s Writer-in-Residence, Marie Myung-Ok Lee.

Join the Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a talk by Luna Nga Thị Howard, Amerasian activist and entrepreneur, and writer Anna El-Eini. Luna will discuss her experience growing up in Vietnam following the war as a woman born of a Vietnamese mother and a Black US serviceman father. Anna will discuss how she and Luna were forced to face existential questions about the Vietnam War head on, including the suffering on both sides, forgiveness versus justice, loyalty through political division, and national identity as a catalyst for war.

Join the Harvard University Asia Center for a talk by Kathleen Gutierrez, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Drawing on death notices, missing-persons reports, and other bureaucratic records, Dr. Gutierrez explores how the deaths of scientific workers and the efforts of their widows to document their lives generated an archive that offers a different view of colonial botany in the nineteenth-century Philippines.

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 Center for Burma Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the School of Art and Design, the Art Museum, and the Department of History at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Lilian Handlin, Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Arts and Science’s Cognitive Aesthetics Media Lab at Harvard University. In this talk, she will discuss the Burmese biography of Buddha.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU and the Association of Filipino Scientists in America for a night of science, food, culture, and celebration. Speakers include Dr. Christian Gloria, Associate Professor and Deputy Chair of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health; Fatimah Mamalapat Coppin, medical student at the CUNY School of Medicine; Andrian “Adi” Gajigan, Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University; Jaimee-Ian Rodriguez, Commissioning Editor in the STEM publishing industry, and Dr. Michelle Saoi, Senior Scientist in the Proteomics and Metabolomics Core Facility at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Robert Walker, Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute who works as an economist in the Institute’s Indo-Pacific Development Centre. This talk explores the geopolitical dynamics across Southeast Asia’s strategic supply chains and provides a sectoral deep dive into the following sectors: semiconductors, critical minerals, solar panels, and electric vehicles and batteries. Dr. Akhmad Bayhaqi, Senior Analyst at the APEC Policy Support Unit, will moderate the discussion.

Join Vietnamese Boat People at Think!Chinatown Studio for their 7th Annual Story Slam, an evening of live storytelling, community, and connection. This year's Story Slam theme is about living between two languages — the mistranslations, the code-switching, the words that don't survive the crossing, and get lost or found somewhere in between.

Join UC Santa Barbara for a panel exploring the humanitarian and human-rights challenges facing communities in Rakhine State, including the genocide against the Rohingya and ongoing demands for justice and accountability.

Join NYSEAN for the book launch of Rightless Resistance: Postcolonial Citizenship, Palm Oil, and Land Grabs in Indonesia (Cornell University Press, 2026) by Dr. Ward Berenschot, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Amsterdam.

Join NYSEAN, NYU Department of Anthropology, NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a panel on archaeology in Ifugao in examining how knowledge about the past is produced and shared. Speakers include Stephen Acabado, Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, and Marlon M. Martin, Executive Director of the Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement.

This Filipino American History Month, the Office of Assemblymember Steven Raga is proud to host the first-ever Filipino American History Month Little Manila Parade & Block Party in Woodside, Queens. This gathering brings together over 40 community organizations, local businesses, and stakeholders. Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative’s table at the Block Party.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy at Northern Illinois University for a talk by the Morton Arboretum's Kate Good, research manager, and Amy Byrne, strategic partnerships manager. They will explore how researchers assess threats to tree species and translate their findings into collaborative conservation action.

Join the Brooklyn Public Library’s Center for Brooklyn History for a panel exploring how contemporary historians, artists, and community members have worked to remember and reimagine this largely forgotten chapter of Brooklyn’s past. Panelists include Michael Menor Salgarolo, Assistant Professor of History at Bard College and founder of UNASSIMILATED Walking Tours; Claro de los Reyes, actor and filmmaker behind Sands Street, and Caroline C. Pasion, chair of the New York Public Radio’s Community Advisory Board.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a talk by Dr. Kent Jason Cheng, assistant professor of gerontology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Cheng will discuss the precedents and consequences of both giving and receiving intergenerational support among older Filipinos.

Join the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) for a panel exploring how Southeast Asia can navigate intensifying U.S.–China competition while advancing its own economic and strategic priorities. Speakers include Gita Wirjawan, former Indonesian Minister of Trade and Honorary Senior Fellow at the Center for China Analysis (CCA), and Amb. Craig Allen, former U.S. Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at CCA. Kevin Zongzhe Li, Fellow at CCA, will moderate the discussion.

Join the NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU for a talk by Dr. Emily Hue, associate professor of Ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Hue will discuss her recent book on how diasporic Burmese artists navigate the intricate intersections of art, politics, and humanitarianism. Dr. Linda Luu, an interdisciplinary scholar of US empire, race, and therapeutic culture, will moderate the discussion.

Join the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies for a talk by Beatrice Zani, Associate Research Professor at French National Centre for Scientific Research. Drawing upon more than four years of ethnographic research in Taiwan, Indonesia, and Singapore, the talk explores the lives of Southeast Asian migrant fishers illustrating how labor takes shape across  shifting maritime environments in which legal authority and accountability are fragmented.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Dr. Edmund Terence Gomez, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at the Faculty of Business & Economics, Universiti Malaya. Dr. Gomez will discuss the political economy of ethnic wealth distribution in Malaysia from 1970 to 2024, including the interplay between state institutions, corporate ownership, and market access.

Join Hazel Saunders (@ThatShadyHaze) at New York Comic Con for a panel on Filipino American culture, creativity, mental wellness, and belonging in the cosplay community. Speakers include @IzieBuilds, @Maweezy, @DrGerro, and @BrolicPump.

Join NYSEAN, Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, Espacio de Culturas at NYU, and Yu & Me Books for a talk by Dr. Adrian De Leon, author and Assistant Professor of History at NYU. Dr. De Leon will discuss his newly published memoir with Dr. Martha Hodes, Professor of History at NYU.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan for a talk by Say Jye Quah, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University. This lecture explores the contradictions of Lee’s global legacy, situating his political thought, movements, and interventions within international trends.  In this approach, his “original sin” is no longer the detention without trial, but his role in legitimizing the Vietnam War.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for a webinar by Dr. Yuan-Hsin Tung and Dr. Ben Fairfield, professors in the Department of Ethnomusicology at UH-Mānoa. They will discuss the current status of the tradition they research and trends of the theatrical and musical forms in Southeast Asia and beyond. Dr. Ricardo D. Trimillos, Emeritus Professor in the department, will moderate the discussion.

Join the NYU Undergraduate Film & Television (UGFTV) program for a special screening of Railway Sleepers and The Physical Realm, followed by a masterclass with filmmaker Sompot Chidgasornpongse.

Join the Brooklyn-based music nonprofit FourOneOne for a ca trù concert by Anh Vo, a Vietnamese choreographer and writer whose work is inspired by their experiences with Downtown New York experimental performance, Hanoi performance art, and Vietnamese folk ritual practices. Vo will give an unabridged performance of Tỳ Bà Hành (琵琶行 Pipa Song) by the Chinese poet Bai Juyi, a Tang dynasty poem that probes the parallel feelings of exile and loss of status experienced by a demoted government official and an aging female musician.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University (NIU) for a talk by Richard Pegg, Director and Curator of Asian Art at the MacLean Collection. In this talk, Dr. Pegg will examine maps created during the 17th to 19th centuries in order to better understand complex trade systems in today’s East and South China Seas, such as: the red-seal, Manila, Siam, Fujian, Zheng family, silver-silk, rice-silk, tribute, Muslim, Portuguese, British and Dutch systems.