Organizer: NYSEAN and the Southeast Asia Coalition for Academic Freedom (SEACAF)

Type/Location: Hybrid / New York, NY

Description:

Join the New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) and the Southeast Asia Coalition for Academic Freedom (SEACAF) for a day-long conference examining attacks on intellectual and academic freedom in the U.S. and Southeast Asia. Scholars, journalists and activists will gather to look at how universities and intellectuals often become the first target of rising authoritarianism, the costs and benefits of collective action, and the strategies for resistance. The conversation will address the impact of funding cuts, strengthened immigration enforcement and assaults on higher education in the U.S. as well as the lessons learned from crackdowns in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Philippines, and Indonesia), South Asia, and Turkey.

Speakers:

• Leon Botstein, Bard College

• Bencharat Chua, Southeast Asia Coalition on Academic Freedom

• Rachel Cooper, Asia Society

• Jonathan Friedman, PEN America, Free Expression Program

• Sol Iglesias, University of the Philippines - Diliman

• Razia Iqbal, Princeton University

• Khun Pita Limjaroenrat, Harvard University and former head of the Move Forward Party in Thailand

• Tom Pepinsky, Cornell University

• Asli Peker, New York University

• Kyaw Moe Tun, Parami University

• Ashutosh Varshney, Brown University

• Herlambang Wiratraman, Gajah Mada University, Yogyakarta

Registration:

To attend the event in person, please register here.

To attend the event virtually, please register here.