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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Phi Nguyen, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale’s CSEAS, who will discuss her book project on the deteriorating water-land dynamics of Huế, the postcolonial Vietnamese city that was Vietnam’s former capital, a French protectorate, and a borderland and battleground from the fourteenth century until the recent Second Indochina War.

Join the Philippine Consulate General in New York for a solemn ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Manila and honoring the courage of Filipino and American soldiers during World War II. This event includes a talk by Brett Moyer, author of Had MacArthur Not Returned, and a presentation of the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal to World War II veterans.

Join UC Irvine Libraries’ Orange County and Southeast Asian Archives Center for a half-day exhibit symposium. Professor Nam C. Kim will share how his family’s refugee journey from Vietnam through Guam informs his current anthropological research on Operation New Life. Arielle Taitano Lowe will share a poem about her CHamoru grandfather’s experiences during the Vietnam War. Jana K. Lipman and Trần Hoài Bắc will discuss the Vietnamese repatriate memoir they translated, Ship of Fate by Trần Đình Trụ.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for the book launch of Global Battlefields, a memoir by Walden Bello. Bello, a Filipino activist and intellectual, holds a PhD in sociology from Princeton. He was an anti-Vietnam War activist, a pro-democracy activist against the Marcos dictatorship, a member of Congress, a Vice-Presidential candidate, and a university professor.

Join the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University for a talk by Dr. Quingfei Yin, Assistant Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, who will discuss how China and Vietnam collaborate and compete along their shared border.

Join NYSEAN for a talk by Taomo Zhou, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore, on the life and legacy of Francisca Casparina Fanggidaej (1925–2013)—a left-wing Indonesian activist in the Afro-Asian movements, a mother of seven, and a woman who endured decades of forced separation from her family. Through Fanggidaej’s story, Taomo explores how Indonesia and China shaped notions of motherhood and how a transnational figure like Fanggidaej navigated her role within revolutionary anticolonialism in Indonesia, state socialism in China, and the global shift toward capitalist neoliberalism—ultimately displacing the Third World internationalist vision both nations once championed. The discussion will be moderated by Rianne Subijanto, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Baruch College, CUNY.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology at University of Wisconsin-Madison for a talk by Eric C. Thompson, who will discuss the conceptual underpinnings of his recent book The Story of Southeast Asia (NUS Press, 2024).

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Nam Kim, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison, exploring the archaeological record of Vietnam as well as the region's national imagination, cultural heritage, and descendant identities.

Join the Southeast Asia Digital Library and the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a webinar featuring Trâm Phương Nguyễn (Columbia University) and Thành Hà Thị Tuệ (Vietnam National University), who will provide an overview of Yale’s Maurice Durand papers as well as current work with the Digitizing Việt Nam project.

Join the Southeast Asia Program and the Mario Einaudi Center For International Studies at Cornell University for a talk by Ivan V. Small, who will discuss Vietnamese American migration and community formation across regions of the United States.

The Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) and NYSEAN invite you to a panel discussion on the book Cambodia’s Trials: Contrasting Visions of Truth, Transitional Justice and National Recovery (University of Chicago Press, 2024), which examines Cambodia’s journey of justice and recovery more than 40 years after the Khmer Rouge genocide. The panel features the book’s editors and contributors: Robin Biddulph, Alexandra Kent, Courtney Work, Pádraig McAuliffe, and Eve Zucker, CKS President and NYSEAN Executive Board Member, who will also serve as the session’s moderator.

Join the Southeast Asia Program and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University for a talk by Emi Donald, a PhD candidate in the History Department. Their talk will explore how the words “tomboy” (thom in Thai) and “transman” came to constitute two distinct but bounded modes of embodiment in contemporary Thailand.

Join the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies for a book talk by Charles Keith, Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, whose research explores how French colonial rule in Indochina extended Indochina’s colonial society into France.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Muzakki Bashori, Southeast Asia Fellow at NIU and Lecturer in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Semarang State University, who will explore the significance of Javanese folklore in language preservation and its relationship to environmental themes.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Joel Selway, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, who will discuss recent waves of regionalism and nationalism in Thailand.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Ann Marie Leshkowich, Professor of Anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross. She will discuss how both the government and social workers in Vietnam have emphasized the scientific nature of the field of social work to distinguish it from charitable volunteering.