Join the Center for Khmer Studies for the official book launch of the Khmer edition of Svay: A Khmer Village in Cambodia, the seminal ethnography by the late May Mayko Ebihara. The program will include brief remarks from scholars who contributed to its translation and publication. Panelists include Professor Judy Ledgerwood, Dr. Chhom Kunthea, Linna Sophea, and Dr. Eve Zucker. Professor Andrew Mertha will moderate the discussion.

Join the Center for Khmer Studies for a talk by Dr. Lawrence Chua, Associate Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University and CKS Research Fellow, who will discuss the conjoined genealogies of the Musée Albert Sarraut (Phnom Penh, 1920) and the National Museum of Bangkok (1927).

Join the New York Public Library for a talk by Kevin Nguyen, who will discuss his second novel, Mỹ Documents. The features editor at The Verge satirizes American xenophobia, political dysfunction, and our tech-culture industrial complex. Nguyen discusses his novel with writer Chris Gayomali.

Join Unassimilated Walking Tours and Think!Chinatown for an interactive walking tour led by Dr. Michael Menor Salgarolo, faculty fellow in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. This walking tour tells the story of the police brutality case that rocked Chinatown and the protest movement that arose in its wake 50 years ago.

Join the Library of Congress and the Veterans History Project for a panel commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Secret War in Laos. The event will feature personal narratives of Lao and American veteran panelists: Lieutenant Touy Thiravong (Lao SGU/RLA), Major Chanto Vorasarn (Lao SGU/RLA), Thomas Leo Briggs (CIA case officer), James K. Bruton (U.S. Army Special Forces), Colonel Khao Insixiengmay (Lao SGU/RLA), Osa Phiangdae Gilstrap (daughter of Lao SGU veteran), and Susan Boot Caolo (Applied Anthropologist).

Join the the Asia Society and Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a screening of the critically acclaimed film Three Seasons (1999), followed by a discussion with the film’s director, Tony Bui, and Director of Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute and History Professor, Dr. Lien-Hang Nguyen.

Join Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the School of the Arts at Columbia University for a panel on war, memory, and the enduring power of cinema in bearing witness and raising conscience surrounding the Vietnam War. Featured speakers include Phillip Noyce, director of The Quiet American (2002), and Tony Bui, filmmaker and Artist in Residence at WEAI. Ted Osius, former United States Ambassador to Vietnam, will moderate the discussion.

Join Asia in Action’s The Conversation Series at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a panel commemorating the end of the Vietnam War and highlighting how the arts have played a powerful role in promoting peace and building bridges for new generations. Featured speakers include poet and author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, and photographer Peter Steinhauer. Tony Bui, Artist in Residence at WEAI, will moderate the panel discussion.

Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) will host a panel marking the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end and the 30th anniversary of U.S.-Vietnam reconciliation. Organized by Global Vietnam Studies with Columbia Global, the Journalism School, and the School of the Arts, the event features documentary filmmakers Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein (The Vietnam War), former Vietnamese Lt. Gen. Lo Khac Tam, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, WEAI Director and History Professor at Columbia, and Thomas Vallely, Senior Advisor for Global Vietnam Studies at WEAI, co-founder of Fulbright University Vietnam, and former U.S. Marine (Silver Star recipient).

Join Global Vietnam Studies at Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a conference commemorating the 30th anniversary of US-Vietnam Reconciliation. This commemoration seeks to explore the contested history of the war and of the peace, and draw lessons for the future of US-Vietnam relations and for conflict resolution around the world. This event features Severine Autesserre, Chinh Chu, Quoc Viet Le, Annabel Lee, Chris Miller, Lien-Hang Nguyen, Nguyen Quoc Dung, Dang Dinh Quy, Dang Hoang Giang, Wafaa El-Sadr, and Thomas Vallely.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) at Columbia University and the Columbia Journalism School for a keynote and ao dai exhibition featuring the Vietnamese-American actress, Kiều Chinh. Tony Bui, Artist in Residence at WEAI, will moderate the discussion.

Join the Yale Vietnamese Student Association and the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for an evening of remembrance, discussion, and collective reflection. The event includes a film screening of Oh, Saigon and a panel discussion featuring esteemed professors and personal testimonies.

Join Global Vietnam Studies at Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. This commemoration seeks to explore the contested history of the war, and features Tony Bui, Lan Cao, Thuy Dinh, Olga Dror, Mai Elliott, Sean Fear, Laurel Kendall, Ann Marie Leshkowich, Trinh Luu, Adrienne Le, Lien-Hang Nguyen, Martina Nguyen, John Phan, Hoi Trinh, Nu Anh Tran, Duy Linh Tu, and Tuong Vu.

Join the Indonesia Project at the Australian National University for a talk by Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan, historian of Southeast Asia and Lecturer at ANU, who will discuss the ancient Javanese economy, focusing on the benefice (sīma) system and its role in supporting monumental architecture and religious institutions, while addressing broader questions about fiscal structures, land use, and trade over eight centuries.

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.