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 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 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 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 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.

Join the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) for a talk by Thom Brown, PhD Candidate at Northern Illinois University and CKS Dissertation Research Fellow. This webinar examines the creation of the United Nations-sponsored Mekong Committee and the tensions between development efforts and local understandings of water, floods, and livelihoods.

Join the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) for a talk by Haydon Cherry, CKS Senior Fellow and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Vietnam. Dr. Cherry’s talk offers a new explanation of the rural uprisings in Cambodia and Cochin-China (modern-day Vietnam) from 1915 to 1916.

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center, with support from The Asian American Foundation, presents this webinar series on teaching Asian American and Pacific Islander Histories for K-12 and University Educators. Learn from leading scholars and classroom educators how to integrate AAPI narratives into your curriculum.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan for a talk by Christopher Rea, professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia, who will discuss his and Julie M. Wang’s translation of The Crossing of the Boars by Malaysian-Taiwanese novelist Chang Kuei-hsing (Zhang Guixing).

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University (NIU) for a talk by Richard M. Cooler, Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the Center for Burma Studies and the School of Art and Design at NIU. The lecture will be followed by a presentation of silver artworks in the North Gallery, Art Museum.

Join the MIT Global Humanities Forum for a discussion about how art can become a force for solidarity and survival in times of displacement and oppression. Speakers include Alicia Stevens, Bart Was Not Here (a.k.a. Kyaw Moe Khine), Nathalie Johnston, Maung Day, and Sana Aiyar.

Join Asian CineVision for a screening of Sea Song directed by An-Phuong Ly. This film is part of an in-person shorts-feature combination screening and will be followed by the documentary series, Southeast Asian American Stories.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a talk by George B. Radics, senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Radics will discuss his new book, Emotional Filipinos The American Myth of the Lazy Native and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines.

Join Asian CineVision for the screenings of Rice Run, Grandma’s Four Color Cards, Sonia Honey, Milk & Honey, Enough, and The Sale as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. These shorts examine the sacrifices that parents make for the sake of their children’s futures. The insecurities and tears are often unseen by those enjoying the care and comforts of the hard-won sacrifices. The screenings will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A.

Join Asian CineVision for the North American premiere of Sisa at the Asian American International Film Festival. A Q&A will follow the screening, with producer Rey Cuerdo and lead cast Hilda Koronel joining in person, director Jun Robles Lana joining live via Zoom from Manila, and moderated by Leslie Li.

Join the Southeast Asia Digital Library to celebrate the launch of their newest collection, Hanoi Grapevine's Finest, with a discussion on Audience-led Archives and Contemporary Vietnamese Art. Speakers include Nguyễn Tú Hằng, Director of Hanoi Grapevine; Emily Zinger, Southeast Asia Digital Librarian, and Đỗ Tường Linh, Director of the Nguyen Wahed Gallery and Art Curator Vincom Center for Contemporary Art.

Join the Asia Society New York for a film screening of Boat People (1981) by Ann Hui, which captures the experiences of postwar Vietnamese society.

Join the Australia National University (ANU) Southeast Asia Institute for a talk by Tommy Chai, a PhD Candidate at ANU’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. This webinar examines continental Southeast Asia as a strategic space structured by two distinct but interacting sets of constraints: the current borders of Southeast Asia and a historically constituted strategic space centered on the mainland river basins of the Irrawaddy, Chao Phraya, Mekong, and Red River systems, but extending into adjoining upland and frontier zones such as Yunnan.

Join Deconstructing Indonesia for an exploration of what Enlightenment means, and who gets to decide what counts as knowledge through a discussion of l’Encyclopedie, the Cartesian method, and Edward Said’s landmark text, Orientalism.

Join NYSEAN and the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences for a symposium bringing together scholars and conservationists from across disciplines—including history, anthropology, conservation biology, and psychology—to explore new interdisciplinary approaches to promoting coexistence between humans and the endangered Asian elephant. This symposium is organized by Dr. Joshua Plotnik, Associate Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, and Dr. Bradley Camp Davis, Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Join Deconstructing Indonesia and The Coretanist for a discussion on modern refrigeration, compulsory kneeling, and why a student-led group that organizes classes on Indonesian history called “Deconstructing Indonesia” will be spending the next several months focusing on Europe.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Dr. Bradley Camp Davis, Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University, who will discuss reforms to the administration of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and its parallels with the imperial Vietnamese state.

Join NYSEAN, Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, Espacio de Culturas at NYU, and the NYU Department of History for a book talk by Dr. Adrian De Leon, Assistant Professor of History at NYU. Dr. De Leon will be in conversation with Dr. Karen Miller, Professor of History and American Studies at LaGuardia Community College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and Dr. Chris Cañete Rodriguez Kelly, Mellon Teaching Fellow and Lecturer of English at Columbia University.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Dr. Daphne Weber, Program Officer of Buddhist Studies at the American Council of Learned Societies. Dr. Weber will discuss generational influences on Thailand’s first Theravada Bhikkhuni (Buddhist nun).

Join the Southeast Asia Digital Library for an online discussion on colonial collections in and on the Philippines, featuring speakers from Yale University: Dr. Cheryl Beredo, Director of Collections and Chief Curator, and Dr. Aurélie Vialette, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan for a talk by Chris Hulshof, GETSEA Director of Community Engagement and History PhD Candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Hulshof will discuss how the British psychological warfare campaign in Indonesia not only flooded the Indonesian market with black propaganda leaflets and radio broadcasts, but deftly manipulated the international news circuit to spread Indonesian Army propaganda across the globe.