Join the ASEAN Studies Center and the Regional Economic Studies Program at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a panel on the current state of play in the US trade policy and its impact on multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating in Southeast Asia as the 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs lapses in early July 2025. Featured speakers include Marc Mealy, Isamu Wakamatsu, and Dr. Dan Wang.

Join the Malaysia Studies Program at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Dr. Tricia Yeoh, Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Nottingham Malaysia’s School of Politics and International Relations, who will discuss the current state of leadership of United Malays National Organization (UMNO), how the Pakatan Harapan-Barisan Nasional coalition is currently being managed and how this relationship is being communicated at the grassroots level. Visiting Fellow Khairy Jamaluddin will moderate the discussion.

Join the Regional Strategic and Political Studies Program at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Senior Fellow Dr. Ian Storey, who will discuss his new book on Russia’s role in Southeast Asia. Dr. Jittipat Poonkham, Vice Dean for Academic and International Affairs and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Political Science at Thammasat University, will moderate the discussion.

Join the New York Public Library for a talk by acclaimed translator Jeremy Tiang, who will discuss his debut novel State of Emergency. This book is the winner of the Singapore Literature Prize.

Join the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre’s annual Southeast Asia Forum in 2025, which brings together leading specialists worldwide to discuss the implications of global trends and ongoing geoeconomic contestation for Southeast Asian economies, polities, and societies. Featured speakers include Evelyn Goh (Australian National University), Henry Wai-chung Yeung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Selina Ho (National University of Singapore), and Alvin Camba (Association of Universities, Inc.).

Join ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Dr. John Lee, senior fellow at Hudson Institute, for a talk on Trump’s policies and their far-reaching global consequences. He will explore their impact on the US Indo-Pacific strategy and security alliances in Asia, the potential for strategic realignments among Asian nations, and how countries can navigate the uncertainties and challenges in the turbulent years ahead.

Join the Southeast Asia Program and the Department of Systems Engineering at Cornell University for a talk by Vincent Woon Kok Sin, assistant professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and an adjunct associate professor at Xiamen University Malaysia, who will discuss how enhanced solid waste management can mitigate warming and support the Paris Agreement and the Global Methane Pledge.

Join NYSEAN, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the Columbia-Harvard China and the World program for a conference featuring Walden Bello, Pongphisoot Busbarat, Thomas Christensen, Sophal Ear, Joseph Chinyong Liow, Derek Mitchell, Ann Marie Murphy, Hong Hai Nguyen, Lien-Hang Nguyen, Elina Noor, Praslhant Parameswaran, Gregory Poling, Yohanes Sulaiman, and Ayumi Teraoka. These leading experts will examine the implications of a second Trump administration for US-Southeast Asian relations at this critical junction in global politics.

Join the Malaysia Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar on Patakan Harapan (the Alliance of Hope), featuring Wong Shu Qi, DAP Member of Parliament for Kluang, Johor; and Sim Tze Tzin, PKR Member of Parliament for Bayan Baru, Penang. They will discuss ongoing efforts within Patakan Harapan’s leading parties, drawing on their extensive experience in state legislatures and federal parliament, and various positions they have held in cabinet, parliamentary committees, and government agencies.

Join the Malaysia Studies Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Khairy Jamaluddin, Associate Senior Fellow and former Minister at Malaysia’s ministries of Youth and Sports, Science and Technology, and Health. Drawing insights from his podcast Keluar Sekejap, this seminar evaluates the Anwar Ibrahim administration's first two years in power, focusing on its policies, internal coalition dynamics, external threats, and future challenges.

Join NYSEAN for a book talk by Merlyna Lim, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, and Director of the ALiGN Media Lab at Carleton University. Social Media and Politics in Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2025) highlights the dual role of social media in both fostering grassroots activism and enabling autocratic practices of algorithmic politics, notably in electoral politics.

Join the Regional and Cultural Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a seminar featuring Andar Nubowo, Muhammad Faiz bin Fadzil, and Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib. The panel will be about Islam and the construction of modern national identity in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Join the Malaysia Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a public lecture by Abang Johari Tun Openg, the Premier of Sarawak, who will discuss Sarawak’s innovations in balancing rapid economic growth with environmental responsibility.

Join the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University for a conference on the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia. This event brings together papers from scholars of maritime Southeast Asia who document and analyze the diverse but often precarious practices of everyday management of linguistic and cultural identities of diasporic Chinese in the Southeast Asian region.

Join the Malaysia Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Tricia Yeoh, Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Nottingham Malaysia’s School of Politics and International Relations. Using the states of Selangor and Malacca as cases, this webinar examines UMNO’s current state of leadership and party institutionalization, and how it manages coalition dynamics with the Pakatan Harapan coalition at the grassroots level.

Join NYSEAN and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a panel discussion with David M. Lampton, Kuik Cheng-Chwee, and Da Wei. This event will serve as the launch of a report commissioned by The Asia Foundation, with support from The Carnegie Corporation of New York, assessing the prospects for US-China-Southeast Asian relations based upon a conference held in Bangkok in May 2024. Ann Marie Murphy, NYSEAN co-founder, will moderate the discussion.

Join NYSEAN for a discussion of recent elections and political change in Southeast Asia with Sheila Coronel, Amy Freedman, John Gershman, Allen Hicken, Sidney Jones, J.M. Lanuza, Kanokrat Lertchoosakul, Ann Marie Murphy, Nava Nuraniyah, Jonathan Corpus Ong, Margaret Scott, and Meredith Weiss.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Khairy Jamaluddin, a Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS, will dive into whether Anwar Ibrahim can win over Malay voters, especially in the upcoming six state elections scheduled in two months.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Sandy F. Chang, University of Florida, will discuss the formation of intimacies between Chinese women and Indian or Malay men as politically charged sites of racial knowledge production at the turn of the twentieth century in British Malaya.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Asmus Rungby, Yale University, will outline his ongoing work to account for unarticulated insights and political attitudes among Urban Borneans.

Hosted by SEACoast, Dr. Benny Baskara, visiting Research Associate at UCSC Anthropology, will lead a discussion on Teren Sevea's book, Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya.

Splendors of Malay World Textiles is an unprecedented exhibition put together by collector John Ang, displaying 650 textiles. This event is sponsored by University of Hawaii and the International Hajji Baba Society of Washington, DC.

Join the UCSC Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions for a discussion on Pontianak, a female vampire/ghost/monster in Malay cultures, and her kins in Southeast Asia. By using select chapters from Rosalind Galt's new book, Alluring Monsters: the Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization, this talk will consider gender relations, aesthetics, ethnic boundaries, urbanization, environmental change, and secularism in Southeast Asia.

In the past ten years, Malaysian society has increasingly witnessed the phenomenon of xin yimin, where citizens of the PRC have become long-term residents in Malaysia. Join Dr. Ngeow Chow-Bing, Institute of China Studies at the University of Malaya, and moderator Professor Leo Suryadinata, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, for a discussion on the social, political, cultural, and economic implications of this phenomenon.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, a Member of Parliament for Kuala Selangor, will discuss Malaysia’s recent political, economic and social upheavals including the successes and failures of Malaysia’s Covid-19 response under the Muhyiddin and Ismail Sabri administrations.