Join ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a panel examining Thai and Indonesian youth’s perceptions on wellbeing and development, social attitudes and values, and other trends in civic engagement. Featured speakers include Voradon Lerdrat, Director of Research and Policy Partnerships at 101 Public Policy Think Tank (Thailand), and Dr. Iim Halimatusa’diyah, Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute and Professor of Sociology at Islamic State University (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah.

Join us for a timely webinar exploring how Indonesia’s political crisis reverberates beyond street protests to challenge the foundations of academic freedom and institutional autonomy. The conversation will situate Indonesia’s struggles within a broader regional context, examining what shrinking democratic space means under rising authoritarianism across Southeast Asia.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a book talk by Chiara Formichi, H. Stanley Krusten Professor of World Religions in the Department of Asian Studies. Domestic Nationalism argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia’s progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activities of care work.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Hawaii-Mānoa (UH Mānoa) for a webinar about the influence of community narratives on the memory and ongoing legacies of the Vietnam War. Barbara Watson Andaya of UH Mānoa will moderate the discussion with a panel that includes: Long T. Bui (UC Irvine), Dan “Fig” Leaf (Honorary Consul for Vietnam in Hawaii), and Thy Phu (University of Toronto Scarborough).

Join Asian CineVision for the screenings of Rooftop Lempicka; Sex, Baseball, and All Pussibilities; Clementine; They Call Me the Tattoo Witch; OK/NOTOK; and Zari as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. These are films by and for the girl with an emphasis on platonic love, self-affirmation, and healing through art and expression. They celebrate femininity in all its forms, from the tenderness of youth to the antics of young womanhood and beyond. The screenings will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A.

Join Asian CineVision for the screenings of Vox Humana, Funeral of the Earth, Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites, Vic and His Nanay, We Used to Take the Long Way Home, and Across the Waters as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. These films entail liminal places, bodies in motion, borders of life and death. They explore the intermediate, indeterminate spaces between one another, the world around us, and even the worlds beyond. The screenings will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A.

Join Asian CineVision for the screening of Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo (Dahil Sa 'Yo: Ang Storya Ng Kilawin Kolektibo) as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. The screening will be preceded by the short film, Two Travelling Aunties, and followed by a filmmaker Q&A.

Join Asian CineVision for the New York City Premiere of Softshell (2024) as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. The screening will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A.

Join GETSEA and SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium for a virtual panel discussion exploring informal labor, waste flows, and the politics of waste governance in the Philippines. Panelists include Debs Bartolo, Liz Fumar, Miguel Antonio Santos, and the Muntinlupa Waste Workers Association.

Join the Indonesia Project at Australia National University for their PhD student seminar exploring the theme of policy making in Indonesia as part of the Indonesia Project’s 60th Anniversary celebrations. Gita Putri Damayana examines the regulatory framework that shapes policy making in Indonesia, Joshua Walker offers a sociological perspective on the country’s energy transition and electric vehicle (EV) policy, and Dyah Pritadrajati discusses social policy from an economic standpoint.

Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Asian American Journalists Association for an enlivening conversation on transitioning from reporting to long-form storytelling, featuring Vicky Nguyen and Youngmi Mayer. The panelists will reflect on the challenges of shifting from the fast-paced, fact-driven world of journalism to the slower, more introspective craft of writing books.

Join the Center for Khmer Studies for a talk by Dr. Téphanie Sieng, postdoctoral scientist in Social Science at the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC). Dr. Sieng’s presentation will explore healthcare behaviors and the interaction between formal and informal healthcare access, cultural representations of disease, and community dynamics in Cambodia. Andrew Mertha, Professor of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, will moderate the discussion.

Join Book Culture and the SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium on Wednesday, July 9th at 7pm for a conversation with Benjamin Tausig, author of Bangkok after Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies, and Rianne Subijanto, author of Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia. 

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute Myanmar Studies Program for a talk by Vicky Bowman, Director of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) and Senior Adviser to the Institute for Human Rights and Business, and Thet Zaw Htwe, Head of Policy and Strategy at EuroCham Myanmar. These two analysts will assess the state of Myanmar’s economy after the devastating earthquake that struck central Myanmar in March 2025.

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 ALTSEAN-Burma and PEN America for a book launch and celebration of the new anthology Women’s Voices from the Revolution. The panel will bring together writers and human rights advocates for a conversation on free expression, the transformative power of storytelling, and their personal experiences living under the Myanmar military's rule. Featured speakers Ma Thida, A Phyu, and Debbie Stothard.

Join Yu & Me Bookstore for a talk by Cathy Lin Che, Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist, as she discusses Becoming Ghost, her poetry collection about familial estrangement, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. Author Kyle Lucia Wu will moderate the discussion.

Join the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at LSE for a talk by Dr. Tamsin Barber, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Chair of the Migration and Refugees Network at Oxford Brookes University. This talk explores the social, economic, and development issues shaping the specific labour migration to the UK from North-Central Vietnam.