Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at NIU and the Philippine Consulate General of Chicago for a presentation by Ambeth Ocampo, Professor of History at Ateneo de Manila University, who will discuss how people have utilized the history of the Philippines for better or worse.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippines Studies Initiative at NYU for a showcase of Filipino student filmmakers at NYU: Cal Galicia, Haley Jade Odum, Jack Lacy, and Lauren Luke. This program highlights and celebrates the work of these emerging storytellers before their films premiere on the festival circuit and beyond.

Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute at CUNY for a talk by Vina Orden, who will present on her essay in CUNY FORUM Volume 11:1, examining how narratives in popular media can perpetuate or challenge existing power structures and colonial mentalities.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University (NIU) for a talk by Kanjana Thepboriruk, Associate Professor at NIU’s Department of World Languages and Cultures, who will discuss her work conducting oral history interviews with Thai Americans.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies for a talk by Mu'izz Abdul Khalid, a Research Associate at the Global Awareness and Impact Alliance, who will discuss the paradoxical status Bruneians face as both citizens and subjects of Brunei, the last absolutist kingdom in Southeast Asia. With their hybrid status, Khalid argues Bruneians are compelled to constantly negotiate their political lives, balancing their status as subjects with subtle acts of citizenship, often in the form of “quiet activism.”

Join NYSEAN and the Southeast Asia Coalition for Academic Freedom (SEACAF) for a conference examining attacks on intellectual and academic freedom in Southeast Asia and the United States. Scholars, journalists, and activists will gather to look at how universities and intellectuals often become the first target of rising authoritarianism, the costs and benefits of collective action, and the strategies for resistance. The conversation will address the impact of funding cuts, strengthened immigration enforcement, and assaults on higher education in the United States as well as the lessons learned from crackdowns in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Turkey.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Associate Professor of Film from Columbia University, who will discuss how fictional narrative filmmaking can serve as a form of resistance under authoritarian regimes, with a focus on her own practice as a filmmaker and artist working in Thailand.

Join the Thirdworld Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at City College of New York for a screening and discussion of the documentary film Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo by Desireena Almoradie and Barbara Malaran. The screening will be followed by a talkback with the co-directors and fellow past participants of Kilawin Kolektibo.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Jack Jin Gary Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. Dr. Lee will discuss the 1938 case of a magistrate who was suspected by colonial officials in Singapore and London of having homosexual relations with colonial subjects.

Join the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) for a talk by Alicia Landbeck, an associate researcher at the University of Burgundy-Europe on the dynamics of highly vulnerable families with children experiencing psychological difficulties in Cambodia. Sophal Ear, Associate Professor at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University and CKS Board Member, will moderate the discussion.

Join Vietnamese Boat People (VBP) and Think!Chinatown Studio for a Story Slam in which Vietnamese Americans share their journey of migration, identity, love, loss, healing, and discovery. The event is preceded by a reception and an introduction by VBP’s Founder, Tracey Nguyễn Mang.

Join NYSEAN and Nicholas Kuipers, Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University, as he discusses his recently published book. Drawing on large-scale surveys, experiments, and archival documents, States Against Nations provides a thought-provoking perspective on the challenges of bureaucratic recruitment and unearths an overlooked tension between state- and nation-building.

Join the Asian American Resource Center, the Center for Burma Studies, and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Elizabeth Rhoads, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University, Sweden. Professor Rhoads will discuss the influence of conflict and displacement on statelessness and barriers to acquiring and holding citizenship in Myanmar.

Join NYSEAN, the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, and the U.S. Immigration & Resettlement Directive for a Forum on Burmese Democracy, where leading voices will share their perspectives on the crisis. Sean Turnell, Tom Andrews, Miemie Winn Byrd, and Kim Aris will examine Myanmar’s current trajectory, the challenges to democratic recovery, and the role of international engagement and diaspora communities.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison for a talk by Christina Schwenkel, Professor of Anthropology at UC Riverside. Looking back on the early months of the pandemic in Vietnam, the talk argues for greater attention to the sensory dimensions of public health security, particularly as experienced through sonic rupture.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa for a talk by Dr. Muhammad Suhail Mohamed Yazid, Fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center, as he discusses his latest book He Who is Made Lord. Dr. Barbara Watson Andaya, Emerita Professor of Asian Studies at UH-Mānoa, will moderate the discussion.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UH-Mānoa for the virtual book launch of  Halo-Halo Ecologies, an anthology that gathers a transnational community of food enthusiasts, engaged scholars, and social and environmental activists to reimagine Philippine Studies and Food Studies. Speakers include Dr. Alyssa Paredes, Dr. Marvin Montefrio, Felice Prudente Sta. Maria, Chef Giney Villar, and Paolo Ven B. Paculan.

Join NYSEAN and NYU MAIR for a talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Benjamin Tausig about the way that music features in their new books and how they engage with songs in their various writings. Benjamin will give a brief introduction to his latest book, Bangkok After Dark. Jeffrey will then discuss a chapter in his new book, The Milk Tea Alliance.

Margaret Scott, NYSEAN co-founder, will moderate the discussion.

Join Deconstructing Indonesia, a student-led group, for a discussion of the National Revolution of Indonesia with a focus on the clashing writings of two giants of the revolution: Sutan Sjahrir and Tan Malaka.

Join ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute’s Media, Technology, and Society Program (MTS) for a talk by Dr. Carol Soon, Associate Professor of Communications and New Media in the National University of Singapore, and Dr. Maria Monica Wihardja, Visiting Fellow and Co-Coordinator of the MTS Program.. They will discuss the role of different types of media, AI- and non-AI-generated disinformation and election propaganda on voter perceptions and behaviours in Indonesia’s 2024 Presidential Election and Singapore’s 2025 General Election.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan for a panel that explores Asia’s role in building today’s high technology and the impact of Asian tech on contemporary Asian American communities. Panelists include Christopher Fan, Associate Professor of English at UC Irvine; Janice Lobo Sapigao, Filipina American poet, writer, and independent scholar; and Tony Shyu, an award-winning filmmaker, founder of Neu Wave AI Films, and CEO of Himalaya Entertainment.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Aditya Bhattacharjee, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow from Asian Studies at Cornell University, who will discuss how new trends in popular Thai religion have influenced the beliefs and business practices of residents in New York state’s primary Thai enclaves.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Dr. Alyssa Paredes, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. This talk uses the pejorative Filipino expression naka-aircon or “air-conditioned person” meaning detached from reality, to capture class-based inequalities in access to cooled spaces to argue that the indifference of the elite bears repercussions for the delivery of the law.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a talk by Dr. Wei-Ting Yen, assistant research fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Dr. Yen examines how South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore adopted distinct medical resource strategies during the early phase of COVID-19.

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).