Join Asian CineVision for the NYC premiere of the Indonesian supernatural drama Levitating, a Sundance 2026 selection directed by Wregas Bhanuteja about spiritual possession and fighting against gentrification. The screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with the director and the opening night reception for the Asian American International Film Festival.

Join the Asia Society and Asian CineVision for a screening of Moonglow by Isabel Sandoval.

Isabel Sandoval stars in her latest feature, a noirish moral tale set in 1979 Manila.

Followed by a Q&A.

Join the Asia Society and Asian CineVision for a screening of Lingua Franca by Isabel Sandoval.

In her only feature to date made in the USA, Sandoval stars as Olivia, an undocumented trans Filipina woman living in Brooklyn and working as a caregiver.

Followed by a Q&A.

Join the Asia Society New York for a film screening of Lost Land on the eve of World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the United Nations to honor the strength, resilience, and courage of people forced to flee their countries due to conflict or persecution. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Writer and Director Akio Fujimoto and Consulting Producer Eric Nyari to deepen understanding, foster empathy, and engage in meaningful dialogue about the global refugee experience.

Join the Asia Society Museum and HBO for a special screening of The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas. This film brings together a tableau of voices to explore the themes of representation, belonging, and what it means to be Asian American or Pacific Islander in America. Through intimate reflections, participants explore the relationship between national identity and solidarity, individual and community, home country and home.

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 PEN America’s World Voices Festival for a panel of prominent international writers discussing how literature champions a diversity of cultures and reflects the multiple heritages, customs, and traditions. Speakers include Tash Aw, author of The South; Susan Choi, author of Flashlight, and Madeleine Thien, author of The Book of Records. PEN America President Dinaw Mengestu will moderate the discussion.

Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute at CUNY for a talk by Dr. Khánh Lê, Assistant Professor of Multilingualism and English Education in the Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders at Queens College/CUNY, and Dr. Alisha Nguyen, Assistant Professor of TESOL, Bilingual Education and Special Education at Lesley University. They will present their research on the history, development, and impact of Vietnamese dual language bilingual education programs in five U.S. states with significant Vietnamese populations.

Join the Southeast Asia Program and the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University for a talk by Sampreety Gurung, Anthropology PhD candidate at Cornell. Sampreety’s talk examines the dual sense of exclusion and inclusion through which Nepali migrants experience work and life in Malaysia and asks what life-making and freedom might mean in a context of enforced temporariness.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar that brings together journalists and researchers to examine the nature, mechanisms, and impact of disinformation and influence operations related to the South China Sea. Speakers include Janina Santos, Analyst for Doublethink Lab; Giano Libot, former journalist, and Regine Cabato, an independent journalist.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) for a webinar exploring how Southeast Asian borderlands live, negotiate, and challenge national boundaries. Speakers include Gading Gumilang Putra, National Information Advocacy Officer, Jesuit Refugee Services Indonesia; Lian Bawi Thang, Political Science PhD Candidate, UH Mānoa, and Prista Ratanapruck, Chiangmai University in Thailand and Singapore University of Social Science, Singapore. Ariel Mota Alves, Political Science PhD Candidate at UH Mānoa, will moderate the discussion.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a book talk by Marivi Soliven, author of Suddenly Stateside: Postscript, in conversation with Dr. Lara Saguisag, Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at New York University.

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 Joseph O. Legaspi in celebrating Amphibian, his third poetry collection which explores queerness, belonging, and the meaning of home through the lens of a Filipino American. Legaspi will be in conversation with acclaimed writers Jessica Hagedorn and Sarah Gambito. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

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 ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a panel that examines how disruptions to trade channels from the Straits of Hormuz are affecting farms, supply chains, and consumers in Southeast Asia. Speakers include Professor Paul Teng, Visiting Senior Fellow in the Climate Change in Southeast Asia Program at ISEAS, and Dr. Siang Hee Tan, Executive Director of CropLife Asia. Professor Sean De Cleene (Singapore Institute of Technology) and Dr. Alisher Mirzabaev (International Rice Research Institute) will serve as discussants, and Elyssa Ludher (ISEAS Visiting Fellow) will moderate the panel.

Join the Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) consortium for a community book read with Dr. Faizah Zakaria, Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, author of The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia, and winner of the 2025 Benda Prize. Dr. Juno Salazar Parreñas, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University, will moderate the discussion.

Join the Office of International Studies in Education at Michigan State University (MSU) for a webinar on the challenges and possibilities of education in rural contexts around the world. Speakers include Dr. Iwan Syahril, Director General for Early Childhood, Primary, and Secondary Education in Indonesia; Dr. Rishikesh B.S., Professor of Education at Azim Premji University, India; Dr. Nancy Romig, Senior Curriculum and Program Coordinator, Global Education Engagement, MSU; Dr. Amita Chudgar, Professor and Associate Dean of International Studies in Education, MSU; Dr. Sheneka Williams, Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Educational Administration, MSU, and Dr. Julie Sinclair, Associate Director, Office of International Studies in Education, MSU.

Join the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies for a book talk by Richard Quang-Anh Tran, indepedent scholar. Queer Vietnam recovers the forgotten stories of variant genders and sexualities in early twentieth-century Vietnam.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Dr. Mai Van Tran, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. Dr. Tran will examine the extent to which pro-democracy platform advocacy might affect Big Tech’s practices and curb platform-mediated repression in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia.

Join NYSEAN and the Program in International Relations at NYU for a brown bag roundtable on Gen-Z and resisting authoritarianism in Burma, hosted by Professor Frances O'Morchoe. Featured speakers include Morgane Dussud, PhD graduate of SOAS University of London with a professional background in human rights, and Kota Watanabe, Visiting Scholar at NYU Wagner studying civil wars and transnational organised crime in Southeast Asia.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for a book talk by Maryann Bylander, Professor of Sociology at Lewis and Clark College. The Trade-Offs of Legal Status is the first book to explore the lives of Cambodian migrants in Thailand, and it offers a rare ethnographic portrait of migration and development in Southeast Asia.

Join NYSEAN and GETSEA for a screening of Sotong and Against This Messy World,  two short films highlighting the challenges to art and expression in Malaysia’s complex political, legal, and societal landscape. The documentary screenings are followed by an online discussion with the filmmakers.

Join NYU Wagner’s International Policy and Planning Association (IPPA) for its 20th annual summit. This year’s summit will bring together students, academics, and practitioners to explore cross-sectoral solutions to the interconnected global challenges of climate change, migration, and global urban resilience. As cities worldwide confront more frequent flooding, rising heat, and expanding informal or peri-urban settlements, the need to rethink urban planning, infrastructure design, and climate-resilient financing models has never been more urgent.

Join the  Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Center at the London School of Economics and Political Science for a talk by Dr. Tharaphi Than, Associate Professor of World Languages and Cultures at Northern Illinois University. Dr. Than will discuss how rice became central to socialist meaning-making, resistance, and the politics of survival in Burma.