Join the Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a talk by Luna Nga Thị Howard, Amerasian activist and entrepreneur, and writer Anna El-Eini. Luna will discuss her experience growing up in Vietnam following the war as a woman born of a Vietnamese mother and a Black US serviceman father. Anna will discuss how she and Luna were forced to face existential questions about the Vietnam War head on, including the suffering on both sides, forgiveness versus justice, loyalty through political division, and national identity as a catalyst for war.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU and the Association of Filipino Scientists in America for a night of science, food, culture, and celebration. Speakers include Dr. Christian Gloria, Associate Professor and Deputy Chair of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health; Fatimah Mamalapat Coppin, medical student at the CUNY School of Medicine; Andrian “Adi” Gajigan, Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University; Jaimee-Ian Rodriguez, Commissioning Editor in the STEM publishing industry, and Dr. Michelle Saoi, Senior Scientist in the Proteomics and Metabolomics Core Facility at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Join Vietnamese Boat People at Think!Chinatown Studio for their 7th Annual Story Slam, an evening of live storytelling, community, and connection. This year's Story Slam theme is about living between two languages — the mistranslations, the code-switching, the words that don't survive the crossing, and get lost or found somewhere in between.

Join UC Santa Barbara for a panel exploring the humanitarian and human-rights challenges facing communities in Rakhine State, including the genocide against the Rohingya and ongoing demands for justice and accountability.

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 NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a talk by Dr. Kent Jason Cheng, assistant professor of gerontology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Cheng will discuss the precedents and consequences of both giving and receiving intergenerational support among older Filipinos.

Join the NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU for a talk by Dr. Emily Hue, associate professor of Ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Hue will discuss her recent book on how diasporic Burmese artists navigate the intricate intersections of art, politics, and humanitarianism. Dr. Linda Luu, an interdisciplinary scholar of US empire, race, and therapeutic culture, will moderate the discussion.

Join the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies for a talk by Beatrice Zani, Associate Research Professor at French National Centre for Scientific Research. Drawing upon more than four years of ethnographic research in Taiwan, Indonesia, and Singapore, the talk explores the lives of Southeast Asian migrant fishers illustrating how labor takes shape across  shifting maritime environments in which legal authority and accountability are fragmented.

Join Hazel Saunders (@ThatShadyHaze) at New York Comic Con for a panel on Filipino American culture, creativity, mental wellness, and belonging in the cosplay community. Speakers include @IzieBuilds, @Maweezy, @DrGerro, and @BrolicPump.

Join NYSEAN, Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, Espacio de Culturas at NYU, and Yu & Me Books for a talk by Dr. Adrian De Leon, author and Assistant Professor of History at NYU. Dr. De Leon will discuss his newly published memoir with Dr. Martha Hodes, Professor of History at NYU.

Join the Harvard University Asia Center for a talk by Dr. Sandersan Onie, Lynch Family Foundation Research Fellow in Global Health Equity at at the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. In this talk, Dr. Onie reflects on a decade of work in Indonesia and other low-resource settings in order to discuss suicide prevention in the country.

Join the Stimson Center for a talk by Tay Zar Myo Win, PhD candidate at Deakin University, and Tint Zaw Hein, Chancellor of Let Pen Community College. Together, they will discuss local perspectives from Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone on the resistance, suffering, and emerging governance structures in the region following the coup.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a panel on the potential for engaging the youth in order to promote democratic renewal and resilience in Philippine politics. Speakers include Dr. Elma Laguna, Professor at the University of the Philippines Population Institute; Francis “Kiko” Aquino Dee, Executive Director of the Ninoy and Cory Aquino Foundation, and Rafaela “Paeng” David, President of the Akbayan Citizens’ Action Party.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University (NIU) for a talk by Tomoyuki Shibata, Associate Dean for Research and Administration, College of Health and Human Sciences and Professor of Public Health, NIU; Duhita Mahatmya, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations, University of Iowa; Florensia F. Surjadi, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at NIU, and Riyani, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Learning Innovation, Leadership and Technology, NIU. They will discuss the Indonesian American Family Health Project, which conducts research on Indonesian American family experiences, including strengths, resilience, and health vulnerabilities in order to address health disparities.

Join the Museum of Chinese in America and the New York Asian Film Festival for a screening of Yellow Rose, a coming-of-age musical drama that follows Rose Garcia (Eva Noblezada), a Filipina teenager growing up undocumented in a small Texas town. The screening is followed by a talkback with Director Diane Paragas, MOCA’s Curator Herb Tam, and NYAFF’s Executive Director Samuel Jamier.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Dr. Mai Truong, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marquette University. Dr. Truong’s research examines the interaction between movements, states, and publics in authoritarian regimes, namely in Vietnam and Malaysia.

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.

Join Engage Thailand and 112WATCH for a typographic poster exhibition and fundraiser regarding political prosecutions in Thailand since 2020. This event features a thought-provoking art exhibit and a fireside chat with Pavin Chachavalpongpun on the state of political prosecutions in Thailand in the aftermath of the 2020 pro-democracy mass movement.

Join NYSEAN and the Master’s Program in International Relations at NYU for a talk by Pavin Chachavalpongpun, professor at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University. He will discuss the Thai monarchy’s strategic response to the 2020 youth-led protests that called for reforms to the royal family’s place in national life.

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 Stimson Center for a talk by Isabella Aung, Research Fellow at the Myanmar Policy and Community Knowledge Hub, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. She will discuss the challenges facing women and girls in post-coup Myanmar.

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 the screenings of Almost American, Homecoming and Going, Daily Worker, ITALIANO, Confucius Plaza, i see myself in you, and Cabbage Daddy as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. These shorts are contemporary films about immigrants from Asia.

Join Asian CineVision for the world premiere of The Act of Dreaming at the Asian American International Film Festival. This documentary follows three immigrant families as they navigate life in Buffalo, NY in 2024: an Ecuadorian family seeking asylum, a Syrian father rebuilding after war, and a Burmese mother and daughter adjusting after decades in a refugee camp. A Q&A will follow the screening.