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.

Join Asian CineVision for the screenings of Back Then, Disease, Heart and Sol, Mother’s Recipe, Satkankul, Searching for Color, and A Story of Nanjing as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. These shorts are created by filmmakers under the age of 21.

Join Asian CineVision for the screenings of i saw you in the flood, Before You, Huong, The Boy with the Dinosaur Head, Whereabouts, and Yu & Me as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. These shorts show how filmmakers find the light in tragedies and overcome heartbreak through the help of their families and communities. This screening will be followed by a Q&A.

Join Asian CineVision for a screening of Sea Song directed by An-Phuong Ly. This film is part of an in-person shorts-feature combination screening and will be followed by the documentary series, Southeast Asian American Stories.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a talk by George B. Radics, senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Radics will discuss his new book, Emotional Filipinos The American Myth of the Lazy Native and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines.

Join Asian CineVision for the screenings of Rice Run, Grandma’s Four Color Cards, Sonia Honey, Milk & Honey, Enough, and The Sale as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. These shorts examine the sacrifices that parents make for the sake of their children’s futures. The insecurities and tears are often unseen by those enjoying the care and comforts of the hard-won sacrifices. The screenings will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A.

Join Asian CineVision for the East Coast premiere of Whisperings of the Moon at the Asian American International Film Festival. Nisay, an actress haunted by loss, returns to Cambodia and to Thida — a love once forbidden. Bound by the weight of family and society, their passion survives only in memory and performance, until it must fade away.

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.