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.

Join PEN America for a webinar on the Cambodia-America rock opera Where Elephants Weep and human rights issues surrounding the Khmer Rouge regime. Panelists include Catherine Filloux, award-winning French Algerian American playwright, renowned composer Him Sophy, and performer and policy analyst Amara Goel. Executive Director of the Artists at Risk Connection Julie Trébault will moderate the conversation.

Join Unassimilated Walking Tours and Think!Chinatown for an interactive walking tour led by Dr. Michael Menor Salgarolo, faculty fellow in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. This walking tour tells the story of the police brutality case that rocked Chinatown and the protest movement that arose in its wake 50 years ago.

Join the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) for a talk by Dr. Mai Van Tran, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Brussels School of Governance of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Dr. Tran will discuss the extent to which the algorithmic curation, moderation, and design by social media platforms might facilitate cross-platform authoritarian repression, with evidence from conflict-ridden Myanmar. Dr. John Sidel, Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at LSE, will moderate the discussion.

Join Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the School of the Arts at Columbia University for a panel on war, memory, and the enduring power of cinema in bearing witness and raising conscience surrounding the Vietnam War. Featured speakers include Phillip Noyce, director of The Quiet American (2002), and Tony Bui, filmmaker and Artist in Residence at WEAI. Ted Osius, former United States Ambassador to Vietnam, will moderate the discussion.

Join Asia in Action’s The Conversation Series at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a panel commemorating the end of the Vietnam War and highlighting how the arts have played a powerful role in promoting peace and building bridges for new generations. Featured speakers include poet and author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, and photographer Peter Steinhauer. Tony Bui, Artist in Residence at WEAI, will moderate the panel discussion.

Join the Southeast Asia Program and the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University for a talk by Joshua Mitchell, PhD Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology, who will discuss how addiction, rehabilitation, and war perpetuate endless cycles of conflict among Myanmar’s forever soldiers and their disillusionment with revolution.

Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) will host a panel marking the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end and the 30th anniversary of U.S.-Vietnam reconciliation. Organized by Global Vietnam Studies with Columbia Global, the Journalism School, and the School of the Arts, the event features documentary filmmakers Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein (The Vietnam War), former Vietnamese Lt. Gen. Lo Khac Tam, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, WEAI Director and History Professor at Columbia, and Thomas Vallely, Senior Advisor for Global Vietnam Studies at WEAI, co-founder of Fulbright University Vietnam, and former U.S. Marine (Silver Star recipient).

Join Global Vietnam Studies at Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a conference commemorating the 30th anniversary of US-Vietnam Reconciliation. This commemoration seeks to explore the contested history of the war and of the peace, and draw lessons for the future of US-Vietnam relations and for conflict resolution around the world. This event features Severine Autesserre, Chinh Chu, Quoc Viet Le, Annabel Lee, Chris Miller, Lien-Hang Nguyen, Nguyen Quoc Dung, Dang Dinh Quy, Dang Hoang Giang, Wafaa El-Sadr, and Thomas Vallely.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) at Columbia University and the Columbia Journalism School for a keynote and ao dai exhibition featuring the Vietnamese-American actress, Kiều Chinh. Tony Bui, Artist in Residence at WEAI, will moderate the discussion.

Join the Yale Vietnamese Student Association and the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for an evening of remembrance, discussion, and collective reflection. The event includes a film screening of Oh, Saigon and a panel discussion featuring esteemed professors and personal testimonies.

Join Global Vietnam Studies at Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. This commemoration seeks to explore the contested history of the war, and features Tony Bui, Lan Cao, Thuy Dinh, Olga Dror, Mai Elliott, Sean Fear, Laurel Kendall, Ann Marie Leshkowich, Trinh Luu, Adrienne Le, Lien-Hang Nguyen, Martina Nguyen, John Phan, Hoi Trinh, Nu Anh Tran, Duy Linh Tu, and Tuong Vu.