Join NYU Silver School of Social Work and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a talk by Bianca Mabute-Louie, PhD student in Sociology at Rice University, who will discuss her book on Asian American political identity and community building.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo for a talk by Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, who will discuss her new book. In Caring for Caregivers, Dr. Francisco-Menchavez centers the perspectives of Filipino caregivers in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2013 to 2021, illuminating their transnational experiences and the strategies and practices they employ to help each other navigate the crumbling US healthcare system.

Join the the Southeast Asia Initiative at Harvard University Asia Center for a talk by Cheeno Mario M. Sayuno, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Associate Professor at University of the Philippines Los Baños. Dr. Sayuno will analyze discuss water- and forest-themed children's storybooks from Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia alongside the experiences of long-term expatriates from Southeast Asia, in order to explore how both narratives negotiate concepts of home, belonging, and cultural identity in foreign lands

Join the Philippine Consulate General in New York for a solemn ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Manila and honoring the courage of Filipino and American soldiers during World War II. This event includes a talk by Brett Moyer, author of Had MacArthur Not Returned, and a presentation of the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal to World War II veterans.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative for a conversation with author Hanna Usman and Sari-Sari Storybooks Publisher Christina Newhard, who will discuss their children’s book, Jalal and the Lake. The event will conclude with a book signing.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative and the Philippine Consulate for a story time event featuring Hanna Usman, author of Jalal and the Lake, and Christina Newhard, Sari-Sari Storybooks Publisher and author of Kalipay and the Tiniest Tiktik.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UH-Manoa for a discussion on sustainable, community-centric tourism in Southeast Asia. Dr. Huong T. Bui, Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, will discuss governance and tourism development in Vietnam. Boboi Costas, Founder of Grassroots Travel and Former Tourism Officer of Cebu Provincial Government, will discuss lessons from a community-based ecotourism project in Cebu, Philippines.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Elissa “E” Domingo Badiqué, PhD candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, who will discuss Filipinx mimicry and queer self-fashioning through dance.

Join NYSEAN, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the Columbia-Harvard China and the World program for a conference featuring Walden Bello, Pongphisoot Busbarat, Thomas Christensen, Sophal Ear, Joseph Chinyong Liow, Derek Mitchell, Ann Marie Murphy, Hong Hai Nguyen, Lien-Hang Nguyen, Elina Noor, Praslhant Parameswaran, Gregory Poling, Yohanes Sulaiman, and Ayumi Teraoka. These leading experts will examine the implications of a second Trump administration for US-Southeast Asian relations at this critical junction in global politics.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for the book launch of Global Battlefields, a memoir by Walden Bello. Bello, a Filipino activist and intellectual, holds a PhD in sociology from Princeton. He was an anti-Vietnam War activist, a pro-democracy activist against the Marcos dictatorship, a member of Congress, a Vice-Presidential candidate, and a university professor.

Join the Philippines Institute at Australian National University for an online forum on the arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and its implications. The panel features Manuel Quezon III, political analyst and columnist for the Philippine Daily Inquirer; Atty. Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, Senior Professional Lecturer, De La Salle University; Mags Maglana, governance, peace and development worker; and is moderated by Dr. Cleo Calimbahin, ANU Philippines Institute Senior Research Fellow and Professor at De la Salle University-Manila.

Join NYSEAN, Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, and Espacio de Culturas at NYU for an evening of festival-favorite film shorts and conversation with New York-based Filipino and Filipino American filmmakers. The program features When the House Lights Come On by Apa Agbayani, A Blaan Lullaby by Ida Del Mundo, Manila is Full of Men Named Boy by Andrew Stephen Lee, Out of Body by Enrico Po, and more.

Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute at CUNY for a talk by Cherry Lou Sy, Adjunct Lecturer in the English and American Studies Departments at Brooklyn College, CUNY.  Sy’s debut novel Love Can’t Feed You (Dutton, 2024) is a heartfelt and poignant exploration of love, sacrifice, and survival in the face of adversity. It follows the journey of a young immigrant woman from the Philippines  navigating the complexities of a challenging relationship while grappling with the harsh realities of her life.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Dr. Kristian Saguin, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of the Philippines Diliman, who will discuss urbanization and resource flows in Metro Manila.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for an evening of films by acclaimed indie writer and director Glenn Barit. They will screen Cleaners (2019) and the short films Maybe Aliens (2017), Who Rents There Now? (2018), and Before Life Happens (2023).

Join the York Centre for Asian Research for a talk by Pia Ranada, Head of Community for Rappler and the 2024 Philippines Marshall McLuhan Fellow at the Embassy of Canada, who will discuss efforts in her newsroom to bring the work of journalism to readers and citizens in new, impactful ways.

Join NYSEAN for a book talk by Merlyna Lim, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, and Director of the ALiGN Media Lab at Carleton University. Social Media and Politics in Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2025) highlights the dual role of social media in both fostering grassroots activism and enabling autocratic practices of algorithmic politics, notably in electoral politics.

Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute at CUNY for a talk by Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, who will discuss the transnational experiences and community building of Filipino caregivers.

Join the Philippine Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar featuring Cielo Magno, Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines’ School of Economics; Zy-za Nadine Suzara, independent public budget analyst; and Jan Carlo Punongbayan, ISEAS Visiting Fellow and Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines School of Economics. This panel will explore issues surrounding the crafting of the recent national budgets of the Philippine government.

Join Asia Society for a film screening of Moral (1982) by Marilou Diaz-Abaya, which features four Filipinas navigating friendship and adulthood against a backdrop of martial rule.

Join the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University for a conference on the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia. This event brings together papers from scholars of maritime Southeast Asia who document and analyze the diverse but often precarious practices of everyday management of linguistic and cultural identities of diasporic Chinese in the Southeast Asian region.

Join the Asian American Education Project for a talk by Dr. Mark R. Villegas, an Associate Professor of American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, who will be discussing the contributions and representations of Filipino Americans in Hip Hop.

Join the Asian American Education Project for a talk by Dr. Mark R. Villegas, an Associate Professor of American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, who will be discussing the contributions and representations of Filipino Americans in Hip Hop.