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 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 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) for a panel exploring how Southeast Asia can navigate intensifying U.S.–China competition while advancing its own economic and strategic priorities. Speakers include Gita Wirjawan, former Indonesian Minister of Trade and Honorary Senior Fellow at the Center for China Analysis (CCA), and Amb. Craig Allen, former U.S. Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at CCA. Kevin Zongzhe Li, Fellow at CCA, will moderate the discussion.

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 Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University (NIU) for a talk by Richard Pegg, Director and Curator of Asian Art at the MacLean Collection. In this talk, Dr. Pegg will examine maps created during the 17th to 19th centuries in order to better understand complex trade systems in today’s East and South China Seas, such as: the red-seal, Manila, Siam, Fujian, Zheng family, silver-silk, rice-silk, tribute, Muslim, Portuguese, British and Dutch systems.

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 ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Atty. Leni Robredo, the 14th Vice President of the Philippines, serving from 2016 to 2022 and current mayor of Naga City in the province of Camarines Sur. Dr. Aries Arugay, Visiting Senior Fellow and the Coordinator of the Philippines Studies Programme at ISEAS, will moderate the discussion.

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 Silverlens Gallery for the opening reception for State of the Nations, the first U.S. solo exhibition of renowned Philippine artist Geraldine Javier. Currently central to her practice is “eco-printing,” a laborious, hand-based technique of monoprinting by pressing the sap and pigment of leaves, roots, flowers, and bark directly into paper or fabric, which is then overlaid with intricate embroidery. Javier’s exhibition will be on view from September 10 through October 24, 2026.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU; NYSEAN; and Team Pinas for fireside chats on China’s role in the West Philippine Sea and Duterte’s War on Drugs and impeachment. Panelists include Dr. Gary Ador Dionisio, Carlo Flores, Dr. Ederson Tapia, Dr. Sherwin Ona, Professor Richard Heydarian, Atty. Dino De Leon, Prof. Cleve Arguelles, and Professor Sofonias Gabonada.

Join the Henry Luce Foundation to learn more about the Luce Scholars Program, a 12-month leadership development program that provides immersive, professional experiences in Asia. Designed to deepen mutual understanding and strengthen relationships across borders, the Luce Scholars Program emphasizes experiential learning rather than academic study.

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 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 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 North American premiere of Sisa at the Asian American International Film Festival. A Q&A will follow the screening, with producer Rey Cuerdo and lead cast Hilda Koronel joining in person, director Jun Robles Lana joining live via Zoom from Manila, and moderated by Leslie Li.

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 and Asian CineVision for a screening of Aparisyon (Apparition) by Isabel Sandoval.

It’s 1971 in a remote forest near Manila, where Sister Lourdes (Jodi Sta. Maria) arrives to join a cloister of nuns—in theory separated from the outside world—at the convent Adoration.

Followed by a Q&A.

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

Donna (Isabel Sandoval) is a trans woman in a small town in the Philippines who takes care of her friend’s son and works as the aide to a do-gooding mayoral candidate.

Followed by a Q&A.

At the AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies, join NYSEAN and SEACAF for a roundtable that will explore the relationship between authoritarianism and threats to academic and intellectual freedom in a way that puts attacks on higher education in the United States in conversation with Southeast Asia. The Roundtable includes the following scholars: Bencharat Sae Chua of the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies at Mahidol University in Thailand; Herlambang Wiratraman of the Research Center of Law and Social Justice at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia; Sol Iglesias of the University of the Philippines-Diliman’s Political Science Department in the Philippines, Sidney Jones of NYSEAN and New York University’s International Affairs Program, and Rianne Subijanto of Baruch College, City University of New York. Margaret Scott, a founder of NYSEAN and a journalist with the New York Review of Books, will chair.

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 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.