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 Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) for a special program of conversation, community, and a film screening of Skin of Youth (2025). Panelists include Tony Bui, Kiều Chinh, Catherine T. Nguyễn, Việt Hương, Công Dương, and Nguyen Lam Thao Tam.

Join the ASEAN Studies Center and the Regional Economic Studies Program at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a panel on the current state of play in the US trade policy and its impact on multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating in Southeast Asia as the 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs lapses in early July 2025. Featured speakers include Marc Mealy, Isamu Wakamatsu, and Dr. Dan Wang.

Join the Vietnam Studies Program at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Dr. Nguyen Vu Tung, former President of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, and Hoang Thi Ha, Senior Fellow and Co-coordinator of the Regional Strategic and Political Studies Programme at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. This webinar celebrates Vietnam’s transformative journey within ASEAN and examines the evolution of Vietnam’s approach to ASEAN.

Join the Regional Strategic and Political Studies Program at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Senior Fellow Dr. Ian Storey, who will discuss his new book on Russia’s role in Southeast Asia. Dr. Jittipat Poonkham, Vice Dean for Academic and International Affairs and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Political Science at Thammasat University, will moderate the discussion.

Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop for a celebration of Mothersalt by Mia Ayumi Malhotra and Becoming Ghost by Cathy Lin Che, featuring readings by Sahar Muradi and Eugenia Leigh.

Join the New York Public Library for a talk by Kevin Nguyen, who will discuss his second novel, Mỹ Documents. The features editor at The Verge satirizes American xenophobia, political dysfunction, and our tech-culture industrial complex. Nguyen discusses his novel with writer Chris Gayomali.

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 LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre’s annual Southeast Asia Forum in 2025, which brings together leading specialists worldwide to discuss the implications of global trends and ongoing geoeconomic contestation for Southeast Asian economies, polities, and societies. Featured speakers include Evelyn Goh (Australian National University), Henry Wai-chung Yeung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Selina Ho (National University of Singapore), and Alvin Camba (Association of Universities, Inc.).

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 ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Dr. John Lee, senior fellow at Hudson Institute, for a talk on Trump’s policies and their far-reaching global consequences. He will explore their impact on the US Indo-Pacific strategy and security alliances in Asia, the potential for strategic realignments among Asian nations, and how countries can navigate the uncertainties and challenges in the turbulent years ahead.

Join the the Asia Society and Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a screening of the critically acclaimed film Three Seasons (1999), followed by a discussion with the film’s director, Tony Bui, and Director of Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute and History Professor, Dr. Lien-Hang Nguyen.

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.

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.

Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop for a talk by Mai Der Vang, recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and professor of Creative Writing at Fresno State University, who will discuss her new poetry book on the collective trauma and resilience experienced by Hmong people and communities. Topics covered by Mai Der Vang include the ongoing cultural and environmental repercussions of the war in Vietnam, the lives of refugees afterward, and the postmemory carried by their descendants. Cambodian American poet and instructor at Barnard College Monica Sok will moderate the discussion.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Michael K. Miller, History PhD Candidate, who will discuss the history of Ambonese masculinity and colonialism.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Nhung Tuyet Tran, Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, who will discuss how historians of Vietnam interpret and analyze the logics of coloniality from China, France, the United States, Russia, and settler colonialism of the Indigenous communities in Vietnam.

Join the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Southeast Asia Initiative at Harvard University for a talk by Catherine H. Nguyen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College, who will discuss the longue durée of Western imperialism from French colonial Indochina to the American War in Vietnam through a comparative study of the writings of Vietnamese mixed-race authors Kim Lefèvre and Kien Nguyen.

Join Sciences Po International Research Center for “Whispers to the Ancestors,” an immersive performance by artist XM Tran. This collective commemoration of 50 years of exile brings together voices, memories, and wishes from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, North America, and Europe.

Join the Columbia University School of Journalism, the Alliance Program, Sciences Po American Foundation, and Sciences Po Centre de Recherches Internationales for a transatlantic dialogue bringing together the voices of Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian exiles in France and the United States, as well as experts, activists, and artists from both sides of the Atlantic. Featured speakers include Ombeline Bois, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Hélène Le Bail, Khatharya Um, Fabien Truong, Kalyanee Mam, and Krysada Phounsiri.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Martina Thucnhi Nguyen, Associate Professor of History at Baruch College (CUNY), who will discuss the female writing persona of early 20th-century Vietnamese intellectual Nguyễn Văn Vĩnh.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Phi Nguyen, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale’s CSEAS, who will discuss her book project on the deteriorating water-land dynamics of Huế, the postcolonial Vietnamese city that was Vietnam’s former capital, a French protectorate, and a borderland and battleground from the fourteenth century until the recent Second Indochina War.