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.

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 Center for Humanities at UW-Madison for a panel featuring Tuong Vu (Vietnam in the World Project), Chien-Kai Chen (Conference Group on Taiwan Studies), and Stan Hok-wui Wong and Maggie Shum (Global Research Association of Politics in Hong Kong). They will reflect on what it means to advance “PUBLIC Asian American Studies,” how to uplift subaltern voices and diasporas, their challenges and risks, and communities of solidarity.

Join UC Irvine Libraries’ Orange County and Southeast Asian Archives Center for a half-day exhibit symposium. Professor Nam C. Kim will share how his family’s refugee journey from Vietnam through Guam informs his current anthropological research on Operation New Life. Arielle Taitano Lowe will share a poem about her CHamoru grandfather’s experiences during the Vietnam War. Jana K. Lipman and Trần Hoài Bắc will discuss the Vietnamese repatriate memoir they translated, Ship of Fate by Trần Đình Trụ.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of Environment, Sustainability, and Energy at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Bao-Son Trinh, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Environmental Toxicology Laboratory at Vietnam National University, who will discuss microplastics in the Saigon-Dongnai Rivers and their potential impacts on aquatic organisms.

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 the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University for a talk by Dr. Quingfei Yin, Assistant Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, who will discuss how China and Vietnam collaborate and compete along their shared border.

Join the Vietnam Studies Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar featuring Vu Minh Khuong, Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Jaya Ratnam, Singapore’s Ambassador to Vietnam; and Tran Phuoc Anh, Vietnam’s Ambassador to Singapore. This panel will explore the evolution of Vietnam-Singapore relations, analyze the opportunities and challenges of their upcoming Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP), and discuss strategies to strengthen and deepen bilateral ties for a more substantive and impactful future.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Nam Kim, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison, exploring the archaeological record of Vietnam as well as the region's national imagination, cultural heritage, and descendant identities.

Join the Southeast Asia Digital Library and the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a webinar featuring Trâm Phương Nguyễn (Columbia University) and Thành Hà Thị Tuệ (Vietnam National University), who will provide an overview of Yale’s Maurice Durand papers as well as current work with the Digitizing Việt Nam project.

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 Southeast Asia Program and the Mario Einaudi Center For International Studies at Cornell University for a talk by Ivan V. Small, who will discuss Vietnamese American migration and community formation across regions of the United States.

Join the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies for a book talk by Charles Keith, Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, whose research explores how French colonial rule in Indochina extended Indochina’s colonial society into France.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Nora Taylor, Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Professor Taylor will discuss the different ways Vietnamese artists have responded to monuments that represent racism and imperialism in light of changing historical memory in the post-colonial era.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Ann Marie Leshkowich, Professor of Anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross. She will discuss how both the government and social workers in Vietnam have emphasized the scientific nature of the field of social work to distinguish it from charitable volunteering.

Join the Vietnam Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar by Tuan Ho, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the University of Bristol Business School, and Long Tran, Head of Research at BIDV Securities (BSC), one of Vietnam’s oldest and most prominent securities firms. This webinar will analyze Vietnam’s economic performance in 2024 and assess its potential for 2025.

In a book talk hosted by NYSEAN and sponsored by NYU Wagner, editors Nhu Truong and Tuong Vu will discuss the economic and political dynamics and challenges of Vietnam laid out in their new book.  

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Vo Xuan Vinh, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, will review the history of Vietnam-Thailand relations, examine current developments, and assess the prospects for the future of bilateral ties.

Hosted by the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, Phi Hong Su, Williams College, will discuss the disparate Vietnamese migrants' encounters with each other in the post-socialist city of Berlin, as highlighted in her book, The Border Within.

Hosted by the Library of Congress, Tuan Hoang, Pepperdine University, and Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox, New York University, will discuss Vietnamese experiences of mobilization and decolonization, including their exposure to American culture before and during the intervention of the U.S. in the Vietnam War.

Hosted by the Stimson Center, Doan Van Binh, Vietnamese-German University, and Courtney Weatherby, Southeast Asia Deputy Director of The Stimson Center, will discuss how floods, droughts, sediment disruptions, and morphology provide insights into the impact of dams on the Vietnamese Mekong Delta.

Hosted by Weatherhead East Asian Institute and sponsored by NYSEAN, Hayeon Lee, Columbia University, will discuss her three years of ethnographic field work studying Vietnamese migrant women marriages in South Korea.