Join the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute for a conversation with Maria Ressa on journalism in the age of disinformation, AI, and social media, and the growing use of the legal system against journalists and the press. Maria Ressa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rappler, Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate with decades of working experience as a lead investigative reporter.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a conference unveiling the full release of the Digitizing Vietnam multi-functional Digital Humanities Hub and AI platform, and hosting workshops that gauge the need, efficacy, and limits of Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in the field of Vietnamese Studies. Speakers include Peter Bol, Đinh Điền, Albert Errickson, Judith Henchy, Tuấn Hoàng, Lê Hoàng Phúc, Lê Nguyễn Tường Vân, Jeremiah Mercurio, Nagasaki Kiyonori, Cindy Nguyễn, Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, Nguyễn Tuấn Cường, John Phan, Virginia Shih, Shimizu Masaaki, Kwok-Leong Tang, Ann Thornton, Trương Minh Hoà, Vũ Minh Hoàng, Hilde De Weerdt, Lou Vargas, and Emily Zinger.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan for a talk by Chris Hulshof, GETSEA Director of Community Engagement and History PhD Candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Hulshof will discuss how the British psychological warfare campaign in Indonesia not only flooded the Indonesian market with black propaganda leaflets and radio broadcasts, but deftly manipulated the international news circuit to spread Indonesian Army propaganda across the globe.

Join the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU for a talk by Dr. Anissa Rahadiningtyas, curator of Islamic Aesthetics in Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asia at the National Gallery Singapore. This presentation aims to rethink the established categorical boundaries of Islamic art through the works of Arahmaiani (b. 1961, Indonesia), Shooshie Sulaiman (b. 1973, Malaysia), and Zarina Muhammad (b. 1982, Singapore).

Join the Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) consortium for a community book read with Dr. Faizah Zakaria, Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, author of The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia, and winner of the 2025 Benda Prize. Dr. Juno Salazar Parreñas, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University, will moderate the discussion.

Join NYSEAN, Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, and the NYU Espacio de Culturas for an evening of standout Philippine short films that premiered at the Cinemalaya and Sundance Film Festivals over the past decade. Featured films include Cross My Heart and Hope to Die, The Headhunter’s Daughter, Abogbaybay/ Shoredust, An Sadit na Planeta/ The Little Planet, The Next 24 Hours, Black Rainbow, and Vox Humana.

Join the Office of International Studies in Education at Michigan State University (MSU) for a webinar on the challenges and possibilities of education in rural contexts around the world. Speakers include Dr. Iwan Syahril, Director General for Early Childhood, Primary, and Secondary Education in Indonesia; Dr. Rishikesh B.S., Professor of Education at Azim Premji University, India; Dr. Nancy Romig, Senior Curriculum and Program Coordinator, Global Education Engagement, MSU; Dr. Amita Chudgar, Professor and Associate Dean of International Studies in Education, MSU; Dr. Sheneka Williams, Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Educational Administration, MSU, and Dr. Julie Sinclair, Associate Director, Office of International Studies in Education, MSU.

Join NYSEAN for a book talk by Bradley R. Simpson, Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Connecticut and Founder/Director of the Indonesia and East Timor Documentation Project at the National Security Archive.

Join the Harvard University Asia Center for a talk by Michitake Aso, Associate Professor of History at the University at Albany, SUNY. Dr. Aso’s talk examines how Vietnamese scientists and medical doctors built the evidentiary case against Agent Orange and its contaminant TCDD dioxin during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a seminar on how Malaysia’s multi-leveled governance structure enables and constrains economic governance and policy innovation. Speakers include YB Tuan Dr. Mohammad Fahmi Bin Ngah, State Assemblyman for Seri Setia, and YB Encik Zairil Khir Johari, State Assemblyman for Tanjong Bunga (Penang).

Join the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies for a book talk by Richard Quang-Anh Tran, indepedent scholar. Queer Vietnam recovers the forgotten stories of variant genders and sexualities in early twentieth-century Vietnam.

Join Difference Engine, a Singaporean comics collective, for a webinar about production and circulation in Southeast Asia, from envisioning comics projects, soliciting ideas from and collaborating with comics creators, to publishing and distributing Southeast Asian comics regionally and worldwide. Speakers include Difference Engine’s Publisher and Co-Founder Felicia Low-Jimenez and Senior Editor Aditi Shivaramakrishnan.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Dr. Mai Van Tran, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. Dr. Tran will examine the extent to which pro-democracy platform advocacy might affect Big Tech’s practices and curb platform-mediated repression in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia.

Join NYSEAN and the Program in International Relations at NYU for a brown bag roundtable on Gen-Z and resisting authoritarianism in Burma, hosted by Professor Frances O'Morchoe. Featured speakers include Morgane Dussud, PhD graduate of SOAS University of London with a professional background in human rights, and Kota Watanabe, Visiting Scholar at NYU Wagner studying civil wars and transnational organised crime in Southeast Asia.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar on crypto scams in Southeast Asia, specifically how crypto’s much-touted transparency can be put to practical use and what it might take to make exchanges part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Speakers include Kevin Mei, financial economics researcher at the University of Texas–Austin; Cezary Podkul, investigative reporter, and Tom Luo, crypto solutions leader and Managing Director at Merkle Science.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for a book talk by Maryann Bylander, Professor of Sociology at Lewis and Clark College. The Trade-Offs of Legal Status is the first book to explore the lives of Cambodian migrants in Thailand, and it offers a rare ethnographic portrait of migration and development in Southeast Asia.

Join the Asia Society Museum and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a special dialogue between acclaimed French-Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung and filmmaker and professor Tony Bui. The evening explores Tran’s distinctive cinematic language and creative evolution, featuring carefully selected scenes from across his celebrated body of work.

Join the Indonesia Studies Program at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar on challenges to Indonesia’s political party cartel system, which aims to increase the role of negotiations within increasing coalitions. Speakers include Dr. Maxwell Lane, Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, and Professor Leo Suryadinata, Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute and Professor (Adjunct) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University.

Join the ASEAN Studies Center at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for the e-launch of The State of Southeast Asia: 2026 Survey Report on the prevailing attitudes of Southeast Asian opinion leaders on regional strategic developments and issues affecting ASEAN and its member states. Joanne Lin, Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the ASEAN Studies Center, will present the key findings of the survey. The following speakers will discuss the survey’s major findings: Scot Marciel, Senior Advisor of BowerGroupAsia; Dr. Saya Kiba, Associate Professor at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies; Dr. Huiyao Wang, Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization, and Herman Kraft, Professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines at Diliman.

Join NYSEAN and GETSEA for a screening of Sotong and Against This Messy World,  two short films highlighting the challenges to art and expression in Malaysia’s complex political, legal, and societal landscape. The documentary screenings are followed by an online discussion with the filmmakers.

Join NYU Wagner’s International Policy and Planning Association (IPPA) for its 20th annual summit. This year’s summit will bring together students, academics, and practitioners to explore cross-sectoral solutions to the interconnected global challenges of climate change, migration, and global urban resilience. As cities worldwide confront more frequent flooding, rising heat, and expanding informal or peri-urban settlements, the need to rethink urban planning, infrastructure design, and climate-resilient financing models has never been more urgent.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) for a webinar on Southeast Asia’s fast-evolving smart city initiatives, from data governance to climate adaptation. Speakers include Rita Padawangi, Associate Professor, College of Interdisciplinary and Experiential Learning, Singapore University of Social Sciences; Bharat Dahiya, Director of the Research Center for Sustainable Development and Innovation, Thammasat University, and Gavin Shatkin, Professor, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University. Ashok Das, Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UH Mānoa, will moderate the discussion.

Join the  Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Center at the London School of Economics and Political Science for a talk by Dr. Tharaphi Than, Associate Professor of World Languages and Cultures at Northern Illinois University. Dr. Than will discuss how rice became central to socialist meaning-making, resistance, and the politics of survival in Burma.

Join the Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) consortium for a webinar on conducting research in the Philippines. Speakers include scholars with unique and extensive backgrounds on Philippine research: Dr. Louward Zubiri, Lector in Philippine Language Studies at Yale University, and Yi-Yu Lai, a PhD candidate in anthropology at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Dr. Verne de la Peña, Visiting Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Professor of Musicology at the University of the Philippines College of Music, will moderate the discussion.

Join NYSEAN for a roundtable discussion exploring domestic and international pressures with Thailand’s leading politicians and academic researchers. Speakers include Kanokrat Lertchoosakul, Assistant Professor at the Department of Government, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University; Kunthida Rungruengkiat, MPP Candidate at Princeton University and former Deputy Leader of Thailand’s Future Forward Party, and Parit Wacharasindhu, Member of the Thai Parliament and Spokesperson of the People’s Party.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a book talk by Andrew L. Oros, Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Washington College, Maryland. Whereas the populations of China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Russia are aging and shrinking, the populations of India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Australia continue to grow. Oros will discuss how striking demographic changes affect regional security dynamics and the United States–led alliance structure in the Indo-Pacific.

Join the Indonesian Film Forum for the East Coast premiere of Turang (1957) by Bachtiar Siagian. This seminal piece of Indonesian film history was screened at the 1958 Afro-Asian Film Festival in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Until its rediscovery in a film archive in Moscow in 2023, Turang was considered lost due to the Suharto regime’s repression of leftist and neorealist art.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a book talk by Dr. Miles Kenney-Lazar, Senior Lecturer of Human Geography at the University of Melbourne. Dr. Kenney-Lazar’s book investigates the development of Chinese and Vietnamese pulpwood and rubber plantations on the lands of the ethnic minority Brou people in eastern Savannakhet of southern Laos.