Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, join Professor Paul Teng, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, and Genevieve Donnellon-May, a master’s candidate at the University of Oxford, for a discussion on how the Russia-Ukraine conflict exacerbates ongoing food security concerns in Southeast Asia.

Chris Beyrer MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Parveen Parmar, Associate Professor at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, will discuss the 2021 coup, attacks on health care facilities, and the ongoing health crisis in Myanmar. This event is hosted by the Harvard University Asia Center.

Join Ralph “Skip” Boyce, former President of Boeing SE Asia and former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, Joe Horn-Phathanothai, founder of Strategy613, and Benjamin Zawacki, a Senior Program Specialist at the Asia Foundation, for a discussion on Zawacki’s book, Thailand: Shifting Ground between the US and a Rising China. This event is hosted by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand - FCCT.

Astrid Meilasari-Sugiana, a senior lecturer at Universitas Bakrie, Siwage Dharma Negara, Co-Coordinator of the Indonesia Studies Programme at ISEAS, and Manggi Taruna Habir, an independent commissioner for three companies, will discuss the rise of fintech startups in Indonesia, the key findings from an online survey on Indonesians’ experiences and perceptions of fintech tools, and the social impacts of fintech usage. This event is organized by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute.

Hosted by the East-West Center, Kulikar Sotho, Director of “Soul River,” Anysay Keola, Director of “The Che Brother,” Alex Curran-Cardarelli, Producer of MEKONG 2030, and Sean Chadwell, Executive Director of the Luang Prabang Film Festival, will explore how communities in Southeast Asia experience economic, social, and cultural dislocations as communities shift from predominantly subsistence agriculture to industrializing economies.

Hosted by the Harvard University Asia Center, Maria Ressa, CEO of Rappler and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, and Professor James Robson, Director of the Harvard University Asia Center, will discuss the future of the Philippines in a post-Duterte era.

Join Dr. Theresa de Langis, American University of Phnom Penh, and Ms. Sotheary Yim, a psychologist who worked with survivors of gender-based violence from the Khmer Rouge period, for a discussion on the efforts to have forced marriage investigated as a crime as part of the prosecutorial strategy of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. This event is moderated by Eve Zucker and sponsored by the Center for Khmer Studies, NIAS Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, and NYSEAN.

Join the UCSC Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions for a discussion on Pontianak, a female vampire/ghost/monster in Malay cultures, and her kins in Southeast Asia. By using select chapters from Rosalind Galt's new book, Alluring Monsters: the Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization, this talk will consider gender relations, aesthetics, ethnic boundaries, urbanization, environmental change, and secularism in Southeast Asia.

Join Cleo Anne A. Calimbahin, an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the De La Salle University-Manila, for a discussion on election administration, corruption studies, and comparative democratization within the 2022 Philippines Election. This event is sponsored by Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, NYSEAN, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Stefano De Clara, Head of Secretariat at the International Carbon Action Partnership, and Daniel Nachtigall, an Economist at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, will discuss the future of carbon markets in ASEAN countries.

Hosted by the Stanford Asia Health Policy Program, Dr. Phyu Phyu Thin Zaw of the University of Hong Kong will discuss how Myanmar’s health system is endeavoring to respond to the syndemic crisis, a deadly combination of the global pandemic, the military coup, and post-coup civil conflicts. Dr. Nay Lin Tun, a humanitarian physician in Singapore, will provide a grassroots medical humanitarian perspective on what is happening in Myanmar.

In this event, Dr. Anwar Koma, a political science lecturer at Prince of Songkla University, will discuss Buddhist-Muslim relations by examining the links between nationalism, discrimination and hate speech in Thailand. This event is organized by the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, and the New York Southeast Asia Network.

In the past ten years, Malaysian society has increasingly witnessed the phenomenon of xin yimin, where citizens of the PRC have become long-term residents in Malaysia. Join Dr. Ngeow Chow-Bing, Institute of China Studies at the University of Malaya, and moderator Professor Leo Suryadinata, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, for a discussion on the social, political, cultural, and economic implications of this phenomenon.

Join Dr. Eng Netra , Cambodia Development Resource Institute, and Dr. Nhim Tum, Center for Natural Resources and Environment, for a seminar on collaborative research development in Cambodia. This event is chaired by Professor Shin Hyun Bang and hosted by the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre and the Cambodia Development Resource Institute.

Join Lara Norgaard, an essayist and translator, for a live interview with novelist Felix K. Nesi on how his novel, On the Night of the World Cup Finals and Other Unexpected Matches in Timor, fits into the dynamic landscape of contemporary writing in Indonesia. This book talk is co-sponsored by NYSEAN and the Asian American Writers Workshop, and will be moderated by NYSEAN co-founder Margaret Scott.

Hosted by Harvard University Asia Center, join Elsa Clavé, Hamburg University, for an examination of memorialization within Sastra eksil, the heterogeneous literary communications written by Indonesian political exiles after the mass massacre from 1965 to 1966.

Rungnapa Pimmasri, a reporter for Thairath Plus, Kritsana Paitoon, a news chief at Prachachat Business, and Nattavut Ratanavanichrojn, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Kasetsart University, will discuss the health and economic implications of the African Swine Fever Virus outbreak in Thailand. This event is hosted by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand - FCCT.

Organized by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Chiranuch Premchaiporn, Coordinator of Thailand’s Constitutional Advocacy Alliance, and Julie Hunter, a legal advisor at the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, will offer legal and comparative perspectives on the Thai government’s civil-society bill that seeks to regulate the operations of not-for-profit organizations.

Hosted by Cornell University, Kale Bantigue Fajardo, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, will lecture on the different kinds of boats, waters, and queer river-and-seafaring Filipino/a/x figures in contemporary Philippine Cinema. In doing so, Fajardo will reveal the postcolonial and decolonial implications of select films in relation to indigeneity, tourism, neoliberal economics, migration, and the heteropatriarchy.

On May 9th Philippine voters will choose a new president, vice president, and half of the Senate. Join Sam Chittick, Lisa Curtis, and Richard Javed Heydarian for a discussion on what the likely possible outcomes of the election will mean for the Philippines and the U.S. This event is moderated by William Wise, and organized by the Stimson Center and U.S.-Philippines Society.

Thomas Fujiwara, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University, will examine experimental evidence, policy debates, and voter persuasion within elections in the Philippines. This event is co-sponsored by Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard’s Department of Economics, and MIT’s Department of Economics.

As part of the Harvard University Asia Center’s seminar series on science and technology in Asia, join Faizah Zakaria as she discusses camphor and celluloid materials, indigenous community relations, and social constructions of health within the Dutch East Indies.

Dr. Arjun Subrahmanyan, a Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian History at Murdoch University, will discuss his new book, Amnesia: A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand. The event is organized by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley.

In this iteration of NYSEAN’s Public Universities Consortium Panel, public policy professionals on and in Southeast Asia will discuss what to consider when deciding to represent one’s country, how to best engage the U.S. government as a subject-matter expert, how to build the trust necessary to sustain expertise, and how to write for policy audiences. Moderated by Meredith Weiss, panelists will include Ambassador Pham Quang Vinh, Frank Januzzi, Sidney Jones, and Prashanth Parameswaran.

Join Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, University of California, Santa Cruz, for a discussion of nineteenth-century Spanish botany operations in the Philippines and the wider political currents that transformed how botany was conducted in the islands. This talk is hosted by Sulo: the Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU and XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement.

Hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, Martina Nguyen will discuss her book On Our Own Strength. She will address how Vietnamese intellectual history supports and challenges existing understandings of intellectual history, in both the local and global sense.

Voters in Bangkok, the only Thai province whose residents elect their own governor, will go to the polls on May 22nd. Join Pitch Pongsawat, Head of the Department of Government at Chulalongkorn University, for a discussion of the Bangkok electorate. This event is hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute.

Join the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley for a reading and conversation on Burmese poetry with Ko Ko Thett, Mae Yway, Kenneth Wong, and Maw Shein Win.

Hosted by Cornell University, Dr. Ashish Bajracharya, the Deputy Director for International Programs at the Population Council, will discuss the health and wellbeing of women working in the garment sectors of Cambodia and Bangladesh.