Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University (NIU) for a talk by Tomoyuki Shibata, Associate Dean for Research and Administration, College of Health and Human Sciences and Professor of Public Health, NIU; Duhita Mahatmya, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations, University of Iowa; Florensia F. Surjadi, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at NIU, and Riyani, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Learning Innovation, Leadership and Technology, NIU. They will discuss the Indonesian American Family Health Project, which conducts research on Indonesian American family experiences, including strengths, resilience, and health vulnerabilities in order to address health disparities.

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 NYSEAN and SUNY/CUNY SEAC for a talk by Dr. Chee Soon Juan, Secretary-General of the Singapore Democratic Party, who will discuss Singapore’s politico-economic vulnerabilities with insights from his new book, Unbroken: The Power of Resilience.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar examining recent economic and trade developments in the Asia-Pacific region and APEC’s progress in advancing connectivity over the past decade through the APEC Community Blueprint (2015 – 2025). Speakers include the following experts from the APEC Secretariat’s Policy Support Unit: Carlos Kuriyama, Director, and Akhmad Bayhaqi, Senior Analyst.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a special presentation of A Life in Cinema, a cine-concert by Sundance Award-winning filmmaker Tony Bui, featuring the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra in a rare New York appearance. Bringing together scenes from decades of Vietnamese cinema, A Life in Cinema tells the story of Viet Nam through the lives, memories, and experiences captured on screen.

Join the High Line and the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art for an in-depth conversation between Tuan Andrew Nguyen, the artist behind The Light That Shines Through the Universe, and Cecilia Alemani, Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art. This program will focus on Nguyen’s practice, the inspiration for his Plinth commission, and the sculpture’s symbolic rebirth, followed by a guided meditation focused on transformation.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Dr. Mai Truong, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marquette University. Dr. Truong’s research examines the interaction between movements, states, and publics in authoritarian regimes, namely in Vietnam and Malaysia.

Join the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) for a talk by Haydon Cherry, CKS Senior Fellow and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Vietnam. Dr. Cherry’s talk offers a new explanation of the rural uprisings in Cambodia and Cochin-China (modern-day Vietnam) from 1915 to 1916.

Join Engage Thailand and 112WATCH for a typographic poster exhibition and fundraiser regarding political prosecutions in Thailand since 2020. This event features a thought-provoking art exhibit and a fireside chat with Pavin Chachavalpongpun on the state of political prosecutions in Thailand in the aftermath of the 2020 pro-democracy mass movement.

Join the Master’s Program in International Relations at NYU for a talk by Arnaud Kurze, Associate Professor of Sociology, Criminology, and Justice Studies at Montclair State University. This talk offers an overview of his ongoing research on gender-sensitive climate mobility and National Adaptation Plans, as well as a discussion on research design.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Dr. Luna Ge Lai, an Assistant Research Fellow at the Qianhai Institute of International Affairs, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), and a Wang Gungwu Visiting Fellow at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. Dr. Lai will discuss Shenzhen’s trade, investment and supply chain relationship with ASEAN.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Dang Nguyen, a Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar at the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. By situating Vietnam’s AI strategy within broader debates about technological sovereignty and dependency, this webinar reconsiders how smaller states exercise agency in a landscape increasingly defined by competing technological superpowers.

Join NYSEAN and the Master’s Program in International Relations at NYU for a talk by Pavin Chachavalpongpun, professor at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University. He will discuss the Thai monarchy’s strategic response to the 2020 youth-led protests that called for reforms to the royal family’s place in national life.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Yun Sun, Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the China Program at the Stimson Center, and Ian Storey, Principal Fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute and co-editor of the academic journal Contemporary Southeast Asia. With two expert analyses on Beijing’s and Moscow’s calculations, this webinar will assess Naypyidaw’s diplomatic efforts as they seek to re-enter the international diplomatic fold.

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center, with support from The Asian American Foundation, presents this webinar series on teaching Asian American and Pacific Islander Histories for K-12 and University Educators. Learn from leading scholars and classroom educators how to integrate AAPI narratives into your curriculum.

Join NYSEAN and the Master’s Program in International Relations at NYU for a talk by Kota Watanabe, Visiting Scholar at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Dr. Watanabe will discuss the shaping of local orders behind the civil war and the expansion of online scamming in the borderlands of Myanmar.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan for a talk by Christopher Rea, professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia, who will discuss his and Julie M. Wang’s translation of The Crossing of the Boars by Malaysian-Taiwanese novelist Chang Kuei-hsing (Zhang Guixing).

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 the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Chan Xin Ying, PhD candidate in Political Science at the National University of Singapore, and Ooi Kok Hin, Visiting Fellow with the Malaysia Studies Programme at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. The speakers will explore the dynamics of Malaysia’s federal public administration by comparing Malaysia’s two Pakatan Harapan-led administrations: the Mahathir Mohamad government of 2018–2020 and Anwar Ibrahim’s Unity Government from 2022.

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 Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University (NIU) for a talk by Richard M. Cooler, Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the Center for Burma Studies and the School of Art and Design at NIU. The lecture will be followed by a presentation of silver artworks in the North Gallery, Art Museum.

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 the Stimson Center for a talk by Isabella Aung, Research Fellow at the Myanmar Policy and Community Knowledge Hub, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. She will discuss the challenges facing women and girls in post-coup Myanmar.

Join the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) for a virtual panel discussion marking the launch of ASPI’s new tracker, the Asian Digital Trade Agreement Tracker. Speakers include Elina Noor, nonresident scholar in the Asia Program at Carnegie; Nigel Cory, director with Crowell Global Advisors and non-resident fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research, and Faye Simanjuntak, a Schwarzman Fellow at  ASPI in New York. Panelists will discuss the tracker's key insights, the strategic logic driving the region's digital alignment, and what this patchwork of trade agreements means for AI governance in the Indo-Pacific.

Join Film Forum for the screening of FILIPIÑANA by Rafael Manuel, followed by a Q&A with the writer/director/editor.

This Sundance prize winner, executive-produced by Jia Zhangke, follows a young "tee girl" at a posh golf club outside Manila, whose wanderings reveal troubling truths about the club, her native Philippines, and her own past.

Join the MIT Global Humanities Forum for a discussion about how art can become a force for solidarity and survival in times of displacement and oppression. Speakers include Alicia Stevens, Bart Was Not Here (a.k.a. Kyaw Moe Khine), Nathalie Johnston, Maung Day, and Sana Aiyar.

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.