Join the Australia National University (ANU) Southeast Asia Institute for a talk by Tommy Chai, a PhD Candidate at ANU’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. This webinar examines continental Southeast Asia as a strategic space structured by two distinct but interacting sets of constraints: the current borders of Southeast Asia and a historically constituted strategic space centered on the mainland river basins of the Irrawaddy, Chao Phraya, Mekong, and Red River systems, but extending into adjoining upland and frontier zones such as Yunnan.

Join the Asia Society Museum and HBO for a special screening of The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas. This film brings together a tableau of voices to explore the themes of representation, belonging, and what it means to be Asian American or Pacific Islander in America. Through intimate reflections, participants explore the relationship between national identity and solidarity, individual and community, home country and home.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar by Alex-Thái Đình Võ, Research Assistant Professor at the Vietnam Center, Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University, and Phan Xuân Dũng, Senior Research Officer at ISEAS and PhD candidate at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. They will explore U.S. government–supported initiatives that are part of the process of Vietnam–U.S. reconciliation: the Vietnam Wartime Accounting Initiative, which supports the search for Vietnamese wartime missing persons, and programs assisting people with disabilities linked to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure.

Join the Asia Society Museum for a talk by Danielle Chang, the creator, host, and producer of the Emmy-nominated Outstanding Culinary Series Lucky Chow (PBS). The evening will feature a screening of two episodes as she explores how Asian flavors are transforming European food culture, offering a firsthand look at the chefs and traditions bridging these two worlds.

Join NYSEAN for a talk by Dr. Eve Warburton, visiting fellow at NYU Wagner and research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Change at Australian National University. Dr. Warburton will discuss how Indonesia's declining democracy, weak state capacity, and state-business entanglements, created an ideal environment for fast-paced upstream extraction and large-scale downstream foreign investment.

Join NYSEAN for a roundtable discussion featuring Cindy Anh Nguyễn, Assistant Professor of Information Studies at UCLA; Shaoling Ma, Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Cornell University, and Rianne Subijanto, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. They will discuss how their work makes important interventions in the fields of media, communication, and information studies and reflect on how Southeast Asian studies invigorates these fields, and vice versa. Cindy Kaiying Lin, Assistant Professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, will moderate the discussion.

Join Deconstructing Indonesia for an exploration of what Enlightenment means, and who gets to decide what counts as knowledge through a discussion of l’Encyclopedie, the Cartesian method, and Edward Said’s landmark text, Orientalism.

Join NYSEAN and the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences for a symposium bringing together scholars and conservationists from across disciplines—including history, anthropology, conservation biology, and psychology—to explore new interdisciplinary approaches to promoting coexistence between humans and the endangered Asian elephant. This symposium is organized by Dr. Joshua Plotnik, Associate Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, and Dr. Bradley Camp Davis, Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute’s Malaysia Studies Program for a talk by Amalina Anuar, Senior Director at FMT Business and Visiting Fellow at ISEAS, and Dr. Jason Chuah, Professor of Commercial and Maritime Law, City University London. They will analyze the contentious resource-sharing between East Malaysia and the federal government along with the potential implications of the Petronas-Petros case heading to the Federal Court.

Join the Canadian Southeast Asian Studies Initiative at York University for a talk by Ven. Pandita (Burma), a researcher in Pali and Buddhist Studies, who will discuss the social status of monks and nuns in the Buddhist Order.

Join PEN America’s World Voices Festival for a panel of prominent international writers discussing how literature champions a diversity of cultures and reflects the multiple heritages, customs, and traditions. Speakers include Tash Aw, author of The South; Susan Choi, author of Flashlight, and Madeleine Thien, author of The Book of Records. PEN America President Dinaw Mengestu will moderate the discussion.

Join PEN America’s World Voices Festival for a discussion exploring the craft of writing comedy that stings and how humor can illuminate betrayal, grief, and the messiness of life. Speakers include Benedict Nguyễn, author of Hot Girls with Balls and a USA Today national bestseller, and Katie Yee, author of Maggie; or A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar. Writer and arts administrator Jared Jackson will moderate the conversation.

Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute at CUNY for a talk by Dr. Khánh Lê, Assistant Professor of Multilingualism and English Education in the Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders at Queens College/CUNY, and Dr. Alisha Nguyen, Assistant Professor of TESOL, Bilingual Education and Special Education at Lesley University. They will present their research on the history, development, and impact of Vietnamese dual language bilingual education programs in five U.S. states with significant Vietnamese populations.

Join the Southeast Asia Program and the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University for a talk by Sampreety Gurung, Anthropology PhD candidate at Cornell. Sampreety’s talk examines the dual sense of exclusion and inclusion through which Nepali migrants experience work and life in Malaysia and asks what life-making and freedom might mean in a context of enforced temporariness.

Join Deconstructing Indonesia and The Coretanist for a discussion on modern refrigeration, compulsory kneeling, and why a student-led group that organizes classes on Indonesian history called “Deconstructing Indonesia” will be spending the next several months focusing on Europe.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Dr. Bradley Camp Davis, Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University, who will discuss reforms to the administration of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and its parallels with the imperial Vietnamese state.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar that brings together journalists and researchers to examine the nature, mechanisms, and impact of disinformation and influence operations related to the South China Sea. Speakers include Janina Santos, Analyst for Doublethink Lab; Giano Libot, former journalist, and Regine Cabato, an independent journalist.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) for a webinar exploring how Southeast Asian borderlands live, negotiate, and challenge national boundaries. Speakers include Gading Gumilang Putra, National Information Advocacy Officer, Jesuit Refugee Services Indonesia; Lian Bawi Thang, Political Science PhD Candidate, UH Mānoa, and Prista Ratanapruck, Chiangmai University in Thailand and Singapore University of Social Science, Singapore. Ariel Mota Alves, Political Science PhD Candidate at UH Mānoa, will moderate the discussion.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a book talk by Marivi Soliven, author of Suddenly Stateside: Postscript, in conversation with Dr. Lara Saguisag, Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at New York University.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Visiting Scholar Aung Thura Ko Ko, former research fellow at the Pacific Forum, a U.S. policy think tank based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. This talk explores how China’s strategic intervention in post-coup Myanmar presents a complex mix of geopolitical ambition, economic necessity, and security entanglement.

Join NYSEAN, Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, Espacio de Culturas at NYU, and the NYU Department of History for a book talk by Dr. Adrian De Leon, Assistant Professor of History at NYU. Dr. De Leon will be in conversation with Dr. Karen Miller, Professor of History and American Studies at LaGuardia Community College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and Dr. Chris Cañete Rodriguez Kelly, Mellon Teaching Fellow and Lecturer of English at Columbia University.

Join Joseph O. Legaspi in celebrating Amphibian, his third poetry collection which explores queerness, belonging, and the meaning of home through the lens of a Filipino American. Legaspi will be in conversation with acclaimed writers Jessica Hagedorn and Sarah Gambito. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Join Deconstructing Indonesia, NYSEAN, and the Indonesia Film Forum New York for a screening of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) directed by Cypri Dale and Dandhy Laksono. This investigative documentary exposes the human cost of the world’s largest forest-conversion project: 2.5 million hectares of Papua turned into biofuel plantations. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Cypri Dale and representatives of the Malind Indigenous Community about the Red Cross Movement and resistance on the frontlines.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Dr. Daphne Weber, Program Officer of Buddhist Studies at the American Council of Learned Societies. Dr. Weber will discuss generational influences on Thailand’s first Theravada Bhikkhuni (Buddhist nun).

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a panel that examines how disruptions to trade channels from the Straits of Hormuz are affecting farms, supply chains, and consumers in Southeast Asia. Speakers include Professor Paul Teng, Visiting Senior Fellow in the Climate Change in Southeast Asia Program at ISEAS, and Dr. Siang Hee Tan, Executive Director of CropLife Asia. Professor Sean De Cleene (Singapore Institute of Technology) and Dr. Alisher Mirzabaev (International Rice Research Institute) will serve as discussants, and Elyssa Ludher (ISEAS Visiting Fellow) will moderate the panel.

Join the Asian American Education Project for a workshop that provides an overview of The Asian American Education Project’s lesson plans and the five thematic units on citizenship, civil rights, identity, immigration, and racism. The workshop will be facilitated by Laura Ouk, board president of the National Cambodian Heritage Museum and board member of the Cambodian Association of Illinois.

Join the Southeast Asia Digital Library for an online discussion on colonial collections in and on the Philippines, featuring speakers from Yale University: Dr. Cheryl Beredo, Director of Collections and Chief Curator, and Dr. Aurélie Vialette, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese.