Join Silverlens Gallery 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 NYSEAN for the book launch of Rightless Resistance: Postcolonial Citizenship, Palm Oil, and Land Grabs in Indonesia (Cornell University Press, 2026) by Dr. Ward Berenschot, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Amsterdam.

Join Vietnamese Boat People at Think!Chinatown Studio for their 7th Annual Story Slam, an evening of live storytelling, community, and connection. This year's Story Slam theme is about living between two languages — the mistranslations, the code-switching, the words that don't survive the crossing, and get lost or found somewhere in between.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Robert Walker, Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute who works as an economist in the Institute’s Indo-Pacific Development Centre. This talk explores the geopolitical dynamics across Southeast Asia’s strategic supply chains and provides a sectoral deep dive into the following sectors: semiconductors, critical minerals, solar panels, and electric vehicles and batteries. Dr. Akhmad Bayhaqi, Senior Analyst at the APEC Policy Support Unit, will moderate the discussion.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU and the Association of Filipino Scientists in America for a night of science, food, culture, and celebration. Speakers include Dr. Christian Gloria, Associate Professor and Deputy Chair of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health; Fatimah Mamalapat Coppin, medical student at the CUNY School of Medicine; Andrian “Adi” Gajigan, Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University; Jaimee-Ian Rodriguez, Commissioning Editor in the STEM publishing industry, and Dr. Michelle Saoi, Senior Scientist in the Proteomics and Metabolomics Core Facility at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Join the Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a talk by Luna Nga Thị Howard, Amerasian activist and entrepreneur, and writer Anna El-Eini. Luna will discuss her experience growing up in Vietnam following the war as a woman born of a Vietnamese mother and a Black US serviceman father. Anna will discuss how she and Luna were forced to face existential questions about the Vietnam War head on, including the suffering on both sides, forgiveness versus justice, loyalty through political division, and national identity as a catalyst for war.

Join the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) at Columbia University for a book talk by Kevin Nguyen about his 2025 novel Mỹ Documents, followed by a discussion with CSER’s Writer-in-Residence, Marie Myung-Ok Lee.