Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan for a talk by Say Jye Quah, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University. This lecture explores the contradictions of Lee’s global legacy, situating his political thought, movements, and interventions within international trends.  In this approach, his “original sin” is no longer the detention without trial, but his role in legitimizing the Vietnam War.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Dr. Edmund Terence Gomez, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at the Faculty of Business & Economics, Universiti Malaya. Dr. Gomez will discuss the political economy of ethnic wealth distribution in Malaysia from 1970 to 2024, including the interplay between state institutions, corporate ownership, and market access.

Join the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies for a talk by Beatrice Zani, Associate Research Professor at French National Centre for Scientific Research. Drawing upon more than four years of ethnographic research in Taiwan, Indonesia, and Singapore, the talk explores the lives of Southeast Asian migrant fishers illustrating how labor takes shape across  shifting maritime environments in which legal authority and accountability are fragmented.

Join the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) for a panel exploring how Southeast Asia can navigate intensifying U.S.–China competition while advancing its own economic and strategic priorities. Speakers include Gita Wirjawan, former Indonesian Minister of Trade and Honorary Senior Fellow at the Center for China Analysis (CCA), and Amb. Craig Allen, former U.S. Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at CCA. Kevin Zongzhe Li, Fellow at CCA, will moderate the discussion.

Join NYSEAN for a conference that brings together scholars and practitioners to examine the politics of the environmental crisis across Southeast Asia—a region where socio-ecological ruptures are not aberrations but products of longstanding structures of extraction and governance failure.

Speakers include: Naser al Haq, Ward Berenschot, Art Blundell, Pai Deetes, Jessica DiCarlo, Brian Eyler, John Gershman, Erik Harms, Thuy Ho, Sidney Jones, Gwen Latoza, Yifei Li, Munawar Liza, Danny Marks, Dian Patria, Natchaya Pichetsatha, Frances Seymour, Jewellord “Jojo” Nem Singh, Dewi Suralaga, Eve Warburton, Piyaporn Wongruang, and Kevin Woods