ABOUT

The New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) is a virtual and actual community of scholars, students, journalists, and policymakers devoted to putting Southeast Asia into the global conversation and inspiring the next generation of scholars and leaders.

Emilie S. Tumale is NYSEAN’s Program Coordinator. NYSEAN’s co-founders are John Gershman (New York University), Ann Marie Murphy (Seton Hall University), Duncan McCargo (Nanyang Technological Institute), and Margaret Scott (New York University). NYSEAN’s Executive Committee is led by Ann Marie Murphy, John Gershman, Margaret Scott, and Eve Zucker (Yale University).

Created in 2015, NYSEAN’s vision is supporting dynamic and informed public and policy discussions about Southeast Asia and U.S.-Southeast Asian relations, with a special focus on the greater New York and tri-state region.

Our mission 

To promote research on, discussion about, and awareness of, Southeast Asia and U.S. Southeast Asian-relations through collaboration among academics, artists, policymakers, and other professionals working in the greater New York and tri-state area and in the region.

We aim to achieve this mission through:

  • NYSEAN.org as a virtual hub of a network of individual members, organizational partners, and others who support our mission to feature events, opportunities, and resources aimed at expanding discussion on and teaching about Southeast Asia and U.S. Southeast-Asian relations.

  • Supporting conferences, small workshops, panel discussions, seminars, exhibitions, art installations and performances that address historical or contemporary issues in Southeast Asia and/or U.S.-Southeast Asia relations.

We are deeply grateful to the Henry Luce Foundation for its generous support of the New York Southeast Asia Network.