Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for a webinar on how grounded, context-sensitive research contributes to a deeper understanding of environmental challenges and supports more equitable and sustainable approaches to environmental knowledge production. Speakers include: Dr. Micah Fisher (UH Mānoa), Xiaoyun Neo (UH Mānoa), Areerat Worawongwasu (UH Mānoa), Abdurrahman Abdullah (Universitas Hasanuddin), Irfan Saputra (Universitas Hasanuddin), and Aswin Baharuddin (Universiti Malaya). Dr. Mary Mostafanezhad will moderate the webinar.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale for a talk by Michele Thompson, Professor of History at Southern Connecticut State University and NYSEAN Member. Dr. Thompson will share an overview of the Vietnamese Buddhist involvement in health care and the changes in Vietnam that resulted in a resurgence of Buddhist political and medical activity, culminating in the Buddhist protests of the 1960s.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a seminar on the Southeast Asia Climate Outlook Survey, a region-wide annual survey to understand the climate awareness and perceptions of Southeast Asian citizens towards climate action. Presenters include Melinda Martinus, Lead Researcher at ISEAS, and Dr. Samuel Chng, Research Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Join the Indonesia Project at ANU Crawford School of Public Policy for a talk by Dr. Andini Pramono, who will discuss the economic and environmental impacts of Commercial Milk Formula (CMF) in Indonesia, revealing substantial economic loss when CMF displaces breastmilk in Indonesia.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a seminar on the importance of peatlands in Southeast Asia as carbon sinks and contributors to megadiverse ecosystems. Discussions will highlight the potential and challenges of peatlands as Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in Southeast Asia, particularly from data and community perspectives. Speakers include: Dr. Matthew Ashfold (University of Nottingham, Malaysia), Dr. Azliyana Azhari (Monash University Malaysia), Dr. Alex Lechner (Monash University Indonesia), Dr. Helena Varkkey (Universiti Malaya), and Dr. Gusti Z. Anshari (Tanjungpura University, Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia).

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University (NIU) for a talk by Jui-Ching Wang, Professor of Music Education and World Music at NIU’s School of Music. Professor Wang will discuss a project called “Performing Southeast Asian Art Goes to School,” which helps develop curricula that use performing arts to teach K-12 students important historical context from Asian American Communities. This project connects NIU students and local in-service teachers with Asian American community members to raise awareness of Asian American cultures and history.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell for a talk by Marlie Lukach, PhD student in Plant Breeding and Genetics, who will discuss the historical significance of bottle gourd lagenaria siceraria in Southeast Asia.

Join the Royal Society for Asian Affairs for a talk by Dr. Paul Chambers, a foreign academic living in Thailand for over thirty years, who will discuss his experience as the first foreign academic to be wrongfully accused and imprisoned for violating Section 112 (lèse-majesté) of Thailand’s Criminal Code and Computer Crimes Act.

Join the Philippines Institute at Australian National University for a talk by Dr. Queenie Tomaro, visiting fellow of the ANU Philippines Institute and a faculty at the Department of Political Science, Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology. This seminar examines how women engaged in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) perceive and navigate the convergence of Women, Peace and Security and P/CVE agendas.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts - University of the Arts Singapore for a talk by Zechariah Goh, one of Singapore’s most distinguished composers who has made significant contributions to choral music worldwide. Goh will discuss the composition of his choral works over the last 30 years as well as their relationship to Singaporean cultural heritage, language, and traditions.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale for a talk by Quan Tue Tran, Senior Lecturer in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. Professor Tran’s lecture explores contemporary Vietnamese and Angolan connections through the lens of Quang Linh Vlogs, created by a young Vietnamese migrant who worked and lived in Angola.

Join the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages, the York Centre for Asian Research, the Philippines Study Group, and York International at York University for the virtual book launch of Indigeneity in the Philippines: Studies on Knowledge, Identity, and Rights. The following book contributors will be in attendance: Oona Paredes, Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA; Ruth Tindaan, Associate Professor of English at the University of the Philippines - Baguio; and Maria Cecilia Medina, Associate Professor at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines - Baguio.

Join NYSEAN and GETSEA for a screening of Vietnamerica , a documentary that follows Master Nguyen Hoa as he returns to former refugee camps in Southeast Asia after three decades abroad to search for the graves of his wife and two children. The screening is followed by a discussion with Executive Producer Nancy Bui of the Vietnamese Heritage Foundation.

Join the Harvard University Science and Technology in Asia seminar series for a talk by Jenna Grant, Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Washington, who will discuss drug-resistant malaria and its implications in the Greater Mekong subregion. Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, will moderate the discussion.

Join York University’s Canadian Southeast Asian Studies Initiative Research Colloquium 2025–26 for their inaugural event featuring Irene Poetranto, Course Instructor of Contemporary Asian Studies and PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, who will discuss the impact of Indonesia’s changing internet landscape on dissent, civic discourse, and the pursuit of democratic reform.

Join the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan (U-M) for a talk by Dr. Alyssa Paredes, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at U-M. In this lecture, Dr. Paredes illustrates “Big Agriculture” plantations produce significant industrial waste in the form of water pollution in Mindanao, Philippines.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Benjamin Tausig, Associate Professor of Critical Music Studies at Stony Brook University, who will discuss his book on Maurice Rocco, a queer Black American jazz pianist who was murdered in 1976 in Bangkok. The talk explores how Rocco’s life and death reflect profound shifts in the definitions and valuations of race, sex, and gender identity in Cold War-era Thailand.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Dr. Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Visiting Senior Fellow at the Myanmar Studies Program at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute and a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University, who will discuss the core participants in Myanmar’s 2025 election as well as the role of supporting actors.

Join the Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University for a talk by Shaoling Ma, Professor of Asian Studies and Fellow at the Society of the Humanities, who will discuss her current research on rural circuits and Southeast Asia’s computational environments across local, national, regional, and transnational levels.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell for a talk by Marlie Lukach, PhD student in Plant Breeding and Genetics, who will discuss the historical significance of bottle gourd lagenaria siceraria in Southeast Asia.

Join the NYU Migration Network for a panel on the influence of detention and deportation on global politics. Speakers include Sally Hayden (Journalist), Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol), Lorenzo Alunni (University of Milano Bicocca), and Andrew Burridge (Macquarie University Sydney). Julie Mostov, Dean and Professor of Liberal Studies at NYU, will moderate the panel.

Join the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies for a talk by Jane M. Ferguson, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asian History at the Australian National University. Dr. Ferguson will discuss the differences in Burmese remakes of Hollywood movies under the parliamentary democracy years (1948-1962) and under the socialist era (1962-1988), exploring the “remake” as a cultural predictor for Burmese engagement with global cinema.

Join the Regional Economic Studies Program at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Dr. Deasy Pane, a Wang Gungwu Visiting Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, an Economist at Indonesia’s National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS). Dr. Pane examines how Indonesia’s economy has been shaped by its deepening trade relationship with China, particularly following the implementation of the ASEAN–China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA).

Join NYSEAN for a book talk by Chiara Formichi, H. Stanley Krusten Professor of World Religions in the Department of Asian Studies. Domestic Nationalism argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia’s progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activities of care work.

Join Cornell University for a talk by Ashley Thompson, Hiram W. Woodward Chair of Southeast Asian Art at SOAS University of London. The talk uses Buddha’s life story–his return from heaven and the socio-political order organized around the dissemination of his image afterwards–to contemplate how ideas of absence, return, and transformation shape identity and cultural restitution in Southeast Asia today.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a seminar exploring the evolution of Thailand’s middle-power aspiration, its recurring retreat into small-power conduct, and how this oscillation is shaped by domestic political instability, bureaucratic inertia, and strategic uncertainty. This panel features speakers from Thammasat University’s Faculty of Political Science, including: Dr. Jittipat Poonkham, Associate Dean for Academic and International Affairs, Director of International Studies Program, and Associate Professor of International Relations; Dr. Fuadi Pitsuwan, lecturer in International Relations; and Dr. Pongkwan Sawasdipakdi, lecturer in International Relations and Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for a webinar exploring ASEAN’s interrelationships across membership, conflict management, and human rights protection. Speakers include: Aarie Glas, Associate Professor at Northern Illinois University; Daniel Awigra, ASEAN Human Rights Advocacy of the Human Rights Working Group; and Sirada Khemanitthathai, lecturer at the School of International Affairs, Chiang Mai University. Gillian Bogart, Assistant Professor of the Department of Asian Studies at UH Mānoa, will moderate this discussion.

Join NYSEAN for a screening of Breaking the Cycle , a documentary about a group of young politicians campaigning against an authoritarian constitution in Thailand. The screening is followed by a discussion with Kunthida Rungruengkiat, a former Member of Parliament and Deputy Leader of the Future Forward Party in Thailand, and a current MPP candidate at the Princeton School of Public Policy and International Affairs.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale for a presentation by Dinny Risri Aletheiani, faculty member at the Council on Southeast Asia Studies in the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and Director of Southeast Asia Language Studies at Yale University. The presentation will look at the Orang Rimba, inhabitants of the rainforest of Southern Sumatera, and how adapting to new environmental changes in their ancestral forest due to land developments have made them a target for a new “educational project.”

Join the ISEAS Yusof-Ishak Institution for a seminar by Dr. Duncan McCargo, NYSEAN Co-Founder, Associate Senior Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, and President’s Chair in Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. McCargo will discuss the Thai Senate’s selection process, a theoretically non-political process that has become overshadowed by the presence of political parties.