Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Dr. Mai Van Tran, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. Dr. Tran will examine the extent to which pro-democracy platform advocacy might affect Big Tech’s practices and curb platform-mediated repression in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia.

Join NYSEAN and the Program in International Relations at NYU for a brown bag roundtable on Gen-Z and resisting authoritarianism in Burma, hosted by Professor Frances O'Morchoe. Featured speakers include Morgane Dussud, PhD graduate of SOAS University of London with a professional background in human rights, and Kota Watanabe, Visiting Scholar at NYU Wagner studying civil wars and transnational organised crime in Southeast Asia.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar on crypto scams in Southeast Asia, specifically how crypto’s much-touted transparency can be put to practical use and what it might take to make exchanges part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Speakers include Kevin Mei, financial economics researcher at the University of Texas–Austin; Cezary Podkul, investigative reporter, and Tom Luo, crypto solutions leader and Managing Director at Merkle Science.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for a book talk by Maryann Bylander, Professor of Sociology at Lewis and Clark College. The Trade-Offs of Legal Status is the first book to explore the lives of Cambodian migrants in Thailand, and it offers a rare ethnographic portrait of migration and development in Southeast Asia.

Join the Asia Society Museum and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a special dialogue between acclaimed French-Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung and filmmaker and professor Tony Bui. The evening explores Tran’s distinctive cinematic language and creative evolution, featuring carefully selected scenes from across his celebrated body of work.

Join the Indonesia Studies Program at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar on challenges to Indonesia’s political party cartel system, which aims to increase the role of negotiations within increasing coalitions. Speakers include Dr. Maxwell Lane, Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, and Professor Leo Suryadinata, Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute and Professor (Adjunct) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University.

Join the ASEAN Studies Center at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for the e-launch of The State of Southeast Asia: 2026 Survey Report on the prevailing attitudes of Southeast Asian opinion leaders on regional strategic developments and issues affecting ASEAN and its member states. Joanne Lin, Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the ASEAN Studies Center, will present the key findings of the survey. The following speakers will discuss the survey’s major findings: Scot Marciel, Senior Advisor of BowerGroupAsia; Dr. Saya Kiba, Associate Professor at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies; Dr. Huiyao Wang, Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization, and Herman Kraft, Professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines at Diliman.

Join NYSEAN and GETSEA for a screening of Sotong and Against This Messy World,  two short films highlighting the challenges to art and expression in Malaysia’s complex political, legal, and societal landscape. The documentary screenings are followed by an online discussion with the filmmakers.

Join NYU Wagner’s International Policy and Planning Association (IPPA) for its 20th annual summit. This year’s summit will bring together students, academics, and practitioners to explore cross-sectoral solutions to the interconnected global challenges of climate change, migration, and global urban resilience. As cities worldwide confront more frequent flooding, rising heat, and expanding informal or peri-urban settlements, the need to rethink urban planning, infrastructure design, and climate-resilient financing models has never been more urgent.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) for a webinar on Southeast Asia’s fast-evolving smart city initiatives, from data governance to climate adaptation. Speakers include Rita Padawangi, Associate Professor, College of Interdisciplinary and Experiential Learning, Singapore University of Social Sciences; Bharat Dahiya, Director of the Research Center for Sustainable Development and Innovation, Thammasat University, and Gavin Shatkin, Professor, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University. Ashok Das, Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UH Mānoa, will moderate the discussion.

Join the  Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Center at the London School of Economics and Political Science for a talk by Dr. Tharaphi Than, Associate Professor of World Languages and Cultures at Northern Illinois University. Dr. Than will discuss how rice became central to socialist meaning-making, resistance, and the politics of survival in Burma.

Join the Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) consortium for a webinar on conducting research in the Philippines. Speakers include scholars with unique and extensive backgrounds on Philippine research: Dr. Louward Zubiri, Lector in Philippine Language Studies at Yale University, and Yi-Yu Lai, a PhD candidate in anthropology at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Dr. Verne de la Peña, Visiting Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Professor of Musicology at the University of the Philippines College of Music, will moderate the discussion.

Join NYSEAN for a roundtable discussion exploring domestic and international pressures with Thailand’s leading politicians and academic researchers. Speakers include Kanokrat Lertchoosakul, Assistant Professor at the Department of Government, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University; Kunthida Rungruengkiat, MPP Candidate at Princeton University and former Deputy Leader of Thailand’s Future Forward Party, and Parit Wacharasindhu, Member of the Thai Parliament and Spokesperson of the People’s Party.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a book talk by Andrew L. Oros, Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Washington College, Maryland. Whereas the populations of China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Russia are aging and shrinking, the populations of India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Australia continue to grow. Oros will discuss how striking demographic changes affect regional security dynamics and the United States–led alliance structure in the Indo-Pacific.

Join the Indonesian Film Forum for the East Coast premiere of Turang (1957) by Bachtiar Siagian. This seminal piece of Indonesian film history was screened at the 1958 Afro-Asian Film Festival in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Until its rediscovery in a film archive in Moscow in 2023, Turang was considered lost due to the Suharto regime’s repression of leftist and neorealist art.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a book talk by Dr. Miles Kenney-Lazar, Senior Lecturer of Human Geography at the University of Melbourne. Dr. Kenney-Lazar’s book investigates the development of Chinese and Vietnamese pulpwood and rubber plantations on the lands of the ethnic minority Brou people in eastern Savannakhet of southern Laos.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan for a talk by Chantal Croteau, PhD Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Croteau will discuss the relations of kinship, precarity, and loss generated through the volatile world of the boom-and-bust tin mining industry in southern Thailand.

Join the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) for a talk by Dr. Borbála Száva, CKS Senior Research Fellow, who is conducting fieldwork in Cambodia on the iconography and costume typology of 11th-century Angkorian temples. Dr. Száva’s lecture presents the preliminary results of a four-month fieldwork project examining costume and attire in the figural depictions of the Baphuon temple (11th century, Angkor).

Join the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU for a talk by Geok Yian Goh, Associate Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University, who will discuss the archaeological record and everyday life of Singapore and Bagan, Myanmar, which are two urban centers that overlapped in time.

Join the Philippines Institute at Australian National University for a talk by Amanda Gorely, former Australian Ambassador to the United Nations, the Philippines, and to Arms Control and Counter Proliferation. This lecture will reflect on the key shifts and moments that defined the last 10 years of diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Australia, while also weaving in the importance of embedding gender considerations within foreign policy.

Join York University’s Canadian Southeast Asian Studies Initiative for a talk by Jonathan Corpus Ong, Professor and Founding Director of Global Technology for Social Justice Lab in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dr. Ong’s lecture critiques the “mainstream” of disinformation studies and presents alternative visions of more globally minded and community-driven approaches to building healthier public spheres.

Join the Bronx Documentary Center for the opening reception of Overfishing in Southeast Asia, an Ecological and Human Crisis. Based on a nine-month investigation by Nicole Tung, laureate of the fifteenth Carmignac Photojournalism Award, this exhibition examines the environmental and human toll of industrial fishing in Southeast Asia. Through field reporting in Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia, Tung traces the journey from local ports to global markets, exposing the fragility and human cost behind the seafood supply chains that reach consumers worldwide.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Chris Hulshof, GETSEA Director of Community Engagement and History PhD Candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Hulshof will discuss how the British psychological warfare campaign in Indonesia not only flooded the Indonesian market with black propaganda leaflets and radio broadcasts, but deftly manipulated the international news circuit to spread Indonesian Army propaganda across the globe.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan for a talk by Ei Thin Zar, the 2025–26 Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellow at the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University. Dr. Zar will discuss how Myanmar’s people and nations are made in a double narration: one as the objects of nationalist pedagogy, which values citizens that speak Burmese and practice Buddhism, and the other as the subjects of the processes that erase those discursive fixations.

Join the Stimson Center in celebrating World Water Day for a discussion exploring the impact of mining on global water resources and highlighting promising approaches to protect water security. Speakers include Obert Bore, Programmes Manager, Zimbabwe Environmental Law Organization; Regan Kwan, Research Analyst, Stimson Center Southeast Asia Program; Susanne Schmeier, Professor of Water Cooperation, Law, and Diplomacy, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, and Scott Sellwood, Civil Society Sector Lead, Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Derek Grossman, Visiting Senior Fellow, which unpacks the Trump administration’s policy towards Southeast Asia and its engagement with the region.

Join the SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium and the Small Business Development Center at Buffalo State University for a cross-country dialogue  exploring cultures and education systems in the United States and Cambodia. Speakers include faculty and students of the Education Department at the Royal University of Phnom Penh and the Department of Human Geography at Buffalo State University.

Join Asian American / Asian Research Institute’s Localized History Project, and The Asian American Education Project, for an immersive evening dedicated to the rich, localized history of The Bronx’s Asian American community. Hosted by NYC Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Studies K-12 Project, this interactive event invites New York City teachers, community members, and youth to bridge the gap between history and the classroom through storytelling, community building, and curriculum development. Attendees will walk away with tangible resources to support AAPI history education in K-12 schools.

Join NYSEAN for the book launch of Enduring Otherwise: Muslim Queer and Trans Worldmaking in Indonesia by Ferdiansyah Thajib, Senior Lecturer in the Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures MA Program at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Rianne Subijanto, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Baruch College-CUNY, will moderate the discussion.