Join ALTSEAN-Burma and PEN America for a book launch and celebration of the new anthology Women’s Voices from the Revolution. The panel will bring together writers and human rights advocates for a conversation on free expression, the transformative power of storytelling, and their personal experiences living under the Myanmar military's rule. Featured speakers Ma Thida, A Phyu, and Debbie Stothard.

Join Kew and Willow Books to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with a lineup of amazing authors, who will read from their most recent works. Featured speakers include Cambodian American poet Chenda Bao, Chamoru writer Francisco Delgado, and multi-genre writer Taiyo Na.

Join the Center for Khmer Studies for a talk by Dr. Lawrence Chua, Associate Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University and CKS Research Fellow, who will discuss the conjoined genealogies of the Musée Albert Sarraut (Phnom Penh, 1920) and the National Museum of Bangkok (1927).

Join the New York Public Library for a talk by Kevin Nguyen, who will discuss his second novel, Mỹ Documents. The features editor at The Verge satirizes American xenophobia, political dysfunction, and our tech-culture industrial complex. Nguyen discusses his novel with writer Chris Gayomali.

Join Yu & Me Bookstore for a talk by Cathy Lin Che, Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist, as she discusses Becoming Ghost, her poetry collection about familial estrangement, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. Author Kyle Lucia Wu will moderate the discussion.

Join the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre’s annual Southeast Asia Forum in 2025, which brings together leading specialists worldwide to discuss the implications of global trends and ongoing geoeconomic contestation for Southeast Asian economies, polities, and societies. Featured speakers include Evelyn Goh (Australian National University), Henry Wai-chung Yeung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Selina Ho (National University of Singapore), and Alvin Camba (Association of Universities, Inc.).

Join the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) for a talk by Caixia Mao, PhD candidate in Urban Planning at Columbia University and NYSEAN member. This presentation will explore the politics of China and Japan funding the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) project in Indonesia.

Join the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at LSE for a talk by Dr. Tamsin Barber, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Chair of the Migration and Refugees Network at Oxford Brookes University. This talk explores the social, economic, and development issues shaping the specific labour migration to the UK from North-Central Vietnam.

Join PEN America for a webinar on the Cambodia-America rock opera Where Elephants Weep and human rights issues surrounding the Khmer Rouge regime. Panelists include Catherine Filloux, award-winning French Algerian American playwright, renowned composer Him Sophy, and performer and policy analyst Amara Goel. Executive Director of the Artists at Risk Connection Julie Trébault will moderate the conversation.

Join Unassimilated Walking Tours and Think!Chinatown for an interactive walking tour led by Dr. Michael Menor Salgarolo, faculty fellow in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. This walking tour tells the story of the police brutality case that rocked Chinatown and the protest movement that arose in its wake 50 years ago.

Join the Library of Congress and the Veterans History Project for a panel commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Secret War in Laos. The event will feature personal narratives of Lao and American veteran panelists: Lieutenant Touy Thiravong (Lao SGU/RLA), Major Chanto Vorasarn (Lao SGU/RLA), Thomas Leo Briggs (CIA case officer), James K. Bruton (U.S. Army Special Forces), Colonel Khao Insixiengmay (Lao SGU/RLA), Osa Phiangdae Gilstrap (daughter of Lao SGU veteran), and Susan Boot Caolo (Applied Anthropologist).

Join ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Dr. John Lee, senior fellow at Hudson Institute, for a talk on Trump’s policies and their far-reaching global consequences. He will explore their impact on the US Indo-Pacific strategy and security alliances in Asia, the potential for strategic realignments among Asian nations, and how countries can navigate the uncertainties and challenges in the turbulent years ahead.

Join Ron Deibert, cybersecurity expert and director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, and Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, for a discussion of the rise of digital authoritarianism and the fight for our democratic freedoms. The discussion will be informed by Deibert’s just-released book, Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy. Professor Sheila Coronel, director of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, will introduce and moderate the discussion.

This event is co-sponsored by NYSEAN, the NYU Democracy Project, the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, Knight First Amendment Institute, Brown Institute for Media Innovation, the Technology, Media, and Communications specialization, and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Join the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) for a talk by Dr. Mai Van Tran, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Brussels School of Governance of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Dr. Tran will discuss the extent to which the algorithmic curation, moderation, and design by social media platforms might facilitate cross-platform authoritarian repression, with evidence from conflict-ridden Myanmar. Dr. John Sidel, Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at LSE, will moderate the discussion.

Join the Southeast Asia Coalition on Academic Freedom (SEACAF) and the Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab) for a critical conversation on resisting entrenched and emerging threats to academic freedom in the region.

Join the the Asia Society and Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a screening of the critically acclaimed film Three Seasons (1999), followed by a discussion with the film’s director, Tony Bui, and Director of Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute and History Professor, Dr. Lien-Hang Nguyen.

Join PEN America, Artists at Risk Connection (ARC), and City of Asylum for a screening of The Art of Exile, a short documentary weaving together three powerful stories—from a visionary self-taught artist, a boundary-pushing novelist, and a defiant musician—by directors Dara Kell and Veena Rao. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Sudanese writer Rania Mamoun, Algerian novelist and human rights defender Anouar Rahmani, and Vietnamese dissident pop star Mai Khôi, moderated by ARC’s executive director, Julie Trébault.

Join Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the School of the Arts at Columbia University for a panel on war, memory, and the enduring power of cinema in bearing witness and raising conscience surrounding the Vietnam War. Featured speakers include Phillip Noyce, director of The Quiet American (2002), and Tony Bui, filmmaker and Artist in Residence at WEAI. Ted Osius, former United States Ambassador to Vietnam, will moderate the discussion.

Join Asia in Action’s The Conversation Series at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a panel commemorating the end of the Vietnam War and highlighting how the arts have played a powerful role in promoting peace and building bridges for new generations. Featured speakers include poet and author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, and photographer Peter Steinhauer. Tony Bui, Artist in Residence at WEAI, will moderate the panel discussion.

Join the Southeast Asia Program and the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University for a talk by Joshua Mitchell, PhD Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology, who will discuss how addiction, rehabilitation, and war perpetuate endless cycles of conflict among Myanmar’s forever soldiers and their disillusionment with revolution.

Join the Southeast Asia Program and the Department of Systems Engineering at Cornell University for a talk by Vincent Woon Kok Sin, assistant professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and an adjunct associate professor at Xiamen University Malaysia, who will discuss how enhanced solid waste management can mitigate warming and support the Paris Agreement and the Global Methane Pledge.

Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) will host a panel marking the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end and the 30th anniversary of U.S.-Vietnam reconciliation. Organized by Global Vietnam Studies with Columbia Global, the Journalism School, and the School of the Arts, the event features documentary filmmakers Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein (The Vietnam War), former Vietnamese Lt. Gen. Lo Khac Tam, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, WEAI Director and History Professor at Columbia, and Thomas Vallely, Senior Advisor for Global Vietnam Studies at WEAI, co-founder of Fulbright University Vietnam, and former U.S. Marine (Silver Star recipient).

Join Global Vietnam Studies at Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a conference commemorating the 30th anniversary of US-Vietnam Reconciliation. This commemoration seeks to explore the contested history of the war and of the peace, and draw lessons for the future of US-Vietnam relations and for conflict resolution around the world. This event features Severine Autesserre, Chinh Chu, Quoc Viet Le, Annabel Lee, Chris Miller, Lien-Hang Nguyen, Nguyen Quoc Dung, Dang Dinh Quy, Dang Hoang Giang, Wafaa El-Sadr, and Thomas Vallely.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for a panel on how climate and environmental challenges are reshaping traditional cultural practices in Southeast Asia. Panelists include Chi-Suwichan Phatthanaphraiwan, Professor at Mea Fah Luang University; Clare Suet Ching Chan, Professor at Universiti Putra Malaysia, and Dewa Putu Berata, Founding Director of Cudamani. Verne de la Peña, Dean and Professor at the University of the Philippines, will moderate the discussion.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) at Columbia University and the Columbia Journalism School for a keynote and ao dai exhibition featuring the Vietnamese-American actress, Kiều Chinh. Tony Bui, Artist in Residence at WEAI, will moderate the discussion.