Join Sciences Po International Research Center for “Whispers to the Ancestors,” an immersive performance by artist XM Tran. This collective commemoration of 50 years of exile brings together voices, memories, and wishes from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, North America, and Europe.

Join Yu & Me Bookstore for a meet and greet with Woldy Reyes, queer Filipino American chef and author of In the Kusina.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for a talk by Dr. Abdul Haque Chang, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Karachi, Pakistan. Dr. Chang will discuss divergence and alterity by examining the interplay between sacrality and performing arts in South and Southeast Asia, with a focus on Java and Sindh.

Join the Southeast Asia Program and the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University for a talk by Joseph R. Klein, Research Associate with the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) and the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This lecture explores how property and belonging are dynamically negotiated at sea in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, through indigenous customs, state permits, spiritual permissions, and coastal land reclamation.

Join NYSEAN for a talk by Rianne Subijanto, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York. Her book, Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia, tells a story of the processes through which ordinary people mobilized an anticolonial communist resistance against Dutch rule through the production of revolutionary communication in the 1920s. NYSEAN co-founder Margaret Scott will moderate the discussion. 

Join the Columbia University School of Journalism, the Alliance Program, Sciences Po American Foundation, and Sciences Po Centre de Recherches Internationales for a transatlantic dialogue bringing together the voices of Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian exiles in France and the United States, as well as experts, activists, and artists from both sides of the Atlantic. Featured speakers include Ombeline Bois, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Hélène Le Bail, Khatharya Um, Fabien Truong, Kalyanee Mam, and Krysada Phounsiri.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Martina Thucnhi Nguyen, Associate Professor of History at Baruch College (CUNY), who will discuss the female writing persona of early 20th-century Vietnamese intellectual Nguyễn Văn Vĩnh.

Join the Center for Khmer Studies for a talk by Derek Richardson, PhD Candidate in Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington, who will discuss his ethnography of three NGOs in Cambodia that provide healthcare services and rely on foreign volunteer healthcare professionals to assist with treating patients and training local staff. Sokro Suong, PhD student at National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilization (INALCO) and Executive Director of Yosothor, will moderate the discussion.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Phi Nguyen, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale’s CSEAS, who will discuss her book project on the deteriorating water-land dynamics of Huế, the postcolonial Vietnamese city that was Vietnam’s former capital, a French protectorate, and a borderland and battleground from the fourteenth century until the recent Second Indochina War.

Join the Philippine Consulate General in New York for a solemn ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Manila and honoring the courage of Filipino and American soldiers during World War II. This event includes a talk by Brett Moyer, author of Had MacArthur Not Returned, and a presentation of the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal to World War II veterans.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Harriman Institute at Columbia University for a talk by Bilahari Kausikan, Former Ambassador-at-Large in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, who will discuss ASEAN’s post-Cold War evolution and its relations with Russia and China.

Join the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) for a panel exploring how ASEAN policymakers and businesses should respond to competing geopolitical forces, the long-term implications for trade and supply chains, and the policy tools needed to safeguard economic interests while maintaining key partnerships. This discussion features Dr. Rebecca Sta Maria, former Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat; Brendan Kelly, Fellow on Chinese Economy and Technology at ASPI’s Center for China Analysis; Maria Monica Wihardja, Visiting Fellow and Co-coordinator of the Media, Technology and Society Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute; and additional experts from ASEAN countries. Shay Wester, ASPI’s Director of Asian Economic Affairs and co-author of the report, will moderate the discussion.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative for a conversation with author Hanna Usman and Sari-Sari Storybooks Publisher Christina Newhard, who will discuss their children’s book, Jalal and the Lake. The event will conclude with a book signing.

Join the Office of Diplomatic Engagement and Training at Borough of Manhattan Community College for a talk by Amir Farid Abu Hasan, the Consul General of Malaysia in New York, who will discuss Malaysia’s role and priorities as the ASEAN Chair in 2025.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative and the Philippine Consulate for a story time event featuring Hanna Usman, author of Jalal and the Lake, and Christina Newhard, Sari-Sari Storybooks Publisher and author of Kalipay and the Tiniest Tiktik.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Karla Findley, Independent Researcher for the Karen Refugee Project, who will discuss Karen refugees’ experiences in the greater Chicago area.

Join the Center for Foreign Policy Studies at Seton Hall University for a discussion with Dr. See Seng Tan, President and CEO of International Students Inc., Research Advisor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and Senior Associate at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.  Dr. Tan is the author of 19 books and one of Singapore’s leading experts on foreign affairs. The discussion will focus on Southeast Asia’s engagement with the U.S. during the first Trump administration, and whether engagement with the second Trump administration will differ. Professor Ann Marie Murphy, NYSEAN co-founder, will moderate the discussion.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UH-Manoa for a discussion on sustainable, community-centric tourism in Southeast Asia. Dr. Huong T. Bui, Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, will discuss governance and tourism development in Vietnam. Boboi Costas, Founder of Grassroots Travel and Former Tourism Officer of Cebu Provincial Government, will discuss lessons from a community-based ecotourism project in Cebu, Philippines.

Join the ASEAN Studies Center at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for an e-Launch and discussion on The State of Southeast Asia: 2025 Survey Report. Michael Jonathan Green, Liu Lin, Peter Varghese, and Yenny Zannuba Wahid will discuss some of the report’s significant findings on the prevailing attitudes of Southeast Asians on regional political, economic, and social issues. Sharon Seah, Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the ASEAN Studies Centre, will present the key findings of the survey report, and Choi Shing Kwok, Director and CEO of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, will moderate the discussion.

Join the Center for Humanities at UW-Madison for a panel featuring Tuong Vu (Vietnam in the World Project), Chien-Kai Chen (Conference Group on Taiwan Studies), and Stan Hok-wui Wong and Maggie Shum (Global Research Association of Politics in Hong Kong). They will reflect on what it means to advance “PUBLIC Asian American Studies,” how to uplift subaltern voices and diasporas, their challenges and risks, and communities of solidarity.

Join the NYU MA Program in International Relations for lunch and two presentations. Zin Wai Yan will present “Shifting Views on Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution,” and MAIR Professor Frances O'Morchoe will lecture on “The Art of Pretending to Govern: Sovereignty, Resistance and the State in Burma.” A Q&A session will follow the talks.

Join UC Irvine Libraries’ Orange County and Southeast Asian Archives Center for a half-day exhibit symposium. Professor Nam C. Kim will share how his family’s refugee journey from Vietnam through Guam informs his current anthropological research on Operation New Life. Arielle Taitano Lowe will share a poem about her CHamoru grandfather’s experiences during the Vietnam War. Jana K. Lipman and Trần Hoài Bắc will discuss the Vietnamese repatriate memoir they translated, Ship of Fate by Trần Đình Trụ.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies and the South Asian Studies Council at Yale University for a panel on South Asian and Southeast Asian archival research. Presenters include Aurélie Vialette, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese; Brent Bianchi, Librarian for South & Southeast Asian Studies; and Aniruddh Sharan, graduate student at the School of Architecture.

Join NYSEAN, SUNY/CUNY SEAC, and GETSEA for a screening of Hot Stuff: Exposure of Indonesia's Geothermal Dreams, an AIFIS award-winning documentary and part of a trio of Indonesian films that delve into energy policies in Indonesia, corporate ties to those policies, and their detrimental effects on local environments and populations. Director Dandhy Laksono and Producer Cypri Dale will join us live from the University of Michigan’s Center for Southeast Asia Studies as over 20 universities from across North America connect to watch Hot Stuff simultaneously, followed by a discussion about the film, energy policy in Indonesia, and the new Prabowo Subianto administration’s response to local grassroots movements in the country.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Michigan for a talk by Christian C. Lentz, Associate Professor of Geography and Environment and Adjunct Professor of History at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, who will discuss decolonization amid Cold War dynamics in mid-20th century Southeast Asia through the life and work of Oey Hong Lee (1924-1992), a visionary intellectual, activist, and journalist from Indonesia.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of Environment, Sustainability, and Energy at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Bao-Son Trinh, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Environmental Toxicology Laboratory at Vietnam National University, who will discuss microplastics in the Saigon-Dongnai Rivers and their potential impacts on aquatic organisms.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Elissa “E” Domingo Badiqué, PhD candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, who will discuss Filipinx mimicry and queer self-fashioning through dance.

Join NYSEAN, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the Columbia-Harvard China and the World program for a conference featuring Walden Bello, Pongphisoot Busbarat, Thomas Christensen, Sophal Ear, Joseph Chinyong Liow, Derek Mitchell, Ann Marie Murphy, Hong Hai Nguyen, Lien-Hang Nguyen, Elina Noor, Praslhant Parameswaran, Gregory Poling, Yohanes Sulaiman, and Ayumi Teraoka. These leading experts will examine the implications of a second Trump administration for US-Southeast Asian relations at this critical junction in global politics.

Join the Indonesia Project at Australian National University for a talk by Hilman Palaon, Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute’s Indo-Pacific Development Centre, and Robert Walker, economist and Research Associate at the Lowy Institute.  They will discuss Indonesia’s recent industrial policy successes in downstreaming critical minerals and EV manufacturing, while also addressing the environmental and social challenges, and exploring strategies for broader economic development and sustainability.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for the book launch of Global Battlefields, a memoir by Walden Bello. Bello, a Filipino activist and intellectual, holds a PhD in sociology from Princeton. He was an anti-Vietnam War activist, a pro-democracy activist against the Marcos dictatorship, a member of Congress, a Vice-Presidential candidate, and a university professor.