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.

Join the Indonesia Project at Australian National University for a talk by Arif Anindita, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Business and Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Dr. Anindita will discuss the impact of the 1965-66 anti-communist purge in Indonesia on Java's demographic transition.

Join the Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University (ANU) for a talk by Pyan Amin Muchtar, PhD candidate in Economics at ANU, who will discuss how air pollution and heat affect digital consumers’ demand on online ride-hailing and food delivery in Indonesia.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University and the Columbia Journalism School for a panel on how Vietnamese diaspora storytellers shape American culture through film, literature, and performance. Speakers include actor/director Dustin Nguyen, filmmaker Dužan Duong, Budapest-born Vietnamese singer Hien, and novelist Kevin Nguyen.

Join NYSEAN, Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, and the NYU Espacio de Culturas for an evening of film shorts by women and gender-queer filmmakers that have won recognition as winners and/or finalists in festivals in New York, Manila, and elsewhere. Featured filmmakers include Marion Aguas, Ara Chawdhury, Ida Del Mundo, Angeline Marie Michael Meitzler, Margarita Mina, and Maria Estela Paiso.

At the Association for Asian Studies Conference, join NYSEAN and SEACAF for a roundtable that will explore the relationship between authoritarianism and threats to academic and intellectual freedom in a way that puts attacks on higher education in the United States in conversation with Southeast Asia. The Roundtable includes the following scholars: Bencharat Sae Chua of the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies at Mahidol University in Thailand; Herlambang Wiratraman of the Research Center of Law and Social Justice at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia; Sol Iglesias of the University of the Philippines-Diliman’s Political Science Department in the Philippines, and Rianne Subijanto of Baruch College, City University of New York. Margaret Scott, a founder of NYSEAN and a journalist with the New York Review of Books, will chair.

Join the Indonesia Studies Program at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar examining how the relocation of Indonesia’s administrative capital to Nusantara is reshaping Jakarta’s governance, planning priorities, and everyday urban experience. Speakers include Dr. Irna Nurlina Masron, Fellow of the Regional Social and Cultural Studies and the Indonesia Studies Programs at ISEAS, and Dr. Siwage Dharma Negara, senior fellow, Co-Coordinator for the Indonesia Studies Program, and Coordinator for the Singapore APEC Study Center at ISEAS. Rita Padawangi, Associate Professor at the College of Interdisciplinary and Experiential Learning, Singapore University of Social Sciences, will moderate the discussion.

Join the NYU Institute of Fine Arts for a talk by Patrick Flores, Chief Curator of National Gallery Singapore, Director of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network, and former Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines. Drawing from his curation of the Fernando Zóbel exhibition, Patrick Flores reflects on the possibilities of curating Southeast Asian art.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a talk by Visiting Scholar, Dr. David Thang Moe. Drawing on firsthand experience, current research, and his forthcoming monograph Beyond Buddhist Nationalism (Oxford University Press), he will discuss ungovernability, centralized nationalism, decentralized resistance, ethnic reconciliation, and visions of democratic nationhood in Myanmar.

Join York University’s Canadian Southeast Asian Studies Initiative for a book talk by Yasmin Y. Ortiga, Associate Professor of Sociology at Singapore Management University’s School of Social Sciences. In this pioneering book, Yasmin Y. Ortiga studies the narratives that emerged around two groups of Filipino workers: nurses banned from leaving the country and cruise workers who returned home after COVID-19 shut down the travel industry. Soma Chatterjee, Associate Professor of Social Work at York University, will moderate the conversation.

Join Engage Thailand for a talk with Dr. Suthikarn Meechan, Associate Professor at the College of Politics and Governance, Mahasarakham University, Thailand. Dr. Meechan will discuss the conservative victory in Thailand’s 2026 election, analyzing the impact of patronage politics and nationalist sentiments in the Northeast region of Thailand.

Join the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) at Cornell University for their annual graduate conference, which offers a space for scholars of Southeast Asia to share new work, receive feedback, and engage with peers and faculty across disciplines. This year’s special-format conference will feature a mix of panel presentations and individual talks from current SEAP graduate students, creating room for discussion and reflection on emerging scholarship in Southeast Asian studies.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar providing an overview of biomethane’s role in supporting climate and energy goals in Malaysia and Indonesia. Featured speakers include Kevin Low, Principal at Blunomy, a strategy advisory boutique focused on the climate transition; Thomas Wagner, Chief Representative of German EnviTec Biogas Group in Southeast Asia, and Dieter Billen, Partner at Roland Berger, a global management consulting firm, who heads the firm’s energy practice in Southeast Asia.

Join the Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) consortium for an informal panel discussion on navigating the Association for Asian Studies Conference for students and scholars of Asian studies. Speakers include Dr. Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk, Associate Professor, Thai Language and Thai Linguistics, Northern Illinois University; Adrian Beyer, Ph.D. student, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Wisconsin – Madison; Naw Moo Moo Paw,  Ph.D. student, Global Studies, University of Massachusetts – Lowell, and Nida Sanglimsuwan, Ph.D. student, Sociology, UCLA.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for a webinar exploring how artists across Southeast Asia resist censorship through music, performance, and visual arts. Featured speakers include Azmyl Yunor, singer-songwriter and Senior Lecturer at Sunway University, Malaysia; Patricia Nguyen, artist, performer, and Assistant Professor at University of Virginia, and Annie Pacaña, visual artist and Faculty at the University of the Philippines – Diliman. Paul Gabriel Cosme, composer and ethnomusicologist in the Department of Music at UH Mānoa, will moderate the conversation.