Join ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a research symposium on the attitudes of Southeast Asian youth in higher education institutions towards civic engagement, political participation, religiosity, multiculturalism, and digitization.

Join the Vietnam Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar by Tuan Ho, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the University of Bristol Business School, and Long Tran, Head of Research at BIDV Securities (BSC), one of Vietnam’s oldest and most prominent securities firms. This webinar will analyze Vietnam’s economic performance in 2024 and assess its potential for 2025.

Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute at CUNY for a talk by Jayne Cole Southard, contemporary art historian and Lecturer at the City College of New York, who will present on the exhibition Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969-2001), an expansive survey of rarely-seen artwork and archival material by artists that constitute and exceed “Asian American,” a label denoting a cultural and national identity invented in 1968. 

Join the Regional Economic Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Dr. Luky Alfirman, the Director General of Fiscal Balance at the Ministry of Finance (MOF) of the Republic of Indonesia. This seminar will provide an in-depth analysis of Indonesia’s fiscal decentralization, highlighting key achievements, current challenges, and future strategies to ensure sustained progress.

Join the Stimson Center for a talk by Angshuman Choudhury, joint PhD candidate in Comparative Asian Studies at National University of Singapore and King’s College London. This lecture will discuss the key political, economic, and security implications of Myanmar’s civil war for India-Myanmar relations, as well as changes in India’s foreign policy towards Myanmar.

Join the Indonesia Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a seminar featuring Burhanuddin Muhtadi, Professor of Political Science at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, and Dr. Deasy Simandjuntak, Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for a talk by Patricio N. Abinales, Professor of Asian Studies at UH Manoa, who will discuss the shift by senior “nationalist” Philippine historians towards right-wing politics.

Join the Asian American Education Project for a talk by Dr. Mark R. Villegas, an Associate Professor of American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, who will be discussing the contributions and representations of Filipino Americans in Hip Hop.

Join Master Javanese gamelan musician Wakidi Dwidjomartono, the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble, and the Gamelan in Indonesian History and Cultures course for a program of traditional Javanese gendhing.

Join the Myanmar Studies Programme at  ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a seminar featuring Nicholas Coppel, Dr. Lennon Y.C. Chang, and Dr. Shona Loong. These analysts will discuss international responses to the crisis in Myanmar after the 2021 coup as well as implications for continued responses or new approaches amidst shifting geopolitical and regional trends, the rise in technology, and leadership changes in several countries.

Join the Indonesia Institute at the Australian National University for a panel discussing media freedom in commemoration of International Human Rights Day. Adisti Sukma Sawitri, Ika Ningtyas, and Revolusi ‘Revo’ Riza Zulverdi will discuss the challenges of reporting during Indonesia's democratic decline, and the shifting nature of professional journalism in an era of social media influencers, disinformation, and AI.

Join the Asian American Education Project for a talk by Dr. Mark R. Villegas, an Associate Professor of American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, who will be discussing the contributions and representations of Filipino Americans in Hip Hop.

The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), established in 2019 as the result of the lengthy peace process between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Philippines government, was based on four premises. The first was that the constructed Bangsamoro identity would be a critical factor holding the region together. The second was that meaningful regional autonomy could be achieved in the context of the existing Philippine constitution. The third was that the introduction of a parliamentary government for BARMM, never before attempted in the Philippines, might change Mindanao's traditional political culture. And the fourth was that the newly peaceful MILF, given a chance to head a transition government, would likely win the first direct elections to that parliament, now scheduled for May 2025. 

Sidney Jones and David Timberman will examine how these premises have fared as elections draw closer. Jones is Senior Advisor of the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict and teaches at NYU’s Program in International Relations. Timberman is an independent analyst focusing on governance and conflict in Southeast Asia, and he has held positions with Freedom House, US Agency for International Development and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. John Gershman, NYSEAN Co-Founder, will moderate the discussion.

Join the Southeast Asia Program, the Comparative Muslim Societies Program, and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University for a talk by Al Haj Khalifah U Aye Lwin, founding member of Religions for Peace Myanmar.

Join the Southeast Asia Program and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University for a talk by Dr. Kathryn “Kitsie” Emerson from EKALAYA Arts Center, who will discuss the social critique in Javanese wayang and how the role of the dhalang as a revered advisor works in current-day wayang performance practice.

Join the York Centre for Asian Research for a talk with Sana Aiyar, a historian of modern South Asia and an Associate Professor of History at MIT. Titled “Riot,” Aiyar’s chapter examines the rise of Hindu and Buddhist nationalism in Burma that resulted in widespread violence against Muslims led by the sangha in 1938.

Join the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University for a talk by Win Myo Thu, a Burmese environmental activist, development practitioner, and policy advocate for climate security and justice. Mr. Win will share his views on how environmental issues and political conflicts in Myanmar are interrelated, why it is essential to address both, and in which way this could be doable by reflecting on his thirty years of experience in environmental politics in Myanmar.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a workshop on environmental humanities and Southeast Asia Studies. The workshop will feature research that analyzes the entanglements of class and human relationships with the natural environment in tropical, insular Southeast Asia.

Join Thai Lawyers for Human Rights for a film screening of The Last Breath of Sam Yan (2023), a documentary that captures the spirit and resilience of student activists and community members who stand firm in protecting their cultural heritage. The film screening is followed by a Q&A with producers Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal and Settanant Thanakitkoses.

Join the Malaysia Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Tricia Yeoh, Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Nottingham Malaysia’s School of Politics and International Relations. Using the states of Selangor and Malacca as cases, this webinar examines UMNO’s current state of leadership and party institutionalization, and how it manages coalition dynamics with the Pakatan Harapan coalition at the grassroots level.

Join the Harvard University Asia Center for a talk by Sulfikar Amir, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and a faculty member in the Sociology Programme at the School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University. This talk is part of the Science and Technology in Asia seminar series that features talks on critical historical and contemporary issues in science, technology, medicine, and the environment in East, South, and Southeast Asia.

Join the Philippine Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a panel on the US-China rivalry’s influence on the provinces of the Philippines. Edcel John A. Ibarra, Aletheia Kerygma B. Valenciano, and Miguel V. Hermo will present research findings on how US and China activities in two geostrategic provinces in the Philippines have affected local political dynamics and also the foreign policy of the country.

The Southeast Asian Research Group (SEARG) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is inviting Burmese activists, Human Rights defenders, and Burmese scholars in order to foster greater awareness and understanding of the conflict which has uprooted communities and the peoples of Burma/Myanmar.

Join the Columbia Society of International Law and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a film screening of Daze of Justice: A Documentary Film by Michael Siv in collaboration with Dr. Leakhena Nou, medical sociologist and Professor of Sociology at California State University-Long Beach. This documentary follows Dr. Nou’s research on Cambodian American women and their journeys to resurrect the memory of their loved ones before the UN Special Tribunal prosecuting the Khmer Rouge.

Join NYSEAN and the CUNY / SUNY Southeast Asia Consortium for a book talk by Guo-Quan Seng, Assistant Professor of History National University of Singapore, who will discuss the gendered history of the Chinese settler community in Indonesia.

Join the Columbia Society of International Law and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a talk by Dr. Leakhena Nou, medical sociologist and Professor of Sociology at California State University-Long Beach, who will share her approach to empowering Khmer Rouge survivors to share their testimonies at the UN-supported Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.