Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for an engaging talk by Zaw Min Yu, author of A Journey Into Bagan and a trailblazer in Myanmar's photography scene.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Nora Taylor, Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Professor Taylor will discuss the different ways Vietnamese artists have responded to monuments that represent racism and imperialism in light of changing historical memory in the post-colonial era.

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.

Hosted by the California State Library, Pachia Lucy Vang, a textile arts designer at her studio Culture through Cloth, will explore the history of HMong Californians through the threads of their global diaspora.

Hosted by Asia Society, Phloeun Prim, Executive Director of Cambodian Living Arts and New York City-based Cambodian poet Sokunthary Svay will join Elena Park, Joe Melillo, and Karen Brooks Hopkins to reflect on how Cambodia’s the cultural landscape has been transformed in the years following the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime.

On this special edition of Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan on WFMU, Rattana Bounsouaysana will share her family’s journey from Laos to the United States through their memories of Southeast Asian and English language popular music.

Hosted by the Asia Society, Samita Sinha, Qian Yi, and Peni Candra Rini, will perform songs conveying their different interpretations of life and love, joy and sadness, and death and danger, including inspiration from Javanese myth. 

The New York Center for Global Asia at New York University will host a screening of the award-winning short film, The Ice Cream Sellers, followed by a discussion with director Sohel Rahman. This film follows the everyday lives of two resilient Rohingya children in a turbulent refugee community.

Hosted by the Institute of Fine Arts Contemporary Asia, a panel of curators and artists will discuss the current Museum of Modern Art Exhibit, Signals: How Video Transformed the World, and how artists harnessed video as an agent of social change in Asia.

Hosted at the NYU King Juan Carlos Center, the Visions/Panawin Film Series aims to introduce New York University and the Filipino American community in NYC to the rich canon of Philippine cinema. The third and final film featured will be Batang West Side, directed by Lav Diaz.

Hosted by Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, poets Luis H. Fracia, Vina Orden, Patrick Rosal, Renato Rosaldo, and Mary Louise Pratt will share their respective poetry and reflect on themes within the Filipino literary space.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Quynh H. Vo, American University, will juxtapose Vietnamese national politics of representation with narratives of human experience illustrated in Vietnamese American art and literature.

Hosted at the New Design High School by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Vanessa Chan, Malaysian author of The Storm We Made, will talk with Vietnamese author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai about her latest novel, Dust Child.

Hosted by the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, Trent Walker, author of Until Nirvana’s Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia, will discuss the aesthetic and affective dimensions of the four primary types of sung Buddhist poems in Cambodia: retellings of the Buddha's life, expressions of filial gratitude, meditations on the process of dying, and aspirations for future bliss.

Hosted by The Forum at Columbia University, a short film and program from the Dutch Government’s Water as Leverage in Asia will tackle urban water-related challenges in the cities of Chennai (India), Khulna (Bangladesh), and Semarang (Indonesia).

Hosted by Bowery Poetry Club and sponsored by ReginArt, Wawan Sofyan will present his spoken word on Indonesia’s declaration of independence, Besok atau tidak sama sekali (Tomorrow or never). Joane Win will present Cotton Candy concerning sexual violence during Indonesia’s riot.

Hosted by the Cornell University Library and Southeast Asia Program, Brian Arnold, author of A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age, will present a lecture on the development of photography in Indonesia, emphasizing the importance of archives and a material-based approach to research.

Laotian film maker Mattie Do, journalist Manyphone Vongphachanh, and Noel Clehane, Global Head of Regulatory & Public Policy at BDO, will discuss current economic struggles and opportunities in Laos. This event is sponsored by Asia Society Switzerland, BDO, a global for-profit advisory firm, and the University of Zurich.

Yu & Me Books will celebrate and amplify Asian literary voices by hosting the upcoming authors Hamid Roslan, Shou Jie Eng, Judy Luo, and Jee Leong Koh. Each author will perform readings from their respective works.

Hosted by the Harvard University Asia Center, Elsa Clavé, University of Hamburg, will discuss the the social and cultural aspects of the emergence of three Islamized political entities - the sultanates of Sulu, Magindanao-Buayan, and the Muslim confederation Pat a pengampong ko Ranao.

Hosted by the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association, Sokunthary Svay, a Khmer writer from the Bronx, will lead a writing workshop on how to find one’s voice and engage readers.

Hosted by Cornell University, Sunisa Manning will discuss her new novel, A Good True Thai, which describes the Thai 1970s student radicalization and revolution and was selected as a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize.