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.

The Roosevelt House Human Rights Program will screen the film Ghost Mountain, which tells the story of a Cambodian refugee who made his way to Connecticut in 1980 after surviving the Killing Fields. This event is sponsored by Network 20/20, the Hunter College Asian American Studies Program and the History Department.

Hosted by the NYU Center for Media, Culture, and History, author Deirdre Boyle and scholar/filmmaker Jill Godmilow will discuss the book, Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh, which follows the story of award-winning filmmaker Rithy Panh, a survivor of the Cambodian genocide who moved to France.

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 Center for Khmer Studies, Samedy Suong, CKS Deputy Director, will introduce CKS programs and other CKS-related activities. CKS Head Librarian, Sivleng Chhor, will discuss what is available and how to access CKS library collections. Eve Zucker, CKS President and WEAI Adjunct Research Scholar, will introduce the speakers.

Hosted by the Center for Khmer Studies, Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam, a medical anthropologist and ethnobotanist, will explore the different relationalities and rationalities expressed by groups living in Siem Reap Province for treating COVID-19 symptoms with either biomedicine, traditional, and/or folk medicine.

Sopheak Chhan, Royal University of Phnom Penh, will consider how the impacts of hydropower dams across the Mekong River have intensified long-term land and resource struggles in Cambodia. This event is sponsored by the UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the East-West Center.

Randle DeFalco, University of Hawaii at Manoa, will provide an overview of the work of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) also known as the “Khmer Rouge Tribunal.” This event is sponsored by the UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the William S. Richardson School of Law Pacific/Asian Legal Studies.

Hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, Jeremy Ladd, Cornell University, will discuss the role repression of opposition parties plays in increasing support for the opposition party in hybrid regimes using the Cambodia National Rescue Party as a case study.

Dr. Carl Grundy-Warr, National University of Singapore, Dr. Walker DePuy, Cornell University, Armand Camhol, Chengchi University, and Ek Sovanna, Kratie Representative of the Prey Lang Community Network in Cambodia, will discuss the role of local communities in the development paradigm. This event is hosted by the University of Hawaii Center for Southeast Asia Studies.

Dr. Ian G. Baird, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will discuss how upstream hydropower dams in China and Laos are destroying the Ramsar wetland in Cambodia. This event is hosted by the Center for Khmer Studies and will be moderated by NYSEAN Executive Committee member, Eve Zucker.

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 University of California Los Angeles, Piphal Heng, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Cotsen Institute and the Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia (PEMSEA), will introduce the ancient metropolis of Angkor and its Khmer world through recent archaeological findings using historical sources, excavation and remotely sensed ground survey (LIDAR) data.

Hosted by The Center for Khmer Studies, Dr. Francesca Billeri, University of Rome, will discuss how Phleng kar wedding music and lakhon bassac theatre genres are being mediated through television performances and remediated on the internet.

Join Mekong NYC, the Ford Foundation, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and NYSEAN for a double-feature screening of Cambodia's pre-war films Mother’s Heart by Yvon Hem and Thavary Meas Bong by Uong Citta. This will be followed by the NYC book launch of Faded Reels: The Art of Four Cambodian Filmmakers 1960-1975 and a Q&A with author Dr. LinDa Saphan and Cambodian film collector Nate Hun. The discussion will be moderated by Sreyneath Poole.

Soksamphoas Im will explore the Cambodian government’s approach to maintaining peace and stability in Cambodia through an examination of the Cambodian National Ageing Policy (NAP) 2017-2030. This event is hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.

This presentation will explain the context and content of iconographic archives documenting the history of Cambodian court dance. The presentation will be given by the Center for Khmer Studies’s (CKS )French Research Fellow Dr. Lucie Labbé, and will be moderated by Ms. Samedy Suong, CKS Deputy Director.

Hosted by the Center for Khmer Studies, this webinar will discuss how to design sustainable cities, how environments shape certain behaviors, and how environmentally-friendly behaviors can be supported in Phnom Penh.

Join Dr. Theresa de Langis, American University of Phnom Penh, and Ms. Sotheary Yim, a psychologist who worked with survivors of gender-based violence from the Khmer Rouge period, for a discussion on the efforts to have forced marriage investigated as a crime as part of the prosecutorial strategy of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. This event is moderated by Eve Zucker and sponsored by the Center for Khmer Studies, NIAS Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, and NYSEAN.

Join Dr. Eng Netra , Cambodia Development Resource Institute, and Dr. Nhim Tum, Center for Natural Resources and Environment, for a seminar on collaborative research development in Cambodia. This event is chaired by Professor Shin Hyun Bang and hosted by the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre and the Cambodia Development Resource Institute.

Hosted by Cornell University, Dr. Ashish Bajracharya, the Deputy Director for International Programs at the Population Council, will discuss the health and wellbeing of women working in the garment sectors of Cambodia and Bangladesh.

In this talk sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, Dr. Kathryn Fiorella will discuss global fisheries, the households reliant on them to access food and income, and broader links between human well-being and ecological sustainability.

In this talk, Brian Eyler, Director of the Stimson Center’s Southeast Asia Program, and Abby Seiff, journalist and NYSEAN member will discuss her new book, Troubling the Water, which explores how the rapid destruction of the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia is upending the lives of millions.

At this event, Dr. Nhim Sotheavin, a lecturer at Sophia University in Japan, will illustrate how Cambodia remained a power player in the South China Sea through the 17th-18th centuries by using East Asian documents relative to Cambodia, and recent collaborative archaeological research in Angkor and post-Angkorian capitals. This event is organized by the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

In this talk hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Nhu Truong will explore repressive and responsive elements of authoritarianism in the context of China, Vietnam, and Cambodia and seeks to undo blunt dichotomies between “good democracy” and “bad authoritarianism” that have dominated contemporary policy debates in Asia.

Magali An Berthon, a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen, will discuss Cambodian silk production, challenges posed to farming and conservation by the Khmer Rouge regime, and the resulting scarcity of silks in post-conflict Cambodia. This event is moderated by Eve Zucker and sponsored by the Center of Khmer Studies, the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and NYSEAN.

Professor Garrett Clayton, Director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics & Control, will discuss his work on demining in Cambodia to illustrate how the development of robotic solutions can help technicians with mines disposal. This talk is organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University.

In this talk organized by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and NYSEAN, Astrid Norén-Nilsson and Neil Loughlin will identify and explain the mechanisms for the renewal of the core Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) elites within different institutions and constituencies. NYSEAN co-founder Duncan McCargo will moderate the discussion.

Dr. Toni Shapiro-Phim’s collection of Cambodian dance performances from 30 years ago is in the process of digitization and will soon be deposited at the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center in Cambodia. In this panel, hosted by the Center for Khmer Studies, several generations of Cambodian choreographers, performers, and teachers, will reflect on these dance performances.