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 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 the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Dr. Kristian Saguin, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of the Philippines Diliman, who will discuss urbanization and resource flows in Metro Manila.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Hawaii - Mānoa for a webinar featuring Dr. M. Alif Sahide, Professor of Forestry at Universitas Hasanuddin; Dr. Yingshan Lau, Research Fellow at National University of Singapore; and Enrique Nunez, Senior Advisor of Biodiversity at the International Land Coalition. This webinar will highlight pioneering initiatives that are transforming how Southeast Asian nations address issues of climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource scarcity.

Join the Malaysia Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a public lecture by Abang Johari Tun Openg, the Premier of Sarawak, who will discuss Sarawak’s innovations in balancing rapid economic growth with environmental responsibility.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Muzakki Bashori, Southeast Asia Fellow at NIU and Lecturer in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Semarang State University, who will explore the significance of Javanese folklore in language preservation and its relationship to environmental themes.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Paul K. Gellert, Visiting Research Scholar at CUNY Graduate Center and Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, who will discuss the ecologically unequal exchange of palm oil and dairy products in Indonesia and New Zealand.

Hosted by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand, a panel of experts will look at why this year’s haze has been even worse than previously, the insatiable demand for meat that is driving forest encroachment and maize production, the spread into neighbouring countries of outdated Thai agricultural practices, and the poverty trap most agricultural families and migrant labourers exist in.

Hosted by the Stimson Center, Doan Van Binh, Vietnamese-German University, and Courtney Weatherby, Southeast Asia Deputy Director of The Stimson Center, will discuss how floods, droughts, sediment disruptions, and morphology provide insights into the impact of dams on the Vietnamese Mekong Delta.

Hosted by SEACoast, Andrew Mathews, University of California Santa Cruz, will lead a seminar exploring the long-term processes that reshape coastlines across Southeast Asia, from colonial port building in the 19th century, to the destruction of mangrove forests in the modern day.

Hosted by the Stimson Center, Zeb Hogan, Host of National Geographic’s Monster Fish, Stefan Lovgren, an award-winning journalist and filmmaker, Mary Melnyk, USAID Asia Bureau, and Michele Thieme, Deputy Director of Freshwater at the World Wildlife Fund, will discuss monster fish in Southeast Asia and why their conservation matters for freshwater ecosystems.

Organized by USINDO and the Stimson Center Southeast Asia Forum, Bambang Susantono, Chairman of the Nusantara National Capital Authority, Kathleen Bartram, International Development Group, and Deden Rukmana, Alabama A&M University, will discuss Indonesia’s plan to build a new capital city.

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 the Stimson Center, Robert Godec, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, Rithiny Teng, Wildlife Conservation Society Cambodia, Sinsamout Ounboundisane, Fishbio, and Vu Dung, Keep Vietnam Clean, will share takeaways and policy recommendations from the Mekong-U.S. Partnership 5th Policy Dialogue.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Peter Andreas Gotsch, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Alejandro N. Ciencia, University of the Philippines Baguio, Nila Kamil, Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Michiyo Kakegawa, Soka University, and Sharon Seah, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, will discuss climate risks and vulnerabilities in Southeast Asian cities.

Hosted by the Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, Alyssa Paredes, University of Michigan, will discuss how American planters of the early 20th century drew on racial ideologies to project limited personhood onto Mindanawon natives.

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.

Hosted by University of Washington, Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi will examine the structure and governance of Indonesia's contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of the world's palm oil.

Hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Hawaii, Nurhady Sirimorok, Hasanuddin University, Somvilay Chanthalounnavong, National University of Laos, and Sango Mohanty, Australian National University, will discuss the ways smallholders are preparing to navigate the future of farming in Southeast Asia. 

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Courtney T. Wittekind, Yale University, will discuss the political and pragmatic tactics of future-making amid authoritarian resurgence, rapid urbanization, and the pressures of a changing climate in Myanmar.

Hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, Jenny Goldstein, Cornell University, will argue that Indonesia’s peatlands are experiments with land at a scale that states, scientists, and the planet’s inhabitants are just beginning to grapple with in a warming world.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Jacob Weger, Seton Hall University, will discuss the strategic translations through which different actors in Vietnam and the Netherlands contribute to shaping climate adaptation and social-ecological change in the delta.

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.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Jayant Menon, ISEAS Senior Fellow, Pham Minh Thai, Centre for Analysis and Forecasting in Vietnam, and Punpreecha Bhuthong, International Economics and Development Policy Program in Thailand, will discuss the findings from the recent ISEAS publication Agricultural Trade between China and the Greater Mekong Subregion Countries: A Value Chain Analysis.

Marion Loddo, Representative of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Dr. Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, Research Coordinator at Landmine Monitor, Michelle Yesudas, Advocacy Advisor at Humanity & Inclusion, and Tom Andrews, Special Rapporteur, will discuss struggles to implement the United Nations Mine Ban Treaty in Myanmar. This event is hosted by the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand.

Hosted by the Stimson Center, Nguyen Linh Dan, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Nguyen Mai Phuong, The Asia Group, Courtney Weatherby, The Stimson Center, and Jake Brunner, Head for the Indo-Burma Group, will discuss how Vietnam can implement its climate energy commitments.

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 University of Maryland, Professor ​​Budy Resosudarmo, Australian National University, will discuss the context of climate policies in Indonesia, challenges to achieving their climate goals, and opportunities for developing Indonesia-US work on sustainability research and implementation.