Hosted by the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, Sinae Hyun, Sogang University Seoul, and Qingfei Yin, LSE, will discuss the Cold War context for creating the Border Patrol Police (BPP) of Thailand and the BPP’s evolution to support a royalist Thai nation.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Yanuar Nugroho, Driyarkara School of Philosophy Jakarta, Indriaswati Dyah Saptaningrum, Atma Jaya Catholic University, and Muhammad Fajar, Atma Jaya Catholic University, will discuss the current state of Indonesian government institutions, legal systems, and social movements.

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.

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 Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Max Lane, Senior Visiting Fellow from the ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, will discuss the origin and progression of Indonesia’s democratic national consciousness.

Hosted by Weatherhead East Asian Institute and sponsored by NYSEAN, Hayeon Lee, Columbia University, will discuss her three years of ethnographic field work studying Vietnamese migrant women marriages in South Korea.

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.

Larry Berman, University of California Davis, and moderator Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, will discuss the spy career of Pham Xuan An, a Vietnamese communist agent who lived his cover at Time Magazine for over 20 years. This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and sponsored by NYSEAN.

Hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions, Vicente L. Rafael, University of Washington Seattle, will discuss the emergence of neoliberal programs in the Philippines designed to protect state authority and exclude those it regards as social enemies.

Hosted at The People’s Forum, Max Lane will discuss his new book Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship, which follows the life of Pramoedya Ananta Toer in and out of prison during Indonesian national awakening.

Sponsored by the NYU Global Asia Initiative, Ivan Small, University of Houston, Quan Tran, Yale University, Y Thien Nguyen, University of Leeds, Marguerite Nguyen, Wesleyan University, and Nu-Anh Tran, University of Connecticut, will discuss epistemological divisions within Vietnam studies. 

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 Department of History at New York University, Christopher Goscha, Université du Québec à Montréal, will discuss his new book The Road to Dien Bien Phu with moderator Kevin Li, NYU Elihu Rose Faculty Fellow in Modern Military History.

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 Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Sandy F. Chang, University of Florida, will discuss the formation of intimacies between Chinese women and Indian or Malay men as politically charged sites of racial knowledge production at the turn of the twentieth century in British Malaya.

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.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Htet Thiha Zaw, University of Michigan, will discuss the role of indigenous education providers,  anti-colonial resistance, and state control in the development of education policy in British Burma from 1901 - 1920.

Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University, will discuss the societal and political conditions that led to faulty wartime decision-making by Nixon and Kissinger, as outlined in her book Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger and the Wars in Southeast Asia. This event is sponsored by the Wilson Center History and Public Policy Program and Cold War International History Project.

Hosted by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University, Seiji Shirane, The City College of New York, will discuss the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in Japan's empire expansionist ambitions in South China and Southeast Asia from 1895 to the end of World War II.

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 Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Asmus Rungby, Yale University, will outline his ongoing work to account for unarticulated insights and political attitudes among Urban Borneans.

Hosted by the University of Victoria, Ayu Ratih, co-founder and director of the Indonesian Institute of Social History, will discuss the use of oral history in documenting gender-based violence during the 1965-66 military operation in Indonesia.

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.

Hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, Juan Fernandez, a historian of modern Southeast Asia, will discuss three foundational ideas in the anthropology of sex and gender in the colonial Philippines: the high status of women; the image of the man of prowess; and the concept and practice of gender pluralism.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Rikker Dockum, Swarthmore College, will discuss the role Cornelius Beach Bradley played in advising King Vajiravudh, Rama VI of Siam on a new alphabet for the Thai Language.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Charnvit Kasetsiri, one of Thailand’s most distinguished historians, Allen Hicken, University of Michigan, and Matthew Reeder, National University of Singapore, will discuss how the specter of authoritarianism, urban-rural class divisions, and challenges to Thailand’s benign image define its current affairs.