Join Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) for a virtual discussion with Adam Bobbette, author of The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java, winner of the 2025 Benda Prize. All participants should read the Preface and Chapter 1: “Political Geology as Method.” Those interested in reading more should also consider Chapter 3: “Intercalated: The Political and Spiritual Geographies of Plate Tectonics.”

Join the Asia Society Museum for a film screening of Opera Jawa by Garin Nugroho, followed by a wine reception and a special music performance by renowned composer Peni Candra Rini with acclaimed musicians Shahzad Ismaily, Andy McGraw, and I Gusti Putu Sudarta.

Join the Asia Society Museum for a multi-sensorial celebration of the silent film Setan Jawa by filmmaker Garin Nugroho. The silent film will be accompanied by a live score composed and performed by Peni Candra Rini, with Andy McGraw, Shahzad Ismaily, Gusti Sudarta, and Scott Clark. A conversation and Q&A with the filmmaker follows the program.

Join Deconstructing Indonesia, a student-led group, for a discussion of the National Revolution of Indonesia with a focus on the clashing writings of two giants of the revolution: Sutan Sjahrir and Tan Malaka.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa for a panel on Southeast Asia’s responses to the economic, political, and social impacts of U.S. tariff policies. Speakers include Dr. Jayant Menon, Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute; Herawati, Researcher in the ASEAN Studies Program at The Habibie Center, and Dr. Tong Bui, Distinguished Chair in the Department of Information Technology Management at UH-Mānoa. Dr. Micah Fisher will moderate the discussion.

Join ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute’s Media, Technology, and Society Program (MTS) for a talk by Dr. Carol Soon, Associate Professor of Communications and New Media in the National University of Singapore, and Dr. Maria Monica Wihardja, Visiting Fellow and Co-Coordinator of the MTS Program.. They will discuss the role of different types of media, AI- and non-AI-generated disinformation and election propaganda on voter perceptions and behaviours in Indonesia’s 2024 Presidential Election and Singapore’s 2025 General Election.

Join NYSEAN and NYU MAIR for a talk by Dr. Eve Warburton, research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Change at Australian National University (ANU) and Director of the ANU Indonesia Project. Dr. Warburton will discuss her new paper co-written with Dr. Andi Ali Armunanto on the motivations of businesspeople to enter politics in Indonesia.

Join the ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a panel on poverty alleviation efforts in Indonesia. Priasto Aji, an economist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Indonesia Resident Mission, Zahra Amalia Syarifah, Sociology PhD Candidate at University of California - San Diego, and Iqbal Dawam Wibisono, an economist specializing in development, labor, regional and microeconomics research, will discuss updates on poverty incidence, challenges, and distributional trends.

Over the past several weeks we’ve worked towards the idea of Indonesia with a colorful cast of characters: our Kartinis, Ki Hajars, and Sukarnos, luminaries of that class that “dreamt and prayed in Dutch.” But what of the vast majority of Indonesians that didn’t? Who spoke in the language of jimats and Imam Mahdis rather than treatises and political theories? This week we begin to tell their side of the story, and of how they mobilized for that decisive act of political creation: the National Revolution itself.

Join the Asia Society for the matinee performance of Papermoon Puppet Theatre’s Puno, Sewing Memories, which features the story of a young girl coping with her father’s passing and learning about life and death. Illustrator, writer, and theatre performer Maria (Ria) Tri Sulistyani and visual artist Iwan Effendi extend puppetry storytelling with their mixed-media productions that tell stories about the choices, values, circumstances, and conflicts of everyday life.

Join the Asia Society for the premiere of Papermoon Puppet Theatre’s Puno, Sewing Memories, which features the story of a young girl coping with her father’s passing and learning about life and death. Illustrator, writer, and theatre performer Maria (Ria) Tri Sulistyani and visual artist Iwan Effendi extend puppetry storytelling with their mixed-media productions that tell stories about the choices, values, circumstances, and conflicts of everyday life.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Bradley Simpson, Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Connecticut, who will discuss Indonesian politics and policies surrounding the New International Economic Order.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Assistant Professor of History of Southeast Asia at Yale, who will discuss the colonial engineering campaigns of the British Empire such as Singapore's harbors and North Borneo’s shores.

Join ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a panel examining Thai and Indonesian youth’s perceptions on wellbeing and development, social attitudes and values, and other trends in civic engagement. Featured speakers include Voradon Lerdrat, Director of Research and Policy Partnerships at 101 Public Policy Think Tank (Thailand), and Dr. Iim Halimatusa’diyah, Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute and Professor of Sociology at Islamic State University (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah.

Join us for a timely webinar exploring how Indonesia’s political crisis reverberates beyond street protests to challenge the foundations of academic freedom and institutional autonomy. The conversation will situate Indonesia’s struggles within a broader regional context, examining what shrinking democratic space means under rising authoritarianism across Southeast Asia.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a book talk by Chiara Formichi, H. Stanley Krusten Professor of World Religions in the Department of Asian Studies. Domestic Nationalism argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia’s progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activities of care work.

Join NYSEAN and Deconstructing Indonesia for a seminar on the history of Indonesia; how the allure of nutmeg, coffee and sugar drew a storm from the West that transform this archipelago into an extractive colonial state.

Join the Indonesia Project at Australia National University for their PhD student seminar exploring the theme of policy making in Indonesia as part of the Indonesia Project’s 60th Anniversary celebrations. Gita Putri Damayana examines the regulatory framework that shapes policy making in Indonesia, Joshua Walker offers a sociological perspective on the country’s energy transition and electric vehicle (EV) policy, and Dyah Pritadrajati discusses social policy from an economic standpoint.

Join Deconstructing Indonesia for a film screening of Mother Dao, the Turtlelike, a compilation of clips from a Dutch cameraman between 1912 and 1932 in their former colony of Indonesia.

Join NYSEAN and Deconstructing Indonesia for a seminar on the history of Indonesia through the writings of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, one of Indonesia’s foremost writers.

Join the ASEAN Studies Center and the Regional Economic Studies Program at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a panel on the current state of play in the US trade policy and its impact on multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating in Southeast Asia as the 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs lapses in early July 2025. Featured speakers include Marc Mealy, Isamu Wakamatsu, and Dr. Dan Wang.

Join Book Culture and the SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium on Wednesday, July 9th at 7pm for a conversation with Benjamin Tausig, author of Bangkok after Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies, and Rianne Subijanto, author of Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia. 

Join the Regional Strategic and Political Studies Program at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Senior Fellow Dr. Ian Storey, who will discuss his new book on Russia’s role in Southeast Asia. Dr. Jittipat Poonkham, Vice Dean for Academic and International Affairs and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Political Science at Thammasat University, will moderate the discussion.