Who will succeed Joko Widodo, Indonesia's President, when he leaves office after ten years, and what will be their approach to the economy and the role of foreign companies?  Hosted by the American Indonesian Chamber of Commerce, a panel of experts will examine national polling organizations, family and party dynamics, the role of "kingmakers", parties vs "success teams", and the role of religion. 

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Vicky Bowman, Director of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business, will share her insights on the state of Myanmar’s private sector, business operation challenges since the 2021 coup, and the broader impact of investor decisions on the Myanmar people.

Hosted by the CSIS Southeast Asia Program, Mari Pangestu, former Indonesian Minister of Trade, will provide her perspective on economic headwinds facing the region, including the climate crisis and food and energy security.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Vo Xuan Vinh, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, will review the history of Vietnam-Thailand relations, examine current developments, and assess the prospects for the future of bilateral ties.

Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Tom Lembong, Indonesia’s Trade and Investment Minister, will discuss Indonesia’s growing importance in the global economy.

Hosted by the CSIS Asia Program, in collaboration with the United States Studies Center at the University of Sydney (USSC), experts from CSIS and USSC will discuss geopolitical dynamics in the Indo-Pacific and priorities for enhancing allied policy coordination across a range of economic and security challenges.

Hosted by the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, Phi Hong Su, Williams College, will discuss the disparate Vietnamese migrants' encounters with each other in the post-socialist city of Berlin, as highlighted in her book, The Border Within.

Sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and NYSEAN, Yayan Ganda Hayat Mulyana, a Career Diplomat at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and NYSEAN co-founder Ann Marie Murphy will discuss the Indo-Pacific and Indonesia's foreign policy.

Hosted by the Library of Congress, Tuan Hoang, Pepperdine University, and Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox, New York University, will discuss Vietnamese experiences of mobilization and decolonization, including their exposure to American culture before and during the intervention of the U.S. in the Vietnam War.

Hosted by the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, David Ludden, New York University, will discuss the Rohingya survival crisis in the borderlands of Myanmar and Bangladesh, and the broader imposition of national state boundaries on perceived outgroups during the ongoing global process of decolonization.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute and the Tech For Good Institute, Simon Chesterman, National University of Singapore, and Shivi Anand, Regional Manager for Public Affairs at Grab, will discuss how Southeast Asia policymakers could meet the challenges of AI governance.

Scot Marciel, Former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia and Myanmar, and moderator Ann Marie Murphy, Seton Hall University and NYSEAN co-founder, will discuss Marciel’s new book, Imperfect Partners: the United States and Southeast Asia. This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and sponsored by NYSEAN.

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 Network 20/20, Joshua Kurlantzick, Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, will discuss American and Chinese interests in Southeast Asia, how ASEAN countries are navigating the U.S.- China rivalry, and the implications for future U.S. policy in the region.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Linh Nguyen, Associate Director at Control Risks, and Nguyen Khac Giang, Visiting Fellow at the ISEAS Vietnam Studies Program, will discuss Vietnamese leadership changes, and their implications for the country’s domestic and foreign policy.

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 by the Stanford Southeast Asia Program, Richard Heydarian, University of the Philippines Diliman, Elina Noor, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Chulalongkorn University, will discuss how the spread of disinformation and the rise of artificial intelligence will impact Southeast Asia.

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 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.

Organized by the Asia Foundation and the Royal Thai Embassy, this panel event will celebrate 190 years of U.S. - Thai diplomacy, reflect on previous triumphs and challenges, and discuss the trajectory of U.S. - Thai relations in the 21st century.

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.

Mie Oba, Kanagawa University, Nobuhiro Hemmi, Monitor Deloitte Institute Japan, and Christina L. Davis, Harvard University, will discuss Japanese business ventures in Southeast Asia. This event is sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Harvard University Asia Center.

Hosted by the Stanford Southeast Asia Program, Sharon Seah, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, will share pertinent findings from a recently published regional survey of Southeast Asian opinion influencers, The State of Southeast Asia 2023.

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.