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 the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Center, Hun Kim, University of California Irvine, and Hyun Bang Shin, LSE, will examine how municipal authorities altered planning maps and manipulated property archives to change the landscape of de facto ownership in an evolving Saigon.

Hosted by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand, Laddawan Tantivitayapitak, Secretary General of P-Net, Yingcheep Atchanont, Director of iLaw, Adisak Limparungpatakit, Head of Watcher Campaign, and Gothom Arya, director of Mahidol University’s Research Centre for Peace Building, will discuss the implications of Thailand’s general election on May 14, 2023.

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.

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.

Chanintorn Pensute, University of Leeds, and NYSEAN co-founder Duncan McCargo, University of Copenhagen, will discuss what Thai campaign posters are trying to convey to voters and how northern region posters differ from those in Bangkok. This event is ​​sponsored by the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC), the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) and NYSEAN.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Khairy Jamaluddin, a Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS, will dive into whether Anwar Ibrahim can win over Malay voters, especially in the upcoming six state elections scheduled in two months.

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.

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.

Sponsored by UNESCO and the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand, Vitit Muntarbhorn, UN Special Rapporteur, Yingcheep Atchanont, Programme Manager at Internet Law Reform Dialogue, Jonathan Head, BBC Southeast Asia Correspondent, and Thapanee Eadsrichai, founder of The Reporters, will discuss how the current state of freedom of expression affects the work of journalists in Thailand.

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 the University of Michigan Center for Southeast Asian Studies, James C. Scott, Yale University, will examine acts of “everyday resistance” in Southeast Asia and their aggregated impact on political and social life.

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 Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, Risa J. Toha, Wake Forest University, will discuss her field research concerning Singapore’s demographic composition and  its implications for ethnic politics, social harmony, and nation-building.

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.

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.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Mark Sidel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will discuss how Vietnam uses tax law, criminal codes, and NGO regulations to jail civil society leaders and limit civic space.

Hosted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University, Josen Masangkay Diaz, University of San Diego, will explore the politics of the Philippine Refugee Processing Center in Morong, Bataan, and the role of Filipino English teachers in the U.S. program for refugee rehabilitation.

Hosted by the Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, U Moe Zaw Oo, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the National Unity Government, U Kyaw Moe Tun, Permanent Representative of Myanmar to the United Nations, and Priscilla Clapp, Senior Advisor to the United States Institute of Peace, will discuss the state of the anti-military movement in Myanmar.

Sponsored by the NYU Wagner School and NYSEAN, Elliott Prasse-Freeman will discuss his ongoing fieldwork from Cox's Bazar refugee camps and the Thai/Burma border, exploring the effects of the ongoing revolution on inter-ethnic relations.

Yingcheep Atchanont, Director of iLaw, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Founder of 112Watch, and Pongkwan Sawasdipakdi, founder of the Alliance for Thai Democracy, will discuss the upcoming election in Thailand and its implications on democratic movements. This event is organized by NYSEAN and sponsored by NYU Wagner.

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.

Edward Aspinall, Australian National University, Meredith Weiss, University at Albany SUNY, Allen Hicken, University of Michigan, and Paul Hutchcroft, ANU, will discuss their key findings from Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia. This event is sponsored by the NYU Wagner School and NYSEAN.

Hosted by the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, Khatharya Um, will investigate the ways in which global, regional, and local forces in the Asia-Pacific are constructed, divided, and problematized within Southeast Asian/American Studies.