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demand for meat that is driving forest encroachment and maize production, the spread into neighbouring countries of outdated Thai agricultural practices, and the poverty trap most agricultural families and migrant labourers exist in.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 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 California State Library, Pachia Lucy Vang, a textile arts designer at her studio Culture through Cloth, will explore the history of HMong Californians through the threads of their global diaspora.

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.

Hosted by the Asia Society, Samita Sinha, Qian Yi, and Peni Candra Rini, will perform songs conveying their different interpretations of life and love, joy and sadness, and death and danger, including inspiration from Javanese myth. 

Hosted by the Institute of Fine Arts Contemporary Asia, a panel of curators and artists will discuss the current Museum of Modern Art Exhibit, Signals: How Video Transformed the World, and how artists harnessed video as an agent of social change in Asia.

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 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 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 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 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.

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.

Hosted by NYSEAN Public Universities Consortium, Terrell Rabb, University at Albany, Robert Cribb, Australian National University, Nawawi, National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia, and Tyrell Haberkorn, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will examine best practices for conducting research involving human subjects.

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.

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.

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.

Hosted by Pace University and the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Joshua Kurlantzick, Council on Foreign Relations, will discuss his book Beijing’s Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Arsjad Rasjid, Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will discuss Indonesia’s ASEAN Business Advisory Council Chairmanship priorities, agenda, and legacy projects.

Hosted by the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, Gita Wirjawan, founder of the Indonesian investment bank Ancora Group, will discuss the role of trust in Southeast Asian economic and democratic development.