Hosted by the Center for Khmer Studies, Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam, a medical anthropologist and ethnobotanist, will explore the different relationalities and rationalities expressed by groups living in Siem Reap Province for treating COVID-19 symptoms with either biomedicine, traditional, and/or folk medicine.

Hosted by the Stanford Southeast Asia Program, Reza Idria, Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Fellow on Contemporary Southeast Asia, will address the complexities and the unexpected outcomes of enforcing Sharia law through the machinery of inefficient statecraft in the Indonesian province of Aceh.

Hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, MK Long, Cornell University, will discuss the rhetorical force of relationships in biographies of Buddhist nuns in Burma.

Hosted by the Harvard University Asia Center, Elsa Clavé, University of Hamburg, will discuss the the social and cultural aspects of the emergence of three Islamized political entities - the sultanates of Sulu, Magindanao-Buayan, and the Muslim confederation Pat a pengampong ko Ranao.

Join Assistant Professor Edoardo Siani, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, for a journey into the world of divination, revealing how religion and magic blend into a powerful potion for Thailand's Gen Z opposing the Prayuth government. This event is sponsored by the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, and NYSEAN.

Hosted by the University of Michigan Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Professor Ismail Fajrie Alatas, New York University, will discuss the relationship between religion and spatiality by examining the transoceanic religious geography that links Southeast Asia and South Arabia.

Poonnatree Jiaviriyaboonya, Nakhon Phanom University, Tatsuki Kataoka, Kyoto University, and Yasuko Yoshimoto, Kyoto University, will explore the intersections between popular and orthodox religious practices among three groups in Mainland Southeast Asia: Cham Bani in South Vietnam; Chinese in Phuket, Thailand; and Khmer in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This event is sponsored by the University of Hawaii Center for Southeast Asia Studies.

Tomas Larsson, Associate Professor at University of Cambridge, will discuss how political parties in Thailand differentiate themselves in religious matters using evidence from the country’s 2019 general election and 2022 Bangkok elections. This is a hybrid event which will be held at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute and sponsored by the Temasek Foundation, this panel will consider the contributions of the littoral and insular regions of Maritime Asia and how they shaped new paradigms in Buddhist and Hindu art in the medieval Asian world.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, join Erick White for a conversation on his contributions to Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted. He will discuss the historical, social, and religious dynamics of spirit possession in mainland Southeast Asia.

In this symposium hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Michigan, Jaya Jacobo, a founding co-editor of Queer Southeast Asia: A Transgressive Journal of Literary Art, will examine the simultaneous disavowal and affirmation of trans femininity within Catholic religious discourse within the Spanish colonial Philippines.

In this talk, Norihisa Bab, a Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar, will discuss the process by which the Sri Lankan Mahāvihāra school formed Buddhist language ideology in the 5th century and how Pāli subsequently emerged as the predominant sacred language in Sri Lanka and mainland Southeast Asia.

Tracing the movements of Muslim saints and scholars from Yemen to Indonesia, Ismail Fajrie Alatas shows how religious leaders unite diverse aspects of life and contest differing Muslim perspectives to create distinctly Muslim communities in Java in this book talk hosted by the NYU Center for Global Asia.

The digital transformation of Southeast Asia is in full swing eight of the 10 ten ASEAN countries have internet penetration rates higher than those for Asia and the world. But digital access is unevenly distributed between and within Southeast Asian countries. Join Huong Le Thu and Elina Noor as they discuss digital access, surveillance, and the impact of new technologies in the region in this talk organized by the Southeast Asia Program at Stanford University.

In this lecture, organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan, Dr. Heather MacLachlan will look at anti-Muslim hate in Burma/Myanmar through music.

The Cornell Buddhist Studies Seminar will host Alexander Soucy, Professor and Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at Saint Mary’s University, to discuss the globally important figure of Thích Nhất Hạnh in the developments of Buddhism in Vietnam and with the globalization of Buddhism.

How do religious communities change as a result of their mediations between state powers and local conditions? Based on a decade of research conducted in Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States, William Noseworthy examines cases from the history of Austronesian Cham religious communities in Cambodia in this talk hosted by Harvard University Asia Center.

The Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series is a weekly lecture series featuring advanced Cornell Southeast Asia Program graduate students as well as academics, diplomats, researchers, and others who have expertise in Southeast Asia. Hanisah Abdullah Sani presents a talk on religion, law, and state-building in colonial Malaya.

Organized by the SOAS Centre of Southeast Asian Studies and SOAS Southeast Asian Art Academic Programme, this lecture addresses the continuing legacies of an imagined Greater India via academia, museums, and popular culture worldwide. Marieke Bloembergen and Mathilde Mechling will explore from their respective research the impact of the Greater India phenomenon on ancient Hindu and Buddhist objects from Indonesia and reflect on how to decolonize the museum and what needs to be decolonized.

In this panel hosted by Australian National University, Amrita Malhi and Joshua Gedacht will preview a special issue of Itinerario on coerced mobility and the diverse responses of groups of Muslims in Siam’s incorporation of Patani, Dutch efforts to colonize Aceh, and anti-colonial movements like the Darul Islam in Java and the Communist Party's Tenth Regiment in Malaya.

Organized by the SOAS Centre of Southeast Asian Studies and SOAS Southeast Asian Art Academic Programme, this lecture by Duyen Nguyen examines the Đồng Dương Buddhist gallery at the Museum of Cham Sculpture in Da Nang. She argues that the current display is an attempt to re-contextualize the original landscape of the Đồng Dương monastery and the significance of the Đồng Dương Buddhist art tradition. However, it offers insufficient interpretation due to the absence of some objects that have resulted in a de-contextualized display.

Stone inscriptions carved at Angkor Wat and other Cambodian temples between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries cite or quote from over twenty different Buddhist titles. In this talk hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii, Dr. Trent Walker identifies these titles based on surviving palm-leaf manuscripts in Cambodia and situates them in the broader history of Southeast Asian Buddhism.

Join NYSEAN for a lively conversation between Greg Fealy and Chris Chaplin on Chaplin’s new book, Salafism and the State: Islamic Activism and National Identity in Contemporary Indonesia. The discussion will be moderated by NYSEAN co-founder Margaret Scott.

In this talk hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Andrew Harris will explore the cosmological re-envisioning of the medieval Cambodian capital of Angkor through the society-wide adoption and dissemination of Theravada Buddhism.

The Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series is a weekly lecture series featuring advanced Cornell Southeath Asia Program graduate students as well as academics, diplomats, researchers, and others who have expertise in Southeast Asia. In this lecture, Sara Ann Swenson will discuss her research on contemporary Buddhism in Vietnam. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2019, she explores how lay and monastic Buddhist charity workers cope with experiences of urban alienation by framing altruism as an intersubjective act that benefits all beings.

Hosted by Northern Ilinois University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Nicolas Verstappen will present his forthcoming book, The Art of Thai Comics (River Books, 2021), which is the first in-depth study of Thai Comics.

In this presentation, Theara Thun, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University discusses four key aspects of the nationalist historiography of Cambodia as well as the implications on the broader Southeast Asian region. These aspects are: (1) history-makings of the state religion, (2) Prince Sihanouk’s embodiment of Buddhism and national past, (3) ethnic essentialist historiography, and (4) Pol Pot’s class-based historical interpretation.

This talk by Anthony Irwin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society for the Humanities Cornell University, focuses on the production, ritual use, and recent mass proliferation of magical swords in northern Thailand.