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 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 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.

On this special edition of Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan on WFMU, Rattana Bounsouaysana will share her family’s journey from Laos to the United States through their memories of Southeast Asian and English language popular music.

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 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 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 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 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.

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 Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, poets Luis H. Fracia, Vina Orden, Patrick Rosal, Renato Rosaldo, and Mary Louise Pratt will share their respective poetry and reflect on themes within the Filipino literary space.

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 Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Quynh H. Vo, American University, will juxtapose Vietnamese national politics of representation with narratives of human experience illustrated in Vietnamese American art and literature.

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 at the New Design High School by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Vanessa Chan, Malaysian author of The Storm We Made, will talk with Vietnamese author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai about her latest novel, Dust Child.

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 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.

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.

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 Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Sandy F. Chang, University of Florida, will discuss the formation of intimacies between Chinese women and Indian or Malay men as politically charged sites of racial knowledge production at the turn of the twentieth century in British Malaya.

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, 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.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Asmus Rungby, Yale University, will outline his ongoing work to account for unarticulated insights and political attitudes among Urban Borneans.

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 Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, Sophie Chao, University of Sydney, will discuss how the symbolic mobilization of different animals and plants by Papuan activists foregrounds the more-than-human dimensions of their struggle for social, racial, and multispecies justice.