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.

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, 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 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.

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 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.

Join the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand for a discussion of the young pro-democracy activists, Tawan and Bam, who are currently hunger striking for judicial reform.  The discussion will feature Krisadang Nutcharas, lawyer for Tawan and Bam, Kasit Piromya, ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights, and Sunai Phasuk, Human Rights Watch.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Matt Wheeler, Senior Analyst for Southeast Asia at the International Crisis Group, will discuss the complicated security situation in Thailand’s Deep South amid continuing violence and on-and-off peace dialogues.

Hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Hawaii, Amporn Jirattikorn, Chiang Mai University, will discuss how masculinity is redefined among Shan male migrant sex workers from Myanmar who sell sex to gay men clients in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Rikker Dockum, Swarthmore College, will discuss the role Cornelius Beach Bradley played in advising King Vajiravudh, Rama VI of Siam on a new alphabet for the Thai Language.

Hosted by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand, Shui-Meng Ng, the wife of Sombath Somphone, Angkhana Neelapaijit, UN Working Group of Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Cynthia Veliko, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Andrea Giorgetta, International Federation for Human Rights, will discuss the disappearance of Sombath Somphone and the continued struggle to demand answers.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Charnvit Kasetsiri, one of Thailand’s most distinguished historians, Allen Hicken, University of Michigan, and Matthew Reeder, National University of Singapore, will discuss how the specter of authoritarianism, urban-rural class divisions, and challenges to Thailand’s benign image define its current affairs.

Hosted by the University of Hawaii Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Dr. Joel Selway, Brigham Young University, will discuss how nationalism interacts with ethnic rhetoric using the Lanna statehood movement in Northern Thailand as a case study.

Nick Cheesman, Australian National University, will discuss how the language used by torturers encapsulates the relation between law, violence and political order in Thailand and Myanmar. This event is sponsored by Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program and Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

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 Cornell University, Sunisa Manning will discuss her new novel, A Good True Thai, which describes the Thai 1970s student radicalization and revolution and was selected as a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize.

Pornpen Khongkachonkiet, Director of Cross Cultural Foundation, and Sirikan Charoensiri, Deputy Director of Thai Lawyers for Human Rights, will discuss the decline in human rights and rise of pro-democracy movements in Thailand. This event is sponsored by Rightslink, the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, and NYSEAN.

Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at Northern Illinois University, Dr. Wannasarn Noonsuk, California State University, will provide observations on the intimate network of trade and social interaction in the Gulf of Siam from peninsular Thailand to the Mekong Delta.

Join Dr Thomas Baudinette, Macquarie University, as he shines the spotlight on the transnational pop culture phenomenon of “Boys Love” (BL) soap operas, and how it has transformed contemporary Thai consumer culture. This event is sponsored by the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, and NYSEAN.

Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Kyoto University, Andrew Nathan, Columbia University, and Ann Marie Murphy, Seton Hall University and NYSEAN co-founder, will discuss the new institutional norms under King Vajiralongkorn’s reign in Thailand. This event is sponsored by Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asia Center and NYSEAN.

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.

Join Professor Hicken, University of Michigan, to delve into some of the complex issues impacting contemporary Thai politics. The Thailand Social Science Seminar Series - TS4 is sponsored by the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC), the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), and the New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN).

Anjalee Cohen, Senior Anthropology Lecturer at the University of Sydney, will draw on her preliminary research in Chiang Mai to contextualize the important role primary health care continues to play in controlling infectious disease in Thailand. This event is hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute.

Join Associate Professor Wasana Wongsurawat, Chulalongkorn University, as she discusses Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn's role in bolstering ties between Thailand and the People's Republic of China. The Thailand Social Science Seminar Series is sponsored by the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC), the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), and the New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN).

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Moodjalin Sudcharoen, University of Chicago, will examine the strategies that digital protesters use to challenge authority, the use of children as a medium for political claim-making, and how one Facebook post by Thailand’s Ministry of Culture inspired different Internet memes.

Hosted by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand, Busayapa Srisompong, Founder of SHero, Chompoonute Nakornthap, Policy Advisor for the Minister of Social Development and Human Security, Wipaphan Wongsawang, Founder of Thai Consent, and Tida Yingcharoen, Director of the Policy Center for the Thai Sang Thai Party, will discuss the implications of gender-based violence in Thai society.

Join Ralph “Skip” Boyce, former President of Boeing SE Asia and former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, Joe Horn-Phathanothai, founder of Strategy613, and Benjamin Zawacki, a Senior Program Specialist at the Asia Foundation, for a discussion on Zawacki’s book, Thailand: Shifting Ground between the US and a Rising China. This event is hosted by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand - FCCT.

In this event, Dr. Anwar Koma, a political science lecturer at Prince of Songkla University, will discuss Buddhist-Muslim relations by examining the links between nationalism, discrimination and hate speech in Thailand. This event is organized by the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, and the New York Southeast Asia Network.

Rungnapa Pimmasri, a reporter for Thairath Plus, Kritsana Paitoon, a news chief at Prachachat Business, and Nattavut Ratanavanichrojn, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Kasetsart University, will discuss the health and economic implications of the African Swine Fever Virus outbreak in Thailand. This event is hosted by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand - FCCT.