Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Elissa “E” Domingo Badiqué, PhD candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, who will discuss Filipinx mimicry and queer self-fashioning through dance.

Join NYSEAN, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the Columbia-Harvard China and the World program for a conference featuring Walden Bello, Pongphisoot Busbarat, Thomas Christensen, Sophal Ear, Joseph Chinyong Liow, Derek Mitchell, Ann Marie Murphy, Hong Hai Nguyen, Lien-Hang Nguyen, Elina Noor, Praslhant Parameswaran, Gregory Poling, Yohanes Sulaiman, and Ayumi Teraoka. These leading experts will examine the implications of a second Trump administration for US-Southeast Asian relations at this critical junction in global politics.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for the book launch of Global Battlefields, a memoir by Walden Bello. Bello, a Filipino activist and intellectual, holds a PhD in sociology from Princeton. He was an anti-Vietnam War activist, a pro-democracy activist against the Marcos dictatorship, a member of Congress, a Vice-Presidential candidate, and a university professor.

Join the Philippines Institute at Australian National University for an online forum on the arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and its implications. The panel features Manuel Quezon III, political analyst and columnist for the Philippine Daily Inquirer; Atty. Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, Senior Professional Lecturer, De La Salle University; Mags Maglana, governance, peace and development worker; and is moderated by Dr. Cleo Calimbahin, ANU Philippines Institute Senior Research Fellow and Professor at De la Salle University-Manila.

Join NYSEAN, Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, and Espacio de Culturas at NYU for an evening of festival-favorite film shorts and conversation with New York-based Filipino and Filipino American filmmakers. The program features When the House Lights Come On by Apa Agbayani, A Blaan Lullaby by Ida Del Mundo, Manila is Full of Men Named Boy by Andrew Stephen Lee, Out of Body by Enrico Po, and more.

Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute at CUNY for a talk by Cherry Lou Sy, Adjunct Lecturer in the English and American Studies Departments at Brooklyn College, CUNY.  Sy’s debut novel Love Can’t Feed You (Dutton, 2024) is a heartfelt and poignant exploration of love, sacrifice, and survival in the face of adversity. It follows the journey of a young immigrant woman from the Philippines  navigating the complexities of a challenging relationship while grappling with the harsh realities of her life.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Dr. Kristian Saguin, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of the Philippines Diliman, who will discuss urbanization and resource flows in Metro Manila.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for an evening of films by acclaimed indie writer and director Glenn Barit. They will screen Cleaners (2019) and the short films Maybe Aliens (2017), Who Rents There Now? (2018), and Before Life Happens (2023).

Join the York Centre for Asian Research for a talk by Pia Ranada, Head of Community for Rappler and the 2024 Philippines Marshall McLuhan Fellow at the Embassy of Canada, who will discuss efforts in her newsroom to bring the work of journalism to readers and citizens in new, impactful ways.

Join NYSEAN for a book talk by Merlyna Lim, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, and Director of the ALiGN Media Lab at Carleton University. Social Media and Politics in Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2025) highlights the dual role of social media in both fostering grassroots activism and enabling autocratic practices of algorithmic politics, notably in electoral politics.

Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute at CUNY for a talk by Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, who will discuss the transnational experiences and community building of Filipino caregivers.

Join the Philippine Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar featuring Cielo Magno, Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines’ School of Economics; Zy-za Nadine Suzara, independent public budget analyst; and Jan Carlo Punongbayan, ISEAS Visiting Fellow and Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines School of Economics. This panel will explore issues surrounding the crafting of the recent national budgets of the Philippine government.

Join Asia Society for a film screening of Moral (1982) by Marilou Diaz-Abaya, which features four Filipinas navigating friendship and adulthood against a backdrop of martial rule.

Join the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University for a conference on the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia. This event brings together papers from scholars of maritime Southeast Asia who document and analyze the diverse but often precarious practices of everyday management of linguistic and cultural identities of diasporic Chinese in the Southeast Asian region.

Join the Asian American Education Project for a talk by Dr. Mark R. Villegas, an Associate Professor of American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, who will be discussing the contributions and representations of Filipino Americans in Hip Hop.

Join the Asian American Education Project for a talk by Dr. Mark R. Villegas, an Associate Professor of American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, who will be discussing the contributions and representations of Filipino Americans in Hip Hop.

The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), established in 2019 as the result of the lengthy peace process between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Philippines government, was based on four premises. The first was that the constructed Bangsamoro identity would be a critical factor holding the region together. The second was that meaningful regional autonomy could be achieved in the context of the existing Philippine constitution. The third was that the introduction of a parliamentary government for BARMM, never before attempted in the Philippines, might change Mindanao's traditional political culture. And the fourth was that the newly peaceful MILF, given a chance to head a transition government, would likely win the first direct elections to that parliament, now scheduled for May 2025. 

Sidney Jones and David Timberman will examine how these premises have fared as elections draw closer. Jones is Senior Advisor of the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict and teaches at NYU’s Program in International Relations. Timberman is an independent analyst focusing on governance and conflict in Southeast Asia, and he has held positions with Freedom House, US Agency for International Development and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. John Gershman, NYSEAN Co-Founder, will moderate the discussion.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a workshop on environmental humanities and Southeast Asia Studies. The workshop will feature research that analyzes the entanglements of class and human relationships with the natural environment in tropical, insular Southeast Asia.

Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute at CUNY for a talk by Dr. Christine Bacareza Balance, the 2024 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, who will present ongoing research and writing from her book project, Making Sense of Martial Law. In it, she studies what the diverse and contradictory poetics of Philippine martial law (1972-1986) perform and reveal about authoritarianism and cultural memory, as illustrated by both U.S.- and Philippines-based performances and productions. Making Sense of Martial Law also aims to illuminate important facets of the relationship between art and politics in dictatorships across the globe.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU and NYSEAN for a film screening of Diablo (2012; 1h 54m), written and directed by Mes de Guzman.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU and NYSEAN for a presentation and performance by Troy Laureta, a Filipino American musical director, keyboardist, and producer who has worked with David Foster and Ariana Grande. Adrian De Leon, Sulo co-chair and Assistant Professor of U.S. History at NYU, will moderate the discussion and join the ensemble.

Celebrate Filipino American History Month by joining NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a talk with Professor Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. In this interactive presentation, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales will share the epistemological journey of Pinayism, and will share how Pinays have expanded the scope of Pinayism in the worlds of art, activism, and academia.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a book talk by Sharon M. Quinsaat, Associate Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College and author of Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora (University of Chicago Press, 2024). John Gershman, NYSEAN co-founder, will moderate the discussion.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU and NYSEAN for a film screening of Genus, Pan (2020; 2h 30m), written and directed by Lav Diaz.