Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of Environment, Sustainability, and Energy at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Bao-Son Trinh, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Environmental Toxicology Laboratory at Vietnam National University, who will discuss microplastics in the Saigon-Dongnai Rivers and their potential impacts on aquatic organisms.

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 the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University for a talk by Dr. Quingfei Yin, Assistant Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, who will discuss how China and Vietnam collaborate and compete along their shared border.

Join the Vietnam Studies Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar featuring Vu Minh Khuong, Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Jaya Ratnam, Singapore’s Ambassador to Vietnam; and Tran Phuoc Anh, Vietnam’s Ambassador to Singapore. This panel will explore the evolution of Vietnam-Singapore relations, analyze the opportunities and challenges of their upcoming Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP), and discuss strategies to strengthen and deepen bilateral ties for a more substantive and impactful future.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Nam Kim, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison, exploring the archaeological record of Vietnam as well as the region's national imagination, cultural heritage, and descendant identities.

Join the Southeast Asia Digital Library and the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a webinar featuring Trâm Phương Nguyễn (Columbia University) and Thành Hà Thị Tuệ (Vietnam National University), who will provide an overview of Yale’s Maurice Durand papers as well as current work with the Digitizing Việt Nam project.

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 Southeast Asia Program and the Mario Einaudi Center For International Studies at Cornell University for a talk by Ivan V. Small, who will discuss Vietnamese American migration and community formation across regions of the United States.

Join the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies for a book talk by Charles Keith, Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, whose research explores how French colonial rule in Indochina extended Indochina’s colonial society into France.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Nora Taylor, Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Professor Taylor will discuss the different ways Vietnamese artists have responded to monuments that represent racism and imperialism in light of changing historical memory in the post-colonial era.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Ann Marie Leshkowich, Professor of Anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross. She will discuss how both the government and social workers in Vietnam have emphasized the scientific nature of the field of social work to distinguish it from charitable volunteering.

Join the Vietnam Studies Programme at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar by Tuan Ho, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the University of Bristol Business School, and Long Tran, Head of Research at BIDV Securities (BSC), one of Vietnam’s oldest and most prominent securities firms. This webinar will analyze Vietnam’s economic performance in 2024 and assess its potential for 2025.

In a book talk hosted by NYSEAN and sponsored by NYU Wagner, editors Nhu Truong and Tuong Vu will discuss the economic and political dynamics and challenges of Vietnam laid out in their new book.  

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.

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.

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 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 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 ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Linh Nguyen, Associate Director at Control Risks, and Nguyen Khac Giang, Visiting Fellow at the ISEAS Vietnam Studies Program, will discuss Vietnamese leadership changes, and their implications for the country’s domestic and foreign policy.

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.

Larry Berman, University of California Davis, and moderator Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, will discuss the spy career of Pham Xuan An, a Vietnamese communist agent who lived his cover at Time Magazine for over 20 years. This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and sponsored by NYSEAN.

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.

Sponsored by the NYU Global Asia Initiative, Ivan Small, University of Houston, Quan Tran, Yale University, Y Thien Nguyen, University of Leeds, Marguerite Nguyen, Wesleyan University, and Nu-Anh Tran, University of Connecticut, will discuss epistemological divisions within Vietnam studies. 

Hosted by the Department of History at New York University, Christopher Goscha, Université du Québec à Montréal, will discuss his new book The Road to Dien Bien Phu with moderator Kevin Li, NYU Elihu Rose Faculty Fellow in Modern Military History.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Jacob Weger, Seton Hall University, will discuss the strategic translations through which different actors in Vietnam and the Netherlands contribute to shaping climate adaptation and social-ecological change in the delta.

Hosted by the Stimson Center, Nguyen Linh Dan, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Nguyen Mai Phuong, The Asia Group, Courtney Weatherby, The Stimson Center, and Jake Brunner, Head for the Indo-Burma Group, will discuss how Vietnam can implement its climate energy commitments.

Dr. Ross King, University of British Columbia, and Dr. Keith Taylor, Cornell University, will compare the ways in which vernacularized forms of Sinitic poetry (詩) were developed in Korea and Vietnam in the 17th-19th centuries. This event is sponsored by the University of California Los Angeles Center for Korea Studies and Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

Hosted by Cornell University, Dr. Edmund Malesky of Duke University will present research that argues that as developing countries embrace international markets, economically insecure groups – and migrants in particular- are the most incentivized to educate themselves on factors that might improve their situation in the changing economy.