The Constitutional Court ruling early this month, which classified calls for reform of the monarchy as an attempt to overthrow the country’s system of governance, set a new precedent in Thai politics. Join the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand for a discussion of what the court’s verdict means for the youth-led political movement and the general debate surrounding the Thai monarchy.

Organized by UC Davis, six scholars will present 30-minute papers, followed by 10-minute prepared responses from local respondents, on topics related to the broad subject of music history in the geographical area currently identified as the Indonesian archipelago.

Organized by the Asian American / Asian Research Institute at CUNY, author Peter Bacho will discuss his book Uncle Rico’s Encore: Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle. This collection of autobiographical essays centers on the experiences of the Pinoy generation that grew up in Seattle’s multiethnic neighborhoods, from the Central Area to Beacon Hill to Rainier Valley.

What challenges does identity add, especially for students and faculty who identify as (or are identified as) Asian, as they conduct research in and teach about Southeast Asia and building careers in the US? While helpful for grad students and early-career scholars of Southeast Asia broadly, this panel organized by the NYSEAN Public Universities Consortium will be especially germane for those who identify and/or present as Asian or Asian-American.

Join Pace University and Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a discussion with Donald Emmerson and Sarah Cook on human rights issues in Southeast Asia and China.

Join the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand and NYSEAN for a panel discussion on Myanmar’s post-coup economic trajectory, the recent surge in drug production, and the spillover effect on neighboring economies.

Join the NYSEAN Public Universities Consortium for a panel discussion that will look into the complex logistics of conducting field research in, and online research on, Southeast Asia.

Do campaign promises matter? In this talk hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA and the Filipinx and Philippine Studies Working Group at UC Berkeley, Cesi Cruz will draw from a recent research project on Philippine mayoral elections that examined how voters respond to campaign promises, after being presented with candidate policy platforms.

In this talk hosted by the Asia Health Policy Program at Stanford University, Dr. Vivi Alatas will discuss her research on promoting vaccination in Indonesia and the impact of the pandemic on Indonesia’s society and the economy more generally, including on poverty, human capital, and development.

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.

The Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, and the New York Southeast Asia Network will host Petra Desatova and Saowanee Alexander as they examine the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT), Thailand’s formally independent electoral management body (EMB), and the role it played in the 2019 election. They argue that in non-democratic regimes with high levels of political polarization and entrenched elites, such as contemporary Thailand, formal EMB independence may become part of why elections fail.

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. Abigail De Kosnik will examine the Filipino-American experience.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asian Studies at Yale University, anthropologist Elena Lesley will discuss her ethnographic research about spiritually-adapted “Testimonial Therapy” for survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. It was introduced to the country in 2009 as a potential form of “symbolic reparation” in the context of the Khmer Rouge tribunal.

Hosted by LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre and the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, this round table will look at Southeast Asian electoral management from a comparative perspective. Chaired by John Sidel, five invited speakers will be in discussion and offer a range of viewpoints from across the region.

In this talk organized by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Joseph Harris will focus on the role played by knowledge organizations in the field of public health in Thailand, focusing on the case of tobacco control.

Hosted by the NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, join Filipino director Kidlat Tahimi, a key figure of the so-called ‘slow cinema’ movement and an undisputed pioneer of Filipino independent film, for a conversation with Sara Nadal-Melsió, an NYC-based Catalan writer, curator, and teacher.

Organized by Harvard University Asia Center, join Meredith Weiss and Allen Hicken for their forthcoming book talk Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines. They will present a new framework for analyzing variation in patronage democracies, focusing on distinct forms of patronage and different networks through which it is distributed.

Hosted by SEACoast, Pavin Chachavalpongpun will show how the discussions of the monarchy have long been considered off-limits in Thailand. The royal family is fiercely protected by the lèse-majesté law that forbids insulting comments toward them and carries a possible prison sentence of up to 15 years.

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. Presenting this talk Dr. Will Smith will examine the impact of forest management and climate change on indigenous livelihood in the Philippines.

The sizable Philippine collections at the University of Michigan underscore this institution’s role in U.S. colonial expansion. It is time for the University to address its colonial complicity in the formation of these collections by developing decolonial and anti-racist policies and practices. Organized by SOAS Centre of Southeast Asian Studies and SOAS Southeast Asian Art Academic Programme, this presentation will discuss the current efforts to develop alternative ways to represent and provide access to Philippine materials held by the University’s Bentley Historical Library, the Special Collections Research Center, and the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies, this book talk examines postwar waves of political violence that affected six Southeast Asian countries - Indonesia, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam - from the wars of independence in the mid-twentieth century to the recent Rohingya genocide. Featuring cases not previously explored, and offering fresh insights into more familiar cases, the chapters cover a range of topics including the technologies of violence, the politics of fear, inclusion and exclusion, justice and ethics, repetitions of mass violence events, impunity, law, ethnic and racial killings, crimes against humanity, and genocide

Determining who is most vulnerable to climate change, and how, is not a simple calculus. In this talk hosted by NYSEAN, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and Columbia Climate School, Professor Pamela McElwee will show that determining what vulnerability is, how it should be measured, and who is at risk is often political. This talk will address how these politics play out in Southeast Asia, and discuss how they relate to COP26 happening in Glasgow in November.

How are political cartoons similar to occult cursing ceremonies, and what can both tell us about acts of resistance/refusal in a context where subjects lack the rights to secure their interventions? In this talk hosted by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley, Elliott Prasse-Freeman develops Judith Butler’s conceptualization of catachresis and applies it to Burmese political cartoons, exploring how they stage elite Burmese subjects mishearing everyday speech.

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.

Dr. Gina Velasco and Dr. Joyce Mariano will discuss their recently published books: Dr. Velasco’s Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora (University of Illinois Press, 2020) and Dr. Mariano’s Giving Back: Filipino America and the Politics of Diaspora Giving (Temple University Press, 2021). Dr. Nathalie Lebon will moderate the conversation.