Past events

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a book talk by Andrew L. Oros, Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Washington College, Maryland. Whereas the populations of China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Russia are aging and shrinking, the populations of India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Australia continue to grow. Oros will discuss how striking demographic changes affect regional security dynamics and the United States–led alliance structure in the Indo-Pacific.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a book talk by Dr. Miles Kenney-Lazar, Senior Lecturer of Human Geography at the University of Melbourne. Dr. Kenney-Lazar’s book investigates the development of Chinese and Vietnamese pulpwood and rubber plantations on the lands of the ethnic minority Brou people in eastern Savannakhet of southern Laos.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan for a talk by Chantal Croteau, PhD Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Croteau will discuss the relations of kinship, precarity, and loss generated through the volatile world of the boom-and-bust tin mining industry in southern Thailand.

Join the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU for a talk by Geok Yian Goh, Associate Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University, who will discuss the archaeological record and everyday life of Singapore and Bagan, Myanmar, which are two urban centers that overlapped in time.

Join York University’s Canadian Southeast Asian Studies Initiative for a talk by Jonathan Corpus Ong, Professor and Founding Director of Global Technology for Social Justice Lab in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dr. Ong’s lecture critiques the “mainstream” of disinformation studies and presents alternative visions of more globally minded and community-driven approaches to building healthier public spheres.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Chris Hulshof, GETSEA Director of Community Engagement and History PhD Candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Hulshof will discuss how the British psychological warfare campaign in Indonesia not only flooded the Indonesian market with black propaganda leaflets and radio broadcasts, but deftly manipulated the international news circuit to spread Indonesian Army propaganda across the globe.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk by Derek Grossman, Visiting Senior Fellow, which unpacks the Trump administration’s policy towards Southeast Asia and its engagement with the region.

Join NYSEAN for the book launch of Enduring Otherwise: Muslim Queer and Trans Worldmaking in Indonesia by Ferdiansyah Thajib, Senior Lecturer in the Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures MA Program at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Rianne Subijanto, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Baruch College-CUNY, will moderate the discussion.

Join the Indonesia Project at Australian National University for a talk by Arif Anindita, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Business and Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Dr. Anindita will discuss the impact of the 1965-66 anti-communist purge in Indonesia on Java's demographic transition.

Join the Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University (ANU) for a talk by Pyan Amin Muchtar, PhD candidate in Economics at ANU, who will discuss how air pollution and heat affect digital consumers’ demand on online ride-hailing and food delivery in Indonesia.

Join NYSEAN, Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, and the NYU Espacio de Culturas for an evening of film shorts by women and gender-queer filmmakers that have won recognition as winners and/or finalists in festivals in New York, Manila, and elsewhere. Featured filmmakers include Marion Aguas, Ara Chawdhury, Ida Del Mundo, Angeline Marie Michael Meitzler, Margarita Mina, and Maria Estela Paiso.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a talk by Visiting Scholar, Dr. David Thang Moe. Drawing on firsthand experience, current research, and his forthcoming monograph Beyond Buddhist Nationalism (Oxford University Press), he will discuss ungovernability, centralized nationalism, decentralized resistance, ethnic reconciliation, and visions of democratic nationhood in Myanmar.

Join York University’s Canadian Southeast Asian Studies Initiative for a book talk by Yasmin Y. Ortiga, Associate Professor of Sociology at Singapore Management University’s School of Social Sciences. In this pioneering book, Yasmin Y. Ortiga studies the narratives that emerged around two groups of Filipino workers: nurses banned from leaving the country and cruise workers who returned home after COVID-19 shut down the travel industry. Soma Chatterjee, Associate Professor of Social Work at York University, will moderate the conversation.