New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN)

A Conversation with Thailand’s Opposition Leader: Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut

Date: October 31, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET

Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY

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NYSEAN's Conference on Intellectual Freedom in Southeast Asia and the United States

PANEL 3: The view from the United States (1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT)

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NYSEAN's Conference on Intellectual Freedom in Southeast Asia and the United States

PANEL 2: The view from Southeast Asia (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT)

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NYSEAN's Conference on Intellectual Freedom in Southeast Asia and the United States

PANEL 1: The relationship between authoritarianism and threats to academic freedom (9:40 AM - 11:00 AM EDT)

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The schedule for NYSEAN's Conference on Intellectual Freedom in Southeast Asia and the United States

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Join us for a showcase of Filipino student filmmakers at NYU: Cal Galicia, Haley Jade Odum, Jack Lacy, and Lauren Luke. This program highlights and celebrates the work of these emerging storytellers before their films premiere on the festival circuit and beyond.

Breaking Through: Emerging Filipino Filmmakers | Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU

Date: October 24, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET

Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY

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Agbayani Worship: Mythmaking, Colonial Mentality, and the Problematics of a Filipino Captain America | Asian American / Asian Research Institute at CUNY

Date: October 24, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM ET

Type/Location: Hybrid / New York, NY

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Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University (NIU) for a talk by Kanjana Thepboriruk, Associate Professor at NIU’s Department of World Languages and Cultures, who will discuss her work conducting oral history interviews with Thai Americans.

Thai American Oral History Project

Date: October 24, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET

Type/Location: Hybrid / DeKalb, IL

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Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies for a talk by Mu'izz Abdul Khalid, a Research Associate at the Global Awareness and Impact Alliance, who will discuss the paradoxical status Bruneians face as both citizens and subjects of Brunei, the last absolutist kingdom in Southeast Asia.

Citizens or Subjects?: The Paradox of Citizenship and Subjecthood in a Southeast Asian Kingdom

Date: October 24, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

Type/Location: Virtual

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Sleepless Dreams: Fictional Narrative as a Form of Resistance in Thailand | Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University

Date: October 23, 2025 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM

Type/Location: In Person / Ithaca, NY

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The Philippines’ Engagement with Middle Powers: Outcomes, Issues & Challenges | ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute

Date: October 22, 2025 | 10:00 PM - 12:30 AM ET

Type/Location: Virtual

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Join the Thirdworld Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at City College of New York for a screening and discussion of the documentary film Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo by Desireena Almoradie and Barbara Malaran. The screening will be followed by a talkback with the co-directors.

Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo — New York Southeast Asia Network Join the Thirdworld Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at City College of New York for a screening and discussion of the documentary film Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo by …

Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo

Date: October 22, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET

Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY

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Dr. Lee will discuss the 1938 case of a magistrate who was suspected by colonial officials in Singapore and London of having homosexual relations with colonial subjects.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Jack Jin Gary Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School.

Feeling “Sayang”: On Racialized Emotions and Their Minor Articulations in Colonial Singapore — New York Southeast Asia Network Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Jack Jin Gary Lee , Assistant Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College of…

Feeling “Sayang”: On Racialized Emotions and Their Minor Articulations in Colonial Singapore

Date: October 22, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

Type/Location: In Person / New Haven, CT

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Dr. Chinary Ung, "Futuristic Folk Music: Imagination 101 and Dreams" | Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA

Date: October 17, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET

Type/Location: Virtual

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Sophal Ear, Associate Professor at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University and CKS Board Member, will moderate the discussion.

Join the Center for Khmer Studies for a talk by Alicia Landbeck, an associate researcher at the University of Burgundy-Europe on the dynamics of highly vulnerable families with children experiencing psychological difficulties in Cambodia.

Relational and Organizational Dynamics of Highly Vulnerable Families with Children Experiencing Psychological Difficulties: An Exploratory Study | The Center for Khmer Studies

Date: October 16, 2025 | 9:30 PM - 11:00 PM ET

Type/Location: Virtual

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Join Vietnamese Boat People (VBP) and Think!Chinatown Studio for a Story Slam in which Vietnamese Americans share their journey of migration, identity, love, loss, healing, and discovery. The event is preceded by a reception and an introduction by VBP’s Founder, Tracey Nguyễn Mang.

“Our Journeys” Story Slam

Date: October 16, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM ET

Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY

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All participants should read the Preface and Chapter 1: “Political Geology as Method.” Those interested in reading more should also consider Chapter 3: “Intercalated: The Political and Spiritual Geographies of Plate Tectonics.”

Join Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asia for a virtual discussion with Adam Bobbette, author of The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java, winner of the 2025 Benda Prize.

A Community Book Read with Adam Bobbette | @getsea.bsky.social

Date: October 16, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM ET

Type/Location: Virtual

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Join the Asian American Resource Center, the Center for Burma Studies, and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Elizabeth Rhoads, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University, Sweden.

Linking Histories of Citizenship and Forced Displacement: Armed Conflict, Expropriation, and Bureaucratic Violence in Myanmar — New York Southeast Asia Network Join the Asian American Resource Center, the Center for Burma Studies, and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Elizabeth Rhoads , Senior Lecturer at…

Linking Histories of Citizenship and Forced Displacement: Armed Conflict, Expropriation, and Bureaucratic Violence in Myanmar

Date: October 13, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET

Type/Location: Hybrid / DeKalb, IL

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