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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 5h

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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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 22h

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

New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 22h

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.

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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 22h

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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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 1d

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.

New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 1d

“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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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 1d

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.”

New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 1d

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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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 2d

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.

New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 2d

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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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…

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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 2d

Join the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute for a talk on how Trump’s tariffs have impacted Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. They will discuss how the tariffs might impact these countries in the short and long run, and how these negative impacts could be mitigated.

New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 2d

Impact of the Trump Tariffs on Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam

Date: October 12, 2025 | 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM ET

Type/Location: Virtual

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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 3d

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Michigan (U-M) for a talk by Dr. Alyssa Paredes, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at U-M. Dr. Paredes illustrates how food cosmetic standards in destination markets lead “Big Agriculture” plantations to produce significant food waste.

New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 3d

Rejects: Food Cosmetic Standards and the Geopolitics of Waste

Date: October 10, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM ET

Type/Location: Hybrid / Ann Arbor, MI

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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 3d

States Against Nations: Meritocracy, Patronage, and the Challenges of Bureaucratic Selection

Date: October 16, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM ET

Type/Location: Hybrid / New York, NY

Join us for a book talk by Nicholas Kuipers, Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University.

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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 4d

Speakers include: Leon Botstein, Bencharat Chua, Rachel Cooper, Jonathan Friedman, Sol Iglesias, Razia Iqbal, Pita Limjaroenrat, Tom Pepinsky, Asli Peker, Kyaw Moe Tun, Ashutosh Varshney, and Herlambang Wiratraman.

New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 4d

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

Date: October 24, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM ET

Type/Location: Hybrid / New York, NY

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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 7d

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison for a talk by Christina Schwenkel, Professor of Anthropology at UC Riverside. Examining the early months of the pandemic in Vietnam, she argues for greater attention to the sensory dimensions of public health security.

New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 7d

Sonic Governance and the Art of Medical Listening in Pandemic Vietnam

Date: October 10, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET

Type/Location: Hybrid / Madison, WI

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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 8d

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa for a book talk by Dr. Muhammad Suhail Mohamed Yazid, Fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center. Dr. Barbara Watson Andaya, Emerita Professor of Asian Studies at UH-Mānoa, will moderate the discussion.

New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 8d

He Who is Made Lord: Empire, Class and Race in Postwar Singapore

Date: October 8, 2025 | 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM ET

Type/Location: Hybrid / Honolulu, HI

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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 8d

Join @aaww-nyc.bsky.social for readings and a conversation between Luisa Igloria, Michelle Peñaloza, and Rhoni Blankenhorn, moderated by R. A. Villanueva. This event celebrates the following books:

- Caulbearer

- All The Words I Can Remember Are Poems

- Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet

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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 8d

Our History Brings Us Here: A Reading and Conversation with Rhoni Blankenhorn, Luisa Igloria, and Michelle Peñaloza | @aaww-nyc.bsky.social

Date: October 8, 2025 | 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM ET

Type/Location: Virtual

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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 9d

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Center for Burma Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Hitomi Fujimura, Humanities Lecturer at Ehime University in Japan, who will discuss the history of Karen Baptists in British Burma and the United States.