New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN)
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a non-profit initiative that seeks to raise the profile of Southeast Asia in the United States by bringing together a community of individuals, groups, and institutions that share a desire to collaborate in addressing present-day regional challenges
What if everything you've been taught about education is actively complicit in the world's deepest crises? This week, we will confront the uncomfortable truth that mainstream education, especially STEM, has been a weapon of coloniality.
November 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
What if everything you've been taught about education is actively complicit in the world's deepest crises? This week, we will confront the uncomfortable truth that mainstream education, especially STEM, has been a weapon of coloniality.
The Burmese Way to Socialist Realism: Comparing Burmese Remakes of Hollywood Movies from the Parliamentary Democracy and Socialist Periods
Date: November 10, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / Los Angeles, CA
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Date: November 10, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM ET
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The Burmese Way to Socialist Realism: Comparing Burmese Remakes of Hollywood Movies from the Parliamentary Democracy and Socialist Periods — New York Southeast Asia Network
Join the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies for a talk by Jane M. Ferguson , Associate Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asian History at the Australian National University. Dr. Ferguson…
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November 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The Burmese Way to Socialist Realism: Comparing Burmese Remakes of Hollywood Movies from the Parliamentary Democracy and Socialist Periods
Date: November 10, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / Los Angeles, CA
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Date: November 10, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / Los Angeles, CA
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Restitution in the Making of Southeast Asia Today
Date: November 6, 2025 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / Ithaca, NY
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Date: November 6, 2025 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / Ithaca, NY
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Restitution in the Making of Southeast Asia Today — New York Southeast Asia Network
Join Cornell University for a talk by Ashley Thompson , Hiram W. Woodward Chair of Southeast Asian Art at SOAS University of London. The talk uses Buddha’s life story–his return from heaven and the…
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November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Restitution in the Making of Southeast Asia Today
Date: November 6, 2025 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / Ithaca, NY
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Date: November 6, 2025 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / Ithaca, NY
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Hanna Pettyjohn’s A Mountain’s Hands Exhibition at Silverlens Gallery
Date: November 6 - December 20, 2025
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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Date: November 6 - December 20, 2025
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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November 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Hanna Pettyjohn’s A Mountain’s Hands Exhibition at Silverlens Gallery
Date: November 6 - December 20, 2025
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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Date: November 6 - December 20, 2025
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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Drawings of Carlos Villa and Leo Valledor Exhibition at Silverlens Gallery
Date: November 6 - December 20, 2025
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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Date: November 6 - December 20, 2025
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Drawings of Carlos Villa and Leo Valledor Exhibition at Silverlens Gallery
Date: November 6 - December 20, 2025
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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Date: November 6 - December 20, 2025
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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Thailand and its Middle Power Aspiration
Date: November 5, 2025 | 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM ET
Type/Location: Virtual
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Date: November 5, 2025 | 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM ET
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Thailand and its Middle Power Aspiration — New York Southeast Asia Network
Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a seminar exploring the evolution of Thailand’s middle-power aspiration, its recurring retreat into small-power conduct, and how this oscillation is shaped…
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November 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Thailand and its Middle Power Aspiration
Date: November 5, 2025 | 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM ET
Type/Location: Virtual
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Date: November 5, 2025 | 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM ET
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ASEAN Interrelationships: Membership, Conflict Management, and Human Rights Protection
Date: November 5, 2025 | 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM ET
Type/Location: Virtual
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Date: November 5, 2025 | 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM ET
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ASEAN Interrelationships: Membership, Conflict Management, and Human Rights Protection — New York Southeast Asia Network
Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for a webinar exploring ASEAN’s interrelationships across membership, conflict management, and human rights…
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November 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
ASEAN Interrelationships: Membership, Conflict Management, and Human Rights Protection
Date: November 5, 2025 | 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM ET
Type/Location: Virtual
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Date: November 5, 2025 | 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM ET
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Breaking the Cycle Documentary Screening and Discussion
Date: November 5, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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Date: November 5, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
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Breaking the Cycle Documentary Screening — New York Southeast Asia Network
Join NYSEAN for a screening of Breaking the Cycle , a documentary about a group of young politicians campaigning against an authoritarian constitution in Thailand. The screening is followed by a…
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November 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Breaking the Cycle Documentary Screening and Discussion
Date: November 5, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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Date: November 5, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
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Educating the Indigenous Communities: The Case of Orang Rimba
Date: November 5, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
Type/Location: In Person / New Haven, CT
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Date: November 5, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
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Educating the Indigenous Communities: The Case of Orang Rimba — New York Southeast Asia Network
Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale for a presentation by Dinny Risri Aletheiani , faculty member at the Council on Southeast Asia Studies in the MacMillan Center for International…
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November 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Educating the Indigenous Communities: The Case of Orang Rimba
Date: November 5, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
Type/Location: In Person / New Haven, CT
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Date: November 5, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
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Fade to Blue? What the Revamped Senate Reveals about Thailand’s Politics
Date: November 2, 2025 | 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / Singapore
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Date: November 2, 2025 | 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / Singapore
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Fade to Blue? What the Revamped Senate Reveals about Thailand’s Politics — New York Southeast Asia Network
Join the ISEAS Yusof-Ishak Institution for a seminar by Dr. Duncan McCargo , NYSEAN Co-Founder, Associate Senior Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, and President’s Chair in Global Affairs at…
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October 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Fade to Blue? What the Revamped Senate Reveals about Thailand’s Politics
Date: November 2, 2025 | 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / Singapore
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Date: November 2, 2025 | 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / Singapore
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Nusantara: Six Centuries of Indonesian Textiles Exhibition at Yale University
Date: October 31, 2025 - January 11, 2026
Type/Location: In Person / New Haven, CT
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Date: October 31, 2025 - January 11, 2026
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Nusantara: Six Centuries of Indonesian Textiles Exhibition at Yale University — New York Southeast Asia Network
Join the Yale University Art Gallery for an exhibition on Nusantara: Six Centuries of Indonesian Textiles, which presents one of Southeast Asia’s most significant artistic accomplishments: woven…
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October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Nusantara: Six Centuries of Indonesian Textiles Exhibition at Yale University
Date: October 31, 2025 - January 11, 2026
Type/Location: In Person / New Haven, CT
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Date: October 31, 2025 - January 11, 2026
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Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia
Date: November 7, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / New York, NY
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Date: November 7, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET
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Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health and Modernity in Indonesia — New York Southeast Asia Network
Join NYSEAN for a book talk by Chiara Formichi , H. Stanley Krusten Professor of World Religions in the Department of Asian Studies. Domestic Nationalism argues that Muslim women in Java and…
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October 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia
Date: November 7, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / New York, NY
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Date: November 7, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / New York, NY
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Haakon Huynh (Columbia University; NYSEAN member) is seeking collaborators--scholars, practitioners, and students--for ongoing research on artificial intelligence (AI) governance in Southeast Asia.
📩 Contact: hh3099@columbia.edu
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October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Haakon Huynh (Columbia University; NYSEAN member) is seeking collaborators--scholars, practitioners, and students--for ongoing research on artificial intelligence (AI) governance in Southeast Asia.
📩 Contact: hh3099@columbia.edu
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People of the Book: Translating an Oral Tradition into Written Form in Lumad Mindanao
Date: October 30, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM ET
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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Date: October 30, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM ET
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People of the Book: Translating an Oral Tradition into Written Form in Lumad Mindanao — New York Southeast Asia Network
Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a talk by Dr. Oona Paredes , Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA’s Department of Asian Languages and Cultures,…
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October 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
People of the Book: Translating an Oral Tradition into Written Form in Lumad Mindanao
Date: October 30, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM ET
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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Date: October 30, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM ET
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Commodification and Revival of Kalinga Tattoos in Northern Philippines
Date: October 30, 2025 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Type/Location: In Person / Ithaca, NY
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Date: October 30, 2025 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
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Commodification and Revival of Kalinga Tattoos in Northern Philippines — New York Southeast Asia Network
Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Analyn Salvador-Amores , Professor of Anthropology and former Director of the Museo Kordilyera at the University of the…
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October 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Commodification and Revival of Kalinga Tattoos in Northern Philippines
Date: October 30, 2025 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Type/Location: In Person / Ithaca, NY
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Date: October 30, 2025 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
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Lights, Camera, Filipinnovation: Groundbreaking Filmmakers
Date: October 29, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM ET
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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Date: October 29, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM ET
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Lights, Camera, Filipinnovation: Groundbreaking Filmmakers — New York Southeast Asia Network
Join the Philippine Consulate General in New York, Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, and Likha Labs for a panel spotlighting Filipino filmmakers in the Northeast US. The forum will…
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October 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Lights, Camera, Filipinnovation: Groundbreaking Filmmakers
Date: October 29, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM ET
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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Date: October 29, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM ET
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Mekong and Metaphor: Contemporary Art and Regional Imaginaries in Mainland Southeast Asia
Date: October 29, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
Type/Location: In Person / New Haven, CT
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Date: October 29, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
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Mekong and Metaphor: Contemporary Art and Regional Imaginaries in Mainland Southeast Asia — New York Southeast Asia Network
Join the Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies for a talk by Pamela Nguyen Corey , Associate Professor of Art History at Fulbright University Vietnam. In this talk, she looks at metaphor as an…
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October 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Mekong and Metaphor: Contemporary Art and Regional Imaginaries in Mainland Southeast Asia
Date: October 29, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
Type/Location: In Person / New Haven, CT
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Date: October 29, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
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Reflections on the (Ab)Uses of Philippine History
Date: October 28, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / DeKalb, IL
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Date: October 28, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / DeKalb, IL
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Reflections on the (Ab)Uses of Philippine History — New York Southeast Asia Network
Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at NIU and the Philippine Consulate General of Chicago for a presentation by Ambeth Ocampo , Professor of History at Ateneo de Manila University, who will…
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October 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Reflections on the (Ab)Uses of Philippine History
Date: October 28, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / DeKalb, IL
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Date: October 28, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
Type/Location: Hybrid / DeKalb, IL
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China–ASEAN at a Crossroads: Navigating Regional Futures in an Era of Great Power Competition
Date: October 27, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET
Type/Location: Virtual
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Date: October 27, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET
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China–ASEAN at a Crossroads: Navigating Regional Futures in an Era of Great Power Competition — New York Southeast Asia Network
Join the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) for a panel on the future of China-ASEAN relations. Speakers include Gita Wirjawan , former Minister of Trade, Indonesia (2011-2014); Bert Hofman ,…
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October 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
China–ASEAN at a Crossroads: Navigating Regional Futures in an Era of Great Power Competition
Date: October 27, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET
Type/Location: Virtual
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Date: October 27, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET
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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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Date: October 31, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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October 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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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Date: October 31, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET
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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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PANEL 3: The view from the United States (1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT)
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October 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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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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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PANEL 2: The view from Southeast Asia (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT)
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October 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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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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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PANEL 1: The relationship between authoritarianism and threats to academic freedom (9:40 AM - 11:00 AM EDT)
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October 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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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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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October 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The schedule for NYSEAN's Conference on Intellectual Freedom in Southeast Asia and the United States
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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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Date: October 24, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
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October 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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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Date: October 24, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
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