Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Location: NYU Wagner – 2nd Floor, Lafayette Conference Room 105 East 17th Street New York, NY, 10003 United States (map)

Organizer:NYSEAN (co-sponsored by SUNY/CUNY SEAC)

Type/Location: Hybrid / New York, NY

Description:

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.

About the Book:

Drawing on ethnographic research in multiple locations in Indonesia, Enduring Otherwise examines how Muslim individuals and communities grapple with the challenges and possibilities of inhabiting queer and trans religiosity. Some distance themselves from religious tenets because of the harms implicated in them, while others immerse themselves in religious practices and spiritual values, seeking to reimagine them. There are also those who remain caught in tensions, having to navigate a life entrenched in ambivalence. Yet across these varied engagements, they continue to find ways to keep going. Offering a nuanced account of the affective politics of worldmaking at the intersection of sexuality, gender, and religion, Enduring Otherwise highlights how the drawn-out moments of hope, failure, improvisation, and exhaustion experienced by queer and gender non-conforming Indonesians configure efforts to create a world where no one will have to endure the unendurable anymore.

About the Author:

Ferdiansyah Thajib is senior lecturer in the Elite Graduate Program “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures” at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. He is co-editor of Embracing Faith and Desire: Queer and Feminist Engagements with Islamand Christianity as Lived Religions and Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography.

Registration:

To attend the event in person, please register here.

To attend the event virtually, please join the zoom meeting here.

Date: Friday, October 3, 2025

Time: 3:30PM - 5:00PM EST

Location: NYU Wagner School of Public Service, 2nd Floor, Lafayette Conference Room, 105 East 17th St. New York, NY 10003

About:

Join NYSEAN, the SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium (SEAC), and the NYU Master’s Program in International Relations (MAIR) for a talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Benjamin Tausig about the way that music features in their new books and how they engage with songs in their various writings. To begin the conversation, Benjamin will give a brief introduction to his latest book, Bangkok After Dark, which places nightlife in Thailand’s capital city during the Cold War into a transnational perspective via discussion of a jazz pianist. Jeffrey will then discuss his new book, The Milk Tea Alliance, particularly its chapter on protests in Bangkok and their soundtrack including the rousing imported anthem “Do You Hear the People Sing?”

Margaret Scott, NYSEAN co-founder, will moderate the discussion.

This event is followed by a reception.

Registration:

Please register by Thursday, October 2nd at 5:00 PM.