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Calls for papers (CFPs) for professional and academic conferences related to the study of Southeast Asia.
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Upcoming Conferences
Call For Papers
Call for Abstract: 4th annual AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies from June 18 – 22, 2024 | Deadline: March 7, 2024
The program committee invites abstract submissions from scholars across broad disciplinary perspectives in the study of Indonesia. While abstracts on any topic focusing on Indonesia are welcome, the committee is especially interested in research that engages discourses on the trajectory of Indonesia, past and present, and broadly defined. We welcome abstract submissions in the form of individual or multi-authored papers, organized panels, or roundtable discussions.
More detail:
https://www.aifis.org/conference-on-indonesian-studies
Call for Papers – “Ungrateful children”: Alter-politics of child dissent in Southeast Asia | Deadline: March 30, 2024
Southeast Asia is lurching towards political authoritarianism. But throughout the region, a countervailing push for democracy is being led by the region’s youth, a new generation of activists committed to diverse civic causes—antimilitarism, educational reorganization, indigenous rights, marriage equality, and a more open political order. Their tactics challenge local “age patriarchies” that compel juniors to demonstrate respect and gratitude toward social superiors. In contexts as diverse as Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Indonesia, conservative adults consider politically disruptive youngsters to be “ungrateful children”; subordinates who do not know their place, and disregard longstanding traditions. So how is “childhood” (and, relatedly, “parenthood”, “siblinghood” or “seniority”) reformulated through children’s pro-democracy activism in Southeast Asia’s gerontocratic polities?
This panel invites contributions that identify and explore the unique lifeworlds of Southeast Asia’s child dissenters—how they live, survive, and flourish within various political conditions and social imaginaries. Our focus is on child “alter-politics”, that is the myriad world-making practices through which children’s organized rejection of adult norms and paternalistic values brings about novel, child-centered visions of inter-generational hierarchy and moral authority. We are interested in papers that address these changes from a broad range of entangled sites, from the classroom, protests sites, digital spaces, and the domestic and religious realms. We particularly welcome presentations that attend to directly lived experiences that challenge a regional literature that has typically overlooked and denied political agency to children.
Format: Single-session workshop panel
The panel adopts a workshop format to bring together early-career social scientists of Southeast Asia from around the world, with the goal to present comparative case studies in a single session (90 min). All papers will be circulated among presenters in advance, in order to create the conditions for direct engagement, cross-feedback, and a dynamic dialogue between participants. Participants are invited to speak in turn, with each slot strictly limited to 10 minutes. After paper presentations, the discussant will pose a first round of curated questions, before the floor is opened for continued discussion. There is not yet a list of panel participants.
Interested parties please contact
Daniel Whitehouse, Ph.D., SOAS, University of London, Email: dw30@soas.ac.uk
Giuseppe Bolotta, Ph.D., Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Email: giuseppe.bolotta@unive.it
More info:
https://www.euroseas.org/call-for-papers/
CFP: Hmong Studies Consortium Sixth International Conference | Deadline: April 30, 2024
The Hmong Studies Consortium is an international group of both senior and emerging scholars from several disciplines that approach Hmong Studies with a critical lens. In an effort to strengthen ties with scholars in California’s Central Valley, the Hmong Studies Consortium will host its Sixth International Conference at Merced College. Participants are encouraged to submit individual abstracts not exceeding 250 words, or panel abstracts not exceeding 400 words. Panel abstracts must also contain the individual abstract of each presenter as well. Email submissions to Dr. David M. Chambers (david.chambers@mccd.edu) by April 30, 2024. Notifications to presenters will be emailed by May 30, 2024.
For more information, visit website Hmong Studies Consortium [new windows]
CFP: SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE ACROSS THE CURRICULUM | deadline: March 15, 2024
Are you interested in changing your curriculum toward sustainability issues such as climate change?
This conference will introduce participants to frameworks for integrating sustainability into your courses.
National and local organizations have joined forces to support a conference to inspire faculty and other formal and informal educators, including graduate students, to integrate social, economic and environmental sustainability into undergraduate education. We bring together educators from across academic disciplines and the community to work collaboratively to introduce and enhance sustainability content in new and existing courses across the curriculum.
The gathering is organized by University of Hawaiʻi faculty and staff and is sponsored by the national Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), the national Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities’ (SENCER) Center for Innovation West, the EPSCoR-funded Transcending Barriers to Success in Economics (TBSE), the Western Region Continuums of Service Conference 2025, the UH Mānoa College of Social Sciences, and CERENE at Kapiʻolani Community College.
Please register HERE by March 15, 2024!
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Call for Abstract: 2024 Inter-Regional Research Symposium (IRRS)Transforming Higher Education: Towards Sustainable Development | Deadline: TBA
Present your latest archaeological discoveries, methodologies, and theoretical insights relaInter-regional partners and colleagues in higher education will meet at the 3rd Inter-Regional Research Symposium (IRRS) in Bangkok, Thailand at the Sukosol Hotel, from 20 to 22 November 2024.
Held over two and a half days, the symposium provides an inclusive platform for networking, learning and sharing and attracts attendees, presenters and speakers from Asia and abroad.
Organised on a biennial basis up to 2030 to unpack different aspects related to the contributions of higher education towards sustainable development, each edition of the Symposium also expands the inter-regional focus through partnerships in higher education by providing an enhanced opportunity to learn from Southeast Asia and other regions of the world collectively.
This year’s theme, ‘transforming higher education’, invites educators, researchers, policymakers and thought leaders to explore the different dimensions of transformation across the international higher education landscape. Join us in Bangkok on 20-22 November 2024. We also encourage you to follow us through this site and social media to receive news about the programme and other important symposium news.
The Call for Proposals will open in early February 2024 and detailed information will be available when the portal for submissions opens.
Past Conferences
- Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters (ISTF) 28th Annual Conference: “Rethinking Restoration and Recovery: Landscapes of the Past, Present, and Future in the Tropics.” January 27 – 29, 2022. (online)
- 45th CSEAS Kyoto University Hybrid Symposium, themed “Engaging Transdisciplinarity: Variegated Trajectories in Southeast Asian Studies.” February 18-19, 2022 (hybrid)
- 21st Annual IGSC Conference: Reimagining Our Shared Future, February 17-20, 2022 (online)
- 24th Cornell SEAP Graduate Student Conference: “(De)Constructing Southeast Asia,” March 11-13, 2022 (hybrid)
- 2022 School of Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa | April 6-7, 2022.
- 14th International Conference on Thai Studies “Thailand at a Global Turning Point“| April 29 – May 1, 2022
- 31st Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 31), May 19 – 21, 2022
- 2022 AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies| June 21 – 25, 2022
- EuroSEAS 2022 – Paris, 28 June-1 July 2022
- Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies National University of Singapore | July 18-22, 2022
- Asia Pacific Dance Festival Conference, “Ulana—To Weave or Knit,” August 12-14, 2022
- 2022 Philippine Studies Conference at SOAS – The 1762 British Invasion of Spanish-Ruled Philippines: Beyond Imperial and National Imaginaries | Sept 16-17, 2022
- 2022 Council on Thai Studies (COTS) Conference: 50th Anniversary
Past CFPs
- CFP: May 20-21, 2022 & June 10-11, 2022 Workshop Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop
- CFP: Aquatic Powers: Divine Animals of the Asia Pacific Conference, June 1-3, 2022
- CFP: Oceans as Archives University of Amsterdam, July 4 – 6, 2022
- CFP: Inclusion Economics at Yale “Enabling Gender-Sensitive Covid Recovery in Asia Conference” in Tokyo, Japan on July 12-13, 2022
- CFP: Global History Student Conference 2022 | Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut of the Freie Universität, Berlin | June 24 to 26.
- Call for Abstracts: 2nd Annual AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies, June 21-25, 2022 (virtual)
- CFP: 12th European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) conference | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Campus Condorcet, Paris-Aubervilliers, France | 28 June-1 July 2022
- CFP: The Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University’s 2022 Chulalongkorn Asian Heritage Forum, August 25-26
- CFP: SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies
- CFP: The 2nd Southeast Asian Media Studies Conference (June 9-11, 2022 via Zoom)
- Call for Papers and Presentations 38th COTSEAL ANNUAL CONFERENCE at SEASSI 2022 (Hybrid) Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in Southeast Asian Language Teaching and Learning
- Call for Proposal: NEW YORK Conference on Asian Studies (October 7-8, 2022)
- CFP: SEADL Undergraduate Paper Award
- CFP: CLaSIC2022 Conference – “Foreign Language Education in the 21st Century: Review, Re-conceptualise, and Re-align”
- CFP: 2022 Chulalongkorn Asian Heritage Forum
- CFP: 15th International Indonesia Forum Conference: “Indonesia’s Complexity: Investigating the Layers Between the Apparent and the Underlying”
- CFP: Association for Asian Studies 2023 Annual Conference
- Call for Applications: ISTR Asia Pacific Regional PhD Seminar