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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 Participants: the 5th SEASIA Biennial Conference “De/Centering Southeast Asia” | Early registration: May 30, 2024
Call for Participants: the 5th SEASIA Biennial Conference “De/Centering Southeast Asia”
18 – 20 July 2024 University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City
Adopting the theme “De/Centering Southeast Asia,” the SEASIA 2024 Conference interrogates the dominant narratives and perspectives historically centered in the “West” and its gaze on Southeast Asia, and, instead, highlights the diverse and complex experiences, histories, cultures, and economic and political systems of the region as told by Southeast Asians themselves.
Early registration ends on May 30, 2024: seasia2024.upd.edu.ph/registration
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]
HPAIR Asia Conference 2024 | Scholarship Deadline: May 1
Introducing the HPAIR Asia Conference 2024 – Reimagining Connectivity: Building Bridges in a Globalized Society
We are proud to release the theme for our Harvard Conference 2024 – Reimagining Connectivity: Building Bridges in a Globalized Society. Join us in Bangkok, Thailand this August to hear from world-renowned leaders of all fields of expertise and connect with passionate and motivated delegates from around the world.
APPLY NOW:
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LEARN MORE:
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The Sixth International Conference on Human Rights and Peace & Conflict in Southeast Asia | Deadline: May 17, 2024
After a six-year hiatus, the 6th International Conference will be held on 13-14 August 2024, in Penang, Malaysia. In partnership with the Research and Education for Peace at Universiti Sains Malaysia (REPUSM), the theme for this year is “Peace and Human Rights in the Context of Contemporary Global Crises”. It is supported by the Strengthening Human Rights and Peace Research & Education in ASEAN/Southeast Asia Program (SHAPE-SEA), Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University, and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
The main objective is to generate and support critical perspectives and discourses on issues and lived experiences impacted by today’s challenges throughout the world. We aim to draw upon nexus of national, regional and international human rights and peace principles, values, and perspectives.
Everyone is invited to develop and submit individual paper and/or parallel panel proposals for review consideration by our Academic Committee. Presentations should reflect the following Conference Themes:
– Women, Peace and Security Agenda
– Climate Change
– Business, Human Rights and Peace
– Academic Freedom
– Conflict Transformation and Peace Process
– Global Governance and Democracy
– Global Health and Human Rights
– Gender and Sexuality
– Marginalized Groups
– Human Rights and the Rule of Law
You have until 15 April 2024 (extended to 17 May 2024, 12 p.m. Bangkok/Jakarta Time) to submit as many proposals as you want!
Abstract Submission: https://seahrn.net/abstract-submission
CALL FOR PAPERS: 2024 WISLI Student Conference | Deadline: May 28. 2024
Abstracts should be submitted by May 28th, 2024
All abstracts should describe in 250 words or less the research topic, methods, and argument, as panels will be created to accommodate submitted presentations. Please limit presentations to 15 minutes.
Submissions should include:
-Title of Paper
– Abstract
– Three keywords pertaining to the paper
– Short bio of presenter (1 paragraph MAX), including the WISLI institute they are attending. This will be
read by a moderator to introduce the presentation!
– Are you interested in being a Moderator? Yes or No.
-Moderators introduce each presenter in a panel and assist with timekeeping, in addition to
moderating the 5-10 minute Q&A session after the panel presentations.
Submit abstracts (and any questions) to wisli@lpo.wisc.edu
More info:
https://wisli.wisc.edu/wisli-student-conference/
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