CALL FOR PAPERS
SEASREP’s 30th Anniversary Conference
“Southeast Asian Studies: Ideas, Audiences, Approaches, and Aspirations”
13-14 November 2025
Thammasat University, Rangsit Campus, Pathum Thani, Thailand
SEASREP turns 30 in 2025 and invites you to join its celebratory conference at the Thammasat University Rangsit Campus in Pathum Thani, Thailand on 13-14 November 2025, in partnership with the Institute of East Asian Studies of Thammasat University and supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. We want to celebrate friendships and partnerships formed over the years and highlight advances made in studies of the Southeast Asian region. The very idea of Southeast Asian studies being a singular intellectual field, with an established body of foundational texts, approaches, founders, and practices is an overstatement, for it ignores varying epistemological traditions even within national settings and overlooks the ways in which notions of Southeast Asian studies are understood and operationalized in Southeast Asia. Critically, scholars can no longer treat Southeast Asian studies as belonging exclusively to professional scholars while on the ground, practitioners engage and construct ideas in the name of Southeast Asian studies.
Ideas, audiences, approaches, and aspirations are our anniversary themes because we want to:
1. Include all sorts of new and exciting studies in the field that deepen our understanding of ourselves and how we relate to one another in numerous, different ways;
2. Broaden the reach of Southeast Asian studies by focusing on the scholars, readers, consumers and, borrowing from Na Li (2023: 43-52), “prosumers” of Southeast Asian studies;
3. Examine, from different perspectives, established and creative, innovative approaches to studies of Southeast Asian societies, politics, cultures, economies, mobilities, etc.; and
4. Think anew about where we want to take the field of Southeast Asian studies, in what configuration(s), and to what end(s).
You may submit proposals at <https://tinyurl.com/SEASREPConferenceProposal> on or before 30 April 2025, 11:59 p.m. (Manila time). You will receive a response by 10 June 2025.
SEAS-IA3 grants
A limited number of grants is available to support the travel of colleagues residing in Southeast Asia who wish to make a presentation and require some support. The SEAS-IA3 committee has a preferential option for individuals from underrepresented countries or geographical areas, institutions, genders, or ranks, who have little or no access to funding. Apply here <https://tinyurl.com/SEASREPConferenceProposal> for a conference grant (scroll down to the last item after filling up the appropriate section).
Registration fee
The registration fee covers conference meals (including dinner on both days) and the SEAS-IA3 kit. The fees are as follows.
Academics and professionals: U.S. $50 if paid on or before 31 July and U.S. $60 (฿2,000) if paid at the conference site;
Graduate students (MA and PhD): U.S. $30 (฿1,000), which may be paid at the conference site); and
Members of the general public who wish to attend the panels (must pre-register at <https://tinyurl.com/SEASREPPreRegistration> on or before 30 September 2025): U.S. $30 (฿1,000), which may be paid at the conference site.
Deadlines
Submission of proposal and abstract 30 April 2025
Submission of conference grant application 30 April 2025
Notice of acceptance of proposals and grants* 10 June 2025
Payment of registration fee (US$50) 31 July 2025
Conference program (online) 5 September 2025
Registration of the general public** 30 September 2025
On-site payment of registration fee (US$60) 13 November 2025
SEAS-IA3 conference 13-14 November 2025
