SEASREP 30th Anniversary Conference

Southeast Asian Studies: 

Ideas, Audiences, Approaches, and Aspirations (SEAS-IA3)

13-14 November 2025

Call for Papers

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:

Questions for discussion

SEAS-IA3 welcomes presentations on the above themes that are novel, interesting, and relevant. Among the questions that presenters and discussants are asked to address are the following.

Presentations

Specialists and graduate students (MA and PhD) of Southeast Asian studies, research centers focusing on Southeast Asia, and civil society organizations involved in issues that concern the region are encouraged to form panels (four presenters in a panel) or roundtable discussions (four to six discussants). The panel or roundtable will designate one of its members to also act as the moderator. Each session is to run for one and a half hours including the open forum.

Proposals are limited to one per person. The SEAS-IA3 Selection Committee prefers proposals from panels of diverse participants so as to permit a regional rather than single country-specific perspective and to enhance representativeness across national belonging, gender, academic position and experience, disciplinal training, and institutional affiliation. The committee will be guided by these criteria:

A roundtable is a dialogical session in which discussants speak to the roundtable’s chosen topic. In addition to the criteria above, the role of the moderator will be crucial in inviting and navigating the discussion toward a coherent and engaging exchange of views.

The committee will accept individual proposals and do its best to form panels out of related proposals that are strong and solid. 

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-IAkit. The fees are as follows.

Accommodation

There is a range of reasonably priced hotels close to Rangsit campus; click here <https://tinyurl.com/SEASREPConferenceInformation> for information. The same link offers information about on-campus lodging (without breakfast, from ฿900-1,400/night).

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

** Includes graduate students who will not read papers but wish to observe the proceedings. Pre-registered graduate students and members of the public may pay the fee at the conference site.

About Rangsit Campus

The Rangsit Campus of Thammasat University is located at 99 Moo 18 Phahonyothin Road, Khlong Nueng, Khlong Luang District, Pathum Thani 12120. It is 22 km (about 20 minutes by car) from the Don Mueang International Airport. A taxi from this airport to the campus costs no more than ฿500. 

For those arriving at Suvarnabhumi International Airport (56 km from TU Rangsit or about 60 minutes by car, depending on traffic), the price of the taxi is less than ฿1,000.

The Institute of East Asian Studies is building 12 on the map <https://tu.ac.th/en/maps>.

Inquiries

SEAS-IA3 Conference Secretariat

SEASREP Foundation

Unit 612, Residencia de Regina

94 Xavierville Avenue

Loyola Heights 1108, Quezon City

Philippines

Tel.        +63-2-8709-0854

WhatsApp: +63 998 996 4476

Email:        seasrepfoundation@gmail.com

Website:     https://www.seasrepfoundation.org

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