Join ISEAS for a hybrid seminar on “Iran War and its Impact on Southeast Asia’s Food Security” to hear from experts and practitioners in the field how disruptions to trade channels from the Straits of Hormuz is affecting Southeast Asia.
April 23 @ 10 am Singapore Time
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Join KITLV for a UUKS seminar on “Apocalypse forgotten: Memories and histories of natural disaster in Indonesia” by Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan, lecturer of Indonesian history and language at the Australian National University.
April 23 @ 10 pm CET
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Join NYSEAN for a talk by Dr. Kevin M. Woods, senior policy analyst at Forest Trends, who will present the findings of a new report on how the Mekong Region has become a hub where environmental exploitation and criminal activity converge.
April 22 @ 12 pm
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The New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS) invites proposals exploring a wide range of topics from natural surroundings to social, political, and cultural, as well as geographical, technological and temporal surroundings in Asia.
Submission deadline: May 31
pages.vassar.edu/nycas2026/
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University invites applications for its five fellowships in 2027. CSEAS hosts scholars and researchers who work on comparative and regional issues from a multi-area perspective.
Application deadline: April 30
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Join University of Michigan’s CSEAS Friday Lecture Series on “Words as Weapons: British Black Propaganda and Psychological Warfare in Indonesia, 1963–66” with Chris Hulshof, University of Wisconsin - Madison.
April 17 @ 12 pm EST
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Join us for a virtual discussion with Faizah Zakaria, author of “The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia” and winner of the 2025 Benda Prize.
April 15, 7 pm ET
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Join ISEAS for a seminar on “Thailand’s 2026 General Election: Machines Over Movements?” to understand what the election results mean for the political landscape, government formation, coalitional politics, and democratic trajectory.
April 15 @ 9 am Singapore Time
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Join us for a special event on publishing in different venues through the interdisciplinary nature of area studies research! Learn how to navigate editorial expectation, disciplinary divides, and more!
April 30 @ 7:00pm (ET)
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Join NIU CSEAS Lecture on “Toward Decolonizing Research on Digital Authoritarianism: Reflections from Studying Big Tech-mediated Politics in Southeast Asia” with Mai Van Tran, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University.
Apr 10 @ 1 pm EDT
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Join University of Michigan’s CSEAS Friday Lecture Series on “Incentivizing Lending to Women Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Vietnam” with Markus Taussig, Rutgers University.
April 10 @ 12 pm EST
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Join KITLV for an anniversary seminar on “How to write New Order within American imperialism: Natural resource management crisis of the 1970s” with Farabi Fakih, head of the Master Program, History Department, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta.
April 9 @ 3:30 pm CET
www.kitlv.nl/event/fakih/
Join ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute for a conversation on “Follow the Money: Tracing How Scammers Leverage Crypto Exchanges in Southeast Asia — and What Policy and Technology Can Do About It.”
April 9 @ 10 am Singapore Time
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GETSEA is back with another Simulcast Film Screening! 15 universities across the nation will come together to watch two short documentary films on expression, art & self-identity in Malaysia. Join us if you are near a screening location!
April 6 @ 2:00pm (PT) / 5:00pm (ET)
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Join us for a virtual discussion with Faizah Zakaria, author of “The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia” and winner of the 2025 Benda Prize.
April 15, 7 pm ET
tinyurl.com/347yxymz
'Social Histories of Development in Indonesia, 1950-2010' workshop welcomes proposals for 20-minute papers from scholars and advanced research students working on any aspect of development implementation in postcolonial Indonesia.
Submission deadline: April 17
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The 2026 International Interdisciplinary Conference on Myanmar’s Borderlands invites original research papers and/or panels covering any area of Myanmar borders with China, Laos, Thailand, Bangladesh, and India.
Abstract deadline: April 15
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Last call! GETSEA Minicourses are back! Chit Wityi Ooo & Bao-Son Trinh will teach "Microplastics & Environmental Effects: From Pollution to solution this Spring. More details & sign-ups below!
Full Syllabus: tinyurl.com/mrj77u5a
App Deadline: April 7
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A great event for young scholars in any field starts in just over an hour, including some historians of Asia!
Join KITLV for a book talk on “Empire of improvisation: Taxation and governance in colonial Indonesia” with author Maarten Manse.
April 2 @ 3:30 pm CET
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Join NYSEAN for a roundtable discussion exploring Thailand’s domestic and international pressures post-election with Thailand’s leading politicians and academic researchers.
March 31 @ 7 pm ET
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Coming up soon! Are you planning to conduct research in the Philippines for the first time? Join GETSEA to learn about opportunities and challenges from Dr. Louward Zubiri, Yale University, and Yi-yu Lai, University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
March 31 @ 9 pm ET
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Join KITLV’s “Time for Papua film seminar.” Film director Yonri Revolt will join us for a film seminar, with a screening of scenes of the film Muman Minggil, which Revolt made together with Mahardika Yudha.
March 31 @ 3 pm CET
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Join ISEAS for a lecture on “Technological Trade Patterns: BRICS and ASEAN” to hear from Professor Dr Jennifer Pédussel Wu about how trade patterns are shifting for regional groupings such as ASEAN.
March 30 @ 10 am Singapore Time
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The Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI), of the City University of New York (CUNY), invites scholars, activists, community-based organizations, artists, students, and organizers to submit proposals for our upcoming 2026 symposium.
Submission deadline: March 27
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Join University of Michigan’s CSEAS Friday Lecture Series on “Empty Hands: Kinship and Loss in a Former Phang Nga Mining Town” with Chantal Croteau, PhD Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 27 @ 12 pm EST
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Join Center for Khmer Studies for a webinar on “Clothing as Coding: New Approaches to Reading the Costume, Narrative Logic, and Iconography of Baphuon Temple” with Senior Research Fellow Dr. Borbála Száva.
March 27 @ 8:30 am Cambodia Time
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Are you planning to conduct research in the Philippines for the first time? Join GETSEA to learn about opportunities and challenges from Dr. Louward Zubiri, Yale University, and Yi-yu Lai, University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
March 31 @ 9 pm ET
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Join ISEAS for a lecture on “The CPV’s 14th National Congress: Key Outcomes and Implications” to hear from Bui Hai Thiem, Malmö University, and Nguyen Khac Giang, a Visiting Fellow in the Vietnam Studies Programme of ISEAS.
March 26 @ 3 pm Singapore time
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Join KITLV’s SEA seminar “Aceh's American opium wars” with James Fichter, University of Hong Kong, to learn about how the American purchasers of Acehnese pepper also sold substantial amounts of opium.
March 24 @ 3 pm CET
kitlv.nl/event/fichter/