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Conferences
CFP: Council on Thai Studies Conference
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2022
Conference Date: October 21-23, 2022
COTS annually provides scholars with a venue for reporting preliminary findings, opportunities to receive prepublication feedback and a forum to discuss field and archive challenges. Please consider giving a presentation or gathering a small group for a roundtable discussion or panel. Graduate students are particularly encouraged to submit papers, although everyone is welcome.
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2022 New York Conference on Asian Studies
Submission Deadline: Deadline Passed
Conference Date: October 7-8, 2022
In association with the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Syracuse University is hosting the 2022 NYCAS Conference in person on October 7 and 8 on the theme of “State and Society in Asia: Past and Present.” The conference invites submissions (individual paper, complete panel, roundtable or educator workshop) from scholars across all disciplines on all topics related to Asia and Asian Studies. Topics related to the main theme are of particular interest.
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CFP: 15th International Indonesia Forum Conference
Submission Deadline: Deadline Passed
Conference Date: September 23-25, 2022
The Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University is hosting this year's conference, titled "Indonesia's Complexity: Investigating the Layers between the Apparent and the Underlying." The conference welcomes scholars of Indonesia from across various disciplines – including arts, history, political science, economics, anthropology, sociology, literary studies, and others – to gather and present their work, with a view toward highlighting Indonesia’s complexity in its various articulations. The conference will be held virtually via Zoom.
A short CV and one-page abstract, plus additional page(s) for references in electronic form (PDF or Microsoft Word) should be emailed to secretariat@iif.or.id by the July 8 deadline.
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CFP: 2023 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference - Rising Voices Panel
Submission Deadline: Deadline Passed
Conference Date: March 16-19, 2023
The Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is seeking paper proposals from up-and-coming scholars – including graduate students – to join a “Rising Voices” panel on the topic of “The Rights of Women and LGBTQ People in Southeast Asia” for the 2023 conference in Boston, MA. Rising voices are defined here as advanced graduate students (currently writing dissertations based on original field or archival research) or untenured faculty members (including tenure- track assistant professors, adjuncts, and lecturers, or the approximate equivalent based on the academic tradition from which the scholar is coming).
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CFP: 22nd EWC International Graduate Student Conference on the Asia-Pacific
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2022
Conference Date: February 16-18, 2023
The East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference (IGSC) is accepting abstracts from current graduate students, as well as from young professionals and scholars, who have completed a graduate degree within the past three years. IGSC 2023 invites contributions from all disciplines. This year’s theme is Recovery and Resilience in a Changing World.
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CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum: Southeast Asian History in Literature Submission
Submission Deadline: Deadline Passed
Conference Date: January 5–8, 2023
In the context of this indeterminacy rooted in overdetermination, what does the history of Southeast Asia look like from Southeast Asia? This panel seeks proposals that reflect on any of these questions to think about the ways in which Southeast Asian history gets narrated in literature from specific, if also emblematic, nations in the region. Focus on any genre of literature in the expansive sense (including not only the novel, the literary medium of the nation, but also, e.g., creative nonfiction, life writing, critical travel writing) is welcome.
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ASEAN Heritage - Cultural Wisdom for Climate Action
Submission Deadline: Deadline Passed
Workshop date: August 8-11, 2022
Conference Date: January 11–14, 2023
The Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage Alliance (SEACHA) is convening a regional conference entitled “ASEAN Heritage: Cultural Wisdom for Climate Action” to take place from 11-14 January 2023 in Thailand. The objective of this conference is to explore Southeast Asian cultural heritage as a source of principles, paradigms and strategies for effective locally based climate action. SEACHA invites young activists from ASEAN nations to represent their own country by presenting their ideas with passion and focus. Prior to and after the conference, participating youth will work with their national SEACHA organizations to enhance awareness of the importance of local culture as a tool for climate resilience.
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CFP: Bandung-Belgrade-Havana in Global History & Perspective
Submission Deadline: Deadline Passed
Conference Date: October 20-27, 2022
The “trilogy” Dreams-Challenges-Projects is supposed to be the basic elements of planning at all levels of living-beings, individual as well as community and nation. In relation with Bandung, the conference is supposed to discuss cases of “dreams-challenges-projects”, analysed entirely or separately, at the level of community (e.g. ethnic, religious, gender group) or nation-state (e.g. country, state, region). The conference encourages the participation of scholars from a wide range of scientific disciplines and practitioners from diverse professional fields, as well as artists, writers, journalists and activists of social and solidarity movements, based in diverse geographical areas.
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Call for Abstracts: 22nd Congress, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
Submission Deadline: Deadline Passed
Conference Date: November 7-12, 2022
The Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association is inviting paper and poster contributions for the 22nd Congress (IPPA 22) to be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, 7-12 November 2022.
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The 9th Borneo Knowledge Fair
Submission Deadline: Deadline Passed
Conference Date: November 10-12, 2022
The 9th Borneo Knowledge Fair (eBKF9) will be a hybrid virtual/physical event to be run from Bario, Sarawak. The theme for eBKF9 is Climate Change, Sustainable Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge on the Island of Borneo.
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The 7th International Conference on Lao Studies
Submission Deadline: Deadline Passed
Conference Date: November 15-18, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on Laos and Lao Studies since the last ICLS. Lao PDR has been applauded for excellent handling of the pandemic. Yet the crisis has also highlighted many long-running vulnerabilities, including scarcity of funds and expertise in the medical sector, inequality, long land borders, high and increasing dependence on export earnings and mounting debt.
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Funding and Job Opportunities
CU in Cambodia: Heritage, History, and Identity in Cambodia
Magnus Fiskesjö, Winter Session 2023, Phnom Penh Cambodia
This course will focus on Cambodian heritage — how it has been created in the past, including the city of Angkor, and how that heritage and history is understood and engaged today. We will visit historical sites as well as museums and other relevant sites, including performances, where history is remembered and engaged. Funding is available! Some opportunities are need-based, others give priority to students who have taken 3+ credits of Southeast Asia-related courses.
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GETSEA Fall Mini-Course: The Geography of Disease and Health in Southeast Asia
Application Deadline: September 16
GETSEA is offering one free and virtual mini-course this fall on topics in Southeast Asian studies, open to graduate students from a wide range of backgrounds. Current graduates students at a GETSEA member institution receive first priority in admission to the courses, though graduate students at any institution who research in and around Southeast Asia may apply for admission to take a mini-course. These courses do not offer course credit for students at their home institutions. However, students are encouraged to work with a faculty member at their home institution to count the course towards an independent/directed study/reading credit. Mini-courses have a workload roughly equivalent to that of a one-credit course – approximately 45 hours in total, including class time, readings, and other work.
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SEALC/GETSEA Language Conversation Groups
SEALC and GETSEA are hosting language conversation groups for students currently studying Vietnamese or Thai at a North American university. Tune in to practice with speakers from across the region!
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Assistant/Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Cornell University
Application deadline: October 14, 2022
The Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University welcomes applications for a tenure-track/early tenure position at the Assistant or early Associate Professor level. This professorship in Trans-Asia Critical Humanities reexamines Asian conceptually within and beyond area studies. Applications are welcome from candidates working in, or across, any region(s) of Asia. Candidates must posses proficiency in one or more Asian languages as well as the demonstrated ability to speak conceptually to broad audiences across disciplinary and area studies boundaries. Fields of potential, but not exhaustive, interest to the department include: critical race theory; displacement; new materialism; critical area studies; migration; and intermediality.
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Application deadline: October 14, 2022
The Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track/early tenure position based on research related to pre-modern/early-modern Japanese humanities. Preference will be given to applicants engaged in developing innovative conceptual frameworks for the humanities and able to nurture students to think cross-temporally and transregionally in contexts prior to the modern. Areas of potential interest include: textuality capaciously understood, trans-cultural intellectual histories, religiosities and the ability to support curricula related to the academic study of religion, environmental studies, migration/migratory humanities, displacement and intermediality. We encourage applications from candidates who complement existing departmental strengths in religious studies, classical and contemporary literatures of Asia, and media studies. Candidates will be expected to offer both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in Japanese humanities generally and in their specific area of expertise, as well as to read primary-language texts with graduate and advance undergraduate students as needed.
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Assistant Professor of Government, Smith College
Application deadline: October 1, 2022
The Department of Government at Smith College invites applications for two tenure-track positions: one in Political Theory and another in Comparative Politics and/or International Relations. Both positions are at the rank of Assistant Professor and will begin July 1, 2023. Candidates for the Comparative Politics/International Relations position should have regional expertise in the politics of South and/or Southeast Asia. We encourage applications for this position from scholars using a range of methodological approaches and focusing on a variety of topics. A successful candidate for this position will be prepared to teach Introduction to Comparative Politics and/or Introduction to International Relations, courses on the politics of South or Southeast Asia or particular countries within those regions, and upper-division courses relating to their area(s) of expertise.
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Assistant Professor Position at UC Santa Cruz
Application Deadline: October 17, 2022
The Music Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz seeks a composer with significant breadth of accomplishment and recognition to join the music faculty at the assistant professor rank, with expertise in theories, histories, and practices associated with Indonesian, Asian, or Pacific-Islander traditions, preferably with some study of contemporary, popular, diasporic, or cross-cultural musical practices.
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Senior Program Manager: Southeast Asian Studies, Yale University
This position will have a primary focus on Southeast Asia and will be responsible for overseeing the MacMillan Center Southeast Asia Studies Council’s many programs and events, as well as supporting key faculty in building out the council’s strategy. Additionally, this role will oversee the launch of the Program for Burmese Democracy & Federalism, which will host Burmese scholars and activists and collaborate with Burmese organizations (both in Myanmar and in exile). Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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Myanmar Consultant, Freedom House
This full-time position will support the work of Freedom House’s Emergency Assistance Program namely providing financial assistance to at-risk human rights defenders (HRDs) and civil society organizations, including journalists and media groups, from Myanmar whether located in-country or in exile. This position will be based remotely in Asia. This is a temporary, full-time position for up to one year (this may be extended pending funding).
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Center for Khmer Studies Senior & Dissertation Research Fellowships
Application Deadline: November 30, 2022
The Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) provides in-country research fellowships for US, Cambodian and French scholars (or EU citizens holding a degree from a French university) and doctoral students on a yearly basis. CKS Senior Fellows are given direct funding for their research, access to in-country resources, and provided with logistical support and contacts while in-country. These fellowships are open to scholars who already hold a PhD degree in all disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities who seek to pursue further research focusing on Cambodia alone or on Cambodia within a regional context.
CKS Senior Fellows are given direct funding for their research, access to in-country resources, and provided with logistical support and contacts while in-country. These fellowships are open to scholars who already hold a PhD degree in all disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities who seek to pursue further research focusing on Cambodia alone or on Cambodia within a regional context.
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CKS Dissertation Research Fellows are given direct funding for their research and access to in-country resources, and are provided with logistical support and contacts while in-country. These fellowships are available for a maximum of 11 months of research. These fellowships are open to PhD candidates in all disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities who seek to pursue further research focusing on Cambodia alone or on Cambodia within a regional context.
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CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowships
Application Deadline: December 8
The Multi-Country Research Fellowship enables US scholars to carry out trans-regional and comparative research in countries across the network of Overseas Research Centers as well as other countries. The fellowship supports advanced research in the humanities, social sciences, and allied natural sciences for US doctoral candidates, who are all but dissertation, and scholars who have already earned their PhD. Preference will be given to candidates examining comparative and/or cross-regional research. Applicants are eligible to apply as individuals or as teams.
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CAORC-NEH Research Fellowships
Application Deadline: January 19
The CAORC - National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship is now accepting applications! This fellowship provides the opportunity for scholars to spend significant time in one country with an Overseas Research Center (ORC) as a research base. The fellowship supports advanced research in the humanities for US scholars who hold a PhD (and also foreign national scholars who have been resident in the US for at least three years). Approximately three awards will be granted and fellowship stipends are $5,000 per month for four to six consecutive months.