UH Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Rising Voices in Southeast Asian Studies | SEAC / AAS Initiative
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2027

Submission deadline: July 20, 2026

The Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is calling for paper proposals from up-and-coming scholars to join a Rising Voices panel on the topic of “Shrinking Spaces for Free Inquiry in Southeast Asian Studies.” We seek to recruit early career scholars, or “rising voices,” including graduate students, independent scholars, and untenured faculty, with preference for those based at underfunded institutions from Southeast Asian countries (see below for eligibility). Accepted paper proposals will form a panel for presentation and inclusion in the 2027 Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, to be held in Boston, MA from March 18-21, 2027. SEAC will provide partial financial assistance for presenters to attend the annual conference and meetings. In addition to receiving financial support from the AAS/SEAC, this year’s Rising Voices Panel also has financial support provided by TRaNS: Trans- Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia.

Call for Papers: Shrinking Spaces for Free Inquiry in Southeast Asian Studies - Association for Asian Studies Rising Voices in Southeast Asian Studies | SEAC / AAS Initiative Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2027 Submission deadline: July 20, 2026 The Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is calling for paper proposals from up-and-coming scholars to join a R...

Hanoi Grapevine’s Finest: Audience-led Archives
and Contemporary Vietnamese Art

Friday, June 19
9:30 a.m. (Eastern Time)
live-streamed
A recording will be made available to all who register

The publications of Hanoi Grapevine's Finest (HGF)—an annual, audience-nominated recognition of outstanding contemporary art projects in Vietnam, running since 2019—are now hosted on the Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL). Organized by Cornell University Library and Cornell's Southeast Asia Program, this live-streamed conversation marks the launch of the HGF digital collection and explores what it means for a grassroots, bottom-up archive to enter an international digital library consortium.

In this discussion, a cultural practitioner, an anthropologist, and a digital librarian think through questions of whose knowledge counts, how digital archives shape research narratives, and what happens when an audience-led record meets the infrastructure of international scholarly preservation.

Speakers:
Nguyễn Tú Hằng - Director of Hanoi Grapevine
Emily Zinger - Southeast Asia Digital Librarian, Cornell University Library
Đỗ Tường Linh - Director, Nguyen Wahed Gallery and Art Curator Vincom Center for Contemporary Art

Register to join this live-streamed event.
https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/ngl-1UGwS2KOisOoNlqbkA #/registration

✨ STUDENT SPOTLIGHTS: CSEAS MEDALLION AWARDEES 2026 ✨

The CSEAS Medallion recognizes graduate students whose thesis or dissertation is focused on the geographic region of Southeast Asia. This initiative has been incubated since the 2024-2025 academic year as the Center wished to encourage and honor graduating students who have contributed to the research and understanding of Southeast Asia during their time at UH Mānoa.

🏅 This year, CSEAS is delighted to award the Medallion to 14 graduating Master’s and Doctoral students from 11 different disciplines across the UH Mānoa system.

Please join us in congratulating the first batch of CSEAS Medallion Awardees in completing their programs! 🎉🌈

💼 OPEN POSITION: HISTORIAN NEEDED FOR DPAA IN HAWAI'I 🌺

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) in Hawai'i is looking for a Historian with strong understanding of U.S. military history, history of science and/or World War II, Korean War and/or the Vietnam War.

Qualified candidates should have expertise related to Japanese and/or Indonesian History.
Applicants working toward a PhD with focus in the Indo-Pacific Theater preferred.

📌 The position is based in Hawai'i, and U.S. citizenship is required.

🔗 Application Link: https://jobs.jobvite.com/snainternational/job/on27zfwP?utm_campaign=google_jobs_apply&utm_source=google_jobs_apply&utm_medium=organic

Please spread the world about this opportunity!

🌏 Summer 2026 Southeast Asia Focused Courses | DNCE 255W - Global Perspectives on Dance 💃🏾

Looking for an engaging summer course that fulfills your W requirement? Consider taking DNCE 255W, a fully ONLINE 3-week summer intensive that explores how dance shapes culture, identity, politics, spirituality, media, and social life around the world.

In this course, students will learn to examine dance as ritual, indigenous, resistance, cultural identity, power, and memory. Students will engage with video screenings, online discussions, short writing assignments, and a final research project on a dance topic of their own choosing.

Whether your interests are in the arts, humanities, social sciences, education, ethnic studies, gender studies, media studies, or global cultures, this course offers tools for thinking critically about movement and embodied expression.

✨ No prior dance experience is required. If you have questions or concerns, please contact the instructor at [email protected].

🇮🇩 Indonesia Summer Workshop 2026 | City & Energy: Towards Sustainability, Resilience, Equity ☀️

Rising global energy demand and continued reliance on fossil fuels increase environmental and climate challenges. To address these issues, the Faculty of Engineering of Universitas Diponegoro and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa organize the Summer Workshop 2026 as an inclusive platform for engineering students to collaborate, gain real-world insights, and develop innovative solutions for future sustainable energy challenges. 🌱

This Summer Course will bring participants to do site visits to communities in and around the Semarang city to enable an appreciation of the multiple implications of energy dynamics for cities. Besides that, participants will also be complemented with lectures and group work. This is a unique opportunity to experience new cultures and learn together with students from different backgrounds.

🌟 THIS PROGRAM IS FREE OF CHARGE!

Supported in part by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and by the World Class University Program at Universitas Diponegoro.

⏳ Due: July 10, 2026
🔗 Application Link: bit.ly/SummerWorkshop2026
💻 Further Information: https://ft.undip.ac.id/en/summer-course-2026-city-and-energy-towards-sustainability-resilience-equity/

Please email your inquiries to [email protected].

💬 CALL FOR PROPOSALS | International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation 2027: Arts Sustaining Language 🎨

The 10th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) 2027 hopes to facilitate a dialogue that places artistic and creative practice at the heart of language documentation and conservation.

Oral literature, theatre, music, dance, visual arts, poetry, film, and digital media all offer pathways for strengthening speaker identity and language awareness, for reaching new generations of learners, and for documenting language in ways that recognize its creative potential. How do creative practices reshape documentation methodologies? What role do emerging media play in amplifying minoritized languages, and what risks do they carry?

ICLDC welcomes and encourages performance-based contributions that demonstrate the connections between art and language.

📅 Date: March 4-7, 2027
📍 Location: Honolulu, Hawai'i
🔗 Submission Details: https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/

For details about each Call for Proposals type and its requirements and timelines, please visit the link above.

🚀 SEADL | Hanoi Grapevine's Finest Digital Collection Launch 🚀

Please join the Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL) online to celebrate the launch of their newest collection, Hanoi Grapevine’s Finest! This event is followed by a discussion about audience-led archives and contemporary Vietnamese Art. 🎨

This conversation marks the launch and explores what it means for a grassroots, bottom-up archive to enter an international digital library consortium as a cultural practitioner, a curator/art researcher, and a digital librarian think through questions of whose knowledge counts, how digital archives shape research narratives, and what happens when an audience-led record meets the infrastructure of international scholarly preservation.

Hanoi Grapevine's Finest (HGF) is an annual, audience-nominated recognition of outstanding contemporary art projects in Vietnam which has been running since 2019. HGF is now hosted on the Southeast Asia Digital Library.

📅 June 19, 2026
⏰ 9:30 AM (ET) | 3:30 AM (HST)
📍 Online via Zoom
🔗 https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/ngl-1UGwS2KOisOoNlqbkA #/registration

Registration required. Scan the QR code in the flyer or click on the link above to sign up!

👁️‍🗨️ GI-TOC: Mekong Career Accelerator Programme | Call For Applications 📣

The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) is calling for applications from PhD students working on transnational organized crime-related topics who wish to be part of the Mekong Network Counter Transnational Crime Career Accelerator Programme (MNET-CTC).

This programme offers students an unique opportunity to learn from international academics on organized crime, strengthen their analytical skill, and meet with peers from across the Mekong region! ⛓️

The Mekong Network to Counter Transnational Crime (MNET-CTC) is a multi-year programme implemented by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) in partnership with the Australian Government.

⏳ Due: 29 May, 2026 (4PM Bangkok - Indochina Time)
📩 Submission: [email protected]

For further inquiry, please email the organizer at the email address above.

📣 SEA Fieldwork Fellowships - Deadline: Jun 15, 2026 📣

The Cohesion under Crisis research team at the University of Michigan is offering five $18,000 fellowships for graduate students and recent graduates to conduct three months of fieldwork on social cohesion in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, or Vietnam!

In addition to their own research, fellows will conduct three months of fieldwork in one of five focus countries, examining the historical roots of social cleavages and how communities respond to political, economic, and environmental crises.

📥 Application Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeggfDfA_qSwjVqmU25Z2LyY4bJaqziYO1Lj4XP72W-EgI05A/viewform

Best of luck to you all! 🌈