The Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA— a consortium U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center for Southeast Asia—invites graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and early career scholars to submit proposals for the 2023 UC Berkeley - UCLA Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies, to take place at UC Berkeley on April 14-15, 2023.
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Southeast Asia’s past, present, and future is shaped by its situation as a nexus of networks that has sent a complex array of people, ideas, and products along with their various ways of knowing and being across the globe. These movements have resulted in new developments of knowledge and interconnection. This conference will focus on such notions of knowledge and networks in a Southeast Asian context, broadly understood as (but not limited to) cultural interactions, diaspora, migration, digital networks and social media, social and political movements, trade, collaboration and exchange, and knowledge production.
Papers may address a variety of themes, including but not limited to:
International and internal migration, refugees and human trafficking
Intra-regional cultural networks and exchanges
Diasporas throughout time across Southeast Asia
Black market networks
Transmission of ideas and knowledge across borders
Literary and knowledge production and dissemination across borders and digital spaces
Transnational and connected histories
The role of multinational corporations, international and regional organizations
The role of aesthetics in the formation of Southeast Asia and epistemologies
Postcolonial networks within Southeast Asia
This conference seeks to foster dialogues across the conventional boundaries of disciplinary inquiry. We welcome proposals from scholars across all disciplines who seek to explore these broad themes in a Southeast Asian context.
Early career scholars, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students who are interested in participating in the conference should submit an abstract (up to 500 words) via this form by the new extended date of January 23rd 2023.
Notifications of acceptance will be made by mid February 2023.
Full travel funding (including airfare and hotel) is available for faculty and graduate students at University of California and California State University campuses.
Travel stipends are available for participants from outside the UC and CSU systems.
For additional information, please contact the conference organizers via email