Conference Announcement: Burma Studies and Thai Studies, Northern Illinois University

The International Burma Studies Conference (October 7-9, 2016) www.burmaconference2016.com/ and the annual conference of the Council on Thai Studies (October 28-29, 2016) www.niu.edu/cots/index.shtml are both being held at Northern Illinois University this fall. The Thai Studies conference will feature Prof. Ora-on Poocharoen (Chiang Mai University) and Prof. Tanachai Mark Padoongpatt (UNLV) as keynote speakers.

Call for Papers - 2016 Council on Thai Studies Conference

Call for Papers deadline for the 2016 Council on Thai Studies conference, which will be held at Northern Illinois University Oct. 28-29. The deadline for papers is Friday, July 1. They can be submitted through Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cots2016).

Call For Papers - 15th Northeast Conference on Indonesia, In Memory of Benedict Anderson: Imagining Indonesia Across Disciplines

October 28-29, 2016

Cornell University

Keynote speaker: Mary Steedly (Harvard)

Web announcement: media.wix.com/ugd/4b9372_af11093197ec4d459cd884f2fae91c39.pdf

Deadline: July 22, 2016

The Cornell Indonesian Association invites submissions of abstracts for this conference on Indonesia, hosted in cooperation with the Yale Indonesian Forum. The organizers welcome abstracts for the following four areas of studies: science and technology; sociology, anthropology, and history; economics and politics; and language, arts, culture and religion. 

Call For Papers: Lanes and Neighborhoods in Cities in Asia

June 30 - July 1, 2016
National University of Singapore
Deadline: April 30, 2016
Web announcement: ari.nus.edu.sg/Event/Detail/19eaf934-d283-43aa-acf0-075f0182259c

The conference seeks to reflect on the specificity of the socio-spatial production and its current evolutions of neighborhoods in the Asian context. Focusing on an in-depth exploration of neighborhood formations in city-making, the conference will address the following three lines of inquiry: 1. Questioning neighborhood "production of space" in cities in Asia, 2. Everyday urbanism, 3. Neighborhoods as sites of resistance and alternative city-making.   

Southeast Asia Research Group 2016 Meeting, June 3-4 2016, Ann Arbor, MI

2016 Meeting

SEAREG’s fourth annual meeting will be hosted by the University of Michigan on June 3-4, 2016. A tentative schedule is now available but is subject to change. To register for the conference and pay the $75 fee, please click here.

Hotel Information

SEAREG has reserved a block of rooms at the Graduate Ann Arbor Hotel (615 East Huron Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104). Rooms are $199/night plus tax. Please contact Renate Kwon if you would like to arrange to share a room (and split the cost) with another SEAREG attendee. Rooms are only guaranteed until May 2, so please make your reservation by this date.

Hotel reservations can be accepted either by phone (734-769-2200 or 800-666-8693) or via the following dedicated online link: http://ow.ly/10AGwt. Please use this link, as the general hotel page will not allow for group rate access.

Transportation to/from Detroit Metro Airport

The estimated UberX or Lyft fare from the airport to the conference hotel is $32-$40. Both may vary based on demand. A regular taxi from the airport will cost $50-$60.

Michigan Flyer operates a motorcoach shuttle between the airport and the Blake Transit Center in downtown Ann Arbor. Tickets can be purchased online in advance ($12 one-way, $22 round-trip); on-board payments ($15 each way) must be made in exact cash. Refer to this page for directions to the shuttle pick-up location at the North or the McNamara terminal (arrival varies by airline). The Blake Transit Center is a 10-minute walk from the conference hotel.

***Note: as of spring 2016, our recommended hotel changed its name from The Campus Inn to Graduate Ann Arbor; some maps may still list it as “The Dahlmann Campus Inn.” The hotel’s address is: 615 East Huron Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104.***

Luce Foundation Travel Grants

We are happy to announce that a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation enables us to offer ten (10) grants of up to $500 each to Ph.D. students wishing to attend the 2016 meeting. These grants may be used to defray the costs of travel, accommodations, registration fees, and/or incidentals for students traveling to Ann Arbor. Students wishing to be considered for a travel grant should send the following materials to Allen Hicken via email: (1) a one-page summary of their research interests and experience and (2) a current CV.

Grantees will be chosen based on their scholarly promise as Southeast Asianists as well as attendance of the previous SEAREG meetings. Applications for Luce Foundation travel grants are due no later than May 1, 2016. Decisions will be announced soon thereafter.

Conference Announcement - Making Southeast Asian Cultures: From Region to World

UC Berkeley-UCLA Southeast Asian Studies Conference

April 22-23, 2016

UC Berkeley

Free and open to the public.

Web announcement with full program cseas.berkeley.edu/making-southeast-asian-cultures-UCB-UCLA-conference

The conference seeks to understand the production of Southeast Asian cultures by drawing on different humanities and social science disciplines such as art history, film and visual studies, literary studies, music, anthropology, history, geography, architecture and urban studies. By self-consciously adopting a world perspective and transnational frame in the study of Southeast Asia, the conference hopes to correct the normative Eurocentrism of the disciplines, their methodological nationalism, and the relative undertheorizing of Southeast Asia in Asian studies.  

Call for Papers: Engaging With Vietnam through the Arts and Scholarship

October 6 – 7, 2016

University of Hawaii- Manoa

The Engaging with Vietnam conference series has always encouraged dialogues between disciplines. It is in that spirit that this year’s conference will seek to facilitate conversations between various academic disciplines and the arts. As well as dedicating to Engaging with Vietnam through the Arts and Scholarship, we are also making every attempt to engage in this event the arts community/ies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and in Hawaii more broadly. We hope such multiple engagements will enrich and stimulate scholarship and creativity in meaningful ways.

Web announcement: www.engagingwithvietnam.net/call-proposals

Deadline: May 15, 2016

Call for Papers: Association for Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom

The next Association for Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom (ASEASUK) Conference, to be held 16-18 September 2016, is being hosted at SOAS, University of London. This conference provides a major venue for the dissemination of research on South East Asia in various disciplines for academics both from the UK and abroad.

ASEASUK is now calling for papers to be presented in about 40 accepted panels.

Web announcement: www.soas.ac.uk/cseas/aseasuk-conference-2016/accepted-panel-proposals---aseasuk-conference-2016-.html

Deadline: 15 April 2016

Philippine Studies Group Travel Award 2016

Call for Papers: Yale Indonesia Forum-Northeastern Conference on Indonesia

Women’s Eyes at All Issues: On Indonesia

14^th Northeastern Conference (NEC) on Indonesia

April 15-16, 2016 – Yale University

Hosted by the Yale Indonesia Forum (YIF)

with the Cornell Indonesian Association (CIA)

Call for Papers

A great nation is a nation that honors the service of its heroes, President Soekarno once said. It was during his administration (1945-1966) that Kartini Day was instituted to encourage women to participate in the project of national development. As Soekarno had also stated that we should learn and be aware that matters concerning the society and the state are also issues that deal with both men and women, male and female, and that things related to women are the business of the society and the state. Indeed, it is now commonly acknowledged that besides the great historical figures, numerous ordinary citizens regardless of age and gender have sacrificed their lives for Indonesia, both before and after the country’s independence. Nonetheless, the discourse on Indonesian women and their roles - economic, social, cultural, historical, educational, political, military, etc. - in Indonesian and Southeast Asian studies is still inadequate.

Aiming to address this gap in the scholarly literature, and to commemorate the Kartini Day (April 21), the Yale Indonesia Forum (YIF), in collaboration with the Cornell Indonesian Association (CIA), will be holding the 14th Northeastern Conference on Indonesia to be held at Yale University. The organizing committee is seeking proposals that will critically engage with the following questions: What is the role of gender in the modern history of Indonesia? How have Indonesian women contributed to Indonesia’s development over the past seven decades (for example, What do we know about Indonesian Women’s Congress in 1928 and Indonesian women’s movements and their roles in Indonesia and Southeast Asia at large)? To what extent have their contributions been recognized or obscured? How do external or international actors imagine and represent the role of Indonesian women in society? How has gender been constructed historically? How might we interrogate the taken for granted representations of women in Indonesia? How do gender, power, traditions intersect? How has form of femaleness power been controlled or managed? How do women learn/exercise agency in negotiating laws and resisting various authorities? What are the challenges in conducting research on women/gender studies and what new methodologies are available/can be developed through these challenges?

The program will begin on April 15th, 2016 (Friday-noon) at Yale University with an interactive 2016 YIF Spring Dialogue that will feature scholars who have extensively researched and written on Indonesia, as well as art practitioners who have developed their creative projects based on the traditions in various regions of Indonesia. Attendees are encouraged to join the dialogue, which will be facilitated by a moderator. On April 16th, 2016 (Saturday), the discussion continues through the 14th Northeastern YIF-­CIA Conference on Indonesia with a keynote address and paper presentations.  See http://cseas.yale.edu/womens-eyes-all-issues-indonesia for updates on program and schedule.

Proposal/Abstract Submission

Please contact the organizers at necatyale@gmail.com if you have any question(s) regarding the YIF Spring Dialogue and the Northeastern Conference. The participants are encouraged to seek funding from their home institutions. The conference committee will provide accommodation (1 night) for selected contributors.

Please submit your proposal as a .doc or .docx file only. The proposal is limited to 450 words. Please include in your proposal: 1) a description of your project; 2) research questions; 3) perspective(s) or theoretical framework; 4) methods; 5) substantiated conclusions/tentative key findings; and 6) the significance of the work. In addition to your proposal, please provide a short list of references (at the end of your proposal), situating your work within the literature.

Please send your proposal to necatyale@gmail.com and provide your name (and co- presenters (if any)), institutional affiliation(s), status (undergraduate or graduate and what year), title of the paper/presentation, email address, and phone number within the body of the email.

Proposal Submission Deadline: March 14, 2016 at 12 a.m. EST.

Notification of Acceptance: by March 21, 2016 (via email).

Tun Abdul Razak International Conference on Malaysian Studies 2017

The UBC Southeast Asia Graduate Student Network - Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on Southeast Asia

The UBC Southeast Asia Graduate Student Network will hold an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on Southeast Asia from April 14 to April 15, 2016, at the University of British Columbia (UBC), in Vancouver, Canada. 

Held in collaboration with the UBC Center for Southeast Asian Research in the UBC Institute of Asian Research, the conference will be the first of its kind at UBC. The conference represents an opportunity for participants to build networks and share perspectives and experiences with other specialists and graduate students who study Southeast Asia. The UBC Center for Southeast Asia Research is the focal point for a community of faculty, graduate students and undergraduates with interest and expertise in the different Southeast Asian countries and Asia Pacific.

As far as possible, we will customize the Conference programming to maximize its utility for each participant. The 2-day conference will be conducted in the format of a workshopping retreat. Participants can expect sustained discussion of the papers and projects they present from an audience of fellow specialists in Southeast Asia. They will also attend workshops on publishing and on conducting research and fieldwork in Southeast Asia. We are also inviting a senior academic to give a keynote address on the state of Southeast Asian Studies in Canada and the U.S.

We invite papers and projects from graduate students from all disciplines who work on topics and themes related to Southeast Asia (or any of its countries, cultures, or peoples). Papers and projects can be works-in-progress or near-completion. We also accept papers or projects from graduate students or independent scholars who take artistic or non-traditional approaches to the study of SEA. Papers and project proposals will be adjudicated by a committee from diverse disciplinary backgrounds.

We regret that we are unable to guarantee any financial support at the moment. Depending on the results of our on-going efforts to secure funding, we may be able to offer limited travel subsidies eventually. We are committed to helping you have a comfortable stay and visit to UBC.

 

To apply, please submit a 300-word abstract of your paper or project and a one-page CV to csear.grad@gmail.com by January 30, 2016. You can expect notification of acceptance by February 28, 2016.

We welcome any enquiry or correspondence. Please do not hesitate to write to us at csear.grad@gmail.com.

UC Berkeley-UCLA Southeast Asian Studies Conference

UC Berkeley-UCLA Southeast Asian Studies Conference

Making Southeast Asian Cultures: From Region to World

April 22-23, 2016

at UC Berkeley

Abstract deadline: January 8, 2016

Keynote speaker: Melani Budianta, Professor of Literature, University of Indonesia

The aim of this conference, jointly sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley (Director: Prof. Pheng Cheah) and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA (Director: Prof. George Dutton), is to reopen the question of Southeast Asia's culture both by looking back at the history of the region and at the dynamic transnational processes at work in contemporary globalization that actively make Southeast Asian cultures today. 

For example, how have Indian Ocean trade and religious networks shaped various aspects of Southeast Asian culture and how has their localization in Southeast Asia in turn inflected these networks?  In the field of contemporary art, are the different arts communities in Southeast Asia connected to and contemporary with each to other?  Can we speak of a self-conscious regional identity among these communities so that visual artists from Burma who are relatively new to international art practices and discourses can be curated alongside artists from highly "globalized" Singapore in an international biennale?  In the field of film studies, how have the Shaw and Cathay film empires, which were multilingual and multicultural, established a foundation for Southeast Asian film? In literary studies, has the public phenomenality of literary festivals and literature prizes such as the Man Asia Literary Prize or the Ramon Magsaysay Award in Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts helped to create a body of Southeast Asian literary works?

The conference seeks to understand the production of Southeast Asian cultures by drawing on different humanities and social science disciplines.  By self-consciously adopting a world perspective and transnational frame in the study of Southeast Asia, the conference hopes to correct the normative Eurocentrism of the disciplines, their methodological nationalism, and the relative undertheorizing of Southeast Asia in Asian studies.

The organizers invite submissions for presentations from scholars and graduate students conducting original research in the social sciences and humanities that address the primary themes of the conference. Some travel funding is available, with priority for funding directed towards faculty and graduate students at UC and CSU campuses. 

Abstracts (up to 500 words) should be sent to CSEAS at UC Berkeley by Friday, January 8, 2016. Abstracts should include your name, affiliation and discipline and contact information (including e-mail address).

About the Keynote Speaker

Melani Budianta teaches Indonesian and English-language literature at the University of Indonesia. She has been instrumental in establishing Cultural Studies as a field of study at the University of Indonesia. Well regarded in Indonesia as a literary critic and also as a women's rights activist, she was a founder of Suara Ibu Peduli, a women's NGO that played a significant role in the May 1998 protests against Suharto. She has an M.A. from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Contact: CSEAS, 1995 University Ave., 520H, Berkeley CA 94704-2318

Tel: (510) 642-3609; Fax: (510) 642-5035; E-mail: cseas@berkeley.edu.

The Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA form a consortium U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

Call for Papers "Access & Control: Resources and Technology in the Global South" Conference at Indiana University

The theme of the conference is "Access & Control: Resources and Technology in the Global South," and it will take place March 3-5, 2016. The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 22, 2016. 

The conference is specifically designed to not be exclusively focused on Latin America and the Caribbean. Our hope is to feature presentations on research about access and control of resources and technology from various geographical areas that fit into the Global South paradigm. To that end, we would greatly appreciate if you could relate that detail to potentially interested students.

A highlight of our conference is our ability to offer travel grants to students coming from outside of Indiana University to cover transportation costs (ranging $200-600).  We can also provide accommodations and a majority of meals, making participating in our conference an affordable way to present research to a wider, multidisciplinary audience. 

An opening address will be presented by Indiana University Geography Professor Dr. Majed Akhter, titled "Drones, dams, and uneven development: Historical and emerging techno-geographies of the Global South.” The conference keynote will be a talk by Dr. Marion Werner of the State University of New York, Buffalo, Geography Department, titled "Food Systems and Sovereignty in the Caribbean." 

Recreating Currents in Southeast Asia - Cornell University Southeast Asia Program’s 18th Annual Graduate Student Conference “(Re)Creating Currents in Southeast Asia”

Recreating Currents in Southeast Asia

Cornell University Southeast Asia Program’s 18th Annual Graduate Student Conference

“(Re)Creating Currents in Southeast Asia”

March 11-13, 2016

Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York

(Re)Creating Currents is an exploration of the current – the mental or physical force that pulls, shapes, electrifies or overwhelms subjects and objects in myriad ways. How is Southeast Asia created through currents in practice and in discourse, and how can these currents be understood? In thinking about currents as processual coalescences of old and new ideas, how do new scholars situate their work amidst these flows? We offer these questions as provocations to invite submissions to the Cornell Southeast Asia Program’s 18th Annual Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference. The conference will be held March 11-13, 2016 at the Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Professor Tamara Loos from the Department of History at Cornell will be joining us as our keynote speaker.

We welcome submissions of abstracts by December 15, 2015 from graduate students who have completed original research related to Southeast Asia. There is no specific theme for this conference, as we hope to attract a wide range of submissions. Our intention is to reflect the dynamic research currently undertaken by graduate students. The Cornell Southeast Asia Program’s Graduate Committee will review the abstracts, select presenters, and organize panels by theme. In order to aid this process of thematic organization, we ask that you please include a few keywords summarizing your presentation along with your abstract.

Selected contributors will present their work as part of a panel, and paper abstracts will be included in the conference program. All the panels will have discussants, therefore presenters should be prepared to submit full papers of 5000-8000 words by February 15, 2016 .

A very limited number of modest travel allowances may be available for those traveling longer distances. We encourage applicants to seek funding from their home institutions first. Please indicate along with your abstract whether you expect to receive travel funding from your home institution and if you would like to be considered for a travel allowance from the Cornell Southeast Asia Program Graduate Student Committee. We will be in touch in February to coordinate graduate student host lodging for confirmed presenters. In the spirit of collegiate engagement, all presenters are requested to attend the entire conference.

Please submit abstracts to the following email address: recreatingcurrents@gmail.com

All abstracts should be limited to 250 words and sent in MS Word format.  Do not send a .pdf. Please name your abstract using your first and last name together (for example, janedoe.doc for Jane Doe's abstract). The subject of the message should specify “Abstract” and the body should include the following information:

·         Author name(s), institutional affiliation(s), and a primary email address

·         Title of paper

·         Paper topic or keywords

·         The abstract

Abstract Submission Deadline:  December 15, 2015

Notification of Acceptance: January 15,  2016

Confirmation of Attendance Deadline:  February 1, 2016

Full Papers Due:  February 15, 2016

https://seap.einaudi.cornell.edu/story/recreating-currents-southeast-asia

"From City to Village: Urbanization and Southeast Asia" Conference - Call for Papers

The NIU Southeast Asia Club and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies invites students to participate in this year’s Southeast Asia Student Conference being held on March 26, 2016. The theme for this year’s conference is “From City to Village: Urbanization and Southeast Asia.” The keynote speaker for the event is Dr. Duncan McCargo, professor of political science at Leeds University and currently a visiting professor at Columbia University.

Any student may present at the conference as long as paper topics are relevant to the region of Southeast Asia. 

Important Deadlines:

Students competing for best paper (undergraduate and graduate prize) should have their abstract proposals submitted no later than January 31, 2016.

All other presenters much have an abstract proposal submitted no later than February 25, 2016.

Submission for the conference should be emailed to NIUSEACLUB@gmail.com. Questions and requests for further information about the conference should also be sent to the above email.

Fifth International Conference on Lao Studies - Deadline Extended

CALL FOR PAPERS  Fifth International Conference on Lao Studies: Lao PDR in the ASEAN Context DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS' SUBMISSION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 30, 2015 When: Friday, 08 July 2016 to Sunday, 10 July 2016 Where: Thammasat University; Bangkok, Thailand The Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University and the Center for Lao Studies (CLS) are pleased to announce that the Fifth International Conference on Lao Studies (ICLS V) will be held from July 8 to 10, 2016 on the Tha Phrachan campus in Bangkok, Thailand. The main objective of the conference is to promote Lao studies, broadly defined, by providing an international forum for scholars to present and discuss various aspects of Lao Studies. Theme The theme of the Fifth International Conference on Lao Studies is "Lao PDR in the ASEAN Context," with particular (though not exclusive) emphasis on the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). All Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states have committed to creating a region which is highly competitive, equitable in economic development and fully integrated into the global economy. The establishment of the AEC in 2015 will bring enormous opportunities as well as great challenges for the individual member countries in the region, especially for Lao PDR . Suggested topics for the Fifth ICLS include, but are not limited to: Laos' trade integration within AEC Special economic zones (SEZs) Export survival Roles of the private and public sectors Human resources and effects on local employment Migration Infrastructure demands Balancing development growth and environmental conservation Tourism Traditional knowledge and cultural expressions in economic development Impacts on cultures and life ways Lao language, culture, and history Art, literature and music Buddhism Border Trade and culture Isan Regionalism Architecture Education Environment and Health Rural Development Other topics Submissions for consideration may be individual paper presentations, panels, exhibits, posters, artistic and musical performances, and/or cultural activities. Comparative perspectives are welcome and encouraged. The following are included within the target groups of the conference: All self-identified ethnic groups of Lao PDR (e.g. Lao, Khmu, Hmong, Iu-Mien, Akha, Phouan, Phou Tai, Nyouan, etc.); Lao/Thai Isan and other ethnic Lao groups in Thailand (e.g. Lao Song, Phouan, Phou Tai, etc.) Ethnic Lao living in Cambodia Cross-border ethnic groups living in Vietnam, China, Burma, Thailand and Cambodia (e.g. Akha, Hmong, Phouan, Ieu-Mien, Khmu, Tai Lue, Tai Dam, Lahu, Brao, etc.) Overseas diaspora originally from Laos or descendents of people from Lao PDR (including Lao Americans, Hmong Americans, Khmu Americans, French Lao, Australian Lao, Canadian Lao, etc.) Procedures and Timelines   Deadline for submissions: Please submit abstracts in English before November 30, 2015. Abstracts should be submitted electronically, preferably as a Microsoft word document in an e-mail attachment to ICLS2016@gmail.com (see below for specific instructions regarding preparation of abstracts). The conference committee will review abstracts and send an acceptance letter (via email) in December 2015 with scheduling information and other instructions for submitting final abstract statements and full versions of papers. Abstracts and full versions of conference papers will be collected for distribution on-line. Abstract preparation guidelines: INDIVIDUAL PAPER submissions should include the following information: Title of the paper Name, institution, address and email address of paper presenter Abstracts (250 words or less) with identified keywords Related conference topic(s) Individual papers will be grouped into panels by the conference committee.    PANEL submissions should include 3 to 4 scholars presenting formal papers and 1 or 2 discussants. Panels will be approximately 75 to 90 minutes. Panel organizers are requested to supply the following information: Title of the panel Conference theme(s) related to the panel Name, institution, address and email of the panel organizer Name, institution, address and email of each paper presenter Names, institutions, addresses and email of the panel discussants Abstract (250 words or less) describing the panel as a whole Registration All participants should register online at http://www.laostudies.org/icls. Registration fees are listed below. The registration fee includes entrance to all official panel sessions, exhibits, performances, the film festival and cultural activities, as well as morning and afternoon snacks during the three-day conference. Registration fees1: Rate Type Early Registration: On or before April 30, 2016 Late Registration (after April 30, 2016) or Registration On-site Lao & Thai citizens Students 2000 Baht/ USD $60 2500 Baht/ USD $80 Students 3200 Baht/USD $100 3800 Baht/USD $120 Lao & Thai citizens Non-students 3000 Baht/USD$95 3800 Baht/USD $120 Non-students 4300 Baht/USD $135 4800 Baht/USD $150 Thammasat Staff and Faculty members 1500 Baht/USD $45 1500 Baht/USD $45 Center for Lao Studies Members (Students)* 2700 Baht/USD $85 3250 Baht/USD$105 Center for Lao Studies Members (Non-students)* *Center for Lao Studies Membership information is available at:www.laostudies.org/membership 3650 Baht/USD $115 4150 Baht/USD $130 1Note: 90% refunds are possible up to March 1, 2016. After this time refunds are not possible. Conference Banquet will take place on Saturday July 9, 2016. The fee for the banquet, if any, will be determined at a later date.   Contact information: Varisa Kamalanavin, Ph.D. (Co-chair)  Fifth International Conference on Lao Studies Faculty of Liberal Arts                                                                 Thammasat University Tha Phrachan, Bangkok 10200 Thailand Email: yogvari@yahoo.com Or Vinya Sysamouth, Ph.D. (Co-chair)  Center for Lao Studies 405 Grand Ave., South San Francisco, CA 94080 Tel: 1-415-874-5578 Email: info@laostudies.org Updates will be posted on the conference website at www.laostudies.org/icls.

Call for Panel and Paper Proposals Association of South-East Asian Studies in the UK (ASEASUK)

Conference information: University of London, UK; September 16 - 18, 2016

Deadline for panel proposals: 15 January 2016

A second call for individual papers will go out at the end of January 2016 with an end of March deadline.

Web announcement: www.soas.ac.uk/cseas/aseasuk-conference-2016/

Panel proposals from scholars from both the UK and abroad are invited on any theme related to the study of South-East Asia.

Conference Announcement: 2015 Council on Thai Studies Conference

October 23-24, 2015

Ohio University

Web announcement: www.library.ohiou.edu/2015/10/ohio-university-to-host-2015-council-on-thai-studies-conference/

Free and open to the public.

The conference will feature around 25 presenters covering topics ranging from social and political sciences to history, literature and art. Each presenter will also host a panel for questions and discussions following formal presentations. This year, the conference will also feature a special guest presentation by Kong Rithdee, Deputy Life Editor at the Bangkok Post.

UC Berkeley-UCLA Southeast Asian Studies Conference