Submissions for the 2025 Conference have now closed - thank you to all who submitted proposals. We are pleased to provide a link to the program below. If you missed this one, we look forward to receiving your proposal for a paper or panel for the next, 2027, Conference (details tbc). Please also consider our Book Prize.

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The 3rd Association of Mainland Southeast Asia Scholars (AMSEAS) Conference will take place online 12-13 November 2025.

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The conference theme is "Between Co-option and Dissent: Speaking Truth to Power in Mainland Southeast Asia". 

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Conference background in the Call for Papers:

 

AMSEAS welcomes papers from the full range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences with a focus on the mainland Southeast Asia region, including Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

 

Key areas include climate change, development, politics, international relations, gender issues, sociology, geography, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, and art history.

 

Papers will be also be accepted from other disciplines focusing on mainland Southeast Asia and interdisciplinary contributions are welcomed.

 

In light of the theme, we are particularly interested in contributions that consider the challenges in methodological challenges in authoritarian environments, speaking out as academics, freedoms versus restrictions, navigating and traversing binary perspectives, persistent resilience, the limitations of existing frameworks and approaches, responding to oppression and repression, identifying and understanding risks and opportunities, and changes in the political landscape including in relation to shifts outside the region.

 

The conference will be held online.

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Key Information

• Conference date: Wednesday-Thursday 12-13 November 2025

• Proposal submission deadline: 29 August 2025

• Award for best paper presentation at the conference

• Presenters and participants must be AMSEAS members

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Conference Registration

 

AMSEAS Membership covers conference participation. In order to attend, you need to be an AMSEAS member.

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Program: a copy of the program is available here.