CFP: Networks and Knowledge in Southeast Asia - UCB-UCLA Southeast Asian Studies Conference, April 2023
Call for Papers
UC Berkeley – UCLA Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies
‘Networks and Knowledge in Southeast Asia’
April 14-15, 2023
At UC Berkeley
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 - invite 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.
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) by January 9, 2023. Notifications of acceptance will be made in early February 2023.
See the conference website for full details, including the link to the abstract submission form.
https://sites.google.com/view/cseasconference2023/home
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.
Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley
1995 University Ave., 520H
Berkeley CA 94720-2318