SEASREP 30th Anniversary Conference

Southeast Asian Studies: 

Ideas, Audiences, Approaches, and Aspirations (SEAS-IA³)

13-14 November 2025

SEASREP turns 30 in 2025 and invites you to join its celebratory conference at the Thammasat University Rangsit Campus in Pathum Thani, Thailand on 13-14 November 2025, in partnership with the Institute of East Asian Studies of Thammasat University and supported by the Henry Luce Foundation and Japan Foundation. We want to celebrate friendships and partnerships formed over the years and highlight advances made in studies of the Southeast Asian region. The very idea of Southeast Asian studies being a singular intellectual field, with an established body of foundational texts, approaches, founders, and practices is an overstatement, for it ignores varying epistemological traditions even within national settings and overlooks the ways in which notions of Southeast Asian studies are understood and operationalized in Southeast Asia. Critically, scholars can no longer treat Southeast Asian studies as belonging exclusively to professional scholars while on the ground, practitioners engage and construct ideas in the name of Southeast Asian studies.