List of accepted panels & other formats

The 14th EuroSEAS conference will be held at the Complutense University of Madrid, from 1-3 September 2026 with an optional excursion or participation in a post-conference associated event on 4 September 2026.

As an international and multi-disciplinary scholarly organization, EuroSEAS invites scholars and PhD students from all academic disciplines with an interest in Southeast Asia to present a paper in one of the selected panels or to participate in one of the other formats (see list below) at the EuroSEAS conference in Madrid. The selection committee has accepted 90 panels, laboratories, roundtables & film screenings + discussions.

Book Forums

Being Present. Emerging Ethnographic Perspectives and the Study of Laos

Formative Readings in Southeast Asian Studies – Personal Perspectives on Essential Works 

Film screenings & discussion

Beyond Memory: Hybrid Ethnographic Methods Between Fieldwork and Film in Cambodia and its diaspora in France 

Documenting displacement: two short films developed by young Shan migrants in Thailand 

Mambang Kuneng: Listening to the Sea with Orang Laut 

Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar 

Laboratory

Religious Dreaming in Buddhist Thailand 

Panels

21st Century Protest Movements in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Issues, Convergences, Narratives, and Prospects

Academic Freedom of Expression and Academic Solidarity

Adaptation, Power, and Cross-Cultural Negotiation between Indigenous and Iberian Actors in Southeast Asia

Advertising Health, Medicine and Politics. Propaganda and public health in colonial and post-colonial Southeast Asia

Analyzing Southeast Asian Societies Through Cinematic Arts

Art, Memory, and the Archive in Southeast Asia Vietnam in Context

Authoritarian Gatekeepers and the Institutional Decay of Democracy in Asia

Bodies of Desire: Affect and Power in Asia 

Borderland Hegemony? China’s Influence and Inter-State Relations in Mainland Southeast Asia (CLMVT)

Brokers, Bureaucrats & Bandits. Mediating epistemologies, power and contradictions in Southeast Asia 

Chinese in Southeast Asia: Religion, Economy and Conviviality 

Climate Change, Politics and Conflict in Southeast Asia 

Cloning the Empire: The Persistence of Colonial Science in Postcolonial Contexts 

Comparative identities and repertoires of contention among youth movements mobilizing amidst rising authoritarianism in South(East) Asia 

Concrete Resonances: The Building of Cambodia and Political Regimes from the Colonial Period to the Present-Day 

Digital Media, Queer, and Feminist Community Resistance in Southeast Asia 

Down the memory lane: Battlefield Tourism and War Memorials across South-East Asia 

Eating the Earth and Consuming Futures: Food Systems, Climate Governance, and Environmental Justice at Southeast Asia’s Frontiers 

Economic challenges and transformations driven by development policies: Critical perspectives from the grassroots in Southeast Asia 

Education from the margins: Voices within and outside Myanmar 

Elite Collusion and Dynastic Succession in Southeast Asia 

Embodied Devotion and Gendered Labor: Ritual, Healing, and the Arts in Thai Buddhism and Beliefs 

Embodied Knowing, Local Worlds: Decolonial Gender Approaches in Southeast Asia

Engaging with War Ecologies in East and Southeast Asia: Science, Multispecies Relation, and Memory of Violence 

European Consuls in Southeast Asia: Imperial Communication and Consular Struggles in the 19th Century Philippines 

Everyday in the Empire: Health, Diplomacy, Food, and Forestry in Colonial Philippines and Indonesia

Exchanges Between the Middle East and Southeast Asia: Routes of Political Ideas and Movements in a Global Micro-Historical Approach 

Framing the City: Photography, Architecture, and Social Media in Southeast Asia 

Green transition innovation in a changing Southeast Asia 

Harnessing the Visual: Collaboration and Marginality in Southeast Asia 

Human rights thought from Southeast Asian contexts 

Inclusive education initiatives in Indonesia’s Islamic education sector: Reflections on the human flourishing concept 

Indigeneity in Southeast Asia: Mobilization, Meaning, and Contestation 

Indonesia’s Civil-Military Relations: Democratic Rollback and Remilitarization 

Interrogating The “Masses” in Southeast Asian Political Thought 

Intimacy of revolution, periphery of power: In the fissures of twentieth-century ideological exchanges between Southeast Asia and China 

Making Rohingya Refugee Voices Meaningful: Exploring their Diversity

Mapping the Politics of Diplomacy in Southeast Asia, 1600-1950

Mass Mobilisations between the Return of Students Protests and New Forms of Digital Protest: Positioning Southeast Asia in Social Movement Studies

Migration in Southeast Asia: Aspirations, Materialities and Aftereffects 

Narrating the Self Across Borders: Feminist Autoethnography, Mobility, and Identity 

Negotiating the Nexus: Religious Authority, Gender Politics, and State Power in Contemporary Southeast Asia 

Nickel Industry, Law and Capitalism: From Oligarch Politics to Global Economy Market Promises 

Planetary Southeast Asia: Entangled Ecologies and Histories of Seascapes, Riverscapes, Aquiferscapes, and Forestscapes 

Political economy of land, resources and wealth in Indonesia 

Producing the Global Margin in Vietnam: Work and Life Reconfigured 

Re-examining the Meanings of Hispanization: New Topics in the History of Spanish Colonization of the Philippines 

Reassessing European expansion from the perspective of Southeast Asian private financial markets during the Age of Commerce 1600-1800. 

Reimagining and Reconnecting Southeast Asian Collections 

Reimagining Climate Finance in Southeast Asia: Gender, Power, and the Politics of Climate Actions

Resilient Ecologies and Urban Vulnerabilities in Thailand. Politics, Space, and Adaptation in the Anthropocene

Rethinking Oral History Methodologies in Southeast Asia: Ethics, Positionality and Interviewing Practices 

Safeguarding Scholarship: Autocratization, Institutional Autonomy, and Academic Freedom in Southeast Asia 

Scientific and Cultural Cooperation between the Eastern Bloc and Southeast Asia, 1950s-1980s

Southeast Asian print and manuscript cultures:  Materiality and technology

Southeast Asian print and manuscript cultures: Performance, ritual, and other practices 

Spectral Politics and Enchanted Precarity in Southeast Asia: Ghosts, Magic, and More-Than-Human Worlds in Times of Crisis and Transformation

The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of Southeast Asia; or, Imperial Entanglements in Genocidal Times 

The Dynamics of Convention-Defiance in Southeast Asian Contexts 

The Future of Southeast Asian Studies: Where will the experts of tomorrow be educated and how? 

The Genealogy and Geography of Scam Centers

The Political Ecology of Climate Injustice in Mainland Southeast Asia 

Theorizing Modernization and Development from the Margins: Local and Peripheral(ized) Knowledge in Southeast Asia

Thinking, Doing, and Governing Revolution in Post-Coup Myanmar 

Tourism by and among Communities: Minority Identities in Transition amidst the Creation of Tourist Industries in Southeast Asia

Tracing knowledge-scapes for grassroots climate governance in Southeast Asia 

Transimperial approaches to Southeast Asian colonial history: opportunities, challenges, limitations. 

Urban well-being in Southeast Asian mega cities 

Varieties of Elections and Electoral Research in the ASEAN region 

Varieties of Food Nationalism in Southeast Asia 

Vietnamese labour mobilities amidst turbulent migratory landscapes 

Visualizing the everyday politics of resource struggles and environmental justice in Thailand and Vietnam 

What is a woman supposed to be in Late-Socialist Laos and Vietnam?

Youth Activism in Asia: A New Wave of Student Protest and Political Mobilisation 

Youth Migration & Rural-Urban Agri-Food Networks in Southeast Asia

Roundtables

Animal, Vegetal, Mineral, Spirit. Heritage Beyond the Anthropocene

Changing forms of leadership and political identity in Southeast Asia

Changing International Orders and Policy Reforms in Developing Economies: The Case Study of the Philippines and Southeast Asian Countries 

Chinese in Southeast Asia: Religion, Economy and Conviviality 

Democratic Regression and Participatory Futures in Contemporary Southeast Asia 

Ecological wisdom, Nusantara philosophy, and Southeast Asian Studies 

Reconfiguring Vietnam: Global Encounters, Translocal Lifeworlds 

Too Little, Too Late? The Reckoning of Scholar-Activism in Southeast Asia