SEASIA 2024: De/Centering Southeast Asia | Center for Southeast Asian Studies Kyoto University

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SEASIA 2024: De/Centering Southeast Asia

The 5th SEASIA Biennial International Conference 2024

July 18-20, 2024
University of the Philippines-Diliman, Quezon City

program:

DAY 2: FRIDAY, 19 JULY 2024

9:00-10:30Keynote Lecture 1: Professor Syed Farid Alatas, Ph.D.
10:30-11:00Refreshment Break
11:00-12:30Parallel Sessions 4
12:30-13:30Lunch
13:30-15:00Parallel Sessions 5
15:00-15:30Refreshment Break
15:30-17:00Parallel Sessions 6
17:30-Film Viewing

CSEAS Film Fest (13:00-16:00)

DAY3: SATURDAY, 20 JULY 2024

9:00-10:00Keynote Lecture 2: National Artist Prof. Em. Ramon P. Santos
10:00-10:30Refreshment Break
10:30-12:00Parallel Sessions 7
12:00-13:00Lunch
13:00-14:30Parallel Sessions 8
14:30-15:00Refreshment Break
15:00-16:30Roundtable Discussion
18:00-Performance Night

The 5th Biennial Conference of the Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA) was held at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, Quezon City, Metropolitan Manila, Philippines, on July 18-20, 2024.

The theme of this year’s conference was “De/Centering Southeast Asia.” Outgoing SEASIA Chair Antoinette R. Raquiza explained that the conference “highlights the need for Southeast Asian Studies and Southeast Asians to interrogate dominant narratives and institutions that legitimize and reinforce unequal relations– between the North and South, among and within countries, as well as across generations and genders.”

Former Chairperson of the Philippines’ National Historical Commission Dr. Maria Serena I. Diokno was the Guest of Honor. Professor Syed Farid Alatas, noted theorist, practitioner, and proponent of “autonomous social science tradition,” and Dr. Ramon Pagayon Santos, National Artist of the Philippines and former Vice President of the International Music Council of UNESCO, delivered the keynote speeches.

Out of than 500 submissions received–consisting of 418 individual presentation applications and 33 panel applications from 190 institutions in 32 countries worldwide–approximately 212 presentations consisting of 53 panels covered by 7 simultaneous sessions (in 8 time slots), 2 book launches, 1 film viewing with a talk-back session, 2 keynote lectures, and 1 plenary roundtable discussion were made.

Eight CSEAS faculty and staff members were among those who made or chaired presentations, along with ten other Kyoto University staff and students. The VDP Project also co-organized a film showing.

The next SEASIA conference will be organized by the School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, in 2026.