Haakon Huynh (Columbia University) is seeking collaborators for ongoing research on artificial intelligence (AI) governance in Southeast Asia. His recent working paper, “Digital Sovereignty or Dependency? The Political Economy of AI Infrastructure in Vietnam,” examines how Vietnam governs AI infrastructure amid growing foreign investment from firms like NVIDIA.

Haakon welcomes contact from scholars, practitioners, and students interested in AI policy, digital infrastructure, or the political economy of technology in the region.

Ready to take your leadership journey to the next level?

Applications are now open for the 2026 Asia Foundation Development Fellows! Join a unique fellowship program for future leaders across Asia-Pacific who are driving change in their communities.

Here's what you'll gain:
✅ Study tours in Korea and the United States
✅ Executive coaching and mentoring
✅ Professional development award

Don't miss your chance to become a global changemaker!

🗓️ Applications close on November 10, 2025

Call for Applications: Youth Rising Creative Workshop for Academic Freedom 2025

The call for application for Youth Rising Creative Workshop 2025 - Southeast Asian Youth for Academic Freedom is now open.

Youth Rising is envisioned as a nexus of academic freedom and artistic freedom among young people — a creative workshop that brings together students, young scholars, and artists to explore how imagination and critical inquiry can confront repression and inspire collective action in academic spaces and in solidarity with academic communities and other stakeholders.

Through participatory dialogue, art-making, storytelling and content creation, the workshop seeks to reclaim campuses and classrooms as spaces of freedom, while amplifying youth voices in the broader struggle for rights, democracy, and social justice in Southeast Asia.

The camp program aims to support this ecosystem by empowering youth to participate in cross-cutting conversations and alliances for academic freedom — a form of engaged scholarship.

FULLY-FUNDED OPPORTUNITY

15 selected youth participants, aged 15-35 years old from across Southeast Asia

October 31 - November 1, 2025

Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, Thailand (about 25 km from central Bangkok)

Deadline of Application - September 26, 2025

The UC Berkeley Center for Southeast Asia Studies is seeking participation in the Southeast Asian Lives (SEALIVES) small grants program from students and faculty with long-term and emergent research and community engagements with Southeast Asians. Details below!

Deadline: Sep 30

https://www.nysean.org/blog/southeast-asian-lives-and-histories-small-grants-program

East-West Center invites proposals from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives for its 25th International Graduate Student Conference under the theme “Legacies Through Time: Rethinking the Past, Confronting the Present, Shaping the Future.” More details below.

Deadline: Sep 30

https://www.nysean.org/blog/call-for-abstracts-the-25th-east-west-center-international-graduate-student-conference

Call for Panelists for AAS 2026: The (Infra)Structure of Cold War in Southeast Asia

Deadline: July 10, 2025

We are seeking additional panelists for a proposed session at the Association for Asian Studies 2026 Annual Conference, to be held March 12–15, 2026 in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Set against the backdrop of competing colonialisms, overlapping imperialisms, and intensifying local ethno-political tensions, the Cold War in Southeast Asia unfolded through complex entanglements involving militarization, authoritarianism, democratization, and developmentalism. Our panel conceptualizes the Cold War not only as a geopolitical formation but also as a material and affective infrastructure in Southeast Asia. Infrastructure here encompasses more than physical facilities — it functions as a mediator of power, a channel for the circulation of ideas, an outlet for emotions, and ultimately a framework for organizing everyday life. Therefore, our central concern is how the Cold War was operationalized and contested through the built environment, logistical networks, and politics of representation.

https://forms.gle/hHiGNMVDsHLMTkxM9

Interested in studying a Southeast Asian language virtually? Need funding to make it happen?

GETSEA is accepting applicants for the SEALC-GETSEA Language Scholarships! Check out the link below for full details.

App Deadline: July 14
tinyurl.com/getsealc25