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 Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Loyola Marymount University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning in August 2026. More details below.

Application Deadline: October 10

https://tinyurl.com/26kk8nrb

UC Berkeley’s History of Art Department seeks a tenure-track and Assistant Professor in Art and Architecture of East Asia and/or Southeast Asia. The successful candidate will demonstrate area-specialized expertise in the art history of East Asia and/or Southeast Asia and a record of innovative research, publication, and teaching.

The appointee will be expected to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in their areas of expertise and mentor undergraduate students and supervise doctoral students.

Deadline: Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

For more information: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05066

UC Berkeley seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Modern Southeast Asian Humanities. The successful candidate will excel in research, develop and teach undergraduate and graduate courses, mentor students, and contribute to the Department and University through service.

The department is particularly interested in–but will not limit itself to–research on Indonesia, the Malay World and/or Islam in Southeast Asia.

Deadline: Saturday, Oct 25, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

For more information: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05095

CKS invites Cambodian PhD holders and doctoral students to apply for research fellowships in the social sciences and humanities. Application deadline: January 31, 2026. For more information and to apply, visit: https://khmerstudies.org/programs/cambodian-scholar-research-fellowships/

Apply now for Cornell K. Lisa Yang Postdoctoral Fellowships in Wildlife Health! Pursue science-based solutions to challenges at the interface of wildlife health, domestic animal health, human health and livelihoods, and the environment that supports us all

The UCL Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction is receiving applications for the International Writing Workshop for Early Career Researchers from the Global South, to be held at the Institute of International Relations at PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, from 8 to 10 April 2026.

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

The Mid-Atlantic Region AAS conference will take place at the University of Pittsburgh, November 14-16, 2025. Submit all proposals by July 1 for consideration

https://maraas.org/call-papers-2025

The Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) seeks panel and/or roundtable session proposals. SEAC will select two of these sessions, which will be accepted directly into the Annual Conference program without going through a Program Committee review.

The SEAC-designated sessions should reflect current developments in Southeast Asian Studies. Preference is given to cross-country studies and/or multi-disciplinary studies. SEAC-designated sessions receive $1,000 in support from the annual AAS subvention to SEAC. If you are working on a country-specific panel or roundtable, please consider applying for a SEAC country group-designated session.

Submission deadline: July 11, 2025