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

Applications are open for the US Scholar Research Fellowships. Up to 11 months of funding, with fieldwork and in-country support for projects on Cambodia or its regional context. Deadline: Nov 30, 2025, 11:59 p.m. EST

Learn more: https://khmerstudies.org/programs/us-scholar-research-fellowships/

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/

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