Call for participation!
ANTI/AUTHORITARIAN
Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Workshop at UW-Madison
24-26 April 2025
Keynote Speakers: Erik Martinez Kuhonta (McGill University), Tuong Vu (University of Oregon), Tyrell Haberkorn (UW-Madison)
As authoritarianism rises throughout Southeast Asia and the world, how can scholarship intervene? What questions about how power works and how people resist are urgently needed? What forms of research, analysis, documentation, and creative work can interrupt the violence wrought, past and present, by injustice throughout the region?
The Justice in Southeast Asia Lab invites you to join graduate student colleagues from UW-Madison, the keynote speakers, and UW-Madison faculty to examine these questions through a series of roundtables, presentations, and exchanges spanning empirical, theoretical and practical questions of scholarship in a time of authoritarianism. Participants will be asked to share a five-page/1500-word reflection on their work prior to the workshop; reading and engaging with one another’s reflections will form a point of departure for the workshop.
Eligibility: Any graduate student working towards a PhD degree on questions of social justice, broadly-conceived, in Southeast Asia and its diasporas. You do not have to be a candidate yet and can either be in the coursework or writing stage.
Shared accommodation for participants from outside Wisconsin will be provided and some travel funding may be available.
Complete Application Here: https://forms.gle/64Rsqjtqn99irUzCA
Application Deadline: 7 February 2025
Anticipated Notification of Acceptance: 15 February 2025
Please contact jsealab@wisc.edu with any questions.