2025 Annual Council on Thai Studies Meeting
Conference Dates: October 3-5, 2025
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ingraham Hall, Room 206
1155 Observatory Dr, Madison, WI 53706
The Council on Thai Studies (COTS) is an informal organization of scholars interested in all aspects of Thai studies, broadly defined. First established in 1972, COTS annually provides scholars with a venue for reporting preliminary findings, opportunities to receive prepublication feedback and a forum to discuss field and archive challenges. Please consider giving a presentation or gathering a small group for a panel or roundtable discussion. Graduate students are particularly encouraged to submit papers, although everyone is welcome. Individually submitted papers will be organized into panel sessions around common themes. Each presenter will have a maximum of 15 minutes for an oral presentation. Our keynote speakers will be Dr. Megan Sinnott (Georgia State University) and Dr. Peera Panarut (Museum of Asian Art, Berlin).
Please submit brief abstracts (no more than 300 words) here by the deadline of July 11, 2025. There are three submission options in the form: individual paper, panel, and roundtable. For panel and roundtable proposals, please designate a single person to make the submission. Ordinary panel proposals should consist of 3-4 presenters (including an optional discussant) and will require a separate 300-word abstract for each paper. Roundtable proposals require only a single 300-word abstract for the roundtable as a whole, as well as the names and contact information of all participants (the number of whom is flexible).
Acceptance of paper proposals, information regarding scheduling of panels and assignment of panel moderators will be sent via email. All presentations will be given in-person, and the conference will not provide virtual access. Please note that there is no registration fee for the annual COTS meeting; attendance or participation in COTS as a panelist is free of charge.
We highly recommend that you book your hotel room as soon as possible to ensure availability and consider options outside of the immediate campus area for lower rates. We are also willing to help graduate students from other institutions arrange to stay with UW-Madison graduate students.
Questions (but not submissions) about COTS 2025 should be directed to Nathan McGovern at mcgovern@uww.edu. Submissions should be made at the link below.