Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab at UW-Madison)

Eagerly awaiting this new book by @mailbykite.bsky.social, published by @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social

Happening TODAY and TOMORROW, our monthly Mini Book & Craft Fair📚🛍 offers a wide range of affordable new/used books on Southeast Asia and beyond as well as a variety of crafts.

Come visit and support us on the 4th floor of BACC. All profits contribute to SEA Junction's activities!
#bookfair #craft

The Wang Gungwu Visiting Fellows Programme aims to build the next generation of scholars and policy makers exploring the nexus of big-power relations and its impact on SEA through policy relevant research.

Application deadline: July 30
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Polishing Off Populism in Authoritarian Thailand | Journal of Democracy Thailand’s current crisis may finally end the cycle of populism and polarization that has crippled its democratic aspirations. But it is also revealing that there are far worse forces undermining Thai...

Thailand's current crisis may finally end the cycle of populism and polarization that has crippled the country's democratic aspirations. But it is also revealing that there are far worse forces undermining Thai democracy.

@dnsltr.bsky.social explains: www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

Call for Papers: “Against the Tide: Agency in Volatile Times for Southeast Asia” - Association for Asian Studies Rising Voices in Southeast Asian Studies | SEAC / AAS Initiative Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2026 (AAS2026 @ Vancouver) Submission deadline: July 20, 2025 The Southeast Asia Counci...

The Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is calling for paper proposals from up-and-coming scholars to join a Rising Voices panel on the topic of “Against the Tide: Agency in Volatile Times for Southeast Asia.”

Submission deadline: July 20
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South Korea: Older Workers’ Low-Paid, Precarious Work South Korea’s age-based employment laws and policies discriminate against older workers.

New @hrw.org report on South Korea “Punished for Getting Older" documents how 3 age-based employment laws and policies harm older workers & how inadequate social security programs exacerbate their situation. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Join us for a virtual panel discussion exploring the intersections of informal labor, waste flows & the politics of waste governance. Examine how gaps in governance are often filled by entrepreneurial and community-led efforts.

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For those in NYC -- a book event organized by @sunycunyseac.bsky.social not to be missed with @burrata.bsky.social!

Thailand’s judiciary is flexing its muscles, but away from PM’s plight, dozens of activists are at the mercy of capricious courts Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been suspended from office. Meanwhile, leading activists languish behind bars on ‘lèse majesté’ offenses.

Thailand’s judiciary is flexing its muscles, but away from PM’s plight, dozens of grassroots activists are at the mercy of capricious courts - some face life terms for insulting the king theconversation.com/thailands-ju... By @turtelista.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social

Happy Fourth of July from THE SYMPATHIZER. Here are some of his thoughts on freedom, democracy, and AMERICA (TM).

Join Dr. Laura Harrington's lecture: "Shaken, Not Stirred: Richard Gard, the CIA, and the Invention of Cold War Buddhism" to learn how the CIA-backed Asia Foundation sought to “modernize” Buddhist monastic education during the Cold War.

June 27 @ 7 pm PST
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The Milk Tea Alliance: Struggles for Freedom in East and Southeast Asia - Wende Museum Historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom discusses his new book with scholar Sasha Razor.

In 2 days, the @wendemuseum.bsky.social will host a launch event for my new book on resistance, repression and resilience in Asia wendemuseum.org/event/the-mi... --it'll be free & globally & musically minded, w/Sasha Razor, who is from Belarus &, like me, is interested in protest songs & symbols

Starting in one hour!

Five things to remember about war:

SEARG, a grad research collective at UW-Madison is holding a Zoom event on the #Thai #Cambodia #border:

“Violence and Resurgent Nationalism in Thai-Cambodian Border Conflict.”

Monday, 23 June 2025
8 to 10 AM (CST/Madison)
8 to 10 PM (ICT/Bangkok)

Register: uwmadison.zoom.us/j/9486657476...

Are you a Cambodian master’s student trying to develop research projects in the humanities, social sciences, and arts? Apply today for the Center for Khmer Studies’ Ponlok Chomnes Research Fellowship Program. Details below!

Application Deadline EXTENDED: June 22, 2025
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The Singapore University of Social Sciences is seeking a full-time post-doctoral research fellow for a multi-year multi-country research study on the state of the families in ASEAN. Details below!

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Perfect timing: the June issue of the AHR, flagship publication of @historians.org, just went live academic.oup.com/ahr/issue/13... & it includes a "Big Asia" section w/short essays by Nile Green, Amy Stanley, Rachel Leow, & other historians I admire + one by me that's related to my brand new book

Video up of my Milk Tea Alliance pub day event at JF Books (the reborn in DC version of Shanghai's legendary Jifeng Books, which I visited often in the 2010s)-- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClrR... . (For a sense of why JF Books is so special, see this by Amy Hawkins www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d... )

Great opportunity for funding for graduate student language study through SEALC and @getsea.bsky.social!

📢 Working in earthquake-affected areas of Myanmar?

SEA Junction is offering small grants to support local initiatives.

🗓️ Deadline: 15 June 2025
📩 Submit: info@seajunction.org

Download the template ➡️ seajunction.org/small-grant-...

#EarthquakeinMyanmar #SEAJunction #CommunitySupport #SmallGrants

👇 Publication day for… globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-mi...

If your group or organization is supporting earthquake-affected communities in #Myanmar, we encourage you to apply for our small #grants program.

🗓 Deadline: 15 June 2025
📩 Submit : info@seajunction.org

Please download the propsal form in the link seajunction.org/small-grant-...

🌈 LGBTIQA+ people in Burma face overlapping threats—criminalization, exclusion from aid, and economic marginalization—compounding risks of violence, invisibility, and neglect in humanitarian response.

Cambodian journalist faces more than a dozen charges after reporting on deforestation "A concerted effort to present an insurmountable legal and financial challenge for Uk Mao, with the aim of making it impossible for him to continue reporting on environmental crimes."

Cambodian journalist Uk Mao is facing over a dozen charges after exposing illegal logging in Phnom Chum Rok Sat. We join civil society voices in condemning this blatant attempt to silence him: globalvoices.org/2025/06/05/c...

มาร่วมมองการเคลื่อนไหวเพื่อสิทธิสมรสเท่าเทียม ผ่านสายตาของ “เรน” แมวจรที่อยู่ร่วมในทุกช่วงเวลา

📖 หนังสือภาพไร้คำบรรยาย “การเดินทางของสายรุ้งของเรน” ถ่ายทอดประวัติศาสตร์จากสายตาที่ไม่มีใครคาดคิด

📍 21 มิ.ย. 15.30–17.00 @ SEA Junction, BACC
#แมวมองสมรสเท่าเทียม #RainTheCat #สมรสเท่าเทียม

@soasuni.bsky.social invites scholars, curators, artists, IT specialists, archivists, cultural practitioners, politicians, and community representatives to submit paper proposals for the 2025 Philippine Studies Conference: Repatriating Philippine Heritage.

Deadline: June 15
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Event today in Bangkok at @seajunction.bsky.social on #migration in #southeastasia! Details below --

Podcast with @burrata.bsky.social on his important new book, _Bangkok After Dark_, just published by @dukepress.bsky.social!