The Weatherhead Scholars Program invites applications for the Sang Kee Kim Postdoctoral Fellowship from early-career scholars whose research focuses on East Asia and Southeast Asia (excluding Japan and China). Application Deadline: October 15 tinyurl.com/2emzpr5y

Fantastic opportunity for grad students with GETSEA below!

ICYMI, recording of ** Indonesia in Crisis: #AffanKurniawan, Protest, and a Polity on the Brink ** held on 8 September 2025. Organized and hosted by the Justice in Southeast Asia Lab, SEA Coalition for Academic Freedom and @nysean.bsky.social

#India: The state of #civicspace is rated as 'repressed'. In recent months, the govt has continued to deny bail to #activists detained under the UAPA, ban books in #Kashmir, block social media and crackdown on protests. More here: web.civicus.org/IndiaSept2025

TT Assistant Professor Position in Modern Southeast Asian Humanities at UC-Berkeley! Further details below --

Join @jsealab.bsky.social, @nysean.bsky.social and SEACAF for this upcoming webinar: “ #Indonesia in Crisis: #AffanKurniawan, Protest,and a Polity on the Brink” 📅 Sunday, September 7, 2025 🕗 8 PM CST | 9 PM EST 📅 Monday, September 8, 2025 🕗 8:00 AM ICT | 11 AM AEST 🔗 Register : bit.ly/4ncNJpT

SEACAF, @jsealab.bsky.social & @nysean.bsky.social host a virtual roundtable this weekend to discuss the protests in Indonesia w/ Edward Aspinall, Amalinda Savirani, Rina Mardiana, Muhamad Isnur, Veronika Kusumaryati, Chris Hulshof & Doreen Lee. Sept 7 @ 9:00p (ET) tinyurl.com/3w6ttte5

Then SAFEnet issued a statement on the digital aspects of repression in Indonesia. Documenting serious cases of digital authoritarianism by the gov't & @jsealab.bsky.social bring together media reports & other sources about protests upto the 30th Aug here: seasia.wisc.edu/wp-content/u... 8/

New #JusticeinTranslation on #Militarization, #media, #AffanKurniawan in #Indonesia out! ** Justice for Affan Kurniawan: The First Civilian Casualty of the Remilitarization of Indonesia, a collection of documents introduced and translated by Christopher Hulshof. ** Read/Download: bit.ly/4naCIp7 🧵

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 research and community engagements with Southeast Asians. Details below! Deadline: Sep 30 tinyurl.com/23z2umjt

Powerful and urgent zine from @focussouth.bsky.social on #care and #resistance in #socialmovements. Available in multiple languages! Download the zine here: www.agrowingculture.org/care-and-res...

Listen to Scholars at Risk's latest 'Free to Think' podcast about academic freedom in Thailand and the targeting of Dr. Paul Chambers under the country's draconian lèse majesté law -- www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/po...

New upcoming @getsea.bsky.social minicourse on "Global Zomias: Highland Southeast Asia"! Full syllabus available here: tinyurl.com/55jf69s5 Applications are available here: tinyurl.com/44ms234z

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Wayne Wong on Jeffrey Wasserstrom's 𝑉𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑙: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔, (Brixton Ink, 2025): "What began as a modest act of documentation now reads as diasporic memory work[.]" ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: chajournal.blog/2025/08/06/w... 。。。。。 @jwassers.bsky.social

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 tinyurl.com/4tt9yvj4

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...

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 tinyurl.com/bdehfhbu

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. bit.ly/globaldiscards

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 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 tinyurl.com/3ja34hcf

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 tinyurl.com/32v7dr7t

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! tinyurl.com/4d4k2jnd

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: [email protected] 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 : [email protected] 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 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 tinyurl.com/cj9aru9x

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!

📣 DIGITAL DEFENCE RESOURCES As part of the EU-funded “Pro-democracy platform advocacy" project, our resources suggest solutions for specific harassment problems, based on our academic research. The resources are available in English, Burmese, Khmer and Thai. Check them out: www.digidef.info 1/2

Sorayut Aiemueayut & Nalin Sindhuprama join JSEALab (@jsealab.bsky.social) & the Article 112 Project for a virtual screening of "Turning the Bhumi: The Uprising of Peasants in Northern Thailand, 1974-1976), open to all via Zoom! May 15 @ 8:00p (CT) tinyurl.com/mrwphnan

Join the JSEALab for a Zoom film screening next week! TURNING THE BHUMI: The Uprising of Peasants in Northern Thailand, 1974-1976 (2024, 53 minutes) Directed by Sorayut Aiemueayut Thursday, 15 May, 8-10 pm CDT (Madison) Friday, 16 May, 8-10 am ICT (Chiang Mai) Register here: bit.ly/3Zcdayj

Excited to have a series of launch events for my @columbiagr.bsky.social book Milk Tea Alliance coming together: a June 10 pub date one at JF Books (details TK), a June 11 Young China Watchers DC dialogue w/ @ishaantharoor.bsky.social (details here www.eventbrite.com/e/ycw-dc-hon... ), more TK...

Zoom webinar in roughly twelve hours -- #academicfreedom in #SoutheastAsia! Details and link register below --

Tues Cont'd: @jsealab.bsky.social & SEACAF Host webinar "Resisting Threats: Defending Academic Freedom in Southeast Asia Wed: London & online: Saw Swee Hock SEA Centre hold talk: "Social media's algorithmic affordances for authoritarian repression in Myanmar" w/ @vmtran.bsky.social /5