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Southeast Asia Program

Cornell University

Graduate Student Conference

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The 29th Cornell SEAP Graduate Student Conference

The 29th SEAP Graduate Student Conference will be held on October 22-23, 2026 at Cornell University’s Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia in Ithaca, New York, and on Zoom. 

We welcome abstract submissions by July 15, 2026 of original work related to Southeast Asia by current graduate students, with preference to those who have already completed fieldwork and qualifying exams. Students who will have defended a dissertation by August 2026 are not eligible. Limited funding is available to support travel to Ithaca. The submission form is available here.

The Cornell SEAP Graduate Student Committee will review the abstracts, select presenters, and organize panels by theme. All panels will have faculty discussants. Accepted contributors should be prepared to submit full papers of no more than 8,000 words by September 21, 2026. Please note that while your discussant will respond to your submitted paper, you are expected to prepare a 15-minute presentation of your paper for the conference itself. 

Please direct any questions to seapconference29@gmail.com. In accordance with Cornell SEAP policy, we will not accept AI-generated abstracts or papers.