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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · 22d

The AAS 2026 Film Expo announces an open call for films related to Asia produced by scholars and independent filmmakers. More details below.

Submission deadline: October 17
tinyurl.com/bdcr7k2s

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · 17h

Myanmar stands at a critical crossroads. Join the panel “New Burma Strategic Dialogue: Diaspora and International Engagement in Myanmar’s Future” to hear from leading voices.

October 11 @ 1 pm EDT
tinyurl.com/5fbp6utj

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · 1d

Planning to assemble a panel for an upcoming conference? Don't know where to start?

@shafrhistorians.bsky.social is holding a webinar tomorrow on how to successfully prepare a panel for their annual conference, applicable broadly as well

Wed. Oct. 8th @ 1:00pm (ET)
bit.ly/SHAFR-PANEL-...

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · 16d

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

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · 1d

Join the lecture “Bananapocalypse: Un/Making Plantation Capitalism” to explore afterlives of the externalities that commodity production in the Philippines obscures, disguises, or otherwise erases from its ambit of accountability.

October 10 @ 3 pm EDT
tinyurl.com/4ewwzm9d

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · 19d

The Department of History of Art, UC Berkeley invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Art and Architecture of East Asia and/or Southeast Asia, tenure-track, with an expected start date of July 1, 2026.

Application deadline: October 15
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05066

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · 2d

Join Prof. Hitomi Fujimura for a CSEAS Lecture Series talk on “Karen Identity in Transition: A History of Karen Baptists in British Burma and America.”

October 8 @ 1 pm EDT
tinyurl.com/386aypa4

GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · 3d

The talk “Islamic histories, in ruins” traces the ongoing presence of sacred remains and pilgrimage sites in the Malay Peninsula, attending not only to the material ruination but also to the devotional worlds around them.

October 8 @ 3:30 pm CET
www.kitlv.nl/event-sevea/

GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · 3d

Join UH CSEAS for a conversation with Muhammad Suhail Mohamed Yazid, as he discusses his latest book He Who is Made Lord: Empire, Class and Race in Postwar Singapore.

October 8 @ 8 pm EST
tinyurl.com/yz8p5zy5

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · 24d

The Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Loyola Marymount University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning in August 2026. More details below.

Application Deadline: October 10
tinyurl.com/26kk8nrb

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · 5d

The Department of History at Binghamton University (SUNY) invites applications for the position of a tenure-track assistant professor in Maritime/Global Asia, broadly defined to encompass East Asia, Central Asia, South/Southeast Asia, and/or the Indian Ocean. More details: tinyurl.com/385n4et3

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · Aug 24

Passionate about wildlife health and One Health challenges? Apply for the Cornell Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s fellowship program. Fellows will gain experience in generating science-based, action-oriented results to solve real-world problems & more.

Deadline: October 6
tinyurl.com/hbtyjpf9

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · 6d

The 2026 Harvard-Yale 4th Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Conference invites graduate students across all disciplines to submit abstracts under the theme “Form and Formlessness.” More details below.

Submission deadline: October 15
tinyurl.com/bump5kk5