Programme
DAY 1
July 8, 2026
(1) Conference Programme (Download PDF)
(2) 6th SEASIA e-booklet (Download PDF)
Time
Programme
Venue
08:00am onwards
Registration
Coffee, tea, and light refreshments will be served.
Wee Cho Yaw Plaza Foyer
08:30am – 09:00am
Welcome and Opening Remarks:
– Chair, Consortium of Southeast Asian Studies in Asia
– Chair, NTU School of Social Sciences
– SEASIA 2026 Conference Host Committee
SHHK Auditorium
09:00am – 10:30am
Guest-of-Honour & Dialogue Session:
Chan Heng Chee
Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
SHHK Auditorium
10.30am – 10.45am
Break
Wee Cho Yaw Plaza Foyer
10:45am – 12:15pm
Parallel Session 1
Wee Cho Yaw Plaza & UOB Innovation Hub
12:15pm – 14:15pm
Lunch
Wee Cho Yaw Plaza Foyer
14:15pm – 15:45pm
Keynote Address 1:
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Former Minister of Finance, the Republic of Indonesia
SHHK Auditorium
15:45pm – 16:00pm
Tea Break
Wee Cho Yaw Plaza Foyer
16:00pm – 17:30pm
Parallel Session 2
Wee Cho Yaw Plaza & UOB Innovation Hub
17:30pm – 18:30pm
Break/Transit to Banquet
Gather at Wee Cho Yaw Foyer
18:30pm – 20:30pm
Conference Dinner
Singapore Discovery Centre
Wee Cho Yaw Plaza level 2
Room [ABS-02-SR5] - Higher Education, Knowledge Governance, and Internationalisation
- Chair/ Discussant
Julius Bautista - Presenter
Bernelyn Padilla
“The Dialectics of Regional Cooperation and Global Competition in the ASEAN Higher Education” - Dewi Aulia Maharani
“The Geopolitics of Knowledge: A Critical Review of Internationalization of Higher Education in ASEAN Countries” - Minami Tosa
“Quantifying Knowledge in Indonesia: SINTA and the Reconfiguration of Academic Authority” - Tan Sing Pei
“Knowing ASEAN, Feeling ASEAN, Acting ASEAN: Malaysian University Students and the Making of Regional Consciousness”
Room [ABS-02-SR6] - Air-conditioning and sustainable cooling in Southeast Asia: A Challenge for Co-creation of a Better Future
- Presenter / Chair
Satoru Kobayashi
“Exploring the “air-conditioning nexus” from the Transdisciplinary Area Studies’ perspective” - Kenta Kishi “Community Architecture as Sustainable Cooling Practice: Reconfiguring the Air-conditioning Nexus in Urban Villages of Southeast Asia”
- Alpraditia Malik
“Co-Creation toward Sustainable Cooling: Socio-Cultural Impacts on Urban Village Residents.” - Hiroshi Aihara
“Air-conditioning and Sustainable Cooling in Southeast Asia: Redesigning Capital Circulation through a Pay-for-Use Model” - Chika Yamada
“Sustainable Cooling through Corporate–Community Collaboration in Southeast Asia”
Room [ABS-02-SR8] - Claiming water rights: Water justice and citizens' collective response in Semarang and Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- Chair
Amalinda Savirani - Presenter
Ardiman Kelihu
“Political Economy of Tourism Infrastructure and Its Impact on Water Scarcity in Yogyakarta” - Evy Gustiana
“Collective Care in a Patriarchal Culture: Everyday Water Care among Urban Poor Women in Yogyakarta” - Bagas Yusuf Kausan
“Between Springs and Deep Wells: How the Materiality of Water Shapes Community-Based Water Governance in Peri-Urban Semarang, Indonesia” Sholahudin
“Citizen Collective Action Securing Water Sources in Mount Merapi, Yogyakarta”
Room [ABS-02-SR10] - Social Media, Digital Nationalism, and Political Communication
Chair
Emma Goh En-yaNguyen Quang Dung
“Digital Nationalism on Social Media: Vietnam’s 50th Anniversary of National Reunification Day from Saigon streets to TikTok”Nguyen Ngoc Thao Le
“Curated Patriotic Intimacy: Military Branding, Digital Nationalism and Regime Legitimacy in Vietnam”- Do Le Yen Nhi
“Digital Assets and the Politics of Governance: Vietnam in Comparative ASEAN Perspective”
Room [ABS-02-SR11] - Speculative Fiction, Genre, and Urban Literatures
- Chair
Jade Yeen Onn Presenter
Ann Ang
“Sister Snake and Spirits Abroad: Strong Heterotemporalities in the Weak Speculative Fiction of Amanda Lee Koe and Zen Cho”Klaudia Lee
“Port Cities, the Urban Condition and Literary Creativity”Thea Pamela Pauline A. Javier
“Canvas of Self-Curation: Curating Motherhood in Redefining the Good”John Ray Arquero Dizon
“Salin-loob: An Artistic Inquiry into how the Filipino Domestic Space shapes and is shaped by Embodied Memory through an Expanded Painting Practice”
UOB Innovation Hub level B1
Room [LHS-TR36-B1-02] - Trade Cooperation, Aid, and South-South Development
- Chair
Choi Chonghyun - Presenter
Rachmasari Nur Al-Husin
“Rethinking South-South Trade Cooperation: Toward an Inclusive Economic Architecture” - Tran Hoang Tu Linh
“Uneven Economic Architecture: Arbitration and Regional Pathways to Inclusive Growth in Vietnam” - Ariful Haque
“South–South Cooperation in Southeast Asia amid shifting geopolitics: lessons for South Asia” - Dewa Ayu Putu Eva Wis
“Mapping Foreign Development Aid to Southeast Asia: The Case of Climate Finance”
Room [LHS-TR37-B1-03] - Cold War Histories and Diplomatic Memory
- Chair
Mary Grace R. Concepcion - Presenter
Yunling Zhao
“The Making of Commensurability: Material Encounters and Diplomatic Agency in Early Modern Siam (1685–1688)” - Giovanni Baldinini
“The U.S.–Philippines Base Negotiations: Rhetoric and Reality, 1989–1991” - Karang Jimbaran Setyatrisila
“Majapahit Ship Technology in Unifying Strategic Maritime Regions of Southeast Asia in the 14th Century” - Kittisak Sujittarom
“The Making of Polls: An Early History of Polling in Thai Society and Politics, 1975-1992”
[Roundtable Discussion] - LHS-TR38-B1-04 - How the Ongoing Indo-Pacific Policies Shape the Future of Southeast Asia? Bilateral Engagement, Regional Architecture, and the Remaking of New Regional Order
- Chair
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
Chairman, SEASIA Consortium; Chairman, CSEAS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Alan Hao Yang
CSEAS, National Chengchi University, Taiwan - Kei Koga
School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - Lloyd Bautista
Consultant, NSC, the Philippines — ASEAN and the Philippines - Karl C.L. Lee
University of Malaya, Malaysia — ASEAN and Malaysia - Victor Teo
East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore — ASEAN and Singapore
Wee Cho Yaw Plaza level 2
Room [ABS-02-SR6] - Gendered Burdens and Moral Expectations: Economy, Politics, and Peace in Provincial Philippines
- Chair/Discussant
Veronica L. Gregorio
“Sinking Homes and Buoyant Dreams: Kinship, Architecture and Living with Repetitive Crisis” - Presenter
Asuna Yoshizawa
“Intimate Mediations: Intermarriage and the Gendered Responsibility for Peace in Conflict-Affected Mindanao” - Natsuko Shiraishi
“Between Burden and Freedom: Agrarian Practices of Indigenous Women in Mindoro, Philippines” - Wataru Kusaka
“Gendered Moral Transformation in Leyte: Disaster, Discipline, Drugs, and Duterte”
Room - [ABS-02-SR8] - Japan–Southeast Asia Labour Corridors and Migration Governance
- Chair
Angela Rumina Lourdesamy - Presenter
Beby Fitri Xaviera Gunawan
“From “Training” to “Employment”: The Political Economy of Japan’s Ikusei Shūrō System in Asian Labor Migration” - Andi Holik Ramdani
“When Circular Migration Fails to Settle: Returnees from Japan in Ponorogo, Indonesia” - Yrein Aquino Canzon
“Governing Belonging Across Borders: Migration Law, Family Regulation, and Relational Precarity among Mixed-Heritage Children”
Room [ABS-02-SR10] - Migration Governance, Borders, and Citizenship
Chair
Jae Hyun ParkPresenter
Piyush Kumar
“From Porous Borderlands to Securitized Regimes: Displacement, Citizenship, and Homeland Claims in the India–Bangladesh–Myanmar Tri-Border Region”Co-Presenters
Mie Mie Kyaw & Tun Myat Sandi
“Human Capital Flight under Political Crisis: A Case Study of Myanmar’s Generation Z Migration to Malaysia in the Post-Coup Era”Rogelio Alicor L. Panao
“Unrequited Welcome: Poor States, Rich States, and the Visa Network Trap”
Room [ABS-02-SR11] - Chinese Diasporas and Transnational Networks
Chair
Hew Tse HouPresenter/Backup Chair
Hui Chung Ling
“Special Protection in a Time of Revolution: Indonesian Chinese Returnees, Local State Pragmatism, and the Reconfiguration of Overseas Chinese Policy during China’s Cultural Revolution”- Diogo Jose Joaquim Borges
“Chinese Transnational Networks in Southeast Asia: An Analysis of the Role of Overseas Southeast Asian Chinese in China’s Regional Strategy” Noor Naelil Masruroh
“Migration, Fragmentation of Business Knowledge, and Kinship Structure: The Reproduction of Entrepreneurship within Minangkabau Families in the Diaspora”Robin Ming Feng Chee
“Mixed Diasporic Spaces in Singapore: Celebrating Southeast Asian Identities in Supportive “Back Stages”
Wee Cho Yaw Plaza level 3
Room [ABS-03-SR14] -From Shocks to Social Outcomes: Climate Extremes and Human Responses in Southeast Asia
- Chair / Presenter
Yalei Zhai
“Climate Change and Fertility in Southeast Asia: Development-Dependent Associations with Climate Extremes” - Voravee Saengavut
“From Shocks to Social Outcomes: Climate Extremes and Human Responses in Southeast Asia” - Fang Su
“Weathering the storm: impacts of extreme climate events on food security in Southeast Asia and pathways to resilience” Rizka Bunga Shafira
“Contested Green Transitions: China’s Green BRI and Energy Investment Pathways in Indonesia and Vietnam”
UOB Innovation Hub level B1
Room [LHS-TR36-B1-02] - Indonesia's Political Trajectories: Opposition, Memory, and Leadership
- Chair
James Simeon Tiu - Clarice Handoko
“Tracing the Development of Opposition Towards a Regime’s End: The Case of Indonesia, May 1–21, 1998” - Sharon Ndoen
“Aksi Kamisan’s ‘memory activism’: fighting Indonesia’s State-manufactured collective amnesia, one silent protest at a time” - Angguntari C. Sari
“Joko Widodo’s Mental Maps of the Post-Liberal International Order”
Room [LHS-TR37-B1-03] - AI, Language, and Pedagogy in Southeast Asian Higher Education
- Chair
Tan Sing Pei Hikmawati Rahayu
“Ganti Menteri, Ganti Kurikulum”: Teacher Narratives of Institutional Memory Across Indonesia’s Curriculum Reforms”Thanh-Sang Nguyen
“When AI Speaks English: Language, Knowledge, and Pedagogy in Vietnam’s AI-Driven Higher Education”Yoshifumi Azuma and Wignyo Adiyoso
“Rethinking Indonesian study abroad in Education and Training Sector -With particular focus on Bappenas Scholarship”Violeta Dulatre and Maria Venus G. Solares [Co-Presenters] · “Licensure Examination Outcomes for Bachelor of Physical Education for Program Strategy Enhancement”
[Roundtable Discussion] - Room LHS-TR38-B1-04 - Deconstructing South East Asian Futures: Strategic Compacts in the Indo-Pacific
- Chair/Presenter
Dattesh Parulekar
Assistant Professor, School of International and Area Studies, Goa University, India - Vignesh Ram Guruswamy
Assistant Professor, Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India - Gitanjali Sinha Roy
Assistant Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, India - Kumari Mansi
Assistant Professor, Amity University Haryana; Honorary Research Associate, Indo-Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia
General Information
Panel allocations and speaker participation are subject to change as the event date approaches.
Presenting participants will be notified directly once allocations are finalised, and the programme schedule will be updated accordingly.Panels generally have 3–4 papers/presenters; each paper/presenter should plan for 15–20 minutes of sharing to allow time for Q&A.
All rooms will have a microphone, speakers, and a projector. Presenters may prepare slides, video, audio, and/or handouts; however, setup and distribution will count as part of your allocated time.
Please bring your own laptop and HDMI adapter.