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The opening of AEC has given rise to a number of activities about ASEAN, including academic activities in the fields of Thai and area studies. In September 2014, the research and academic service support unit at the Center for ASEAN Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Walailak University, organized a workshop on “Reviewing Research Schemes and Knowledge on ASEAN.” As a follow-up to this successful workshop, the Center for ASEAN Studies, Walailak University, and our co-organizer, the Center for ASEAN Studies, Chiang Mai University, will host a…

SEA Junction will provide a two-days orientation to a group of Thai youth selected to participate in the Ship for Southeast Asian and Japanese Youth Program (SSEAYP) 2016. The 42-year SSEAYP aims to promote friendship and mutual understanding among the youths of Japan and the ten Southeast Asian countries, to broaden their perspectives and to strengthen their spirit of cooperation. To achieve this objective, participants live together on a ship for two months traveling across Southeast Asian countries, introducing their culture…

"Beyond Tolerance": Living Together with Migrants Movements of people within and across borders have become an integral feature of regional integration in the Greater Mekong Sub-region or GMS, an emerging economic area encompassing the watershed of the Mekong River and comprising Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and two provinces of southern China —Yunnan and Guangxi. After years of relative in-country isolation, millions of people have moved from their place of origin to meet their basic needs and to achieve stability…

Beyond "Tolerance": Living Together with Migrants Movements of people within and across borders have become an integral feature of regional integration in the Greater Mekong Sub-region or GMS, an emerging economic area encompassing the watershed of the Mekong River and comprising Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and two provinces of southern China —Yunnan and Guangxi. After years of relative in-country isolation, millions of people have moved from their place of origin to meet their basic needs and to achieve stability…

In 2017 ASEAN will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Progress has been made towards more close-tied regionalism in Southeast Asia and mechanisms for joint governance have become more sophisticated. Presidents and senior ministers of ASEAN member states meet yearly in ASEAN Summits, most recently in Vientiane, (Laos), a rotating Chair system has been established and some regional level institution/consultative bodies have been launched including the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), ASEAN Commission on the Rights of Women and Children…

Selection Issues Regional Inheritances & the Historical Context Roundtable SEA Activist Performance & Performance Art Taboo, Censorship & Curating: Struggles over Historical Narratives in SEA Identities and Prejudices: Gender, Women, LGBT, Race, Queering Performance Art New Developments in Performance & Live Art: Socially Engaged Performance, Community Interventions, Ecology & Environmental-Based Performance Oral History Project: Story telling is an oldest form of recording history. The Oral History meetings take place throughout the conference in national languages, as determined by the participants.…