The 2nd Southeast Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities (SEACAH2027)
Join us in Bangkok!
February 15-19, 2027 | Chulalongkorn University and ICONSIAM HALL, Bangkok, Thailand & Online
International, Intercultural, Interdisciplinary
The Southeast Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities (SEACAH2027) will be hosted alongside The Southeast Asian Conference on Education (SEACE2027) as a part of IAFOR's SouthEast Asian Conference Series. Registration for either of these conferences will allow delegates to attend any joint plenary session or parallel sessions as desired.
Welcome to The Southeast Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities!
Held in partnership with the IAFOR Research Centre at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at The University of Osaka, Japan and our global partners, , the 2nd Southeast Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities (SEACAH2027) conference will be held alongside The Southeast Asian Conference on Education (SEACE2027), now in its seventh year.
This year, IAFOR returns to Thailand, situated centrally in the Southeast Asian region, which also comprises Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Brunei, Singapore, Myanmar, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Malaysia. Southeast Asia is a vibrant, thriving, and developing area, and boasts a great diversity of peoples, cultures, and ethnicities. As a recognised regional hub, Bangkok is a great location to help further the IAFOR mission of encouraging interdisciplinary discussion, facilitating intercultural awareness, and promoting international exchange.
This event will encourage academics and scholars to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum stimulating respectful dialogue, and like our long-running events elsewhere in the world, will afford an exceptional opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, networking, and facilitating partnerships across national, cultural, and disciplinary borders. IAFOR was made possible, and is a response to, the forces of globalisation, and the understanding that many of the most pressing challenges, whether felt or experienced locally, would require global cooperation and action to address.
Registration for either SEACAH2027 or SEACE2027 will allow delegates to attend the joint plenary sessions, and in keeping with our interdisciplinary mission, any parallel sessions in either conference, as desired.
I look forward to seeing you in Bangkok!
For and on behalf of the IAFOR International Academic Board and the Conference Programme Committees,
Dr Joseph Haldane, Osaka University, Japan & University College London, United Kingdom
Chairman and CEO, IAFOR
Professor Jun Arima, University of Tokyo, Japan
President, IAFOR
Professor Anne Boddington, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Executive Vice-President and Provost, IAFOR
- Location & Venue: Chulalongkorn University and ICONSIAM HALL, Bangkok, Thailand & Online
- Dates: Monday, February 15, 2027 to Friday, February 19, 2027
- Early Bird Abstract Submission Deadline: August 21, 2026*
- Final Abstract Submission Deadline: October 30, 2026
- Registration Deadline for Presenters: December 04, 2026
*Submit early to take advantage of the discounted registration rates. Learn more about our registration options.
Call for Papers
The SEACAH2027 Conference Programme Committee welcomes papers from a wide variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives, and submissions are organised into the following streams:
Arts
- Teaching and Learning the Arts
- Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy
- Arts Theory and Criticism
- Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
- Visual Arts Practices
- Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music
- Literary Arts Practices
- Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media
- Other Arts
Humanities
- Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication
- Aesthetics, Design
- Language, Linguistics
- Knowledge
- Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness
- History, Historiography
- Literature/Literary Studies*
- Political Science, Politics
- Teaching and Learning
- Globalisation
- Ethnicity, Difference, Identity
- Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation
- First Nations and Indigenous Peoples
- Sexuality, Gender, Families
- Religion, Spirituality
- Cyberspace, Technology
- Science, Environment and the Humanities
- Other Humanities
IAFOR's Conference Themes for 2025-2029
Our four themes can be seen as standalone themes, but they are also very much in conversation with each other. Themes may be seen as corollaries, complementary, or in opposition/juxtaposition with each other. The themes can be considered as widely as possible and are designed, in keeping with our mission, to encourage ideas across the disciplines.
Speakers
To be Announced
Conference News
Networking Event: Singapore Education Lounge
IAFOR Grant and Scholarship Recipients: The Southeast Asian Conference on Education (SEACAH2026)
Conference Dinner
About IAFOR’s Conferences on Arts & Humanities
IAFOR’s arts and humanities programme is rich and diverse, with interdisciplinary conferences which engage with a broad range of research fields and seek to be venues for both academic and cultural exchange.
The academic programme for these conferences is developed by leading scholars in various fields to ensure both timeliness and academic rigour, and our events are held in partnership with some of the world’s leading institutions, including Sussex University (UK), Birkbeck, University of London (UK), Lehigh University (USA), University of Indonesia (Indonesia), Virginia Tech (USA) and Waseda University (Japan). As well as working with top universities, we also encourage and nurture intercultural and interdisciplinary research groups such as the DAMIN project, which brought together historians, geographers and economists to look at the development of commerce along the Silk Road.
Literature has always been given a high profile in our programme, and as well as welcoming presentations by prominent authors and poets, IAFOR also runs the prestigious IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, which is supported by the Haiku International Association (HIA), the Haiku UNESCO Promotion Council and The Haiku Foundation.
IAFOR actively supports culture and the arts, namely by running internationally recognised awards for both documentary photography and photojournalism (IAFOR Documentary Photography Award) and documentary filmmaking (IAFOR Documentary Film Award), which are supported by leading institutions and organisations, including World Press Photo, Metro Imaging, MediaStorm, Think Tank Photo, University of the Arts London, RMIT and Medill School of Journalism.
Our arts conferences also showcase local talent during featured performances by musicians, dancers and artists. The events offer the opportunity for delegates to not only exchange the latest in research ideas, but also the chance to see performances, and take part in workshops and demonstrations.
About IAFOR
Founded in 2009, The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) is a global interdisciplinary scholarly association that brings together scholars from around the world. Through research collaborations, publications, and international conferences, it connects academics across disciplines and regions. IAFOR's main administrative office is in Nagoya, Japan, and its research centre (The IAFOR Research Centre) is in the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), a graduate school of The University of Osaka. Through its international, intercultural and interdisciplinary conferences, research, and publications, IAFOR is a network hub for interdisciplinary discussion across Asia and beyond.