(24 Feb 2025) The Annual Meeting and Conference of the Southeast Asia Library Group (SEALG) will take place at the University of Passau, Germany, on 27-28 June 2025. Prof. Dr. Martina Padmanabhan, Chair of Critical Development Studies – Southeast Asia will host the meeting.
In preparation of the Annual Meeting – which will take place in hybrid form – SEALG invites paper proposals by library and archive staff as well as from scholars and graduate students.
Proposed themes:
– Collections, archives, and library work in the field of Southeast Asian Studies
– Recent developments in collections, archives, and libraries
– Acquisition, storage, and access of born digital material
– Contested heritage, providing access to heritage communities
– Decolonization debates related to collections, archives and libraries
A paper presentation should not exceed 30 minutes (including time for questions / discussion). Paper abstracts should be no more than 200 words and must include a title, author’s name and affiliation, as well as contact details.
Please submit your paper proposal including abstract to Friederike Trotier (friederike.trotier(AT)uni-passau.de) and Holger Warnk (h.warnk(AT)em.uni-frankfurt.de) not later than by 25 May 2025.
Publication of a paper will be possible in the SEALG Newsletter which is online at https://sealg.hypotheses.org/newsletter or as a blog post (https://southeastasianlibrarygroup.wordpress.com/).
