(7 Nov 2024) The conference and annual general meeting of the Southeast Asia Library Group (SEALG) took place at the Bibliothek Sprach & Kulturwissenschaften (BSKW), J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on 27-29 June 2024. For the first time, the event was partially held in hybrid form to allow online participation for people unable to travel to…
(4 Mar 2024) The SEALG Annual Meeting and Conference will take place in Frankfurt am Main on 28-29 June 2024 at J.W.Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Bibliothek Sprach & Kulturwissenschaften (BSKW). In preparation of the SEALG Annual Meeting 2024, SEALG invites proposals for papers on three themes to choose from: – collections, archives and library work as well as…
(10 Feb 2024) A six-year collaborative research program in global and diplomatic history that investigates the often overlooked role of international treaties in imperial expansion is currently being hosted by Linnaeus University in Kalmar and Växjö, Sweden. Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia is a project to systematically analyse all of the approximately one thousand bilateral treaties concluded between…
(22 Jan 2024) A new issue of the SEALG Newsletter (December 2022) has been published and is now available online. It contains the following reports, articles and a book review: SEALG Annual Meeting, Marseille 2023. Report (Marije Plomp and Jana Igunma) The collection of the late Prof. Dr. Wilfried Lulei in the Library of Southeast…
(16 May 2023) The SEALG Conference and Annual General Meeting taking place in Marseille on 15-16 June 2023 is approaching fast. Attendance of the event is free, but registration is required and can be completed in a few quick steps online on the SEALG website. More information can be found here.
(2 Feb 2023) A new issue of the SEALG Newsletter (December 2022) has been published and is now available online. Included in the Newsletter is the report of our group’s Annual Meeting that took place in Paris on 1 July 2022, in collaboration with the 12th EuroSEAS Conference. In addition to this detailed report by…
(10 Jun 2022) The annual meeting of the Southeast Asia Library Group is taking place on 1 July 2022 at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Campus Condorcet, Paris-Aubervilliers. It has been organised in cooperation with the 12th conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) which will be held from…
(28 April 2022) A virtual symposium taking place 17-19 May 2022, organized by University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Library, aims to examine the complicated histories of cultural heritage collections, the expropriation of artifacts through colonialism and looting, the ethics of ownership and restitution, and decolonization in libraries, archives, and museums. Repatriation has increasingly become…
(26 Jan 2022) The latest issue of the SEALG Newsletter has now been published and can be viewed and downloaded freely from our homepage. It contains the following articles: Nicholas Martland, 1957-2021 (obituary by Pauline Khng) The EFEO in Indochina: A History of Maps and Archives (by Magali Morel and Sovannara Mey) Collecting Information and Artifacts…
(9 Feb 2021) From July to November 2020 the Library of Southeast Asian Studies at the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg in Frankfurt was able to complete the cataloguing of its collection of Javanese, Sundanese and Madurese books in Javanese script. Several titles of this collection were previously included in the online catalogue during…