Mindanao’s Many Centers: Reimagining Sulu, Lanao, and Southern Mindanao
Date: July 9, 2026
Time: 8:00PM - 10:00PM ET via Zoom
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Overview:
This panel challenges conventional portrayals of Mindanao as a peripheral frontier of the Philippine nation-state.
Drawing on history, cultural studies, and manuscript traditions, the panel highlights the distinct yet interconnected worlds of the Sulu Archipelago, the Lanao region, and Southern Mindanao. Through examinations of maritime trade networks, cultural memory, embodied traditions, political aspirations, and regional histories, the panel explores how Mindanao’s diverse communities have long participated in wider Southeast Asian worlds while generating their own forms of knowledge, authority, and belonging.
Panelists:
Patricio Abinales (University of Hawai’i-Mānoa)
Tirmizy Abdullah (Mindanao State University-Marawi)
Shariful Hashim Mansul (University of the Philippines-Diliman)
Supported by GETSEA and SUNY/CUNY SEAC
GETSEA Navigating Interdisciplinary Publishing
Date and Time: Thursday, April 30, 2026, from 7:00–8:15 PM ET via Zoom.
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Given the interdisciplinary nature of area-based research like Southeast Asian studies, scholars often need to carefully consider how to position their work for publication. Different publishing venues present varying opportunities and challenges, and authors must navigate editorial and press expectations amid disciplinary divides as well as those between disciplines and area studies.
Organized by the GETSEA Graduate Student Council, this panel brings together journal editors, book and article authors, and an acquisitions editor from an academic press to share their experiences with Southeast Asian research across publication venues.
Invited speakers:
Nathan Badenoch – Associate Editor, Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS Kyoto); Executive Committee Member, Asian Ethnicity; Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies, Villanova University
Sarah Grossman – Editorial Director, Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) Publications; Senior Editor, Cornell University Press
Benjamin Tausig – Co-Editor, Journal of Popular Music Studies; Author, Bangkok After Dark (Duke University Press, 2025); Department of Music, SUNY Stony Brook University
Nhu Truong – Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Vietnamese Studies; Departments of Asian Languages and Cultures & Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison
For questions, please contact getseaprofessionaldevelopment@gmail.com