All grad students are invited to submit abstracts to the annual SPAS conference, with the deadline extended to Feb. 1, 2026. A little more about this year's SPAS conference theme can be found below, along with the submission website information.
"We are proud to present the theme “Weaving Webs: Encounters, Exchange, and Emerging Worlds in Asia” for the 2026 Conference. The conference seeks to rethink Asia as a dynamic web of relations in which many fields of study intersect to shape new possibilities for knowledge and life. How do our encounters and exchanges—across borders, languages, and disciplines—build, reinforce, and stretch these webs? How do we, as researchers and creators, help shape these webs through our own positions, emotions, and modes of interpretation? How might the strength and flexibility of these webs allow us to re-imagine Asia’s future? This conference aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars in any field with a focus on one or more places or peoples in Asia. We especially encourage submissions that engage critically with transnational and comparative frameworks, postcolonial thought, and creative methodologies that bridge humanistic inquiry."
The submission website is as follows: