Events

Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia

06

May

2026

Project participants at Svenska historikermötet (Swedish historians' meeting) 6-8 May 2026.

Venue: Malmö University, Niagara och Orkanen

Global diplomacy, treaties & new perspectives. Malmö, May 2026. Linnaeus & Lund universities.

01

Sep

2026

Project member Panel at EuroSEAS Conference, Madrid 2026

Project members convene Southeast Asia diplomacy panel at EuroSEAS Madrid, Sept 2026

01

Sep

2026

CFP Deadline – Treaties and Tributes Conference 2027

CFP Deadline: Treaties & Tributes 2027 conference. Submit to 2027conference@sea-treaties.org

19

Feb

2027

2027 Conference: Treaties and Tributes: Asian Agency and Performativity in Cross-Cultural Diplomacy, c. 1400–1975

Venue: Thammasat University, Bangkok

International conference on Asian diplomacy, treaty-making & cross-cultural relations. Bangkok, 2027

Past Events

02

Apr

Maarten Manse Presents new book Empire of Improvisation at KITLV, Leiden

Manse presents his forthcoming book on colonial taxation and governance at KITLV, Leiden, 2 April

25

Mar

Public lecture: Coercion and accommodation in the Malay World during the long nineteenth century

SOAS Gallery, room B103

Guest lecture on treaty-making and cross-cultural diplomacy in Southeast Asia, 18th–20th centuries.

23

Mar

Hägerdal, Manse and Kouwagam Present at Oxford

Maarten Manse, Hans Hägerdal and Santy Kouwagam present on Dutch legal language at Oxford, 23 March

19

Mar

Birgit Tremml-Werner and Maarten Manse at Vienna Archival Conference

Seminarraum 1, ÖAW Campus Bäckerstrasse 13 1010 Vienna

Maarten Manse and Birgit Tremml-Werner present on colonial archives in Vienna, 19–20 March

05

Mar

Maarten Manse at the GLOBALISE Conference, Amsterdam 2026

International Institute of Social History, Nikolaevsky room.

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Amsterdam

Maarten Manse at GLOBALISE Conference on VOC Archives, Amsterdam, 4–6 March 2026

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