The 7th Southeast Asian Conference on Education (SEACE2027)

Join us in Bangkok, Thailand, for SEACE2027

Held in partnership with the IAFOR Research Centre at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University, Japan, and our global partners, SEACE has firmly established itself in our calendar as a welcome complement to our global conference programme.

This year, IAFOR returns to Thailand, situated centrally in the Southeast Asian region, which also comprises Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Brunei, Singapore, Myanmar, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Malaysia. Southeast Asia is a vibrant, thriving, and developing area, and boasts a great diversity of peoples, cultures, and ethnicities. As a recognised regional hub, Bangkok is a great location to help further the IAFOR mission of encouraging interdisciplinary discussion, facilitating intercultural awareness, and promoting international exchange.

As an organisation that engages across all sectors of society, and with multiple stakeholders to engage in some of the biggest challenges and issues the world faces from an interdisciplinary perspective, we have aligned our research initiatives and conferences with the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as outlined in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and around IAFOR’s four key themes: Technology and Artificial Intelligence; Humanity and Human Intelligence; Global Citizenship and Education for Peace; and Leadership.

SEACE2027 encourages academics and scholars to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum stimulating respectful dialogue, and like our long-running events elsewhere in the world, will afford an exceptional opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, networking, and facilitating partnerships across national, cultural, and disciplinary borders. IAFOR was made possible, and is a response to, the forces of globalisation, and the understanding that many of the most pressing challenges, whether felt or experienced locally, would require global cooperation and action to address.

Registration for either SEACAH2027 or SEACE2027 will allow delegates to attend the joint plenary sessions, and in keeping with our interdisciplinary mission, any parallel sessions in either conference, as desired.

We look forward to seeing you in Bangkok!

For and on behalf of the IAFOR International Academic Board

Dr Joseph Haldane, Osaka University, Japan & University College London, United Kingdom
Chairman and CEO, IAFOR

Professor Jun Arima, University of Tokyo, Japan
President, IAFOR

Professor Anne Boddington, Kingston University, United Kingdom
Executive Vice-President and Provost, IAFOR

Present, Listen, Connect: Ways to Join

Whether you’re sharing your research or coming to learn, there’s a way to take part. Join us in person at Chulalongkorn University and ICONSIAM HALL, or take part online from anywhere. One registration gives you full access to both SEACE and SEACAH sessions, plus recordings to catch up on afterwards.

However you join, you’ll be part of an international, interdisciplinary community. Last year that meant 356 delegates from 50 countries.

Call for Papers

The SEACE2027 Conference Programme Committee welcomes papers from a wide variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives, and submissions are organised into the following streams:

• Teaching & Learning
• Educational Structures
• Community & Society
• Language & Culture
• Psychology, Mind & Brain
• Innovation & Technology
• Special Themes and Areas of Focus

IAFOR's Conference Themes for 2025-2029

Our selected themes for 2025-2029 bring together ideas and encourage research and synergies in the following areas:

Technology and Artificial Intelligence

Humanity and Human Intelligence

Global Citizenship and Education for Peace

Leadership

Our four themes can be seen as standalone themes, but they are also very much in conversation with each other. Themes may be seen as corollaries, complementary, or in opposition/juxtaposition with each other. The themes can be considered as widely as possible and are designed, in keeping with our mission, to encourage ideas across the disciplines.

Speakers

To be Announced

Read Last Year's Conference Report

Conference News

Conference Dinner

Join us for the SEACE/SEACAH2027 Conference Dinner, where you can relax, unwind, and get to know fellow delegates over an array of modern international cuisines ...

Conference Report and Intelligence Briefing: SEACE/SEACAH2026

356 delegates, representing 238 institutions from 50 countries across the world, discussed the intersection of technology and human value, and their implications within the education and cultural aspects ...

Networking Event: Singapore Education Lounge

This exclusive gathering joins together IAFOR and SEN’s networks of educators, researchers, EdTech innovators, and policymakers for an evening of discussion and networking ...

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About SEACE and IAFOR’s Education Conferences

The Southeast Asian Conference on Education seeks to identify the challenges and highlight the strengths in the way ASEAN countries address and tackle the region’s educational needs, at both the national level and at the region-wide level, such as internationalisation, multiculturalism, connectivity, mobility and accessibility.