Phd Program in Multicultural Studies, Mahidol University

🌏 [Update] Call for Papers | International Conference 2026
📢 Deadline Extended!
We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission deadline has been extended to 30 June 2026.

✨ Conference Highlights
• Rethinking sustainability beyond Western frameworks
• Emphasizing local knowledge and community-based solutions
• Critically reflecting on the SDGs and exploring post-2030 futures
• Strengthening ASEAN identity in sustainable development
• Connecting education, language, culture, and sustainability

📌 We Welcome
• Individual presentations (Abstract max. 250 words)
• Panel proposals (Abstract max. 500 words)

🗓 Important Dates (Bangkok Time)
📄 Abstract Submission [Extended]: Now – 30 June 2026
📩 Acceptance Notification [Extended]: 15 July 2026
📝 Registration: 16 July – 20 August 2026
🎓 Conference Dates: 27–28 August 2026

📍 Venue
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia (RILCA), Mahidol University, Thailand

💰 Registration Fees
Presenter Registration Fees
• Standard rate: THB 5,500
• Student rate: THB 3,000

Listener Registration Fee
• Standard rate: THB 1,000
• Students can attend the conference as listeners free of charge. However, ONLY the first 20 student registrants are entitled to our complimentary morning and afternoon refreshments, as well as a buffet lunch. Fee-exempt seats with catering are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Students who wish to attend as listeners are still required to register in advance and present a valid student ID card during registration.

📩 Submit your abstract: https://forms.gle/4gS7nYgjt55yaZqT7
📄 Download the abstract template: https://drive.google.com/.../1ftkcWOwn5N4a1jqfrJfXQkLGQrl...
🔎 More information: https://rilcaconf.mahidol.ac.th/
📧 Contact: [email protected]

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Thank you so much to everyone for joining our "Work in Progress: Research Conversations in Multicultural Studies", both onsite and virtually.

Truly grateful for the amazing presentations, inspiring thoughts, meaningful discussions, and fruitful conversations shared throughout the session.

Thank you for spending this wonderful time together ✨🌏

📢 Join us for "Work-In-Progress: Research Conversations in Multicultural Studies"

📅Date: 15 May 2026
⏰Time: 8:15-16:45
📍Venue: Nat Pamornpawat Room, RILCA, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus (A Hybrid Event)
🖥️ Online via Zoom:
Meeting ID: 964 2146 3461
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RILCA, MahidolUniversity
Transform your passion for social change into a high-impact academic career.

✔️Transnational Migration & Labor
✔️Gender, Ethnicity, and Identity
✔️Cultural Policy & Human Rights
✔️Language and Power in Plural Societies
"We don't just study cultures; we analyze the structures that shape them."

📅 Applications are now open (until May 31, 2026):
https://graduate.mahidol.ac.th/admission-apply/
Learn more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjGjO7U5mtQ

Or reach out directly to Assoc. Prof. Dr.Sirijit Sunanta (Program Chair)
📧 [email protected]

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📌 New Publication:

Please check out the recent article by Prof. Dr. Paul Statham, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex, UK, co-authored with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sirijit Sunanta, our program member.

"Cross-Border Intimate Mobilities Between the Global South and North: Resetting the Research Agenda Beyond Marriage Migration"

The article is available at:

Cross-Border Intimate Mobilities Between the Global South and North: Resetting the Research Agenda Beyond Marriage Migration Three decades ago, influential marriage migration perspectives emerged that importantly transformed the agenda for studies on how women from the Global South experience intimate relations with men from the wealthier North. Applying feminist gender perspectives, this field centered on a woman's....

📣Thesis examination:
KE HE, Ph.D. Candidate in Multicultural Studies Program

"Real Estate Development and Tourism Gentrification: Neighborhood Transformations in Baan Saiyuan Village, Phuket, Thailand"

📅Date: 1 May 2026
⏰Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
📍Venue: Nut Phamornprawat Room, 1st Floor, RILCA, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus

*The event is open to the public.

ABSTRACT
This thesis examines tourism gentrification as a gradual and relational process, focusing on how it reshapes neighbourhood space, social relations, and everyday life in southern Thailand. It centers on Baan Saiyuan, a Muslim village in Phuket that has undergone rapid tourism- and real estate–driven transformation since the late 2000s. The study explores how global tourism dynamics intersect with local histories, land practices, and community meanings.

Using an interpretive, phenomenological case study approach, the research combines spatial mapping (QGIS, Google Earth Pro), document analysis, and in-depth interviews with residents, community leaders, officials, and tourism actors. Visual materials are used to elicit spatial memory and lived experiences.

Findings show that change occurs less through direct displacement than through gradual spatial reconfiguration, rising land values, and shifting meanings of land. Residents respond through adaptation, reinterpretation of space, and selective coexistence. The study highlights tourism gentrification as a slow, socially differentiated process embedded in everyday life.

Keywords: Tourism gentrification; neighbourhood transformation; lived experience; Phuket

🎉 Big Congratulations to Jiu Wu, our PhD candidate, on successfully completing her thesis examination!

Her research on “Constructions of Chineseness in an Emerging Chinatown: a Temporally Layered Multimodal Linguistic Landscape Study of Huai Kwang, Bangkok”, is an impressive contribution to the field.

📣Thesis examination:
Jia Wu, Ph.D. Candidate in Multicultural Studies Program

"Constructions of Chineseness in an Emerging Chinatown: a Temporally Layered Multimodal Linguistic Landscape Study of Huai Kwang, Bangkok"

📅Date: 10 April 2026
⏰Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
📍Venue: Nat Coference Room, 1st Floor, RILCA, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus
🖥️ Online via Webex: https://mahidol.webex.com/mahidol/j.php?MTID=m5bfb6909291e2c7af2423c7489091420
Meeting number: 2641 062 3139
Password: Gx4pT3rmBg5

*The event is open to the public.

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สถาบันวิจัยภาษาและวัฒนธรรมเอเชีย (RILCA) ขอแสดงความยินดีแด่
❤ผู้ช่วยศาสตราจารย์ ดร.สมรักษ์ ชัยสิงห์กานานนท์

ที่ได้รับทุนสนับสนุนการพัฒนาคณาจารย์บัณฑิตศึกษาจาก มหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล เพื่อไปนำเสนอผลงานทางวิชาการ ณ University of the Aegean, Greece

ในหัวข้อ “Cultural Mobility As Climate Strategy: Lessons From Moken Communities In A Changing World”

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RILCA, Mahidol University proudly congratulates
Asst. Prof. Dr.Somrak Chaisingkananont

on being awarded a Graduate Faculty Development Grant from Mahidol University to present her academic work at the University of the Aegean, Greece.

Her presentation is entitled: “Cultural Mobility as Climate Strategy: Lessons from Moken Communities in a Changing World”

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