OCIS 2027 is hosted by the Univeristy of the South Pacific and the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs. 

Call for proposals close 31 October 2026, 10.59AM Canberra time. 

Meredith Weiss examines how activists across Southeast Asia adapt to democratic decline, using strategic hedging to navigate repression, manage uncertainty, and sustain collective action.

Dr Annisa R. Beta theorises rasa through autotheoretical essays from Jakarta's 2025 youth protests, situating young women's writing within Indonesian feminist knowledge traditions.

Nguyen Khac Giang asks why Vietnam and China govern differently despite shared communist roots, and whether current centralisation is now converging the two regimes.

Sebastian Dettman examines how parties use manifestos, drawing on 77 manifestos from six Asian countries, to appeal to voters, maintain cohesion, and address different social groups.

Four slices of PhD life, from four current candidates in the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs.

Zeren Li traces China's evolving state–private capital relations across three decades as expanding state capacity deepened embeddedness in the private economy.