Join us for a one-day academic workshop exploring how identity is constructed, mobilised, and governed in contemporary South and Southeast Asia. Drawing on empirical case studies from across the region, participants will examine how intersecting forms of religion, caste, class, and collective mobilisation shape political identities in contexts of electoral competition and everyday governance.
Through comparative discussion, the workshop will explore how different institutional arrangements enable or constrain identity-based political mobilisation, and what these dynamics reveal about the governance of diversity and politics in the region.
Registration is required in advance via the online form:
Attendance is possible both in person and online.
February 17, 2026
9:30 – 16:00
Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences,Pod Vodárenskou věží 1143/4, Prague 8
