INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
Paris, February 18, 2026
Le Havre, February 19-20, 2026
https://bandungspirit.org/

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND FOR PARTICIPATION
The conference is open to individual and group paper presentations. Those willing to present their papers are invited to submit their abstracts until December 31, 2025. The notification of selected abstracts will be communicated to their authors progressively according to their availability. The earlier the abstracts are submitted, the sooner the authors will get notified. Abstracts of 200-300 words are to be submitted online at
https://forms.gle/zEiFsqZYNx2RrucP9

INTRODUCTION
Among the most important conferences in the filiation of the Bandung Conference is the Havana Tricontinental Conference. The filiation of Cuba to Bandung started after its revolution of 1959 when Ernesto "Che" Guevara, under the orders of Prime Minister Fidel Castro Ruz, visited Asia including Indonesia to meet President Sukarno in July 1959. The following year, in January 1960, diplomatic relations between the two countries were established. President Sukarno himself visited Cuba in May 1960, marking the first visit by a head of state after the Cuban Revolution. A year later, in September 1961, Cuba participated in the Belgrade Non-Aligned Nations Conference and became the only Latin American founding member of the establishment of the NAM (Non-Aligned Movement).

The Tricontinental Conference took place in Havana on January 3-16, 1966. It was attended by roughly 500 delegates from 82 countries. Among the outstanding participants were the anti-colonialist Amílcar Cabral of Guinea-Bissau and Nguyen Van Tien, the representative of the National Liberation Front of Vietnam. Other prominent figures included Fidel Castro, the Prime Minister of Cuba, and Salvador Allende, who became later the President of Chile. Two prominent figures related to the conference were missing: Che Guevara who was fighting in Bolivia and Mehdi Ben Barka, the “architect” of the conference who disappeared in Paris in October 1965. He was the Moroccan intellectual activist anti-colonialist panafricanist opponent of the Moroccan King Hassan II. His disappearance remains a mystery up to the present day.

The conference was focused on tricontinental integration, with emphasis on anticolonialism, anti-imperialism, revolutionary internationalism, and overall collaboration and support in these areas. Some delegates requested military and diplomatic support from other participants in their revolutionary and anti-colonial pursuits. Delegates also called for the removal of foreign military bases on the three continents and the ending of military pacts. However, the general declaration of the conference emphasized that the shared enemy of Asia, Africa, and Latin America was without a doubt, American imperialism and interventionism. Among the outcome was the foundation of the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL).

Meanwhile, Asia has been rising notably since the beginning of the 21st century. Not only is Asia rising in terms of economy, but it is also rising in the other fields controlled so far by the Western imperialism: sciences and technology; information, communication, media; financial system and institutions; mass destructive weapon; control over access to natural resources.

Now, 60 years after Havana, what is the state of the world related to the claims of the Tricontinental Conference? Have colonialism and imperialism been eradicated from Africa, Asia and Latin America? In what way colonialism and imperialism continue to function? How are the living conditions of peoples, of grass-root communities, of indigenous, ethnic and religious minorities, especially children and women in the three continents? How about informalities: informal sectors, informal trade, informal business, informal housing, and informal towns? What is the state of relations between Asia, Africa, Latin America and the World? What should be the relations between Asia, Africa, Latin America and the World in order to achieve a Global and Sustainable Prosperity in Peace, Justice, Cooperation, Solidarity and Diversity?

It is to discuss those such questions that the 10th edition of the Rise of Asia Conference Series is organised. It encourages the participation of scholars from a wide range of scientific disciplines (area studies, cultural studies, ecology, economics, geography, built environment, architecture, urban studies, history, humanities, languages, management, political and social sciences, international relations…) and practitioners from diverse professional fields (business, civil society, education, enterprise, government, management, parliament, public policy, social and solidarity movements…) as well as artists and writers, based in diverse geographical areas (Africa, North, Central and South America, Australia, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Oceania, Pacific…).

Darwis Khudori, Conference Initiator and Convenor

GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTER CANDIDATES
The selection of presenters is based on the abstract and the basic personal data of the presenter candidates in respect to the following dates:
1. Deadline of abstract submission: December 31, 2025.
2. Notification of selected presenters: progressively starting from November 2025. The earlier the abstracts are submitted, the sooner the authors will get notified.
3. Deadline of full paper submission for publication project will be decided following the conference.

Abstracts of approximately 200-300 words (excluding figures, tables, and references) and basic personal data of the authors are to be submitted online at:
https://forms.gle/zEiFsqZYNx2RrucP9

FINANCING
The organising committee does not provide a travel grant to any participant even in the case of the physical conference. The presenters and participants are supposed to find the necessary funds for their own participation (visa, international and national transport, accommodation).