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Happy Holidays from all of us at the Southeast Asia Center! While we hope you are all making the most of our winter break, we can’t wait to have you back with us this coming winter quarter to watch all these amazing films from Southeast Asia and its diasporas. Check out our trailer for our
The largest film festival in the U.S. is back! The Southeast Asia Center is happy to be partnering with the Seattle International Film Festival to bring films from across the globe into Seattle’s backyard. This year, there seems to be a running theme in the featured films from Southeast Asia, and it’s more than just
“[N]o empire is sustainable without astute statecraft, both diplomacy to court peers and dominance to control subordinates. Empires exercise much of their authority through alliances with peer states…. Always in flux, these relationships with other powers can elide into conflict through diplomatic breaches, economic competition, or war, thereby weakening the dominant state.” – Alfred McCoy
Last week, the Southeast Asia Center had the honor of being part of The ART of Survival at Seattle City Hall. Adrian Alarilla talks more about what went down. ‘We thought everything was lost, that we would never hear our music again, never see our dance.’ They could not stop crying; people wept through
Monday, April 9th, 4-8 PM Chipotle on The Ave (4229 University Way NE) Last October, JSIS Senior Aylin Eldrin and her family lost their home, business, and almost everything they owned as a result of the Santa Rosa Wildfires. Aylin is currently struggling to balance helping her mother to bring back their income stream and home while also attempting to support herself and finish her studies. To help Aylin finish
Malaysian Night is an event organized by Malaysians annually to showcase and embrace Malaysian culture. This year, the theme is IKAT. IKAT, in Malay, means tied together. It signifies friendship and bond. Malaysia is a unique, multicultural country. IKAT celebrates the friendship and unity between different races through a skit, featuring friendship and romance between actions of
Saturday, April 7, 1-7pm Seattle City Hall 600 4th Ave Hosted by Cambodian American Community Council of Washington The ART of Survival is an arts event exploring the Cambodian American identity. This will be the second in an annual Cambodian American community series called Remembering the Past, Welcoming the Future, which was the inaugural event held in 2015
Last December, the Southeast Asia Center, in conjunction with the UW Graduate School and the Rajana Society, hosted a number of events revolving around the visit of internationally-acclaimed Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, including a video installation featuring images from the archive of Elizabeth Becker. Jenna Grant, who spearheaded the organizing efforts of his visit, was featured
At the end of winter quarter, students from the Marine Technology program at Seattle Central College and their instructor, Sam Laher, toured the offsite location housing the Burke Museum’s collection of traditional, wooden boats from Southeast Asia, the Pacific Northwest, and other points around the globe. They were met by Peter Lape, UW professor of
by Makenna Dreher “Even though the bullets have stopped flying in the Vietnam War, the war is not over,” Dr. Christoph Giebel explained on Tuesday, February 27th at the “Discussion on the Legacy of the Vietnam War and Opportunities to Take Action.” The discussion on Tuesday centered on the legacy of the Vietnam War that