By Lucky Agung Pratama A Brief Description of Autism Care and Management in Indonesia Among developmental disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has unique aspects. People with ASD exhibit differences in their way of learning and have greater challenges with emotional and behavioral control, and communicating with others. According to the Centers for Disease Control and

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) Application Period Reopened for Southeast Asia Undergraduate Awards FLAS Fellowships support students from all UW departments and schools in acquiring modern foreign languages and area studies competencies.  Eligible Undergrads who will study Intermediate or Advanced Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Tagalog, Thai, or Vietnamese throughout the 2020-21 academic year can receive:

As the academic year begins, we reconnect with friends, familiar surroundings, and favorite diversions (like being the first to correctly answer “Where in SEA?”). At the same time, starting new classes and meeting students and colleagues new to campus provides us the opportunity to expand our knowledge and perspective. In that spirit, we welcome the

Our Featured Article today is a look both to the past and the future, as well as a meditation on how the former influences the latter.  It is especially relevant as we wind down the academic year and prepare to say farewell to those who are graduating.  It is also especially poignant as the Southeast Asia Center

On April 27, 2018, first-year MA student Choirun Nisa Ristanty from Banyuwangi, Indonesia gave a speech at the FIUTS Blue Marble Bash. In it, she talked about her experience living and studying in the United States so far. She has graciously allowed us to share the transcript of her speech, as well as the video.

The application period for the 2018 Christen J. Grorud Endowed Memorial Fellowship is now open! The Fellowship provides broad-based direct financial support to graduate students in good standing studying Southeast Asia at the University of Washington. Eligibility Current or admitted graduate students at the University of Washington The applicant does not need to be U.S. citizen but must be enrolled

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

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

by សុង វណ្ណា (Vanna Song) Some people settle in other countries on their own terms for personal, professional, academic, and other reasons.  For people like myself and other non-American-born Cambodians who resettled to the US, Australia, New Zealand and other countries in the 1970s and 1980s, our reasons were anything but the aforementioned. On April

by Choirun Nisa Ristanty My cultural trip to Roslyn on the first Friday in November was one never to be forgotten. It was a freezing morning—at least me for me—and it brought the first snowfall that I’d ever seen in my life. The other students on the trip regarded the weather with disdain, but I