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

By Shannon Bush One of the questions from the audience following Vince Rafael’s February 13th talk, “Humanizing the Inhuman: Photographing the Philippine Drug War,” concerned allegations that Duterte and his inner circle profit from collaboration with Chinese narcotics syndicates, using their position to allow the importation of methamphetamine into the country.  Clandestine meth labs operate

In anticipation for Azeem Ibrahim’s upcoming talk at Seattle U on the Rohingya crisis, our featured article this week was published in the Mekong Review, a new Southeast Asian literary journal, and is itself a book review of Francis Wade’s recently-published “Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the making of a Muslim ‘Other’”.

If you’re still craving more Southeast Asian films in the wake of our recently concluded SEAxSEA Film Festival, don’t worry! This year’s Seattle Asian American Film Festival is coming in a few weeks, and many of the featured films focus on Southeast Asian stories. Here’s list of just some of the films you need to

by Adrian Alarilla On December 13, 2017, as the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency was acquiring 126 new agents, an Ilocos Sur journalist was arrested for “rebellion,” the Philippine Congress was mulling over the Dengvaxia disaster, and a new typhoon called Urduja was inching closer to Southern Philippines, I was in an Uber from Quezon City

The Middle East Institute is the oldest Washington-based institution dedicated solely to the study of the Middle East. It aims to provide non-partisan, expert information and analysis on the region. Giora Eliraz is an affiliate instructor at the Jackson School of International Studies. You can read his article on Indonesia and Tunisia here.

With the drumbeat of STEM growing louder on college campuses, the SEA x SEA Film Festival is a reminder that without the arts we miss the most important element in understanding and connecting with the world around us: the human.  Last fall’s talk by Jennifer Gaynor about a massive land reclamation project that would create

This week, our MA student Adrian Alarilla writes about the film festival he’s organizing with the Center, The SEAxSEA Film Festival, that explores Southeast Asia in its diversity, emphasizing underrepresented communities and youth-produced visions of the past, present, and future.   “It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally

SEAC is sponsoring a Roundtable Discussion on Myanmar and the Rohingya Crisis, organized by Associate Professor of Anthropology Ben Marwick, on January 11, 2018 at 6:00 pm in Thomson 101.  Our featured articles this week were published in the Mekong Review, a new Southeast Asian literary journal, and provide background regarding the historical context of

The Mekong Review is a quarterly literary magazine that began publishing in the fall of 2015 and aims to provide a sense of community across borders.  UW’s Southeast Asia Section Librarian, Judith Henchy describes its appeal in the region and its unique contribution to the literary scene. Dr. Henchy acquired the magazine for the UW