This week in TWISEA we feature an article written by our MA student Kasey Rackowitz about her Indonesian language debate at the Embassy of Indonesia in D.C. “Now when you see your island’s hand sign, shake your angklung as much as you can.” Playful karaoke music started playing from the speakers. The woman in the

This week we are featuring an article written by Malaysian Student Association member and Malaysian international student Farhanah Faizal about their latest event. Since the spring of last year, the Malaysian Student Association at UW (MASA UW) holds an annual cultural night – also famously known as Malaysian Night among Malaysian students all over the

This week in TWISEA we are featuring an article by our MA student Dimas Romadhon in response to Dr. Giora Eliraz’s article “Ahok, Islamism and Indonesian Democracy.” Petruk suddenly becomes king. He leads rudely, but he is correct. He bulldozes the dilapidated system of the existing government. He challenges old rulers and elites, strips down

This week we are featuring an article written by History PhD student and SEAC affiliate Lin Hongxuan. On 23 and 24 March 2017, the University of Washington Southeast Asia Center organized and hosted a graduate student conference, entitled “The Palimpsestic Past and Present of Southeast Asia: Rewriting Lives Beyond Boundaries.” The conference theme was formulated

This week we are featuring an article written by our Managing Director Rebakah Daro Minarchek. The Island School on Bainbridge Island, just west of Seattle, annually plans and implements a month of K-5 curriculum focused on a single country. This year, the school’s planning team chose Indonesia to highlight across all subjects and requested the

This week we asked JSIS faculty member Jonathan Warren about his book Cultures of Development: Vietnam, Brazil and the Unsung Vanguard of Prosperity.  1. How did you get interested in this topic? Economic development is one of those universal issues – almost every person I’ve ever met in the US, Germany, Brazil, Vietnam, and elsewhere all

This week we are featuring an article written by our affiliated graduate student from the Department of History, Katia Chaterji.   [Singing in Javanese] – Speak English, Hanuman. – Oh, I should speak English? – Ya, you are in front of your children who only know English. So you should speak English.   — Midiyanto,

This week in TWISEA we are featuring our managing director Rebakah Daro Minarchek and Tikka Sears and their Indonesian culture outreach event at View Ridge Elementary School. One of SEAC’s missions is to do outreach with the Greater Seattle community, in particular K-12 schools. Our most recent project was an Indonesian culture curriculum at View

This week in TWISEA we are spotlighting our Vietnamese language instructor’s first Tết celebration on campus. On Saturday, January 21, Vietnamese language instructor Cô Bích Ngọc-Turner hosted her first Tết (Lunar New Year) event on campus at the Water Activities Center. Those who attended were Vietnamese American community members, Southeast Asian Center and Asian Languages

This week we are featuring an article by our MA student Adrian Alarilla to get you excited about the upcoming Seattle Asian American Film Festival. Growing up in the Philippines, I consumed a lot of local media that oftentimes featured people who looked like me, a fact I took for granted until I migrated to