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

This week we are featuring an article by Jen Louie. Jen joined our faculty member Christoph Giebel’s 2015 summer study abroad program Viet Nam: Building for Peace in the Wake of War. The 2017 application for this program closes February 15.  By the time the egg coffee was in my hand and the sun crept above

This week we are featuring an article by our affiliated PhD student in the History department, Jorge Bayona.  Back when I taught Peruvian history at a university in Lima, I had a chance to take a gander at the final examination a colleague of mine was giving. Her main question was a fill-in-the-blanks exercise in

The Southeast Asia Center is sad to report the loss of two prominent Indonesian scholars.  We offer condolences to their families and highlight their academic careers and contribution to Indonesian studies below: Dr Jeffrey Hadler: Jeffrey Hadler, associate professor and chair of the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC – Berkeley, spent

This week we are featuring an article written by our MA student Dimas Romadhon from Indonesia. We hope that this article gets you excited for our Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference in March that is inspired by Benedict Anderson. Abstracts (up to 500 words) are due February 13. Pertitaan is one of the ancient

This week our MA student Adrian Alarilla recaps Gerald Sim’s lecture on Singapore’s cartographic cinema last week. Film Studies professor Gerald Sim presented his paper, “Singapore’s Cartographic Cinema,” on December 8, 2016 at the UW Seattle campus. His insightful and enlightening talk was well-attended by students from the Southeast Asia Center, who co-presented it, as

This week we will talk about our interfaith research symposium event from October.  Senior lecturer Desiana Pauli Sandjaja organized a symposium entitled “Approaches to religious violence, radicalization, and deradicalization: Perspectives from US and Indonesia” on October 18th, 2016 at UW Seattle campus. This event was co-sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Literature, Southeast Asia

This week we are featuring a letter from our new director Celia Lowe. We’ve gotten off to a great start this academic year. We’ve hosted Ko Ko Thet, a writer of Burmese poetry; an amazing conference organized by Pauli Sandjaya and sponsored by the Consulate of Indonesia, Approaches to Religious Violence, Radicalism, and Deradicalization: Perspectives

This week our TWISEA editor and MA student Kasey Rackowitz is going to talk about the FLAS and her trip to Malaysia to get you excited about applying for the FLAS. Midterms are (hopefully) wrapping up, the sakura tree leaves in the Quad have fallen and Winter Break is upon us. What better way to