CHRISTOPH GIEBEL: I first saw the documentary Last Days in Vietnam in September at a pre-screening and my many misgivings then were only reconfirmed by seeing it recently again online. The documentary has been the subject of a remarkable public relations and media blitz in the US, garnering much mainstream praise along the way, and is currently nominated for an Oscar in the Best Documentary category.

LAUREN PONGAN: You’ll learn many things at the UW Libraries’ exhibit “Author, Poet and Worker: The World of Carlos Bulosan,” but the main takeaway is that Bulosan shouldn’t just be important to Filipino Americans. True, Bulosan was a voice for Filipino Americans who were being discriminated against in the 1930s – 1950s. But he was also a famous writer and labor advocate that inspired many beyond the Filipino American community.

We are very pleased to announce that the UW Southeast Asia Center once again secured Title VI funding for our Center as well as for Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships.  This four-year, 2 million dollar grant will help support UW students studying Southeast Asian languages and will allow us to continue to offer

Perspectives, the newsletter of the The College of Arts and Sciences, published a piece about the Ancient Shores, Changing Tides museum exchange, which the Southeast Asia Center supported. From the article: “When children on Palawan Island in the Philippines gathered earlier this year to practice traditional songs and dances of their Cuyonon culture, their inspiration

Anne Crylen, a doctoral student in the College of Education, received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant to spend the coming year in Cambodia conducting research on children’s re-entry into school following traumatic injury. Read more about Anne’s project on the College of Education’s website

A University of Washington field course in Chiang Rai, Thailand explored how to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in conservation biology. Professor Randy Kyes is pictured demonstrating a UAV and its potential uses/applications in conservation biology and global health for Thai high school students from local villages in Chiang Rai, Thailand. This outreach education program was

UW Today featured an artcile about Professor Randy Kyes: “Since at least the 1970s, the population of critically endangered Sulawesi black macaques living in an Indonesian nature reserve has been dropping. But a new study by researchers at the University of Washington and in Indonesia shows that the population has stabilized over the past decade.

Press Release Nine U.S. Universities Join to Develop Academic Partnerships and Rebuild Higher Education Capacity in Myanmar NEW YORK, November 20, 2012—Following on the heels of President Obama’s historic trip to Myanmar this week and his stated commitment to advance education, the Institute of International Education has launched an institute-wide initiative involving the participation of nine

The Fulbright-DIKTI Indonesian Senior Scholar Recharging Program is an experimental program that allows selected Indonesian senior scholars to spend 10 weeks in the U.S. at a research university. The University of Washington was chosen as the first site for the program because of the excellence and quantity of scholars who specialize on Indonesia in Anthropology,

Comments from Laurie Sears, Director, Southeast Asia Center The highlight of the 2011-2012 year at SEAC was the book launch of the late and beloved Professor Emeritus Daniel S. Lev’s new book No Concessions: The Life of Yap Thiam Hien, Human Rights Lawyer. In the photo below, Professor Emeritus Benedict O’ G. Anderson and Yap