CALL FOR PAPERS Contaminating Archives: Documenting Power and Resistance in Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian America February 8-10, 2024 University of Washington Libraries We invite participants to reconsider the role of historical collections in relation to concepts of care and restitution and as forms of empowerment against state-sponsored violence and community erasure. We take our

CALL FOR PAPERS Southeast Asia and Taiwan Conference April 25-26, 2024 University of Washington, Seattle Co-hosted by the UW Center for Southeast Asia & its Diasporas, Taiwan Studies Program, and East Asia Center Southeast Asia and Taiwan have been linked for millennia by migrations of indigenous peoples and maritime trade.  Today, both have become rising economies

Apply for a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. Start your application now – click here! Deadlines Summer 2023 applicants: Tuesday, May 30th, 5 PM Pacific Time Academic year 2023-24 applicants: Monday, June 12th, 5 PM Pacific Time The Southeast Asia Center FLAS competition is reopening for undergraduate, graduate and professional school applicants. The

The UW Language Learning Center (LLC) has open positions for Staff Associates. See below for a list of qualifications. Qualified applicants should contact Russell Hugo (rlhugo@uw.edu), Assistant Director of the Language Learning Center, to inquire about openings. Qualifications for Language Learning Center Staff Associates Staff Associates for the 2023-2024 academic year will be responsible for

The Asian Languages and Literature Department at the University of Washington in Seattle is seeking a full-time, temporary lecturer in Vietnamese language for the 2023-2024 academic year (mid-September to mid-June). Duties include teaching seven Vietnamese language courses of various levels across three academic quarters, and collaborating with existing faculty in the department’s modern Vietnamese language program.

In the summer of 2022 Ben Rost traveled to Cambodia with funding from the Southeast Asia Center. Below, Ben reflects on his experience with Phnom Penh’s Literary Networks. After three weeks of searching in vain for a copy of The Accused, the 1973 novella I’d spent the past quarter reading and translating from a blurred

Andrew Hollister (AH), UW second-year MA in Southeast Asian Studies student, sits down with fellow student colleague, John Tran (JT), to discuss his research travels during the summer of 2022 in Cambodia. Andrew received funding for the trip from the Henry Luce Foundation through the Southeast Asia Center and was also a recipient of the

CAMBODIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON (CACCWA) – Assistant Program Coordinator Cambodian American Community Council is a grassroots community organization started in 2015 with a mission to strengthen Cambodian American communities and organizations by promoting multi-ethnic community unity, preserving culture, leveraging partnerships, advancing collaboration, and supporting capacity building for its member organizations. CACCWA is a

Earlier in 2022, after an extensive call for applications, the University of Washington Libraries awarded Cari Coe, Ph.D., the Southeast Asia Luce Foundation Archives Fellowship and Libraries Trainee appointment. This 2-year professional SE Asia librarianship training program is made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation’s $1 million grant titled “Tracing Authoritarianism: Linking Southeast Asia and

In the summer of 2022 Jackson School M.A. student Teshan Laucirica traveled to Thailand and Laos, where she visited the former homes of the Emerald Buddha, learning local histories of the Emerald Buddha along the way. In this interview John Tran speaks with Teshan about her experience, and what its done for her research. Teshan’s trip