The Cambodian American Community Council of Washington (CACCWA) is currently recruiting volunteers for their board of directors, including youth advocate board members that are current high school and college students. ABOUT CACCWA The CACCWA is a nonprofit organization that partners with a coalition of 12 Cambodian-American organizations within Washington State to serve the community. CACCWA’s mission

The Southeast Asian Studies community has suffered two major loses in recent months with the passing of Charles “Biff” Keyes and Thomas Gething. Professors Gething and Keyes both leave long legacies of research, teaching, and mentorship that shaped generations of students. Obituaries provided by their families are below. Thomas Gething Thomas Wilson (Tom) Gething, age

SEAxSEA 2021 Filmmaker Panel Discussion Friday, May 28 at 6:30 pm PST Watch here: http://bit.ly/seaxsea-21-panelPlease join us for a discussion with four of the filmmakers in this year’s SEAxSEA Film Festival. Christine Vicera and Michael B. C. Rivera (Sisig and Puchero, 2021, Hongkong), Justice Khor (Lonesome, 2021, Malaysia), and Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke (Red Aninsri, 2020, Thailand) will

15 April 2021 Seattle The Southeast Asia Center and the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington joins Cambodian and Cambodian diaspora communities in condemnation of VICE Magazine for its promotion of altered images of prisoners in S-21, a major Khmer Rouge prison. The images depict people who had been blindfolded and

Joe Figel is a Fulbright Scholar to Indonesia where he is working to help protect Sumatran tigers from poachers. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Life, Ocean, & General Sciences at Highline College. Joe is a 2020 recipient of the Asian and Global Studies Course Development Grant, administered by the

The Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) consortium is offering three virtual mini courses in Southeast Asia Studies this winter and spring. All courses are free and open to graduate students in any discipline working on Southeast Asia. UW graduate students get priority access to these courses because SEAC is a founding

UW has received a four year, one million dollar grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for the project “Tracing Authoritarianism and Linking Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian America Through Archives, Language, and Pedagogy.” Read the UW News press release introducing the project here.  UW’s Luce Foundation grant partners in Cambodia are the Bophana Audiovisual Resource

The Southeast Asia Center at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the Libraries at the University of Washington will spearhead a new initiative of innovative collaborations to explore the effects and consequences of authoritarianism in Southeast Asia and on Southeast Asian American communities in the United States.  The $1 million grant to

SEALC Project Professional and Materials Development to Strengthen Southeast Asian Language Instruction Institute for Regional and International Studies | 608-262-0646 | SEALC@intl.wisc.edu Application for the SEALC Language Tuition Support with support from the Henry Luce Foundation. The Southeast East Asian Language Council (SEALC) awards financial assistance to students who incur tuition fees when studying a Southeast