The University of Washington Southeast Asia Center has received a four-year $1,000,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation’s LuceSEA initiative for a project titled, Tracing Authoritarianism: Linking Southeast Asia with Southeast Asian America Through Archives, Language, and Pedagogy. Through the lens of critical archival studies, SEAC’s project will examine authoritarianism and

Our feature article in this final newsletter of the 2019-20 academic year was written by Lucky Agung Pratama, the Southeast Asia Center’s graduate student assistant and a PhD Candidate in the College of Built Environments. With a background in Civil Engineering and Construction Management, his research mostly revolves around the visual representation of construction activities.

The UW Libraries’ student video contest asks students to create a short video showing what UW Libraries means to them. Long Tran, a graduate student in the Cinema and Media Studies department won first place with his video Access. Access explains how the libraries facilitate Long’s research into Hollywood’s representation of the Vietnam war, and

Last week Sam Eat shared the good news about Phnom Penh Noodle House’s soft reopening for take-out and delivery orders.  This week brings more good news: a number of restaurants in the International District that had closed due to the crisis have now reopened.  You again can get your Korean corndog fix at Chung Chun’s;

by Judith Henchy, Southeast Asia Section Librarian “Every time I remember Elizabeth Becker’s pictures, I cannot help but see Pol Pot’s total control of the production and consumption of these images; his vision of Kampuchea saturates them all.  I cannot see beyond it.” –Adrian Alarilla The Center for Research Libraries recently announced that The Age

Our guest reviewer this week is Sambath Eat who is completing his first year in the MA program in Southeast Asia Studies and is a FLAS Fellow studying Cambodia. He’s currently researching Khmer-language newspapers from the 1950s – 1970s, focusing particularly on advertising and other forms of popular representation to better understand Khmer national identity

By Guest Reviewer Itsara Namtapi Itsara Namtapi is UW’s Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in Thai for the current academic year.  Itsara received his Master’s in English Linguistics from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and then taught English and English for Specific Purposes, with a focus on tourism, at the university level.  At UW, he teaches

by Shannon Bush   Having just signed up for thirty free days of Netflix, I’m already addicted to the series Street Food: Asia.  I recommend starting with the Bangkok and Yogyakarta episodes, the latter being especially close to my heart having lived there a year in the 2000s (and nasi gudeg being one of my

Trần Hoàng Long is a first-year graduate student pursuing an MA in Cinema and Media Studies at UW.  His research interests involve Vietnamese history, history of the war in Việt Nam, and Vietnamese cinema.  We are delighted that Long has agreed to serve as our film and restaurant reviewer this week.  The restaurant he’s selected, Phở

by Shannon Bush With online classes throughout spring quarter, social distancing, and the cancellation of events, conferences, concerts, festivals—gatherings, in short—life during COVID-19 ain’t no party.  Although taxing, these restrictions are understandable as they are effective weapons in our limited arsenal to reduce the spread of this virus.  While we find ourselves accepting limits on