This week we are featuring an article written by History PhD student and SEAC affiliate Lin Hongxuan. On 23 and 24 March 2017, the University of Washington Southeast Asia Center organized and hosted a graduate student conference, entitled “The Palimpsestic Past and Present of Southeast Asia: Rewriting Lives Beyond Boundaries.” The conference theme was formulated

Emily Peterson successfully defended her dissertation titled “Insularity and Adaptation: Investigating the role of exchange and inter-island interaction in the Banda Islands, Indonesia” on March 17. This is an innovative study of changes in social “connectedness” in these small and geographically isolated islands in eastern Indonesia, over the period from initial Neolithic occupation about 3500