This week, our MA student Adrian Alarilla writes about the film festival he’s organizing with the Center, The SEAxSEA Film Festival, that explores Southeast Asia in its diversity, emphasizing underrepresented communities and youth-produced visions of the past, present, and future.   “It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally

This week we are featuring an article written by our Managing Director Rebakah Daro Minarchek. The Island School on Bainbridge Island, just west of Seattle, annually plans and implements a month of K-5 curriculum focused on a single country. This year, the school’s planning team chose Indonesia to highlight across all subjects and requested the

This week we are featuring an article written by our affiliated graduate student from the Department of History, Katia Chaterji.   [Singing in Javanese] – Speak English, Hanuman. – Oh, I should speak English? – Ya, you are in front of your children who only know English. So you should speak English.   — Midiyanto,

This week we remember Ade Suparman and Nurrika’s teaching visit last spring quarter with an article written by our MA student Shannon Bush. Over the spring quarter, UW’s School of Music, in cooperation with the Southeast Asia Center, hosted artist in residence Ade Suparman and his wife, choreographer and dancer Nurrika. Ade, a master musician,

This week we are featuring one of our first-year students in the MA program in Southeast Asia Studies, Adrian Alarilla.  Could you tell me about yourself? How did you become interested in studying Southeast Asia? I grew up in Metro Manila. I was working on my BA in Film and Audiovisual Communication at the University of

University of Washington faculty members are collaborating with colleagues in Indonesia in fields as diverse as bioethics, dance, library collections, gamelan music, and human-wildlife interaction. At a presentation on April 28, 2016, five faculty members reported on the collaborations they seeded while travelling in and around Jogjakarta, Indonesia over the summer of 2015. Their travel

During Spring quarter, the Southeast Asia Center and UW School of Music were honored to host Visiting Artist Ade Suparman, an instrumentalist and composer from West Java, Indonesia. Pak Ade specializes in Sundanese music. We also welcomed Nurrika, a Sundanese choreographer, who dances in the Jaipongan and Ketuk Tilu folk style. Both Ade and Nurrika taught UW

Leila Chudori, noted Indonesian journalist and author, visited the Southeast Asia Center for two days in April 2016. Her book Pulang (Home) was recently translated and published in English (John McGlynn (The Lontar Foundation), who translated the novel, also visited the Southeast Asia Center in early April). Leila read from her book, which delves into the lives

In April, the Southeast Asia Center, along with the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, welcomed Professor Muhamad Ali (UC Riverside, Religious Studies) and Giora Eliraz (Harry S. Truman Institute, University of Jerusalem) for a colloqium about Indonesian perceptions of the Middle East and Middle Eastern perceptions of

Teater Payung Hitam was founded by Artistic Director Rachman Sabur in 1982 in Bandung, Indonesia. Now in its 33rd year, the group has established itself as one of the country’s foremost modern theatre companies. Their creative work is stimulated by the problems of people and society. They desire to stand at the forefront of idealism,