As the academic year begins, we reconnect with friends, familiar surroundings, and favorite diversions (like being the first to correctly answer “Where in SEA?”). At the same time, starting new classes and meeting students and colleagues new to campus provides us the opportunity to expand our knowledge and perspective. In that spirit, we welcome the

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 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

Walden Bello is one of the leading critics of the current model of economic globalization, combining the roles of intellectual and activist. The Southeast Asia Center welcomed Mr. Bello in November, in an event co-sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; Departments of History, Geography, and American Ethnic Studies; and, the Simpson Center for the