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 an article written by Malaysian Student Association member and Malaysian international student Farhanah Faizal about their latest event. Since the spring of last year, the Malaysian Student Association at UW (MASA UW) holds an annual cultural night – also famously known as Malaysian Night among Malaysian students all over the

After many years as Director of the Southeast Asia Center, Professor Laurie Sears is stepping down from that position and passing the torch to UW’s own Celia Lowe. Laurie will continue with her teaching and research pursuits here at UW, so she is not going to disappear from our sphere. Celia Lowe has joint Associate

Considering the on-going crisis in the South China Seas, the Southeast Asia Center organized a panel for army officers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) to discuss the issues and provide insight from the viewpoints of Southeast Asian nations, India, and China. Professors David Bachman and Anand Yang from the UW Jackson School of International Studies

Early in the fall quarter, the Southeast Asia Center,  the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, the Michael G. Foster School of Business Global Business Center, and the University of Washington Office of Global Affairs hosted a panel discussion with the U.S. Ambassadors to Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, four of the member