In this Q&A, we speak with Cari An Coe, a recent graduate of the University of Washington and a Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas affiliated student. We asked Cari about her love of Southeast Asia, and her time as a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow studying Khmer at the UW.   

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 asked JSIS faculty member Jonathan Warren about his book Cultures of Development: Vietnam, Brazil and the Unsung Vanguard of Prosperity.  1. How did you get interested in this topic? Economic development is one of those universal issues – almost every person I’ve ever met in the US, Germany, Brazil, Vietnam, and elsewhere all