15 April 2021 Seattle The Southeast Asia Center and the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington joins Cambodian and Cambodian diaspora communities in condemnation of VICE Magazine for its promotion of altered images of prisoners in S-21, a major Khmer Rouge prison. The images depict people who had been blindfolded and

Joe Figel is a Fulbright Scholar to Indonesia where he is working to help protect Sumatran tigers from poachers. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Life, Ocean, & General Sciences at Highline College. Joe is a 2020 recipient of the Asian and Global Studies Course Development Grant, administered by the

The Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) consortium is offering three virtual mini courses in Southeast Asia Studies this winter and spring. All courses are free and open to graduate students in any discipline working on Southeast Asia. UW graduate students get priority access to these courses because SEAC is a founding

UW has received a four year, one million dollar grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for the project “Tracing Authoritarianism and Linking Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian America Through Archives, Language, and Pedagogy.” Read the UW News press release introducing the project here.  UW’s Luce Foundation grant partners in Cambodia are the Bophana Audiovisual Resource

The Southeast Asia Center at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the Libraries at the University of Washington will spearhead a new initiative of innovative collaborations to explore the effects and consequences of authoritarianism in Southeast Asia and on Southeast Asian American communities in the United States.  The $1 million grant to

SEALC Project Professional and Materials Development to Strengthen Southeast Asian Language Instruction Institute for Regional and International Studies | 608-262-0646 | SEALC@intl.wisc.edu Application for the SEALC Language Tuition Support with support from the Henry Luce Foundation. The Southeast East Asian Language Council (SEALC) awards financial assistance to students who incur tuition fees when studying a Southeast

        The University of Washington Southeast Asia Center has received a four-year $1,000,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation’s LuceSEA initiative for a project titled, Tracing Authoritarianism: Linking Southeast Asia with Southeast Asian America Through Archives, Language, and Pedagogy. Through the lens of critical archival studies, SEAC’s project will examine authoritarianism and

Our feature article in this final newsletter of the 2019-20 academic year was written by Lucky Agung Pratama, the Southeast Asia Center’s graduate student assistant and a PhD Candidate in the College of Built Environments. With a background in Civil Engineering and Construction Management, his research mostly revolves around the visual representation of construction activities.

The UW Libraries’ student video contest asks students to create a short video showing what UW Libraries means to them. Long Tran, a graduate student in the Cinema and Media Studies department won first place with his video Access. Access explains how the libraries facilitate Long’s research into Hollywood’s representation of the Vietnam war, and