by Adrian Alarilla This year, the theme of the SEAxSEA Film Festival was “Connections,” engaging our filmmakers as well as the audience to find meaningful connections between us here in Seattle and Southeast Asia. For their part, our filmmakers met that challenge exceedingly well. Many of them made connections with the past, recalling traditions

Lucky Agung Pratama is in the PhD program in the Built Environment, received his MS at UW in Construction Management in 2015, and is the Southeast Asia Center’s Graduate Student Assistant this year.  Originally from Padang, Sumatera, over winter break, Lucky traveled back to Indonesia to get married.  Lucky’s new wife is from Central Java. 

This is the second year of the SEAxSEA Film Festival which Adrian Alarilla (MA, Southeast Asian Studies, 2018) conceived, organized, and programmed in connection with the Southeast Asia Center.  On January 10th and 11th, 2019, Adrian will take time away from his PhD program at the University of Hawai’i to run SEAxSEA II, the next

Andika Murandi is a Seattle-based architect. It was his love for drawings that drove him to pursue a degree in Architecture. After graduating from Parahyangan University in Bandung, Indonesia, he moved to Oregon to pursue a graduate degree in Architecture. Andika stayed in Eugene for several years before working for an architecture firm in downtown

By Yusri Supiyan, PhD Candidate in Political Science   On Tuesday, November 6, UW Emeritus Prof. Charles Hirschman, his wife Josephine, UW MA student Choriun Nisa, and I drove up to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver to attend a seminar titled “Harapan: A New Page in Malaysian Politics?” UW alum Joe Kinzer also

Adnya Sarasmita, doctoral candidate from the Built Environment PhD program in the College of Built Environment, recently presented her paper “Spatial theater: A contested informality in an Indonesian urban public space” at the 2018 Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE). With the theme of “The Politics of Tradition,”

UW PhD students Dimas Romadhon (Anthropology) and Abdullah Habibi (Aquatic and Fishery Sciences) organized an event that investigated the geophysical causes of the September 28th earthquake in Central Sulawesi’s Donggala Regency and the ensuing tsunami.  Held on campus in the Pacific Northwest Seismological Netowrk (PNSN) laboratory, speakers included Dr. Harold Tobin, PNSN’s new Director; Dr.

This week, we are featuring our new PhD student Bernard Loesi, who is currently serving as an official at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Office of the Directorate General of American and European Affairs. Could you tell us a little bit about your background? I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in international

Disaggregation of demographic data has been an important goal for activists and students of Southeast Asian heritage because grouping all ethnicities into the broad category “Asian American and Pacific Islander” (AAPI) obscures disparities in educational outcomes and economic conditions.  Community advocacy prompted Washington State legislators to fund an achievement gap study in 2008 which recommended

DATE: Saturday, Nov. 17 2018 LOCATION: UW-Seattle Campus REGISTRATION 2018 Rising SEAs is a FREE one day conference organized by the Southeast Asian American Education (SEAeD) Coalition in collaboration with local, state, and national partners. The purpose of 2018 Rising SEAs is to civically engage, culturally empower, and educationally invest in the long term development