The largest film festival in the U.S. is back!  The Southeast Asia Center is happy to be partnering with the Seattle International Film Festival to bring films from across the globe into Seattle’s backyard. This year, there seems to be a running theme in the featured films from Southeast Asia, and it’s more than just

On April 27, 2018, first-year MA student Choirun Nisa Ristanty from Banyuwangi, Indonesia gave a speech at the FIUTS Blue Marble Bash. In it, she talked about her experience living and studying in the United States so far. She has graciously allowed us to share the transcript of her speech, as well as the video.

“[N]o empire is sustainable without astute statecraft, both diplomacy to court peers and dominance to control subordinates. Empires exercise much of their authority through alliances with peer states….  Always in flux, these relationships with other powers can elide into conflict through diplomatic breaches, economic competition, or war, thereby weakening the dominant state.”  – Alfred McCoy

The application period for the 2018 Christen J. Grorud Endowed Memorial Fellowship is now open! The Fellowship provides broad-based direct financial support to graduate students in good standing studying Southeast Asia at the University of Washington. Eligibility Current or admitted graduate students at the University of Washington The applicant does not need to be U.S. citizen but must be enrolled

Last week, the Southeast Asia Center had the honor of being part of The ART of Survival at Seattle City Hall. Adrian Alarilla talks more about what went down.   ‘We thought everything was lost, that we would never hear our music again, never see our dance.’ They could not stop crying; people wept through

Last December, the Southeast Asia Center, in conjunction with the UW Graduate School and the Rajana Society, hosted a number of events revolving around the visit of internationally-acclaimed Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, including a video installation featuring images from the archive of Elizabeth Becker. Jenna Grant, who spearheaded the organizing efforts of his visit, was featured

At the end of winter quarter, students from the Marine Technology program at Seattle Central College and their instructor, Sam Laher, toured the offsite location housing the Burke Museum’s collection of traditional, wooden boats from Southeast Asia, the Pacific Northwest, and other points around the globe.  They were met by Peter Lape, UW professor of

by Makenna Dreher “Even though the bullets have stopped flying in the Vietnam War, the war is not over,” Dr. Christoph Giebel explained on Tuesday, February 27th at the “Discussion on the Legacy of the Vietnam War and Opportunities to Take Action.” The discussion on Tuesday centered on the legacy of the Vietnam War that

By Shannon Bush One of the questions from the audience following Vince Rafael’s February 13th talk, “Humanizing the Inhuman: Photographing the Philippine Drug War,” concerned allegations that Duterte and his inner circle profit from collaboration with Chinese narcotics syndicates, using their position to allow the importation of methamphetamine into the country.  Clandestine meth labs operate

In anticipation for Azeem Ibrahim’s upcoming talk at Seattle U on the Rohingya crisis, our featured article this week was published in the Mekong Review, a new Southeast Asian literary journal, and is itself a book review of Francis Wade’s recently-published “Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the making of a Muslim ‘Other’”.