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

Last week Sam Eat shared the good news about Phnom Penh Noodle House’s soft reopening for take-out and delivery orders.  This week brings more good news: a number of restaurants in the International District that had closed due to the crisis have now reopened.  You again can get your Korean corndog fix at Chung Chun’s;

by Judith Henchy, Southeast Asia Section Librarian “Every time I remember Elizabeth Becker’s pictures, I cannot help but see Pol Pot’s total control of the production and consumption of these images; his vision of Kampuchea saturates them all.  I cannot see beyond it.” –Adrian Alarilla The Center for Research Libraries recently announced that The Age

Our guest reviewer this week is Sambath Eat who is completing his first year in the MA program in Southeast Asia Studies and is a FLAS Fellow studying Cambodia. He’s currently researching Khmer-language newspapers from the 1950s – 1970s, focusing particularly on advertising and other forms of popular representation to better understand Khmer national identity

By Guest Reviewer Itsara Namtapi Itsara Namtapi is UW’s Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in Thai for the current academic year.  Itsara received his Master’s in English Linguistics from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and then taught English and English for Specific Purposes, with a focus on tourism, at the university level.  At UW, he teaches