The Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA - a consortium U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center for Southeast Asia - hosted the UC Berkeley - UCLA Conference on Southeast Asian Studies on the theme Networks and Knowledge in Southeast Asia at UC Berkeley on April 14-15, 2023.
Keynote lecture: 'Journey to the South: Buddhist Connections across the South China Sea', given by Jack Meng-Tat Chia, Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, National University of Singapore
Southeast Asia’s past, present, and future is shaped by its situation as a nexus of networks that has sent a complex array of people, ideas, and products along with their various ways of knowing and being across the globe. These movements have resulted in new developments of knowledge and interconnection. This conference focused on such notions of knowledge and networks in a Southeast Asian context, broadly understood as (but not limited to) cultural interactions, diaspora, migration, digital networks and social media, social and political movements, trade, collaboration and exchange, and knowledge production.
PROGRAM (updated as of April 13)
The keynote address has been posted to the CSEAS YouTube channel.