Southeast Asia

Southeast Asian Lives and Histories

The UC Berkeley Center for Southeast Asia Studies (CSEAS) is thrilled to announce that it is the recipient of a major grant from the Henry Luce Foundation Initiative on Southeast Asiafor the project Southeast Asian Lives and Histories (SEALIVES).

The Luce grant provides $400,000 to support SEALIVES, a thematic umbrella for projects conducted about Southeast Asians in Southeast Asia and the diaspora. The heart of this...

Center for Southeast Asia Studies (CSEAS)

Alan Yeh

Con ăn cơm chưa? Việt Kiều Care, Consumption, and Culinary Crossings

This project explores diasporic Vietnamese culinary histories and practices of care, as part of a larger dissertation entitled “Con ăn cơm...

Marie Kecman Transcript 1

Narrator: Marie Kecman (MK) 10 July 2024

Interviewer: Alan Yeh (AY) Paris, France

AY : C'est Alan Yeh avec Marie Kecman, née Phạm Công Đăng Vy, à l'occasion d'une histoire orale. C'est le mercredi 10 juillet 2024 à Paris. Il est 14 h 10. Nous sommes dans son restaurant Café Broc’ouest dans le 14ᵉ arrondissement. Bonjour Marie, Bonjour Alan. Je vous remercie d'avoir accepté de faire cet entretien.

MK : Avec plaisir.

AY : Et j'aimerais commencer par par le début. Donc je vais vous faire regarder cette vidéo du reportage Saigon sur Seine 1980 à propos des quartiers...

Kavitha Ganesan

Self-narratives about home (“ruma”) and land (“bawang”): The stories of Len Lakong and Pelura Sinau, the indigenous Lundayeh women of Long Pasia, Sabah, Malaysia

This SEALIVES project brought together the researcher and...

Transcript of interviews with Len Lakong and Pelura Sinau, Parts 1-4

Self-narratives about Home ('Runa' and 'Bawang'); The Stories of Pelura Sinau and Len Lakong, the Indigenous Lundayeh Women of Long Pasia, Sabah, Malaysia.

Dr. Kavitha Ganesan - KG

Pelura Sinau - PS / Grandma

Len(Helen) Lakong - LL / Aunty

Joseph Lakong - JL / Grandpa

Mery Jane - MJ

Translator - Tr.


PART 1

KG : Aaa... Good morning aa. To Grandma Pelura and Aunty Helen. Thank you for agreeing to (participate in) this interview session. Aaa.... This interview session will be recorded to be sent to the Uni9versity of California, Berkeley. They are...

Daniel Owen

The Poet and The Angkringan Proprietor

Afrizal Malna at home in Kahuripan Nirwana

Afrizal Malna and Dan Owen at a cafe

For my SEALIVES project, I proposed to interview two people...

Puangchon Unchanam and Khorapin Phuaphansawat

The Monarchy, the Mass, and the Marginalized: Lèse-majesté Prosecutions and People at the Periphery

This interview project is part of our research which aims to examine how Thai commoners with socio-economic disadvantages decided to join the monarchy reform movement during 2020-2022 and how they have been prosecuted and endured legal prosecutions. Their marginalized and precarious experiences would provide an immensely rich accounts for a study of the monarchy reform movement, political activism, and ongoing lèse-majesté prosecutions in Thailand...

Transcript of interview with Jatuporn Sae-Ung


An Interview Transcript: June 12, 2024 Background

In early June 2024, we contacted New Jatuporn via Facebook introducing ourselves and our research project. New had been quite active on her Facebook account and often sold democracy-related small merchandises online. Previously, Khorapin, one of the researchers, had chatted with New and bought few of her goods. This was how we had initially knowneach other online. Perhaps...

CSEAS Past Events

CSEAS Past Events Fall 2018 - Spring 2022 2018-19 September 18

LECTURE by Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, San Francisco State University

“Together but Apart: Care Work in Filipino Transnational Families in the Digital Age”

October 10

BOOK TALK by Katya Cengel, journalist

“From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back”

October 17

PANEL DISCUSSION...