Southeast Asia

Small Grants Program Year One, 2023-2024

Year One Grantees, 2023-2024 Please click the name or project title of each grantee to view their final SEALIVES project abstracts and project materials. CSEAS intends for these materials to be widely accessible as part of research, curriculum or syllabus creation, community initiatives and activities, and more. Kavitha Ganesan

Centre for the Promotion of Knowledge and Language Learning, Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Project:...

CSEAS January/February Newsletter

January 28, 2026

Read the CSEAS January/February Newsletter here:

https://conta.cc/3NHpKTk

Philippine Consulate in San Francisco and UC Berkeley Reaffirm Partnership in Promoting Philippine Studies

January 21, 2026

The Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley signed a grant agreement that aims to promote the University’s Philippine Studies program held at UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies. L-R: Vice Consul Glaiza Quarteros, Ms. Joy Ayson-Yu, Assistant Director, Sponsored Projects Office of UC Berkeley, Mr. Jason Cheung,...

Small Grants Program Year Three, 2025-2026

Year Three Grantees and Project Abstracts, 2025-2026 Agung Wicaksono

Lecturer, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Bio: Dr. Agung Wicaksono is a lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada. He completed his bachelor's degree at the Department of Cultural Anthropology UGM in 2009 and master's degree in 2011. Afterwards, Agung took a doctoral program at ASAFAS (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies) Kyoto University from 2015 - 2019. There...

Small Grants Program Year Two, 2024-2025

Year Two Grantees and Project Abstracts, 2024-2025 Ato Aliping

Undergraduate Student, UC Berkeley

Bio: Ato Aliping is a third-year undergraduate student pursuing a degree in sociology at UC Berkeley. His main research interests are concentrated on post-colonial studies in Southeast Asia and the development of the Indigenous identity of the Igorot abroad as a part of the larger Philippine diaspora and their local community. As a Kankanaey-Bontoc Igorot-American, Ato grew up living in both Mountain Province, Philippines, and in San Diego,...

Center for Southeast Asia Studies (CSEAS)

The Challenges of Peace: US-Vietnam Relations since 1975 International Symposium

The Challenges of Peace: US-Vietnam Relations since 1975 International Symposium Organizers: The Center for Southeast Asia Studies at the University of California Berkeley and the US-Vietnam Research Center at the University of Oregon Symposium date: September 18-19, 2025 Location: University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA The symposium is free and open to the public; we warmly invite all interested individuals to attend. Do note that you must register for each day separately if you would like to attend on both...

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...

Cambodian Elegist: Rithy Panh in Person

August 20, 2025

We are excited to be partnering with BAMPFA and CSEAS to bring director Rithy Panh to Berkeley. You can check out his in-person screenings in the BAMPFA program, https://bampfa.org/program/cambodian-elegist-rithy-panh-person

Local Information and Logistics

The symposium is free and open to the public; we warmly invite all interested individuals to attend. Do note that you must register for each day separately if you would like to attend on both days. Since seats are limited, we encourage you to cancel your registration if your plans change and you will no longer be able to join us. We know that attending for the full day may be difficult due to schedule constraints, and you are welcome to join as you are available. We will also have registration available on-site on September 18-19. ...