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Center for Southeast Asia Studies (CSEAS)

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,...

Small Grants Program Year One, 2023-2024

Year One Grantees and Project Abstracts, 2023-2024 Gia Dao

PhD Student, UC Berkeley

Bio: My name is Gia Dao; I am a second-year Ph.D. student in History at UC Berkeley. I received my B.A. in Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies from Brown University. As a first-generation immigrant – and a queer one – I have always been invested in questions of identity, cultural memory, and gender and sexuality. For my undergraduate Honors Thesis, I translated Khái Hưng’s "Hồn bướm mơ tiên" (A Butterfly Dreams of Heaven) from Vietnamese into English; and I...

CSEAS and the Consulate of the Philippines in San Francisco Sign Historic Grant Agreement

September 5, 2024

Consul General Neil Ferrer and UC Berkeley Vice Provost for Academic Planning & Senior International Officer Dr. Lisa Alvarez-Cohen (San Francisco PCG photo)

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, USA – In a historic first, the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco and the Regents of the University of California (UC...

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

Call for Papers: 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

US-Vietnam relations have changed significantly since the end of the Vietnam War in April 1975 when the two countries were bitter enemies. As we approach the 50th anniversary of the...

Year 2 Call for Applications: The Southeast Asian Lives and Histories Project Small Grants Program

August 5, 2024

The UC Berkeley Center for Southeast Asia Studies (CSEAS) is delighted to announce the second year of the Southeast Asian Lives and Histories (SEALIVES) Small Grants Program competition, funded by a major grant from the Henry Luce Foundation Initiative on...

SEALIVES Small Grants Program

The call for applications for the Year 2 cohort of the Southeast Asian Lives and Histories Small Grants Program is now open.

We invite applications for the second year of the annual UC Berkeley CSEAS Southeast Asian Lives and Histories small grants program. Applicants must be enrolled at or affiliated with UCB, other UCs, CSUs, or institutions located in Southeast Asia. Should you have any questions, don't hesitate to email cseas@berkeley.edu. For examples of projects from the first year cohort of SEALIVES...

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

Upcoming Performance: The Rebirth of Apsara!

January 17, 2024
CSEAS is delighted to promote two upcoming Bay Area performances of The Rebirth of Apsara.

Created and Choreographed by Charya Burt

Commissioned score by Chinary Ung

Commissioned text by Kalean Ung

Co-Produced by New Performance Traditions/Paul Dresher Ensemble

The Rebirth of Apsara is a full-length dance/theatre work that investigates the relationship between art and war exploring how Cambodian arts and in particular Apsaras, fabled female celestial beings, have embodied the essence of Cambodian culture from ancient mythology to its post...

New Course Announcement! Insular Southeast Asia

January 10, 2024

This Spring, the new course Southeast Asian (SEASIAN 101B): Introduction to the History, Religion, and Culture of Insular Southeast Asia, is offered. It fulfills the Literature and Arts Breadth L&S Requirements, and the History breadth requirement is in the process of being approved. Please contact Professor Sylvia Tiwon (tiwon@berkeley.edu) with any questions.