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. Gia Dao

PhD Student, UC Berkeley

Project: Kavitha Ganesan

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

Project:...

Harifa pye Siregar

Literacy amidst Ignorance: Anton Solihin and Batu Api Library, as observed by pye siregar

My project focuses on filming Anton Solihin, the owner and caretaker of Batu Api Library. Batu Api is a private library located in Jatinangor, an educational area approximately 26 miles from Bandung, the capital of West Java Province, Indonesia. Since its founding on April 1, 1999, Batu Api has amassed thousands of books, documents, films, musical recordings, and newspaper clippings related to Indonesia. Anton and Batu Api would provide interesting stories about the side...

SEALIVES Small Grants Program

The call for applications for the Year 3 cohort of the Southeast Asian Lives and Histories Small Grants Program is now open.

We invite applications for the third 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 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...

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...

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. Please register...

Margiana Petersen-Rockney

Agrarian migrations and Hmong diasporas in Siskiyou County, California

Team: Dr. Margiana Petersen-Rockney (PI), Morgan Vannavilaithong (videographer), Karen Vang (community-based researcher and...

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...

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...

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...