Southeast Asia

Message of Sympathy for the Earthquake in Myanmar

April 1, 2025

Dear Center for Southeast Asia Studies and Institute of East Asian Studies community,

On behalf of the Faculty Chair and Program Director of CSEAS and the Director, Associate Director, and team at IEAS at UC Berkeley, we express our deepest sympathy and support to the people of Myanmar and Thailand and all those affected by the earthquake on March 28.

Our thoughts are with all those in Myanmar and Thailand, and those in exile and diaspora, who have suffered bereavement and injury, who have lost loved ones, and...

CSEAS Faculty Chair Lisandro Claudio Discusses Duterte's Arrest

March 18, 2025

The ex-president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, could soon become the first Asian former head of state to be tried at The Hague.

The populist politician was arrested on Mar. 11, 2025, after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant relating to his “war on drugs.”

Some 6,000-plus people were killed during the crackdown. But despite the controversy surrounding his policies and the end of his presidency in 2022, Duterte remains an influential figure.

The Conversation U.S. turned to Lisandro Claudio, an expert on Philippine politics and history at the...

Call for Papers: 9th Symposium of IASSRT: Beyond the Silk Road, Across the Seas

March 3, 2025

October 9-12, 2025, Banatao Auditorium, UC Berkeley, USA

More information

IASSRT Call for Papers 2025

IASSRT Call for Papers 2025

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...