Southeast Asia

SEALIVES Small Grants Program

In late spring / early summer 2024, we will open the next call for applications for the Year 2 cohort of the Southeast Asian Lives and Histories Small Grants Program.

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...

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...

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 13-14, 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...

Small Grants Program Year 1

Year One Grantees and Project Abstracts 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 argued...

Center for Southeast Asia Studies (CSEAS)

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.

Position Announcement! Assistant Professor of Islamic Southeast Asia

September 25, 2023
The University of California at Berkeley is hiring a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in the Islamic Worlds of Southeast Asia, in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies. The successful candidate will have a rigorous grounding in the culture, literature or history of one or more Islamic communities or movements in Southeast Asia. We especially welcome applications from specialists of Indonesia and the Malay world. Advanced literacy in at least one relevant research language in addition to English is required.

Tenure-...

Three Berkeley Graduate Students Receive CSEAS FLAS Awards

September 14, 2023

CSEAS is pleased to announce that three UC Berkeley graduate students have received FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowships for the 2023-2024 academic year. FLAS Fellowships are a wonderful opportunity for undergraduates and graduate students who are US citizens or permanent residents to study a Southeast Asian language at the intermediate or advanced level, and to undertake related international or area studies coursework. The program is funded by the US Department of Education, and the fellowships are awarded at UC Berkeley annually on a competitive basis for...

New GETSEA Mini-Course

September 14, 2023

Applications are now open for GETSEA’s Fall 2023 Mini-Course!

GETSEA is offering one free and virtual mini-course this fall on topics in Southeast Asian studies, open to graduate students from a wide range of backgrounds. Current graduates students at a GETSEA member institution receive first priority in admission to the courses, though graduate students at any institution who research in and around Southeast...