Center for Southeast Asian Studies

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies promotes independent research and innovative teaching about the histories, languages, societies, and cultures of Southeast Asia and its peoples. To this end, it supports expanded course offerings, hosts visiting scholars and researchers, presents public lectures and cultural programs, organizes conferences and symposia, contributes to the development of library holdings and services, supports undergraduate and graduate study, conducts outreach and teacher-training programs, and builds partnerships with organizations in the local Southeast Asian community and beyond.

Center for Southeast Asian Studies

11274 Bunche Hall
Box 951487
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487
Campus mailcode: 148703

Tel: (310) 206-9163
Fax: (310) 206-3555
cseas@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cseas

Leadership

Michael L. Ross, Professor of Political Science, Director of Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Staff

Jade Alburo, Librarian for Southeast Asian Studies
Barbara Gaerlan, Assistant Director, UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Latest News

Cambodian Americans Re-Member the Genocide of the Khmer Rouge
According to scholar Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Cambodian American artists are providing new interpretations of the Khmer Rouge period that go beyond the previous frame established by the movie,“The Killing Fields.” Their works critique the strategic amnesia of the United States regarding twentieth-century Cambodian history and are re-scripting the Cambodian experience so that it is not exclusively about trauma.
Posted: 3/8/2013

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