UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and UC Berkeley Center for Southeast Asia Studies have worked together as a consortium National Resource Center for Southeast Asian Studies since 2000.

One of our consortium’s main goal for 2018-2022 is to build an informal network of SEAS scholars in the state of California by developing new linkages with SEAS faculty and graduate students within the University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) systems through faculty exchanges, graduate student workshops and conferences.

UCB-UCLA Southeast Asian Studies Conferences and Workshops

• Graduate Student Dissertation Workshop for Southeast Asian Studies / May 3-4, 2019 at UC Berkeley

UC/CSU Faculty Lectures at UCLA

• Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory: Book talk with Professor Long T. Bui (UC Irvine) 
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• Global Borderland: Book talk with Professor Victoria Reyes (UCR)

• The History of the Srivijaya Kingdom in Maritime Southeast Asia: Teacher workshop lecture by Professor Lance Nolde (CSU Channel Islands)
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• Making Life in the Aftermath of War in Lao PDR: Colloquium with Professor Davorn Sisavath (CSU Fresno) 
  Read: U.S. War in Laos - How Communities Sustain Life Today

• The Romance of Magno Rubio: Film screening followed by Q&A discussion with Dr. Joi Barrios (UC Berkeley) and actors Jojo Gonzalez and Ron Domingo

UC/CSU Faculty Lectures at UC Berkeley

• The "Manananggal": On the Labor of Difference: Lecture by Professor Lucy Burns (UCLA)

• History on the Run: Hmong Refugees and Knowledge Formation: Lecture by Ma Vang (UC Merced)

• Heavy Metal Bamboo: Making Archaic Bamboo Instruments Modern in Bandung, Indonesia: Lecture by Henry Spiller (UC Davis)

• Cultural Expertise on Southeast Asia and Asylum Expert Witnessing: Lecture by ChorSwang Ngin (CSU Los Angeles)

• Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines: Lecture by Victoria Reyes (UC Riverside)

• Archipelagic Vietnam: Rethinking Nationalism and Trans-Pacific Regionalism at the Shoreline: Lecture by David Biggs (UC Riverside)