Bringing migrant and refugee stories and connections to light
UCLA Newsroom / Professor Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi's relational approach to Asian American studies and refugee memory creates a powerful ripple effect.
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Julia and Ken Gouw Undergraduate Scholarship for Study Abroad in Indonesia
The Julia & Ken Gouw Undergraduate Centennial Scholarship funds UCLA undergraduate students to attend an immersion and volunteer program in Bali for summer 2023. Deadline: March 10, 2023
Monday, January 23, 2023
Enroll for the GETSEA Spring 2023 Mini-Course
The consortium for Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies is offering a free virtual mini-course, open to all graduate students studying Southeast Asia. Application deadline: February 10, 2023
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia Research Awards
PEMSEA invites proposals focusing on climate and anthropogenic change, disaster responses, and interactions during the early modern period Southeast Asia for research awards up to $7500. Deadline: April 30, 2023
Monday, December 12, 2022
Decolonization, education and “slow archaeology”
“Decolonization is not just about highlighting flawed historical narratives, it's also about redress... It's economic, it's political and, of course, it's educational,” says CSEAS Director Stephen Acabado.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Apply to the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program!
Academic-year and summer fellowships are available to support undergraduate and graduate students to study in modern foreign languages and area studies.
Monday, November 28, 2022
Southeast Asia Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships
Apply now for the Summer 2023 and Academic Year 2023-2024 FLAS Fellowships for the study of Southeast Asian languages! The deadline is March 8, 2023.
Monday, November 14, 2022
PEMSEA Summer 2023 Archaeological Field School in Cambodia
Students are invited to apply for the Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia Archaeology Field School in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, tentatively scheduled June 22 to July 13, 2023. Deadline: January 30, 2023
Monday, November 7, 2022
Introducing Piphal Heng
Piphal Heng is the 2022–2024 postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and UCLA Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia. He also holds a prestigious fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
Monday, September 19, 2022
Everyday speculation and resistance among peri-urban spaces in Jakarta
UCLA Professors Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard present their field study of how residents in Jakarta, Indonesia navigate displacement, dispossession and the rebuilding of their lives.
Thursday, September 1, 2022
UCLA International Institute receives $8 million in federal funding
Six centers of the institute have been awarded Title VI funding for area and/or language studies at UCLA.
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Focusing on local responses to ecological change
Aug. 3, 2022. Stephen Acabdao, director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, attended a workshop at the PSU Caramoan campus in the Phillipines sponsored by the Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia (PEMSEA). The program, he said to Inquirer.net, will “empower descendant communities that can provide compelling narratives for SEA cultural identities and highlight indigenous histories, which are typically absent from national historical narratives.”
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
International Institute sends students around the world in summer 2022
The International Institute, its academic programs and its research centers play an instrumental role in supporting international education and research at UCLA. This summer, they provided financial support that helped over 100 students travel abroad to study or conduct research.
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Filipino history, demystified
Jul 7, 2022. Speaking to CNN about an exhibit on the true history of the Ifugao rice terraces in the Philippines, Director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies Stephen Acabado observed, “Exhibits like this provide a venue to highlight the experiences of marginalized Indigenous peoples. In the Philippine case, we hope that it spurs proactive policies that empower IP groups to learn more about their history and heritage. Studies have shown that youths who are more secure about their ethnic identity are more likely to succeed later in life. It's the least that we can do to redress centuries of oppression.”
Thursday, July 7, 2022
Indonesian Studies Small Grant Summer 2022
The Indonesian Studies Small Grants are available to UCLA graduate and undergraduate students for research or projects on Indonesia conducted during Summer 2022. Deadline: May 9, 2022
Wednesday, April 6, 2022