CSEAS Associate Director, Dr. Mike Cullinane, has been named the winner of the 2023 John C. Kaw Prize for Best Book on History from the National Book Development Board of the Philippines for his book …
Year: 2024
CSEAS welcomes Dr. Nhu Truong, new faculty member in Southeast Asia and Social Justice
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies is delighted to welcome Dr. Nhu Truong, who will join the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures as a new faculty member in Fall 2024. Dr. Truong joins recent …
The Article 112 Project publishes second volume of Arnon Nampa’s Letters from Prison
Arnon Nampa (อานนท์ นำภา), a Thai lawyer, poet, father and human rights defender, was recently imprisoned following conviction of violation of Article 112 in Thailand. Arnon soon began writing letters from prison, which were then …
Dr. Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit to give talk at Mead Witter School of Music
Dr. Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit, Assistant Professor of Musicology at Washington University in St. Louis, will giving a talk entitled “Songs for the New Nation” on Friday, February 23, 2024 at the Mead Witter School of Music. …
JSEALab summer internship support for graduate students
For UW graduate students who will do an internship/volunteer with a nongovernmental or other organization, JSEALab has small grants ($2000) to supplement any other funding received from CSEAS for summer travel and research. If you …
The Lao American Archives Project comes to Science Hall
This article was first published on May 24, 2023 on the Department of Geography’s news site. See the original article here. In early April 2023, Geography Ph.D. Candidate, Akarath (Ake) Soukhaphon and volunteer, …
New Justice in Translation: “An Open Letter from the Siamese Communist Party to the Masses on the Rule of the People’s Party,” translated and introduced by Peng Ai
The Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab) at UW-Madison has just published a new edition of Justice in Translation that examines the 1932 transformation from absolute to constitutional monarchy in Thailand through the lens of …