Announcements
New Opportunity: Social Justice Hmong Studies Funding Opportunities For Undergrads (AY 2023-2024)
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) and the Hmong Studies Consortium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are pleased to announce that with the generous support of Ruth Hammond, we intend to provide undergraduate awards …
Call for Application: Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and Social Justice
The University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks a tenure-track assistant professor for an appointment in Southeast Asian Studies and Social Justice in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures to begin in August 2023. Candidates for this …
MA Degrees Defended in 2021-22
The Center is delighted to announce the completion of five MA degrees in Southeast Asian Studies during the past year. Sam Hicok defended in Spring 2022, with his paper on “The Rise of the Pathet …
The End of an Era
Congratulations to Dr. Sheila Zamar, who completed her doctoral degree this summer in Asian Languages and Cultures with a dissertation on “Apprehending Philippine Negrito Languages, 1890-1990: An Inquiry into Linguistic Ideology.” We are, of course, …
Welcoming Royal Golden Jubilee Scholar
For over two decades, our Center has been the major host for Royal Golden Jubilee Scholars from Thailand. The program was launched in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in the late 1990s and …
Call for Application: Assistant/Associate Professor of Hmong/Hmoob American Studies
The Asian American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor whose scholarship and teaching focus on Hmong/HMoob Americans. The position will be 50% in the Asian …
Fall 2022 Courses
The Southeast Asian Studies core course list has been posted for Fall 2022! Head to our Courses page for more information or check it out here.
2022 Council on Thai Studies (COTS) Conference – 50th Anniversary
The Council on Thai Studies (COTS) is an informal organization of scholars interested in all aspects of Thai studies, broadly defined. First established in 1972, COTS annually provides scholars with a venue for reporting preliminary findings, opportunities to receive prepublication feedback and a forum to discuss field and archive
challenges. Please consider giving a presentation or gathering a small group for a roundtable discussion or panel. Graduate students are particularly encouraged to submit papers, although everyone is welcome. Individual topics or groupings of papers are also welcome. An effort will be made to group individual papers into panel sessions
around common themes. Each presenter will have a maximum of 15 minutes for an oral presentation. This year is the 50th Anniversary of COTS, and thus this conference will be historic. Keynote speakers will include Professor Emeritus Thongchai Winichakul (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Professor Pinkaew Laungaramsri (Chiang Mai University).
Call for Participants: Feb 2022 JSEALab Reading Group
Led by four leading scholars, activists and artists, the reading group will collectively think about the events of the past year, histories of dictatorship and opposition in Myanmar, and possible futures of justice. Topics will include ethnic politics, the role of artists and journalists, and the meanings of the past in the present. Held once a week for four weeks in February 2022 [Wednesdays/Thursdays: 9 am Thailand (Thursday)/11 am Tokyo (Thursday)/1 pm Canberra (Thursday)/6 pm Berkeley (Wednesday)/8 pm Madison (Wednesday)], the twenty participants in the reading group will reflect and exchange ideas about state repression and peoples’ struggle in Myanmar. Participants will be asked to read, watch or otherwise engage with selected materials prior to each meeting and to commit to attending all four sessions. The reading group will be held online via Zoom and is free and is open to anyone, anywhere in the world. There is a maximum of 20 participants, so apply soon!