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 …
Announcements
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. …
New Justice in Translation: “Song lyrics by BLAST: Music from the Kachin rock band in the film Above & Below the Ground”
Justice in Translation 4/2023, “Song lyrics by BLAST: Music from the Kachin rock band in the film Above & Below the Ground,” just published! This is a translation of two songs by BLAST, a punk …
The Article 112 Project launches Flash Translation Series of Arnon Nampha’s Letters from Prison
Arnon Nampha (อานนท์ นำภา), a Thai lawyer, poet, father and human rights defender, was recently imprisoned following conviction of violation of Article 112 in Thailand. At a protest on 3 August 2020, he made a …
Farewell Sakti: We Will Miss You!
It is with joy and sadness that we announce that Sakti Suryani, our long-time Indonesian Lecturer, will be leaving us. She has been offered and has accepted a full-time teaching position at Harvard University—yes, that …
Call for Applications: Assistant Professor 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 2024. The successful candidate …
CFP – 6th Hmong Studies Consortium International Conference
The Hmong Studies Consortium is an international group of both senior and emerging scholars from several disciplines that approach Hmong Studies with a critical lens. In an effort to strengthen ties with scholars in California’s Central …
Thongchai Honored as Fukuoka Grand Prize Winner
Only months after receiving the Kahin Prize for his recent book (see announcement here), Emeritus Professor Thongchai Winichakul was once again honored. He has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious Grand Prize for …
The Lao American Archives Project comes to Science Hall
In early April 2023, Geography Ph.D. Candidate, Akarath (Ake) Soukhaphon and volunteer, Gerry Duckitt, drove a U-Haul truck from Washington State to Madison, Wisconsin in order to transport a major collection of original documents as …
Professor Haberkorn was Interviewed for Her Work on Social Justice in Thailand
112WATCH interviews scholar, Tyrell Haberkorn, on her view of the lèse-majesté law and her work on social justice in Thailand. Haberkorn established the Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab) linking academics and practitioners in understanding …