Dr. Ei Thin Zar, who completed her doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction at UW-Madison at the end of Fall 2024, is currently a recipient of the Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asia sponsored by the …
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COTS 2025: BIG SUCCESS
The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Council on Thai Studies (COTS) was held October 3-5 in our beloved Ingraham 206, presided over by Nathan McGovern, Professor of Asian Religions at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and …
CELEBRATING THE “BOWIENIAN CULT”
The final event of the COTS-53 conference, as noted, was a celebration of the career of recently retired UW-Madison anthropologist, Katherine Bowie. The panel consisted of four of her former doctoral students (Megan Sinnott, Eric …
Luce-Funded Social Justice Initiatives Since Fall 2024
As part of the Center’s Henry Luce Foundation grant, Social Justice in SE Asia (now in its fifth year), the Center has sponsored a wide variety of activities that have involved our students and faculty, …
CSEAS Obtains Grant from Philippine Consulate to Support Research in the Philippines
Early in the Spring 2025 semester, the Center was approached by the Office of the Philippine Consular General in Chicago inviting us to submit a proposal to fund various activities related to the Philippines. In …
Earthquake Relief for Myanmar and Thailand
Donation information for Ma Ei (Ei Thin Zar): Option 1) Zelle: +13605101116 / Ei Thin Zar / People’s Radio Myanmar Option 2) Wise account name: Ei Thin Zar / Email: nayungchy@gmail.com Option 3) Venmo: @Ei-Zar …
CFP: 8th International Conference on Lao Studies
New Justice in Translation is out! Anchana Wachiraasakon’s translation of “With Faith and Trust in the Masses of Women” by the Voice of the People of Thailand (VOPT)
New translation from Justice in Translation from the Justice in Southeast Asia Lab! This manifesto, issued on the commemorative occasion of International Women’s Day by the Voice of the People of Thailand (VOPT) in the …
New Justice in Translation Out! Nicole T. Venker translates Ma Chinthe’s essay “On Imagination”
On Imagination by Ma Chinthe, translated by Nicole T. Venker Ma Chinthe is a Burmese diasporic cultural worker currently based in the ancestral lands of Menominee and Ho-Chunk Nations. In this essay, the author bridges insights between …
Nam Kim awarded Luce grant for “Exploring Cultural Divides and Limbo: Wartime Refugee Displacement and Resilience” project.
Dr. Nam C. Kim (Professor, Department of Anthropology) will be serving as PI for a project generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation in partnership with the Guam Philharmonic Foundation, the University of Guam, and …