Center for Strategic and International Studies Internships
The Southeast Asia Program is seeking interns who are highly motivated, professional, and have a strong foundation in Southeast Asia studies and international relations/political economy. We operate a fast-paced, dynamic program, and require interns who are detail-oriented and can work independently and as part of a team.
U.S. ASEAN Business Council
- Associate: based in Singapore. The US-ASEAN Business Council is seeking an Associate who will support the Council’s programs and initiatives aimed at strengthening the U.S.-ASEAN economic relationship.
- Policy and research internships: Semester internships based in Washington, D.C. Recent graduates encouraged to apply.
For details, email internships@usasean.org
Translators: The Language Doctors
We are a linguistics company that provides language translation services to the federal government and are continuously seeking to hire bilingual people on a full-time or part-time basis to help us with our growing volume of translation work. Currently, we are looking for people who speak Burmese, and would be very grateful to hear from you if you or anyone you know speaks that language.
Depending on your availability, we are able to provide either W2 or 1099 arrangements.
We are looking forward to your response and future assistance. If needed, we are happy to provide all of the necessary training!
Contact:
Sinaí Méndez
The Language Doctors Recruiting Team
www.tldinc.org
Phone: 1-800-414-6140
Email: career@tldinc.org
Interns: Auditsi Consulting Group
The Auditsi Consulting Group, a management consulting company based in Jakarta, is looking for candidates for internships in professional companies in Indonesia.
About Us:
- Auditsi Management Consulting delivers worldwide executive search solutions and is committed to securing exceptional talent to lead and direct the most successful organizations on the planet.
- For more than 23 years we have been advising clients on top leadership matters and recruiting the most effective executives for their organisations.
- We work with a wide range of clients, including multinational corporations, entrepreneurial businesses, private equity firms, family-owned companies and nonprofit organisations.
- As a privately held firm, we are able to dedicate our resources to what really matters – providing outstanding service for clients. We consider client needs to be paramount.
Ideal candidates shall be willing to attend up to 12 months of internship and possess interests in subjects such as; Marketing, Communication, Business Development, Social Study, and Human Resources, Social Media Management will be an added value. For more information on specific positions, please click here.
Center for Khmer Studies
The Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) is pleased to announce that we have officially begun accepting applications for our 2021-2022 academic year Research Fellowship Program. Cambodian, US, and French doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers are eligible to apply.
Senior Research Fellowship Program
Deadline: November 15, 2020
The CKS Senior Fellowship provides short term (4 months) and long term (up to 11 months) research funding for Cambodian, American, and French scholars of Cambodia who seek to further their research focusing on Cambodia alone or on Cambodia within a regional context. Benefits of the fellowship include access to the collections at the CKS library, participation in CKS events, and connection to a network of scholars of Cambodia. The CKS Senior Fellowship is open to applicants who hold a PhD degree in the humanities or the social sciences.
Click here for more information.
Dissertation Research Fellowship Program
Deadline: November 15, 2020
The CKS Dissertation Research Fellowship offers support to Cambodian, American, and French doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences for dissertation research. Research topics considered may focus on Cambodia alone or on Cambodia within a regional context. Fellows will receive funding for up to 11 months of research along with other benefits including access to the collections at the CKS library, participation in CKS events, and connection to a network of scholars of Cambodia.
Click here for more information.
NSLI for Youth Program Call for Applications
The National Security Language Initiative for Youth is now accepting applications for the 2021-2022 academic year. Complete program details are available here. Application deadline is November 5, 2020. — Indonesian is one of the languages
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS)
The Critical Language Scholarship Program is now accepting applications for 2020. The CLS Program offers instruction in the following languages: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. Funding is available to undergraduate and graduate students. Application details are available here. Application deadline is November 17, 2020.
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Encourage women seeking to advance their academic or professional careers, or considering projects to promote education and equity for women and girls, to apply for various fellowships and grants.
American Fellowships
Funding: $6,000–$30,000
Opens: August 1
Deadline: November 1
Career Development Grants
Funding: $2,000–$12,000
Opens: August 1
Deadline: November 15
Community Action Grants
Funding:
$3,000-$10,000
Opens: August 1
Deadline: December 1
International Fellowships
Funding: $18,000–$30,000
Opens: August 1
Deadline: November 15
International Project Grants
Funding: $5,000–$7,000
Opens: August 1
Deadline: November 1
Research Publication Grants in Engineering, Medicine and Science
Funding: $10,000–$35,000
Opens: August 1
Deadline: December 1
Selected Professions Fellowships
Funding: $5,000–$18,000
Opens: August 1
Deadline: December 1
Center for Indonesian Policy Studies
CIPS invites qualified researchers to join our Visiting Research Fellowship Program. The program offers opportunities for both Indonesians and non-Indonesian nationals who are completing their Indonesia-related PhD and post-graduate theses abroad, to conduct field research in Indonesia over a 3-6 month period. CIPS also opens the opportunity for post-doctoral or non-degree fellowships.
If you are interested in the Fellowship Program, please send an e-mail to contact@cips-indonesia.org
Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
CAORC offers two fellowship programs, the NEH Senior Research Fellowship and Multi-Country Research Fellowship, which enable fellows to visit and carry out research within CAORC’s network of Overseas Research Centers (ORCs).
In addition, each ORC offers fellowships and grant opportunities specific to its region. Visit the ORC Fellowships & Grants page for more information on opportunities within the ORC network.
Application deadline: December 30, 2020
The Blakemore Foundation awards grants to graduating seniors, college graduates, graduate students and young/mid-career professionals to fund an academic year of advanced language study in East and Southeast Asia.
Superior candidates pursuing careers which will involve the regular use of an East or Southeast Asian language, in fields such as academia, STEM, international business, accounting, law, medicine, journalism, architecture, teaching, social and NGO work, and government service, are encouraged to apply.
Applications for our fellowships for the 2021/2022 academic year are now open at https://blakemorefoundation.communityforce.com.
Blakemore Freeman Fellows receive a stipend for living, travel and study expenses and full tuition for programs such as:
- Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies at Tsinghua University
- International Chinese Language Program at National Taiwan University
- Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama
- Seoul National University, Sogang University and other language programs in South Korea
Blakemore Freeman Fellowships are also available for advanced language study in:
● Thailand ● Vietnam ● Indonesia ● Cambodia ● Myanmar
USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship Program
The USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship Program seeks to attract outstanding individuals who are interested in pursuing careers in the Foreign Service of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). If you want to work on the front lines of some of the most pressing global challenges of our times — poverty, hunger, injustice, disease, environmental degradation, climate change, conflict and violent extremism – the Foreign Service of the U.S. Agency for International Development provides an opportunity to advance U.S. foreign policy interests and reflect the American people’s compassion and support of human dignity. The Payne Fellowship, which provides up to $96,000 in benefits over two years for graduate school, internships, and professional development activities, is a unique pathway to the USAID Foreign Service.
Learn more: https://www.paynefellows.org/graduate-fellowship-program/payne-program-overview/
SEALC Language Tuition Support
With support from the Henry Luce Foundation, The Southeast East Asian Language Council (SEALC) awards financial assistance to students who incur tuition fees when studying a Southeast Asian language during the academic year at an institution other than their home institution via synchronous distance learning. Priority will be given to graduate students, but all are encouraged to apply. This award is intended to facilitate crossinstitutional collaboration and increase access to Southeast Asian language instruction. SEASSI serves as an excellent resource for summer language instruction; and this award is intended to improve access during the academic year so that students can obtain multi-year instruction in a timely manner.
What does the assistance cover?
The award reimburses the student up to one-half of the tuition charges (up to $1000 per semester/quarter) incurred in order to study a SE Asian language via synchronous distance learning at another institution.
Application process:
Submit the application here 6 weeks prior to the beginning of the semester/quarter when you plan to study the SE Asian language.
Freeman Awards for Study in Asia (Freeman-Asia)
Scholarships for undergraduate U.S. undergraduate students with demonstrated financial need to study abroad in East or Southeast Asia. For more information on undergraduate scholarships, click here.
Visiting Research Fellowship: Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS)
The Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS) is offering Visiting Research Fellowships. The program offers opportunities for both Indonesians and non-Indonesian nationals who are completing their Indonesia-related PhD and post-graduate theses abroad. The program supports their field research in Indonesia over a 3 (three) to 6 (six)-month period. CIPS also opens this opportunity to post-doctoral or non-degree research. The preferred research areas are in economics, public policy/public management, education, politics, and development studies.
CIPS is a public policy think tank dedicated to providing policy analysis and practical policy recommendations to decision-makers within Indonesia’s legislative and executive branches of government. CIPS focuses its research and policy advocacy on issues concerning education policy reform, food security and agriculture, as well as general issues affecting the livelihood of low-income communities. We have previously cooperated with local governments, the National Development and Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia, UNESCO, and many other reputable organizations.
The Visiting Research Fellowship program offers the researchers the necessary office space while conducting their research in Jakarta. We are also able to offer administrative assistance for the stay of the researcher and other arrangement of the field research. For more information, please visit the website or email contact@cips-indonesia.org.
The United States-Indonesia Society (USINDO) Programs
For complete information on the educational exchange programs offered by USINDO (including a summer studies program, a masters fellowship, professional fellows, etc), visit the website.
Boren Awards for Language Study and Research in Southeast Asia
Boren Awards fund U.S. undergraduate and graduate language study and research abroad in world regions critical to U.S. national interests (including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East). Boren Awards promote longer‐term linguistic and cultural immersion overseas, and are available to applicants in most fields of study.
Boren Awards will give preference to applicants planning to study in a number of East & Southeast Asian countries, including Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Preference is also given to students who are willing to study abroad for longer periods of time, and those who are highly motivated to work in the federal government following graduation.
The Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 for undergraduate students for language‐focused study abroad.
The Boren Fellowships provide up to $30,000 for graduate students to fund language study, graduate‐level research, and academic internships abroad.
Webinars on aspects of the Boren Awards, including special regional initiatives and components of the application are scheduled throughout the application process. Sign up today here. Additional information on preferred countries, languages, fields of study, and annual deadlines can be found at www.borenawards.org.
Applicants are encouraged to contact their Boren Awards campus representatives, listed in a directory on the website, for institution‐specific guidance. They may also contact Boren Awards staff directly at 1‐800‐618‐NSEP or boren@iie.org.
Fellowships: National Asia Research Program
NARP Fellows conduct policy-relevant research on national security issues. For information on the program and the annual, competitive selection process, please visit the website.
Southeast Asia in Focus: The Future of U.S. Leadership in the Region
Tuesday, October 20 at 10:00 AM EDT
Speakers:
Amy Searight, Ph.D
Senior Associate for Asia, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Thomas Parks
Country Representative, Thailand at The Asia Foundation
In the first session, titled ‘The Future of U.S. Leadership in Southeast Asia,’ two experts in U.S.-Southeast Asia relations will provide a broad overview of the history, current state, and future trajectory of US engagement within the extremely diverse region. This conversation aims to provide information on and analysis of the ongoing foreign policy debates concerning trade, security, economic development, and more.
Click here to register.
The South China Sea: China, Southeast Asia, and Maritime Security
October 21, 2020
6:00pm – 7:30pm EST
The South China Sea is one of the most important strategic corridors in the world: it is a crucial shipping lane, lucrative fishing ground and home to huge gas and oil reserves. Most nations in the region — China, Taiwan, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – lay claim to at least part of this Sea, and in recent years China has been especially assertive about its claims to nearly all of it. Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia have challenged these claims, making it one of Asia’s most volatile hotspots for conflict.
This webinar is part of the Crossing Borders: International Affairs between China and Southeast Asia 2020-2021 Roundtable Series co-hosted by the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and the East-West Center.
Click here to register.
The Deer and the Dragon: Southeast Asia and China in the 21st Century
October 22, 2020
4:00 PM EDT
At a meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum in 2010, the Chinese foreign minister, angered by a question about the South China Sea dispute, declared: “China is a big country and other countries are small countries, and that is just a fact.” The authors whose essays are collected in The Deer and the Dragon examine the nature, dynamics, and implications of that fact – and the inequality that has resulted between China and the countries of Southeast Asia.
Join the National Committee on October 22 at 4:00 p.m. EDT for a virtual program with Dr. Donald Emmerson and Dr. Ann Marie Murphy as they explore the implications of Sino-Southeast Asian relations for U.S. foreign policy. Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the New York Southeast Asia Network are co-sponsors of the event.
Click here to register.
Militarized Landscapes of The Indochina Conflicts
October 28, 2020
12:00 to 1:00 PM EST
Speakers: David Biggs, professor of History, UC Riverside; Jonathan Padwe, associate professor of Anthropology, UH Mānoa; and Leah Zani, anthropologist, author, and poet based in Albany, California
Hosted by Yale Council on Southeast Asian Studies
Click here to register.
The Ecology of State-Building: Moving Capitals in Indonesia
October 28, 2020
3:00 to 4:30pm EST
Indonesia will be among the first nations to initiate a climate-based migration: transitioning its rapidly sinking, flood-prone capital from densely-populated Java to Borneo, one of the richest and most imperiled cultural and biodiversity hotspots on Earth. The new capital will be situated across a vast landscape where indigenous and migrant communities and corporations collectively practice subsistence, commercial, and extractive land uses and livelihoods across a shared landscape that also holds key endangered species habitat. This historic migration will spur rapid, wide-ranging, and intersecting effects on the surrounding social, economic, political, and ecological landscape.
Presenter: Wendy M. Erb, Visiting Scientist and American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University.
Click here to register.
Duterte’s Phallus: On the Aesthetics of Authoritarian Vulgarity
Wednesday, October 28 at 4:00 p.m. PST
By: Vicente Rafael
Professor of History, University of Washington
Prof. Vicente Rafael (University of Washington) will discuss some of the sources of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s symbolic authority. Duterte is widely known for his irreverence and bawdy humor that constitute important elements of his governing style. His stories reveal a reliance on invective and an obsession with obscenity. What results is an “intimate tyranny,” much of it centered on the tales of his phallus as it encounters the world. This talk is an attempt to explicate the terms of this intimate tyranny.
Click here to register.
“Saigon’s Swamp: The Metabolic History of a City and its Mangrove Frontier”
October 29, 2020 7:00 pm EDT on Zoom
Oberlin College History Dept & LIASE
by Professor David Biggs, UC Riverside
Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is one of SE Asia’s largest manufacturing and export centers. The climate crisis has brought renewed attention to coastal mangrove ecosystems of Saigon. This talk explores the ways Saigon’s mangrove frontier helped power key metabolic flows and commercial exchanges that animated and sustained city life and, at times, played directly into larger political struggles.
David Biggs is the award-winning author of Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta (2010) and Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam (2018).
Click here to register.
“Countering the Coronavirus-relate Infodemic: Sharing Best Practices”
November 4, 2020
3.15 -4.30 PM Bangkok, Thailand GMT+7
Since February 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has created an “Infodemic” which has created a challenge for countries trying to tackle issues of disinformation, misinformation and too much information. A spike in COVID-19 related “fake news” is placing communities in very vulnerable positions resulting in risk to the public health arena and national security. In Thailand one challenge wrought by the pandemic is the circulation of fake news about preventive measures, possible clusters and false reports of patients. In Taiwan, the success depends on a mixture of information correction, accountability, transparency, respect for human rights and rule of law. All of these factors have contributed to effective crisis communication, panic prevention, and public trust in government’s responses. This seminar brings speakers from both jurisdictions to share best practices on how best to shield communities from the negative effects of COVID-19 spurred “Infodemic”.
Speakers will be identified shortly.
Sign up for the event here.
2020 ASEAN-Japan Roundtable
November 18, 2020
2.00- 3.30 PM Bangkok, Thailand GMT+7
As Japan and ASEAN are economically and socially integrated, this webinar will examine the shared implications for Japan and Southeast Asia. What have been the challenges in the regional supply chain and car production? How has it affected people-to-people relations in education, family ties and tourism? What are the shared learning points that have emerged? What can Japan and ASEAN do in the post-COVID-19 era?
This roundtable will examine the challenges brought about the COVID-19 pandemic and explore the possible joint solutions to address the issue. Asia Centre will host this roundtable discussion to facilitate an exchange of views between Japanese scholars and academics based in Thailand.
Speakers:
Saikaew Thipakorn, Japan – ASEAN Studies Center, Chulalongkorn University
Taro Mochizuki, Osaka University
David Malitz, BALAC, Chulalongkorn University
Saul Takahashi, Osaka Jogakuin University
Ms. Akiko Sato, Human Rights Now
Register for the event here.
Report Launch: Democracy in Southeast Asia: Building Resilience Against Authoritarianism
December 9, 2020
2.00- 3.30 PM Bangkok, Thailand GMT+7
On 9 December 2020, Asia Centre will release a baseline study that evaluates the state of democracy and human rights in Southeast Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Democracy in Southeast Asia: Building Resilience Against Authoritarianism outlines how Southeast Asian governments have taken the pandemic as an opportunity to tighten their grip over their citizens and the individuals who are within their borders. The research for the report, which is currently being undertaken (July to November 2020), covers the period from January to November 2020 of the situation in the Southeast Asian countries of Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. It examines the emergency decrees and laws, the suspension of democratic activities, increased surveillance, and the framing of human rights activists as national security threats in the region. This is Asia Centre’s second baseline study in 2020 and the report is released to mark Human Rights Day, 10 December 2020. This report is currently under external review.
Discussants to be announced.
Sign up for the event here.
5th Benedict Anderson Memorial Roundtable: COVID-19 & Vaccine Nationalism
January 20, 2021
2- 3.30 PM Bangkok, Thailand, GMT+7 online.
Due to high demand for a COVID-19 vaccine, there have been a number of pre-purchase agreements being made between governments and vaccine manufacturers to secure and prioritise a country’s needs before others. This is now commonly known as ‘vaccine nationalism’. As a range of vaccines are being developed and tested in numerous clinical trials globally, several wealthier countries such as the US, UK, France, Germany have entered these pre-purchase agreements. In doing so, there is now a growing fear that advanced agreements like such will make the initial release of vaccines unaffordable and inaccessible to the less-developed countries and, in turn, the vaccines are prioritised to the more-developed countries in a world of 8 billion people. On 20 January 2021, Asia Centre and the Thai Media Fund will hold the Benedict Anderson 5th Anniversary Memorial Roundtable to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic impact and the development of ‘Vaccine Nationalism’. This event is to commemorate the work of the late Professor Benedict Anderson on nationalism. Asia Centre has held 4 previous memorial roundtables.
Speakers: TBA
Moderator: TBA
Sign up for the event here.
Volunteer Announcement: Tutors and Learners
Greater University Tutoring Service (GUTS), Foreign Language Learners (FLL) program is designed to help students learn a new language by partnering them up with a native speaker of that language.
We are currently recruiting tutors and learners for our program. Please encourage students to apply to our program as it is a great opportunity for them to improve their speaking and listening skills. Also if you know of any students that are exceptionally skilled in a language, please let them know about our program.
For more information, please email fll.guts@gmail.com.
Globaljobs.org
Job/internship opportunities: Turn area studies into an internship or a career. See job listings at NGOs, think tanks, government, and private-sector employers.
Chinese Mutual Aid Association
Job/volunteer opportunities. For more information contact info@chinesemutualaid.org or 773-784-2900.
U.S. Department of State
Student internship program: Internship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students at Washington headquarters and US embassies, consulates and missions worldwide.
Room to Read
Volunteer opportunities: San Francisco-based organization that helps develop literacy skills among primary and secondary school students.
Asia Society
Career opportunities: Internships and jobs posted regularly on website.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Jobs listed under Opportunities tab of ASEAN website.
Devex: Do Good. Do it Well
International aid and development jobs in 1,000 agencies, companies and NGOs in 100 countries.
DevNetJOBS.org
International development jobs and consulting opportunities.
Idealist.org
Privately funded website offers searchable database of nonprofit international jobs and volunteer opportunities.
ReliefWeb
Specialized digital service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs that posts jobs regularly.
World Health Organization
Global health agency in the United Nations system encourages online applications for potential employment.