CSEAS News Archive

• Buswell Expands Asian Languages Dept. to Include South & Southeast Asia
  Buddhist Studies greatly expanded as well.
• Philippines' Prof. Walden Bello Wins Right Livelihood "Altermative Nobel Prize" for 2003
  Prize awarded in the Swedish Parliament is "for Outstanding Vision and Work on Behalf of Our Planet and Its People."
• UCLA Thai alum narrates reign as royal filmmaker
  Thai prince unleashes historical battle epic; strives to delight westerners, alma mater.
• Preservation Efforts in the Philippines: UC students work outside the classroom with NGOs
  Exciting internships for U.C. students studying in the Philippines.
• Vietnam: First Impressions of U.C. Students
  Fifteen UC students attended the fall semester of the Education Abroad Program in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2002. Below are some of their impressions, captured during the first two weeks of the program.
• Historic Gathering of Southeast Asian Language Teachers at UCLA
  The largest group of U.S.-based teachers of Southeast Asian languages met at UCLA January 30-February 1, 2003, to improve their teaching skills and to develop new materials.
• Filipino Film Festival at UCLA a Big Success
  Five classic films provide Los Angeles restrospective of the best of Filipino filmaking from the early 1960s to the end of the 1980s.
• UCLA's Anthony Reid Named Fukuoka Laureate
  UCLA historian Anthony Reid was named July 1 as a recipient of the prestigious Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize for his work in Southeast Asian historiography.
• Balinese Gamelan Performance
  On September 28, 2002, the Wilshire Ebell Theater reverberated with the rich tones of Balinese gamelan music, as a large audience enjoyed an evening of music and dance from the Çudamani ensemble of Bali.
• Mantle Hood Receives USINDO Award
  Founder of the Institute of Ethnomusicology at UCLA, Emeritus Professor Mantle Hood has recently been awarded the USINDO award for his significant contribution to the United States-Indonesian bilateral relationship. The award was given to him in Washington D.C on September 12, 2002 at the second annual USINDO dinner to celebrate bilateral ties. In attendance at the dinner were the Indonesian minister of foreign affairs and various U.S. congressional members.

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