CSEAS News Archive

• Global Studies Thesis Award Goes to Student with Ethos of Service
  Elya Filler's Global Studies thesis on the East Asian sex industry and its historical background won that interdepartmental program's top honor for 2008-09. Now she is volunteering at a school in Cambodia and thinking about how best to continue her education while helping to battle poverty.
• Human Rights Advocate Somaly Mam Speaks on Campus
  Somaly Mam, founder of the Somaly Mam Foundation goes into detail about her personal experiences as a survivor of forced prostitution for Daily Bruin Radio. Somaly urges students to visit her website somaly.org in order to read testimonials, look at pictures and learn how to save lives.
• Former Buddhist Nun Helps Stressed-Out Find Inner Peace
  Diana Winston rarely talks about the spiritual evolution that brought her here, to a large university where researchers are discovering that the practice of mindfulness meditation has many physical and psychological benefits, including slowing the progression of HIV in patients suffering from stress and helping ADHD teens focus.
• Intermediate Khmer and Advanced Filipino Language Courses Coming to UCLA This Fall
  The Southeast Asian language courses will be teleconferenced to UCLA from U.C. Berkeley as part of a foreign language initiative and distance-learning partnership.
• Local Teachers to Eat Up International Studies at UCLA
  Rice, chicken, tea. Sounds like a meal, but in a summer class about international food, these staples are a jumping-off point for understanding rice's role in globalization, how rumors about chicken quality represent distrust of the global market and how a British obsession with Chinese tea led to slave raids in the Philippines.
• Brent Luvaas: studying youth culture in Indonesia
  When Brent Luvaas spent 1996-97 in Indonesia as an exchange student from UC Santa Cruz, Yogyakarta had only "one coffee shop inside this exclusive little mall, and the only people who went there were rich, and they were the only ones with cell phones."
• Human Trafficking Escalates as World Economy Plunges
  An Indonesian woman shared her story at the conference, "Impact of the Economic Crisis: Increase in Reports of Human Trafficking in LA County and Globally," co-sponsored by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center.
• AIDS Researcher Detels Wins Teaching Award
  Roger Detels, a professor of epidemiology, is recognized for Distinction in Teaching at the Graduate Level.
• Students Granted Pilipino Studies
  Group lobbies successfully for new concentration within existing department, reports The Daily Bruin.
• Burkle Senior Fellow Kantathi Suphamonkhon: Can Thailand Avoid the Abyss?
  Burkle Center Senior Fellow and 39th Foreign Minister of Thailand, Dr. Kantathi Suphamongkhon, explains in a widely circulated op-ed how his country can "reset" its politics.

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