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Welcome to the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies! Our Center has been critical to sustaining and expanding Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA for 20 years, serving to strengthen the discussion and dissemination of scholarly work on this important region.

COVID-19 UPDATE: UCLA CSEAS faculty and staff are currently working from home. We will be offering virtual programming through August 2021.

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New! CSEAS 2020 Newsletter

CSEAS Announcements 5/10/21

Upcoming Events

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Indigenous Musical Responses to U.S. Colonization:
The Philippine Constabulary Band and the Continuity of Filipino Tradition

Wednesday, May 19, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Zoom

Troubling Borders Panel
An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora

Wednesday, May 26, 2021
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Zoom

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Thirteenth Heritage Language Virtual Research Institute
Language similarity and language distance in bilingual/heritage situations

Monday, June 7, 2021
Location: University of North Carolina

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News & Announcements

Statement on Stop Asian Hate

We at the UCLA ALC Department, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and Asia Pacific Center categorically condemn these acts of violence and incidents of hate speech.

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Educators can register for a free "Sites of Encounter in World History" virtual teacher workshop focused on Malacca & the Ottoman Empire, 1400-1800 to align with the CA K-12 History-Social Science Framework. The workshop will run June 17-18, 2021 on Zoom.

Monday, May 3, 2021

Andrew Le appointed to the 2021 GETSEA Graduate Student Council

Andrew N. Le will serve as the UCLA CSEAS representative on the first GETSEA Graduate Student Advisory Council, formed under the consortium for Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies.

Thursday, April 1, 2021