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CSEAS News
Siamese Connection 2011: Rediscover The Invisible Dog Arts Center Location: Brooklyn, NY Exhibition dates: 28 - 31 July 2011 As New York's largest Thai arts showcase, Siamese Connection was first conceived in 2010 to provide a much needed platform for emerging Thai artists based in New York. This year's theme of "rediscover" was selected to prompt artists to take another look at themselves, their identity and their surroundings, finding new meaning, significance and perspective in familiar or forgotten things. more info
EXPLORATIONS 2011 Graduate Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 
EXPLORATIONS is available now! more info
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| Featured Events
Around the World
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Mengejar Ombak Trailer - Dede Suryana film
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Mengejar Ombak
Film screening at Asian Art Museum
Location: San Francisco, CA USA
7:00pm, 14 July 2011
Mengejar Ombak is a documentary film that offers personal insight into the life of a young and very talented Indonesian surfer, Dede Suryana (current Indonesia Surf Champion and 2 time Gold Winner at the Asian Beach Games). The film follows Dede as he embarks on his first serious season on the World Qualifying Series. more info
Los Angeles Indonesian Festival
3457 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA USA
10:00am - 10:00pm, 16 July 2011
The Indonesian Festival 2011 is an annual event organized by Indonesian Consulate General and the Indonesian community in Los Angeles. This year's festival is aimed at commemorating sixty-six years of Indonesian independence. The theme of the festival is A Presentation of Wonderful Indonesia for LA and Its Surroundings. more info
Women, Gender and Islam
Presentation by Zarina Nalla
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Singapore
3:00 - 4:30pm, 25 July 2011
The presentation will touch upon several related topics, such as the Qur'an's treatment of women, the role of Muslim women in the public sphere historically, the current image of Muslim women internationally, and their present status in the region. Common myths about gender in Islam will be discussed. more info
13th Panasonic Contemporary
Painting Exhibition
The National Gallery
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Exhibition dates: Through 29 July 2011
The National Gallery presents the "13th Panasonic Contemporary Painting Exhibition" which showcases a selection of 54 paintings by 53 artists from the 13th Panasonic contemporary painting competition. Selected from a total of 200 entries, the paintings showcase various ways of displaying happiness through the artists' point of view and also reflect society under the theme "For the Happiness of Mankind." more info
Night Festival 2011
The Substation
Singapore
7pm-2am, 26 - 27 August 2011
Admission: Free
This year the Night Festival takes its inspiration from the histories and cultures of the Black Sea, retelling stories of the cultural crossings and maritime journeys that have fed our own cultures and imaginations. The Substation presents a diverse range of contemporary and experimental film, dance, performing arts and music programs. more info
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Educational Programs
FEATURED: Southeast Asia Internship
Stimson Center
Location: Washington, D.C., USA
Deadline: 15 July 2011
The Southeast Asia program at the Stimson Center offers internships throughout the year. The Stimson Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to enhancing international peace and security. The Southeast Asia program addresses important and timely policy issues concerning Asia from a multidisciplinary perspective. more info Internship
Stockholm Environment Institute
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Established on 1st January 2004, the SEI Asia Centre coordinates SEI activities in Asia. It currently focuses on three research themes: water resources and sanitation, coastal resources and development, and adapting to climate change. Other two themes being developed are sustainable energy and atmospheric environment. The internship opportunity is for young researchers or students who wish to gain more knowledge and experience in environmental research. more info Online Website Intern
Asia Society
Location: New York, NY USA
Open until filled
Asia Society Online is looking for a reliable, detail-oriented, internet-savvy intern who can help on a range of tasks associated with maintenance and production on a large, high-volume website. This internship will focus primarily on helping the Asia Society Online team with basic administrative tasks and site maintenance, which will include such areas as monitoring comments, tagging content, and other duties to be determined. more info  For more employment and networking opportunities, join the CSEAS Alumni & Community Linkedin group.
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| Employment Opportunities
FEATURED: Research Associate or
Visiting Faculty
Harvard Divinity School
Location: Cambridge, MA USA
Deadline: 15 October 2011
Harvard Divinity School announces five full-time Research Associate and Visiting Faculty positions for 2012-13 in its Women's Studies in Religion Program. Proposals should utilize both religion and gender as central categories of analysis. They may address women and religion in any time, place, or religious tradition, and may utilize disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches from across the fields of theology, the humanities, and the social sciences. more info
Program Assistant
East-West Center
Location: Honolulu, HI USA
Deadline: 15 July 2011
The East-West Center is accepting applications for a two-year limited position as a Program Assistant in the Education Program. This position performs a variety of routine and complex administrative and fiscal support duties for the East-West Center in the Education Program. The incumbent is under the supervision of the Senior Program Officer, but will work closely with other Education Program staff as assigned. more info
Research Assistant
United Nations
Development Policy Section
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Deadline: 23 July 2011
Under the direct supervision of the Chief of the Development Policy Section, and the general supervision of the Director of Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division, the incumbent will assist in publishing the Asia-Pacific Development Journal by coordinating the review process through frequent communications between authors and reviewers, coordinate the editing process including preliminary editing and communicating queries between authors and editors, oversee the printing process and proof reading of the manuscript and maintain the distribution list and preparation for distribution. more info
Research Assistant/Associate
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Location: Singapore
Deadline: 24 July 2011
The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies is a regional research centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment. The assistant/associate will work with the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre fellows and ISEAS administrative staff to help organize NSC conferences and seminars as well as having many other responsibilities. more info
Program Assistant - Cultural Programs
Asia Society
Location: New York, NY USA
The Program Assistant for Cultural Programs (PA) works closely with responsible staff to formulate, develop and coordinate performances, panel discussions, lectures, films and other events, including all aspects of production, coordination and marketing through print, email and social media. The PA assists with other departmental administrative responsibilities as needed. more info
Head of Department of Asian and International Studies
City University of Hong Kong
Location: Hong Kong
Deadline: 31 July 2011
The Department of Asian and International Studies offers undergraduate programs in the areas of East and Southeast Asian Studies/International Studies and postgraduate programs in the areas of Development Studies/Asian and International Studies. Teaching and research in the Department include studies of globalization, social and political trends, and the impacts of various types of economic development. more info Deputy Director
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Location: Singapore
Deadline: 31 July 2011
The Deputy Director will play a key role in the general administration and research development of the institute. He/she will assist the director in developing and overseeing the research programs and activities of the institute. more info Professor or Associate Professor Monash University
School of Arts and Social Sciences
Location: Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Deadline: 31 July 2011
The School of Arts and Social Sciences is seeking an outstanding appointee to lead the school's research and education strength "Social Transformation in Southeast Asia". The school would be particularly interested in applicants working on socio-cultural issues. more info Assistant Professor of International Relations
Mount Holyoke College
Location: South Hadley, MA
Deadline: 1 November 2011
The International Relations Program invites applications for a tenure-track position in transnational social movements and organizations. The position would be offered at the assistant professor level beginning in Fall 2012. We particularly welcome candidates with research agendas focusing on Southeast Asia or Africa and with strong quantitative methods background. more info Tenure-Track or Visiting Professor
University of Bridgeport
Location: Bridgeport, CT
Open until filled
Political scientist with regional expertise (preferred areas: Japan, Korea or Southeast Asia). Successful candidate will be expected to teach political and social science courses at graduate and undergraduate levels and may also teach courses in East Asian and Pacific Rim Studies. Candidates with an earned Ph.D. and a successful record of university teaching are preferred. Applicants are asked to submit copies of recent course evaluations and publications in support of their applications. more info Asia Advocacy Director
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Location: Washington, D.C., USA
Apply Immediately
HRW is seeking highly-qualified applicants for the position of Advocacy Director with its Asia Division. The Advocacy Director will work with staff from HRW's Asia Division and its thematic divisions (women's rights, children's rights, international justice, refugees, etc.) to design and implement strategies to promote and protect human rights in Asia. more info For more employment and networking opportunities, join the CSEAS Alumni Community Linkedin group. Return to top |
Fellowships Scholarships
FEATURED: Fulbright U.S. - Indonesia Initiative
Deadline: 1 August 2011
Due to a recent expansion of the Fulbright program with Indonesia, several new grant opportunities are available for U.S. scholars interested in visiting Indonesian universities during the 2012-2013 academic year. U.S. scholars who have reached their lifetime limit on Fulbright scholar grants are eligible to apply for additional grants to Indonesia. The American Indonesian Exchange Foundation (AMINEF) will be pleased to assist U.S. scholars who do not have prior experience in Indonesia in finding appropriate placements at Indonesian universities. more info Scholarship in Agriculture Southeast Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research Deadline: 30 July 2011 The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) invites applications for its graduate scholarship (MS and PhD) in agriculture and related fields (including biological sciences, social sciences, economics and statistics, forestry and fisheries, environmental sciences, agro-industrial technology and engineering, biochemistry, and development management) for school year 2012-2013. more info
AAA Research Grant
Asia Art Archive
Deadline: 10pm Hong Kong Time, 31 July 2011
The AAA Research Grant supports focused research projects on art in Asia. AAA's definition of 'Asia' and 'Asian art' is not restrained by geography and includes artists of Asian descent living around the world, as well as artists of non-Asian decent living in Asia. AAA will award a total of HK$80,000 (approx. US$10,000) to one project. more info Fellowships National University of Singapore
Asia Research Institute
Location: Singapore
Deadline: 1 September 2011
Applications are invited for Senior Research Fellowships, One-Year Visiting (Senior) Research Fellowships and Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Asia Research Institute (ARI) for commencement between April 2012 and September 2012. The positions are intended for outstanding active researchers from around the world, to work on an important piece of research in the social sciences and humanities. Interdisciplinary interests are encouraged. Up to three months of a 12-month fellowship may be spent conducting fieldwork in the Asian region. more info Fellowships - The Culman Center
The New York Public Library
Deadline: 30 September 2011
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers offers fellowships to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the research collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street (formerly the Humanities and Social Sciences Library). Renowned for the extraordinary comprehensiveness of its collections, the Library is one of the world's preeminent resources for study in anthropology, art, geography, history, languages and literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, and sports. more info Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
University of Pennsylvania
Deadline: 15 October 2011
Five (5) one-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships are available for the 2012-2013 academic year for untenured scholars in the humanities who received or will receive their Ph.D. between December 2003 and December 2011. The programs of the Penn Humanities Forum are conceived through yearly topics that invite broad interdisciplinary collaboration. For the 2012-2013 academic year, we have set "Peripheries" as the theme. more info Boren Fellowship
Deadline: 31 January 2012
Boren Fellowships provide up to $30,000 to U.S. graduate students to add an important international and language component to their graduate education through specialization in area study, language study, or increased language proficiency. Boren Fellowships are funded by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), which focuses on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study deemed critical to U.S. national security. more info Bernard Schwartz Resident Fellows Program
Asia Society
Applications now being accepted
The Bernard Schwartz Fellows Program seeks to contribute to a better understanding of policy challenges related to the growing importance of Asia in the international political arena and global economy. The program selects highly qualified professionals to serve as resident Fellows at Asia Society's headquarters in New York City or its office in Washington, D.C. for up to one year. During the course of their residencies, fellows direct a policy initiative, such as a task force, study group, or policy research project. more info Postdoctoral Fellowship
Lotus - Erasmus Mundus Action 2
Call 4 for applications is open
Lotus is an Erasmus Mundus Action Two Partnership (EMA2) of European and Southeast Asian Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and Associations aiming at fostering mutual enrichment and better understanding between the EU and Southeast Asia (China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand), through the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills at higher education level. This project is to give Southeast Asian students and staff the possibility to go to a European University to improve, enrich and learn. more info Senior Research Fellow/ Associate Director
National University of Singapore
Middle East Institute Location: Singapore
Open until filled
The Middle East Institute (MEI), National University of Singapore, seeks to recruit a Senior Research Fellow, who will hold the title of Associate Director, to assist the Director in developing the Institute's research, publications and events agenda, in generating a fruitful and collegial research environment, and in contributing to the Institute's research and analysis output. more info For more funding and networking opportunities, join the CSEAS Alumni Community Linkedin.
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Call for Submissions
FEATURED: Association for Asian Studies 2012
Location: Toronto, Canada
Conference dates: 15 - 18 March 2012
Deadline: 4 August 2011
On behalf of the Program Committee for the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2012 Conference to be held at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto, Canada, we are pleased to invite colleagues in Asian studies to submit proposals for organized panels, roundtables, workshops, and individual papers for sessions to be created by the Committee. The Committee seeks sessions that will engage panelists and audiences in the consideration of ideas, information, and interpretations that will advance knowledge about Asian regions and, by extension, will enrich teaching about Asia at all levels. more info Book Proposals & Individual Papers
AAS-ICAS Conference
Amsterdam University Press
Deadline: 15 August 2011
ICAS invites individual scholars and conveners of panels that participated in the AAS-ICAS conference to submit individual papers or panel papers for submission in the ICAS Publications Series. Once the paper is accept it will go through an editing process. more info 17th Colloquium of the Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia
Deakin University and La Trobe University
Location: Melbourne, Austrailia
Deadline: 30 August 2011
The theme of the colloquium is "Malaysia, Singapore and the Region". Our sense of "the region" encompasses the Asia-Pacific rim in general and Southeast Asia in particular; Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam; "the Malay world," including Brunei and Southern Thailand and, of course, Australia, China and the US. Sub-themes include, but are not limited to government, politics and international relations, ASEAN, ARF and APEC, Economic Relations, social and economic development, the arts, literature and culture, and religious ideas and communities. more info Council on Thai Studies
Center for Southeast Asian Studies (Ingraham Hall)
University of Wisonsin-Madison
Conference dates: 7 & 8 October 2011
Deadline: 9 September 2011
The Council on Thai Studies announces its annual meeting to be held at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (Ingraham Hall), the University of Wisconsin-Madison on 7 - 8 October 2011. We invite students, faculty, and other scholars of Thailand and Tai peoples to submit papers for this conference. This is a premier opportunity to exchange ideas and present new and on-going research. We welcome all topics at this conference. This is a small conference. It is an ideal venue for presenters and attendees to share and test ideas. more info Call for ContributionsParis International Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Hosted by Analytrics Hotel Concorde La Fayette Location: Paris, France Conference dates: 24 - 28 July 2012 Deadline: October 2011 The congress will bring together humanities and social sciences (HSS) researchers, scientists, academicians, experts, engineers, developers, administrators and other HSS research-related professionals and practitioners from all over the world. The aims are to promote multidisciplinary dialogue and mutual cross-fertilization of ideas and methods; to offer a place for participants to present, discuss, and showcase innovative recent and ongoing HSS research works and their applications or development. more info 7th Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference
The Politics, Practices and Poetics of the Archive
Location: Singapore
Conference dates: 19 - 22 June 2012
Deadline: 30 November 2011
The 7th Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (2012) emphasizes the politics, practices, and poetics of the archive. Each year, the conference has included film practitioners in recognition of the crucial role they have played in increasing film education and discourse in the region. We have previously provided space for independent filmmakers and screenings of their works, focused on curriculum development, and highlighting alternative cultures of cinema. more info European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists (EurASEAA)
14th International Conference
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Conference dates: 18 - 21 September 2012
The conference brings together archaeologists, art historians and philologists who share a common interest in Southeast Asia's past from prehistoric to historic periods. EuraSEAA invites sessions and papers on any topic or theme related to the interests of EurASEAA. As 2012 is also the year that Dublin is European City of Science, the organizers have proposed the theme "Science, Archaeology and Heritage in Southeast Asia." more info 2nd Biennial Sarah M. Bekker Prize for
Academic paper on Burma/Myanmar
The Burma Studies Foundation
Deadline: 31 January 2012
Up to two awards of US$500 will be given for the best research paper, essay, or article of no more than 10,000 words on a subject dealing with Burma/Myanmar. The prize is open to students in any academic field, graduate or undergraduate, who are currently registered at a university or college; there are no citizenship or residence requirements. more info International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IJHSS)
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IJHSS) is an open access and peer-reviewed journal published by Centre for Promoting Ideas (CPI), USA. The main objective of IJHSS is to provide an intellectual platform for the international scholars. IJHSS aims to promote interdisciplinary studies in humanities and social science and become the leading journal in humanities and social science in the world. IJHSS is inviting papers for Vol. 1 No. 10 which is scheduled to be published on 31 July 2011. more info
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Alumni Spotlight
William M. Owens (MA, Asian Studies - Thai, 2006) William M. Owens has been working as a professional writer and editor based in New York City. In addition to professional writing contracts with IT and telecommunications firms, he has been studying and writing about the development of contemporary Thai art cinema as an independent scholar. more info CSEAS is proud to promote our alumni achievements and projects. Email us at cseas@hawaii.edu>>> |
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Film Series
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Podcasts
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Radio
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Web Resources
 University of Hawaiʻi Southeast Asia Collection
Association for Asian Studies
 Asia Research Institute
ISLAMOPEDIA  Charity Navigator
Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts 
Indonesian Census Data 
Malaysia My Second Home Program 
South & Southeast Asia Art and Archeology Index 
Southeast Asia Digital Library 
Southeast Asian Images & Texts 
SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research
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English Language Film Review & Resource Sites
SOUTHEAST ASIA 
CritiCine.org
 Film Asia
Southeast Asian Film Studies Institute
 Synergy Europe-Asia Images
INDONESIA
MALAYSIA Book 
120 Malay Movies PHILIPPINES  Queer Eye for Queer Things in the Philippines
The Persistence of Vision - Philippine Cinema in Focus
Oggs' Movie Thoughts
Critic After Dark
SINGAPORE 
A Nutshell Review
THAILAND
Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
General Film Archive 
Icarus Films |
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