CSEAS has received the 2011 All Star Award from Constant Contact®, Inc., the trusted marketing advisor to more than half a million small organizations worldwide. Each year, a select group of Constant Contact customers are honored with the All Star Award for their exemplary marketing results. The Center for Southeast Asian Studies’ results ranked among the top 10% of Constant Contact’s customer base.

The entire CSEAS team is overjoyed to be recognized by Constant Contact for achieving strong results from our weekly announcement. Constant Contact’s tools have helped us to better manage and engage with our constiutents. We plan to continue our use of Constant Contacts tools in order to showcase our weekly findings on the best news, publications, conferences, jobs, and scholarships from Southeast Asia.

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Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute 2012
Program Dates: Monday, June 18, 2012 to Friday, August 10, 2012
Deadline: Friday, April 27, 2012

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies is offering students interested in learning Thai, Indonesian, Tagalog, Khmer, and Vietnamese at the 101/201 level full scholarship support to study at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute in Madison, Wisconsin from June 18-August 10. SEASSI provides excellent intensive language classes that will help establish a solid foundation for furthering your Southeast Asian language study at UH in Fall 2012.

For more information about the program and how to apply, go here: SEASSI.

If you are interested in this funding opportunity, you should contact the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Moore Hall 405 via email at cseas@hawaii.edu. You should also apply directly to SEASSI for admission and notify CSEAS when SEASSI has admitted you to their program (see link above). There are a limited number of scholarships, so if you are thinking about taking advantage of this great opportunity the deadline for contacting CSEAS and being admitted to SEASSI is Friday, April 27, 2012.

Applications are now being accepted for SEASSI 2012. Click here to go to application form.

Financial Aid deadlines for SEASSI 2012

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship: February 15, 2012
Heritage Language Award: February 15, 2012
Tuition Scholarship: April 16, 2012

What is SEASSI?

SEASSI is an eight-week intensive language training program for undergraduates, graduate students and professionals. It has been held since 1983 and hosted by UW-Madison in 1994-1995 and then since 2000.Instruction is offered for academic credit in nine languages at the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year levels.

Burmese
Filipino
Hmong
Indonesian
Javanese
Khmer
Lao
Thai
Vietnamese

Scheduling of classes is contingent on sufficient enrollment, especially at the upper levels.

Each language course is equivalent to two semesters of study, with full academic year credit. Instruction is given in small individualized groups taught by a team consisting of a coordinator (usually a linguist specializing in Southeast Asian language pedagogy) and teachers who are native speakers of that language. Instruction is intensive. Classes are held from 8:00 am to 12:30 pm, Mondays through Fridays. Most students find that they spend an additional three to four hours per day on homework.

SEASSI is an integral part of a nationwide network of language teaching faculty from the institutions that are members of the SEASSI Consortium Cornell University, Michigan State University, Northern Illinois University, Ohio University, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Los Angeles, University of Hawaii-Manoa, University of Michigan, University of Washington, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.. Representatives from these institutions meet annually to discuss SEASSI, and all major decisions regarding the institute must be approved by the SEASSI Board.

SEASSI on You Tube

Please visit the SEASSI FAQ page for more details for more information.

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SPRING 2012 CSEAS SPEAKER SERIES
A Presentation by Dr. John A. Peterson, Assistant Vice President for Graduate Studies at the University of Guam.

Landscape Evolution in Cebu, Central Philippines: The Impact of Sea Level, Social History, and Tectonism on Cultural Landscapes
Location: Tokioka Room, Moore 319; UHM
When: Tuesday, March 20, 3:00 P.M.

Landscape formation is often discontinuous and punctuated by rapid change, and cultural landscapes may be fragmented and found in chronological and spatial mosaics rather than continuous progressions. Two periods of human occupation in the Carcar area of the central Philippines are discussed relative to these effects. Pleistocene evolution of landscapes in Cebu is a complex array of uplifted fossil coral reef platforms that form the lower benches of the central cordillera of the island. These formed during prior periods of high sea level, and their present altitude has been increased by periodic tectonic uplift. Submarine fossil coral reef platforms are components of this landscape evolution, and at least two at depths of 20 meters and 60 meters below present sea level formed in the mid- to late Pleistocene. A submarine flank-margin cave, Marigondon cave, formed in the 20 meter reef platform when subaerial in the period from 80,000 to 12,000 ybp. More recent Holocene era sea level change, rising by 1.8 meters above present sea level in the period from 2,000 to 5,500 ybp altered coastal terrain and constrained human settlement to the upper extent of the present coastal plain. Subsequent upland degradation has buried the mid-Holocene shoreline below 2-3 meters of colluvial deposits. These two contexts for human settlement are situated in the complex mosaic of the present geography of Cebu.

Dr. Peterson’s archaeological fieldwork during the past several decades has been undertaken in East and SE Asia, Hawai’i, the Western Pacific, and North America. His research has included studies of the origins of agriculture, terrestrial geomorphology, artifact characterization, Spanish contact and colonialism, and 19th century Texas. Much of his current research is centered on reconstructing and interpreting the dynamic articulation of natural and cultural landscapes in the central Philippines.

Center for Southeast Asian Studies
For more information, please contact The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at cseas@hawaii.edu.

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Department of Anthropology
For more information, please contact Professor Jim Bayman or Dr. Miriam Stark.

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Dear All,

As you may know, the Department of EALC at Harvard invited applications to the VASI summer program contingent on the receipt of a Group Programs Abroad grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). We had hoped that despite the budget delays in Congress the grant application process would proceed in time to run VASI this summer. We regret to inform you that while Congress has finally authorized the DOE budget for this year, the review of GPA grant applications will not be completed in time for VASI to take place in 2012.

What does this mean to those who have applied, or are in the process of applying? We are writing today to let you know their options.

1) They may choose to withdraw their application at this point and not be charged the application fee (if they have sent a check we will not deposit it). They may, if they select this option, apply again next year for VASI 2013, contingent on our receipt of funds for the program from the DOE.

2) They may proceed with their application in order to be considered for the VASI program that will take place in the summer of 2013, again contingent on receipt of funding. Should they be selected for participation they will not be charged the $1000 program fee until the 2013 applicants are selected. Selecting this option means they will be charged the $25 application fee this year. If they are not selected this year, they may apply again when the 2013 program is announced.

We understand that for some applicants, participating in VASI this summer would have been an important part of their studies in Vietnamese, and we wish to convey our sincere regret that due to circumstances beyond our control we are unable to organize the program for them this year. Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Sincerely,

Gustavo Espada

Gustavo Espada
Staff Assistant to the VASI Program
Financial/IT Coordinator
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University

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“INDONESIAN RANDAI THEATRE AT UHM: INSIGHTS INTO THE ADAPTATION AND REHEARSAL PROCESS”
A Presentation by Kirstin Pauka, professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Professor Pauka and some of her collaborators will share insights into the rehearsal and production process of training and performing Randai theatre from West Sumatra. This is the third Randai production Pauka has directed in the Department of Theatre at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; UHM is the only place outside of Indonesia where audiences can see Randai theatre. 

This Spring, the UHM’s Department of Theatre and Dance presents the rare theatre form of Randai with its production of “The Genteel Sabai,” a folk dance-drama from the Minangkabau ethnic group in West Sumatra, Indonesia. Randai comes from the Minangkabau ethic group in Sumatra, and features beautiful traditional music and singing, martial arts, dance and acting; and its signature pants-slapping percussion!

Kirstin Pauka is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is uniquely suited to the career of director, performer, scholar and most especially teacher of Asian and cross-cultural theatre.

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Deadline: Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Instructions: Apply via UH STAR system; type “Moscotti” in key word search

To assist full-time, classified graduate students in a degree program at UHM in any department or program in the arts, humanities or social sciences whose area of focus is Southeast Asia. Non-US citizens may apply.

This fellowship may be used for any of the following purposes:

a. To attend a professional meeting at which the graduate student will present a scholarly paper or participate in the meeting as a discussant of a scholarly paper;

b. To provide a travel subsidy for Southeast Asia graduate students so that they can conduct research which will contribute to the preparation of a scholarly paper by the student or for other appropriate research purposes. The travel subsidy may be to locations in the United States or abroad and can be used for library research, etc., or for field research. The prospective recipient must be working on a degree with a focus on Southeast Asia.

Award average: $750-$1,500 | University of Hawaii STAR system

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The 2012-2013 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Academic Year and Summer Study is now available on the CSEAS website. Please click the icon to the right to apply for the upcoming year. Also, applicants should note the different deadlines for letters of recommendation and the application submission date. Good luck!

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