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June 15th, 2009

What's Up with Southeast Asian Studies at Stanford? Recap, Prospect, Controversy

Shorenstein APARC, FSI Stanford, SEAF News

The 2008-09 academic year was a busy time for the Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF). A dozen on-campus lectures by Southeast Asianists from Australia, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, and the United States ranged from country-specific topics such as labor resistance in Vietnam, political opposition in Malaysia, and the 2009 elections in Indonesia, to broader-brush treatments of Southeast Asian identities and modernities, regional repercussions of the global economic slowdown, and the wellsprings of "late democratization" across East Asia. Read more »



August 6th, 2008

Southeast Asian Studies at Stanford: A rising profile

SEAF News

Five Southeast Asia scholars are slated for residence at Stanford for the upcoming academic year. Shorenstein APARC and the Southeast Asia Forum will host four of them: three were selected under the Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Initiative on Southeast Asia, and one is a recipient of a 2008-09 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellowship. A fifth scholar will be on campus as a National Fellow of the Hoover Institution. Read more »



August 1st, 2008

Stanford undergraduates pose questions for Singapore in Singapore Journal

SEAF News

The inaugural (March 2008) issue of PRISM, an undergraduate journal published by the University Scholars Programme (USP) of the National University of Singapore (NUS), carries a dozen essays. Six were written by Stanford undergraduates for a Stanford Overseas Seminar taught in Singapore in September 2006, and six by NUS undergrads in the USP for an NUS course taught at Stanford in May 2007. Read more »


Indonesian economist named Shorenstein APARC/Asia Foundation Visiting Fellow for 2009-2010

SEAF News

Sudarno Sumarto has been selected to become the second Shorenstein APARC/Asia Foundation Visiting Fellow. He will be in residence at Stanford during the 2009-2010 academic year. Read more »


Machiavelli for economic reformers?

SEAF News

Shorenstein APARC/Asia Foundation Fellow, Dennis Arroyo completes monograph on economic policy strategems in Asia. +PDF+
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Hedging Alignments, Financing Resilience, and Assessing Pol Pot's Cambodia by John Ciorciari, 2008-2009 Shorenstein Fellow

SEAF News

Fellowships are more often won on the promise of completing a book than books are finished before the fellowships end. Dr. Ciorciari broke this "rule" by completing his book manuscript in Spring 2008 and submitting it to Cornell University Press for possible publication. Read more »



July 31st, 2008

State of the art of the state?

SEAF News

Stanford University Press publishes SEAF-initiated book on Southeast Asia in Political Science +PDF+ +BUY+
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