Center for Southeast Asia Studies at University of California, Berkeley

The Center for Southeast Asia Studies (CSEAS) was founded in 1960 for the development of research and teaching on Southeast Asia. CSEAS merged with the Institute of East Asian Studies in 2017. An advisory committee of UC Berkeley faculty members with research interests in Southeast Asia, led by a faculty Chair, supervises CSEAS, directing its outreach and research programs and strategic direction.

CSEAS promotes the expansion of Southeast Asian Studies on the UC Berkeley campus by facilitating faculty and graduate research, by funding language instruction, by presenting lecture series and cultural programs, by organizing public outreach and international conferences, and by hosting visitors and scholars. CSEAS is a consortium U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA. The UC Berkeley-UCLA CSEAS National Resource Center is one of only seven Title VI National Resource Centers for Southeast Asia in the U.S., and the only such center in California.

CSEAS is also the editorial home of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies, published by the University of California Press. First launched in 2006, this journal presents original primary research on Vietnam.

[Official website: http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cseas/]