UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Welcome to the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies! We have been supporting the study of this important region at UCLA for more than 15 years, serving as a place to encourage the discussion and dissemination of scholarly work on the countries of the region. Our Center has been critical to sustaining and expanding Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA, which has now become one of the major U.S. sites for the study of this region. While we have an interest in the entire region, UCLA is particularly strong in the study of Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines. We are a federally designated National Resource Center for Southeast Asia, and are financially supported through the Title VI program at the US Department of Education. We are also supported by private donors, including the Robert Lemelson Foundation, which has helped to fund our Indonesian studies programs. We host foreign visitors, invite scholars to give talks, fund graduate student language study and research, and serve as a resource for those whose work intersects with Southeast Asian in some fashion. UCLA faculty and graduate students affiliated with the Center work on many of the region’s eleven countries across numerous departments, ranging from history to ethnomusicology to linguistics. The Center is also happy to support language instruction at UCLA by providing fellowships for the study of Southeast Asia languages, including Vietnamese, Tagalog, Thai and Indonesian. We welcome inquiries from both on and off campus relating to our programs and to Southeast Asia more generally, and hope to see you soon at one of our many events!

[Official website: http://international.ucla.edu/cseas/about]