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The Center for Southeast Asian Studies was established in 1963 at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. Located 65 miles west of Chicago, Northern Illinois University is a comprehensive undergraduate and graduate university with approximately 23,000 students. A federally funded National Resource Center since 1997, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies provides leadership, focus, and coordination for Southeast Asian studies at the university. It also provides outreach and K-12 teacher training for communities throughout northern Illinois. |
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One of our most unique resources is SEAsite, a comprehensive and varied set of interactive learning resources for studying Southeast Asian languages, literatures and cultures on the world wide web - all developed here by faculty and students and accessible from our home page. |
CSEAS is very proud to announce that Anies Baswedan (Ph.D. Political Science, NIU 2007) has been listed by Foreign Policy Magazine as among the 100 Top Public Intellectuals world-wide. Anies is currently president of Paramadina University in Jakarta, Indonesia, and a noted political analyst. He studied with Dr. Dwight King and played a leading role in the student movements in Indonesia in the late 1990s. Foreign Policy Magazine
PHILIPPINE CULTURE NIGHT, Friday, April 25th in Wirtz Hall
100. Show starts at 6 PM, dinner to follow.
Read more about it here.
See a slide show (Press Page
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SOUTHEAST ASIA CULTURE NIGHT, Friday, May 2nd in Wirtz Hall 100. Food will be
available at 5:30 PM. The show will begin at 6 PM.
Performances representing the cultures of the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia,
Burma and more! Free and open to all! SEA Culture
Night poster (PDF).
Fall 2008 Courses available for SEA minor or graduate concentration in SEA studies
Spring 2008 Brown Bag Lecture Series
Southeast Asian Studies Student Conference -
Saturday March 22, 9:00 - 3:00; Conference flyer
and reception;
Conference Program
Study Abroad Program in Malaysia this summer.
Read about it here.
Click on picture to see
You Tube Video.
Study Abroad Program in Thailand this summer.
Read about it here.
The Mandala Newsletter - Fall 2006
A new grant entitled "Cultural Citizens and North-South Dialogue: Building the
National Identity and Civic Participation in the Philippines" was awarded to
CSEAS members Dr. Sue Russell (Anthropology) and Dr. Lina Davide-Ong
(International Training Office) by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural
Affairs (ECA), U.S. Department of State. The grant begins September 1,
2007 and ends December 2009. More...
Congratulations to Julia Lamb, our Outreach Coordinator, for being selected to receive the 2007 SPS Presidential Award for Excellence. Full story...
Please view a PowerPoint presentation about our Center.
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the NIU Center for Southeast Asian Studies a $1.7 million grant for its continued program and worldwide outreach efforts. Full Story...
Northern Illinois University Libraries, along with a consortium of U.S.
institutions represented by Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA)
and several international partners have won a grant from the US Department of
Education to create the Southeast Asia Digital Library.
Full Story...
A federally funded National Resource Center since 1997, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies provides leadership, focus, and coordination for Southeast Asian studies at the university. cseas@niu.edu