Southeast Asia Program
Southeast Asian Qualitative Social Sciences Postdoctoral Associate
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We are seeking an independent and highly motivated social scientist with fieldwork and area expertise on one or more Southeast Asian countries. Scholars from a range of fields including geography, anthropology, sociology, data/information science, public and ecosystem health, planning, political science, and environmental social science are encouraged to apply. We especially welcome someone able to work across disciplinary boundaries and is interested in the intersections between research, public engagement, and policy making in the Southeast Asian context.
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Southeast Asian Environmental Humanities Postdoctoral Associate
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Potential topics may include and are not limited to humanistic or qualitative research approaches to climate breakdown, biodiversity, human-animal relations, plantations, environmental justice, commodity chains, extraction, and the cultural politics of food as they relate to Southeast Asia and/or Southeast Asian diasporas. We especially welcome applicants with PhDs in the humanities, interpretive social sciences such as anthropology, or interdisciplinary degrees such as religious studies, Southeast Asian studies, ethnic studies, feminist studies, or science and technology studies.
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The 27th Cornell SEAP Graduate Student Conference: Mobility
Deadline extended to December 7
How is Southeast Asia animated and made to move? Who crosses boundaries, who stays still, and what jams, messes, conscriptions, and inscriptions are we bound to? Resisting both dreams of frictionless passage and fantasies of fixed origins, the theme of the 27th SEAP Graduate Student Conference waves in reflections on mobility and its constraints. We await explorations of that which is trans (-national, -Pacific, -imperial, -gressive) or in trans (-ition, -mission, -lation). We welcome interrogations on that which is mobile yet clandestine, unintended, or interrupted. What kinetic energies are released by diasporas in seeds, chemicals, finances, and tastes? What constitutes the motion in activist, insurgent, protest, or resistance movements, and who moves against the movers? What disturbed temporalities, what uncertain spatialities, what contingent choreographies are produced by the travel of soldiers, pollutants, scientists, viruses, and images of young hippos in Thai zoos? Moo Deng and we invite submissions which agitate stagnant pools of nationality and syncopate staid rhythms of history. Viewing the academy itself as a site of stupor, we also welcome scholarship which unsettles the heavy dust of area studies.
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Eve Devillers
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2031
Primary Language: Indonesian
Research Countries: Indonesia
Research Interests: Natural resource governance, energy transitions, food commoning, land and resource grabbing
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Junior Resident Fellows Program: Summer in Cambodia
Engage in advanced research and cultural exchange in Cambodia with the Junior Resident Fellows Program.
Each summer, the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) offers five U.S., five Cambodian, and five French undergraduate students and recent graduates the exciting opportunity to participate in our six-week Junior Resident Fellows Program in Cambodia. Fellows are based at the CKS campus in Siem Reap, situated on the historic grounds of Wat Damnak – one of the city’s major Buddhist pagodas – and mere minutes away from the world-renowned Angkor Wat temple complex. Fellows also spend time in Cambodia’s bustling capital city, Phnom Penh.
CKS covers the cost of tuition, accommodation (bed and breakfast), local transportation during program activities, books, study materials, and some field trip expenses, such as entrance fees to historical and cultural sites. CKS also has small program grants of between US$600 and US$800 available to offset the cost of international airfare, visas, and medical insurance. All other living and personal expenses will be incurred by the individual Fellows.
Application Deadline
Application details, including the application deadline for the Junior Resident Fellows Program 2026, can be found on this page.
Stay Connected for Updates
More details about the program are available on the CKS website, and make sure you have subscribed to the SEAP listserv to receive the latest updates on deadlines for study abroad applications and funding deadlines.
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Southeast Asian Summer Studies Institute (SEASSI)
Applications open for Summer 2025
We are happy to announce that the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) applications for Summer 2025 are open!
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EMI Conference 2025
November 7, 2025
10:00 am
Cornell Tech, TBD
Save the Date!
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
South Asia Program
Cornell Gamelan Ensemble with Wakidi Dwidjomartono
December 10, 2024
3:00 pm
Lincoln Hall, B20
Master Javanese gamelan musician Wakidi Dwidjomartono joins the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble and students taking Gamelan in Indonesian History and Cultures for a program of traditional Javanese gendhing.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
Kyaw Hsan Hlaing
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028-29
Committee Chair/Advisor: Thomas Pepinsky
Discipline: Political Science
Primary Language: Arakanese, Burmese
Research Countries: TBD
Research Interests: Regime Changes, Political violence, Contentious Politics, Authoritarianism,
Democratic Backsliding, and Rebel Politics.
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Shifting Landscapes: A Conversation with the Cornell Community on Migration and Trump-Era Policy Changes
November 21, 2024
12:00 pm
The recent U.S. election is likely to have significant impacts on immigration policy and practices. Based on experience with the previous Trump administration and standing efforts among Republicans in Congress, these changes may impact Cornell students, staff, and faculty. Join Cornell’s Migrations Program in a conversation about the current state of immigration policy.
This is a virtual-only meeting open to Cornell faculty, staff, and students. Registration is required.
Panelists
Shannon Gleeson, School of Industrial and Labor Relations and Brooks School of Public PolicyLaura Taylor, Director of International ServicesStephen Yale-Loehr, Cornell Law SchoolModerator
Wendy Wolford, Vice Provost for International Affairs and Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development in the College of Agriculture and Life SciencesHost and Sponsors
The Migrations Program, part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, builds upon the work of Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge to inform real-world policies and outcomes for populations that migrate.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Migrations Program
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program