2019 SEA Junction Year-End Review
In addition to its functioning as a reading room, SEA Junction conducts public activities to foster understanding and appreciation of Southeast Asia in all its realities and socio-cultural dimensions
The Fabric of Being: Textiles, Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Textiles are inextricably linked to our lives, essential to our survival and powerful signifiers of our existence.
SEA Junction October 2019 Agenda
Last month, SEA Junction participated in the ASEAN People Forum (APF) to profile our organization and activities and we were impressed with the vibrancy of civil society in the face of dismissal by most governments in the region.
‘Love, Money, And Obligation’: Why (Some) Isaan Women Love Farangs
Driving down a dirt road through a rustic Isaan village, one sees concrete houses with garages and satellite dishes strewn all over the vast paddy field. If they don’t belong to the village headman or lotto winner, they must be owned by a mia farang.
Book on Isaan Interracial Love Launches Tomorrow at BACC
Did Tukta marry Gerhardt for love, money, or out of obligation? An anthropologist says it may be all three. The life stories of Thai women and farang men in interracial relationships in Isaan are explored in “Love, Money and Obligation” (2019)
Sea Junction: Where Southeast Asia Enthusiasts Cross Paths
BANGKOK — For those with a passion for Southeast Asia, all roads lead to SEA Junction in the heart of Bangkok.
SEA Junction September 2019 Agenda
The program we held last month in our venue in Bangkok explored two vital questions for Southeast Asia and our global community, namely environmental degradation and the control of the internet and information.
SEA Junction August 2019 Agenda
The program in July explored the intersection of gender and economic factors in Southeast Asia collaborating with the Mekong Migrant Network with a panel discussion on the livelihood of women migrant labours in SEZs and with SEI and partners on the right to land and food.
SEA Junction July 2019 Agenda
The program in June was intense with a two-week photo exhibition and related discussions on the conflict-shadowed lives of people in Southern Thailand, which was held among a variety of other wide-ranging events from philanthropy to reverse glass paintings.
Rohingya Refugee Voices Amplify Across Southeast Asia
The 2017 Rohingya humanitarian crisis caused by Myanmar is not only affecting Bangladesh, which has taken in 740,000 refugees, but it’s also causing strife in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand