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Registration: January 30, 2019 This two-day dissertation writing workshop for UC students will be held Friday-Saturday, May 3-4, 2019 at UC Berkeley. The deadline to submit applications is January 30, 2019. The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA and the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley are accepting applications for participation in a two-day writing workshop for Ph.D. candidates currently enrolled at any University of California campus whose research in the humanities and social sciences focuses on Southeast Asia.…

Registration: 31 Jan 2019 at 08:30 – 12 Feb 2019 at 17:30 Details Most social change initiatives without serious people’s participation do not last. Community organizing for empowerment is a fine art with people participation as a core value. Although it takes time and the process is complicated, it warrants serious attention from community change leaders as the outcome is more likely to sustain. Participants will visit some success stories of communities that have gone through this process and learn…

Applications are now being accepted for the 2019 session of the EarthRights School. Please read the Program Information before completing the application. All forms are attached. Applications or questions may be emailed to ersmm@earthrights.org. The deadline for receipt of applications is February 1, 2019. ——- EarthRights International (ERI) believes in the power of law and the power of people in defense of human rights and the environment, which we define as earth rights. We recognize that a healthy environment cannot be maintained without respect…

Registration: February 22, 2019 FLAS fellowships are designed to support graduate and undergraduate students who are studying Southeast Asian languages and area studies courses at Intermediate level or higher. Languages for academic year fellowships are Filipino, Indonesian, Khmer, Thai or Vietnamese. In summer, additional SEA languages are eligible. The U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship program supports training in modern foreign languages and related area studies.  New and continuing graduate students in all disciplines may…

A program co-funded by the European Commission, the Master of Arts in Human Rights and Democratisation-Asia Pacific Program or APMA, is the region’s premier degree in human rights and democratisation. The degree offers students the opportunity to study both at Mahidol University and one of four selected universities in the Asia Pacific, each with a particular expertise in human rights and democratisation. The four partner universities are: Ateneo de Manila Law School (the Philippines) Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia) Kathmandu School…

Registration: March 1, 2019 This multidisciplinary summer institute, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will offer four weeks of context-rich exploration of the multiple ways in which Southeast Asian societies responded to colonial presences and how the legacies of these experiences have shaped subsequent efforts to forge national identities, envision independent political futures, and imagine new relationships between the state and its citizens. Moving chronologically from the late-19th century to the post-independence period, the institute program will engage key…

Registration: February 28, 2019 The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University in collaboration with IARU International Alliance of Research Universities is organizing a summer course “Borderland: Critical Approaches to Field Research in the Global South” during 24 June – 19 July 2019 in Chiang Mai. The course is jointly designed by UC Berkeley, the Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen and Chiang Mai University. Themes addressed in the course include:…