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The COUNCIL ON SOUTHEAST ASIA STUDIES at Yale University
oversees a multifaceted interdisciplinary program located within
the
Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area
Studies. With member faculty in the major disciplines,
and a comprehensive collection in the Yale University Library,
the Council aims to facilitate training of graduate and undergraduate
students, and to promote education, research, and intellectual
exchange on the cultures, politics and economies of Southeast
Asia (primarily Burma/Myanmar,
Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand and
Vietnam), both historical
and contemporary.
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established its Southeast Asia Studies Program in 1947 - the first
area studies program in the United States to embark on the study
of Southeast Asia in all disciplines. Southeast Asia Studies at
Yale became an endowed program in 1961, and today helps to maintain
one of the most extensive
library collections in the country. In addition to the management
of its decades-old publication
series, the Council supports learning and scholarship on
the region through language instruction, research fellowships, lectures,
workshops, conferences, cultural events, film screenings, and educational
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