Southeast Asia Studies at Yale

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.

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.

Established in 1947, Southeast Asia Studies was the first area studies program at Yale - and the first in the United States to embark on the study of Southeast Asia in all disciplines (See Yale SEAS History).

With Council support, Yale currently maintains one of the most extensive Southeast Asia library collections in the United States.

In addition to the management of its decades-old publication series, the Council supports learning and scholarship on the region through language instruction and summer research fellowships, and by coordinating an annual program of seminars, lectures, workshops, conferences, cultural events, film screenings, and educational activities open to faculty, students, and the general public.

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