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Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS)
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More than a century of academic engagement with Southeast Asia at the University of Michigan.
One of the largest programs devoted to this region in the United States, the University of Michigan Center for Southeast Asian Studies seeks to promote a broader and deeper understanding of Southeast Asia, its people, and their cultures.
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Events
Aug
22
Southeast Asian Drinks
1:00 PM
First Floor
202 S. Thayer
Sep
19
Friday Lecture Series | Botany's (Un)making: Vernaculars of Plant Knowing in the Early 20th-Century Davao Gulf
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, University of California, Santa Cruz , Assistant Professor of History
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Nov
07
Friday Lecture Series | "What Strange Woman is Here?": Laura Benedict's Fieldwork among the Bagobos of the Southern Philippines, 1906-1908
Juan Fernandez, PhD, University of Wisconsin – Madison
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
