The SEATRiP Program at the University of California, Riverside – Southeast Asia: Texts, Rituals, Performance – brings together faculty and students who share an ongoing interest in the arts and humanities and are actively engaged with the languages and expressive cultures of Southeast Asia.

The scholars associated with the Program address regionally-specific texts, rituals and performances across time and space. They seek to develop better understandings of the forms and practices through which ideas and ideologies are creatively expressed, shaped, and communicated within and among different societies of Southeast Asia (in particular Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines) as well as the Southeast Asian diaspora. Their research interests range from traditional disciplinary themes to more transgressive, controversial matters that are reflected in the range of historical and contemporary subjects they bring to their courses and seminars developed for the degree programs in Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

SEATRIP COURSES FOR THE 2020-2021 ACADEMIC YEAR

FALL 2021

ENGL121T Postcolonial Literature in English from Southeast Asia. Weihsin Gui. Can substitute for SEAS205 with 292 for MA.

SEAS203/ANTH 203 Global Southeast Asias. Christina Schwenkel. SEAS203 is one of the required courses for the MA and DE.

ETST243G Race and Human Rights. Emily Hue.

MCS/ENGL 278 Filipino American Visual Culture. Sarita See. Can substitute for SEAS206 for MA.

 

WINTER 2022

SEAS200/CPLT202 Topics in Southeast Asian Studies. Weihsin Gui. Required for both MA and DE.

 

SPRING 2022

MCS 130 Filipino American Culture. Sarita See. Can substitute for SEAS203 with 292 for MA

In the News

  • Tagumpay De Leon, UCR’s longtime instructor for MUS 170 the Philippine Rondalla Ensemble, has been named one of eight National Heritage Fellows by the National Endowment for the Arts.
  • Professors Deborah Wong, Emily Hue, Sarita See, Tammy Ho, and Weihsin Gui have received a UCR Center for Ideas and Society Interdisciplinary Working Group Award for the 2021-2022 year. The topic of this working group is “Art, Authoritarianism, Activism in Contemporary Southeast Asia.”