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.
Yale 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 activities open to faculty, students, and
the general public. |
