On April 6, 2026, the Graduate Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) consortium and UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions will host two short films highlighting the challenges to art and expression in Malaysia’s complex political, legal, and societal landscape. Sotong follows four fierce local drag queens who were part of the 2022 Halloween party raided […]
We gather to forge new vernaculars of the geopolitical, to assemble spatial imaginaries of the “oceanic” that refuse rather than relent to the insistent march of capital and empire. To dissent here is an invitation to think more about the messiness and stuckness of our intellectual labors across histories of slavery, indenture, colonialism and more. This event is open to the campus community. Further details about registration to come. With questions email Sadie Lynn at sklynn@ucsc.edu This […]
This seminar explores how pre-modern debates over body and soulshaped political and eschatological thought in the Mediterranean. Each panel brings Jewish, Christian, and Islamic voices into dialogue, with Dante Alighieri’s oeuvre as a recurring point of comparison. Our aim is to situate questions of embodiment, psychology, soteriology, and collective destiny in light of their historical […]
The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) invites you to join us for our winter Slow Seminar, “A History of Families: Bosses, Bullies, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines,” on February 5, 2026 from 11:00 am – 1:00pm. Professor Steve McKay (Sociology) will facilitate our conversation focused on a selection of classic and contemporary […]
About the Talk: The history of hinterland communities is largely written in remote landscapes that today are often targeted for infrastructural development that forcibly relocates existing residents and transforms the land, obliterating those histories, and weakening communities. In 1984/5 the Iban longhouse at Nanga Jela on Sarawak’s Engkari River in Malaysian Borneo, along with twenty-one other […]
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Join the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) to read and discuss The Urban Grotesque: Jakarta's Financial Lives by Dr. Doreen Lee (Anthropology, Northeastern University). Discussion will be facilitated by Dr. Kirsten Keller (Anthropology/SEACoast UCSC). Dr. Lee will join us in conversation during the last thirty minutes of the event. Please RSVP by and […]