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SUNY/CUNY SEAC Fellowship

Art history professor Midori Yamamura is one of ten fellows named to the SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium (SEAC), a new initiative to promote research, teaching, and related efforts around Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian Americans in New York’s public universities, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. Each year, SEAC will delve into one interdisciplinary theme through curricular, research, and public-outreach components to explore new and emerging areas of inquiry. The theme for the inaugural academic year (2023-24) is “Sites and Spaces of Mobilization.” (Upcoming themes are “Southeast Asian identities in popular culture and literature” (2024-25) and “Climate change, sustainability, and geography” (2025-26).) Yamamura’s project is titled “Indigenism: Baguio Arts Guild and Postcoloniality in the Philippines.” Each year, SEAC will hold a week-long field school in Southeast Asia. The 2024 cohorts will attend a field school in Chiang Mai, Thailand.