Indonesia expert Don Emmerson interviewed by Christopher Taylor

Christopher Taylor, an award-winning freelance journalist from New York and author of the Everything Indonesia blog, interviews Donald Emmerson about upcoming elections in Indonesia and the prospect of U.S.-Indonesia relations during the Obama administration.

• » Everything Indonesia: Interview with Don Emmerson, pt1
• » Everything Indonesia: Interview with Don Emmerson, pt2

Visiting scholar's book on Malaysian Islamism to be published

A major purpose of SEAF is to encourage the completion and dissemination of quality scholarship on contemporary Southeast Asia. Joseph Liow is an associate professor in the Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. SEAF hosted him as a visiting scholar at Stanford in Fall 2007 to help him finish a book manuscript on Islam and politics in Malaysia. Oxford University Press expects to publish the study, Piety and Politics: Islamism in Contemporary Malaysia, in April 2009. Congratulations to Prof. Liow!

• » Oxford University Press: "Piety and Politics: Islamism in Contemporary Malaysia"

State of the art of the state?

Stanford University Press publishes SEAF-initiated book on Southeast Asia in Political Science

Stanford undergraduates pose questions for Singapore in Singapore Journal

The inaugural (March 2008) issue of PRISM, an undergraduate journal published by the University Scholars Programme (USP) of the National University of Singapore (NUS), carries a dozen essays. Six were written by Stanford undergraduates for a Stanford Overseas Seminar taught in Singapore in September 2006, and six by NUS undergrads in the USP for an NUS course taught at Stanford in May 2007.

Southeast Asian Studies at Stanford: A rising profile

Five Southeast Asia scholars are slated for residence at Stanford for the upcoming academic year. Shorenstein APARC and the Southeast Asia Forum will host four of them: three were selected under the Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Initiative on Southeast Asia, and one is a recipient of a 2008-09 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellowship. A fifth scholar will be on campus as a National Fellow of the Hoover Institution.