KCC Ovations
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鈥檚 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 鈥淪ites and Spaces of Mobilization.鈥� (Upcoming themes are 鈥淪outheast Asian identities in popular culture and literature鈥� (2024-25) and 鈥淐limate change, sustainability, and geography鈥� (2025-26).) Yamamura鈥檚 project is titled 鈥淚ndigenism: Baguio Arts Guild and Postcoloniality in the Philippines.鈥� 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.