CSEAS Weekly Newsletter
April 27th-May 1st
FAFSA Priority Deadline Alert: April 25
Please help us spread the word to students. A federal system update on Sunday, April 26 will prevent NIU from loading new FAFSA records until a software fix is in place, which means financial aid offers for students who miss the priority deadline may not be available until July. Any student planning to enroll in 2026-27 must complete a FAFSA to receive a financial aid offer, and we are encouraging everyone to submit by Saturday, April 25 at studentaid.gov. If students have questions, they can contact the Financial Aid and Scholarship Officeatfinaid@niu.edu, call 815-753-1395 or stop by Swen Parson Hall 245, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sneak Peek Screening
Attend a premiere screening for the new PBS nature documentary series, Life Unearthed with Ariel Waldman (currently airing weekly here). This series follows National Geographic Explorer Waldman through two undiscovered territories, Antarctica and the American Prairie, at scales never before seen on film. Join the Director and Lead Science Advisor for two unaired episodes filmed right in your backyard at the Nachusa Grasslands, followed by a Q&A. We look forward to seeing you there!
POLS 376 Political Violence Summer course Available
CFPs: Council on Thai Studies Annual Meeting, November 6-8, 2026
The Council on Thai Studies (COTS) invites students, scholars, and practitioners to attend its 2026 Annual Meeting, which will be hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University (NIU). The meeting will be held in-person at NIU’s Holmes Student Center. COTS 2026 is free and open to the public.
More Details and the Call for Proposals @ https://www.niu.edu/cots/index.shtml
Submit your proposal online no later than August 1, 2026 (July 1, 2026 for those who need an invitation letter to obtain funding or an entry visa). Notifications of acceptance will be sent by August 15, 2026.
Exploring Southeast Asia’s cultures and unity in diversity
Fall SEAS Area Studies Courses
UNDERGRADUATE AREA STUDIES
ANTH 333 – 0001 The Art of Living and Dying: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Morton, face to face)
EAE 330 – 0001 Global Cycles (Lenczewski, face to face)EAE 359 – 0001 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Luo, hybrid)
EAE 430 – 0001 Population, Society, and the Environment (Wilson, face to face)
EAE 460 – 0001 Remote Sensing of the Environment (Luo, hybrid)
HIST 343 History of SEA Since ca. 1800 (Jones, face to face)
HIST 402 – 0001 Gender and Sexuality in History (Jacobsen Gidaszewski, face to face)
HIST 443 – 0Y01 History of Islamic Southeast Asia (Jones, online asynchronous)
MUHL 421 – 0001 Topic Studies in Ethnomusicology/Intro to Enthnomusicology (Wang, face to face)
MUHL 427 – 0001 Survey of World Music (Wang, face to face)
MUSE 321 – 0002 Mixed Ensemble – Thai Music Ensemble (Sripraram, face to face)
POLS 260 – 0001 Introduction to Comparative Politics (Hamayotsu, face to face)
POLS 285 – Y002 Introduction to International Relations (Glas, online asynchronous)
POLS 327 – 0001 Digital and AI Governance (Tran, face to face)
POLS 370 – Y001 Ethnicity, Religion, and Global Politics (Hamayotsu, online asynchronous)
POLS 381 – 0001 Regional Security (Glas, face to face)
SEAS 225 – 0001 Southeast Asia: Crossroads of The World (Crail, face to face)
SEAS 490 – 00P1 Advanced Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies – Global Communications and Multilingualism in the Digital Age (Aoyama, ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS)
SEAS 490 – 00P2 Advanced Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies – The International Short Story (Pinnata, face to face)
GRADUATE AREA STUDIES
EAE 530 – 0001 Population, Society, and the Environment (Wilson, face to face)
EAE 545 – 0Y01 Fundamentals of Mapping (Wilson, online asynchronous)
EAE 560 – 0001 Remote Sensing of the Environment (Luo, hybrid)
HIST 502 – 0P01 Gender and Sexuality in History (Jacobsen Gidaszewski, face to face)
HIST 543 – 0YP1 History of Islamic Southeast Asia (Jones, online asynchronous)
MUHL 521 – 0001 Topic Studies in Ethnomusicology (Wang, face to face)
MUSE 621 – 0002 Mixed Ensemble – Thai Music Ensemble (Sripraram, face to face)
SEAS 590 – 00P1 Advanced Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies – Global Communications and Multilingualism in the Digital Age (Aoyama, ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS)
SEAS 590 – 00P2 Advanced Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies – The International Short Story (Pinnata, face to face)
SEAS 690 – 00P1 Workshop in Teaching Southeast Asian Studies (Lenczewski, face to face)
SEAS 691 – 00P1 Seminar in Southeast Asian Studies – Colloquium (Lenczewski, face to face)
SEAS 691 – 00P2 Seminar in Southeast Asian Studies – Public Facing Scholarship in Southeast Asian Studies (Thepboriruk, face to face)
