Building the Southeast Asian Consortium at SUNY and CUNY

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Friday, March 15, 2024 | 12pm to 1pm

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Note: Discussion limited to CUNY faculty, staff and students.

Funded by the Luce Foundation, Prof. Nerve Macaspac will discuss a collaborative four-year project to establish a Southeast Asian Studies network in the State University of New York (SUNY) and City University of New York (CUNY) systems. The SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium (SEAC) is an interdisciplinary initiative to promote research, teaching, and related efforts around Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian Americans in New York’s public universities.

SEAC aims to develop institutional infrastructure and robust connections across New York’s public university systems—SUNY with its sixty-four campuses and 370,000 students, and CUNY’s twenty-five campuses, 270,000 students—with the wider New York public and policy community, and with counterparts in Southeast Asia. The statewide SEAC links faculty, students, alumni, and surrounding communities.

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Nerve V. Macaspac (he/him) is a political geographer and cartographer with a regional focus in Southeast Asia. His current research examines community-led peace zones as spaces of peace amid active violent conflicts. He is a Co-Investigator for “Creating Safer Spaces,” a 5-year international and interdisciplinary research project funded by the United Kingdom Research and Innovation’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, and for “Building the SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium,” a 4-year project establishing Southeast Asian Studies network in the SUNY and CUNY systems funded by the Luce Foundation. At CUNY, he serves as an Assistant Professor of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, and a Doctoral Faculty at the Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center. He received his Ph.D. in Geography at the University of California in Los Angeles). He completed an M.A. in Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor in Education at the University of the Philippines Diliman.