Welcome Messages

Jan. 01, 2019

This is my honor to welcome all of you to 2019 Wenzao International Conference on Southeast Asian Studies (Wenzao ICSEAS). In the coming 2019 conference, I believe we all together will have deeper and wider ideas, perspectives, and insights exchanging again.

Wenzao, founded in 1966, is the first and only one higher education institution well known for its commitment to excellence in foreign languages teaching and research. As time goes by, our university is to multiply to the related fields, including international business, international affairs, and communication, etc. and have been providing Southeast Asia language courses such as Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai since 2008. The Center for Southeast Asian Languages Teaching was established in 2014 to deliver the variety of Southeast Asian languages offered and include political, social, economic or cultural fields of the curriculum design. We are so excited for over 1000 students to learn Southeast Asian languages every year since 2015. Based on Wenzao's excellent foundation of language teaching, and encouraging from the government's New Southbound Policy, our Master program in Southeast Asia Studies launched in September 2018 and the following is new Department of Southeast Asian Studies in Fall 2019.

The initiative of the Wenzao ICSEAS is by hosting a 3-day international conference and publish an edited book from selected presenting papers annually to create opportunities of sharing, learning and enhance cooperation between international presenters and local audiences. There are about one hundred paper-presentation will be delivered during 2019 Wenzao ICSEAS. We believe it is going to be a gourmet feast of knowledge.

We all are in this fast-changing world. Let’s explore the transitions and transformations of Southeast Asia together. Come and join us in Kaohsiung, the 2nd largest city in Taiwan for an exciting academic journey and meet new friends from all over the world.

See you soon in 2019 Wenzao ICSEAS!