The project Southeast Asian Women in ‘Exile’ is generously supported by the Sydney Southeast Asian Studies Centre (SSEAC) Incubation Grant awarded in 2025. Special thanks goes to Power Institute, Art History Discipline (SACE/FASS) for in-kind support.
Partial support comes from University of California Santa Barbara’s Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Grant.
The project also received generous support from Vietnam Women’s Publishing House through the organization of the community event Lost Feminist Histories of Southeast Asia: A Roundtable Discussion, held on 14 December 2025 in Ho Chi Minh City.
This digital publication was developed as part of the Visual Understanding Initiative by The Power Institute Foundation for Arts and Visual Culture at The University of Sydney. Development was led by Dr Katrina Grant with support from Jennifer Yang to develop the timeline.
The Visual Understanding Initiative (VUI) combines creative enquiry and expression with scientific examination and experimentation to decode how we see and to better understand the visual worlds that make us: from our dependence on imagery in our personal and social lives to discoveries on the edge of seeing.
It brings together specialist knowledge across humanities and STEM disciplines—artists, art historians, researchers, professionals and industry partners—to generate critical understanding of the visual world through teaching, cross-disciplinary research, digital and print publishing and public engagement.
Read more about the VUI here: https://powerinstitute.org.au/programs/visual-understanding-initiative
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