Center for Khmer Studies

Bonnie Burnham,
Chairman Emeritus
Prof. Thak Chaloemtiarana,
Cornell University, Trustee
Emeritus
Selma Ertegun,
New York, NY, Trustee Emeritus
Prof. Boreth Ly,
University of California, Santa
Cruz
Reap and Phnom Penh, has been dedicated to research and training
in the humanities, arts and social sciences. It sponsors fellowships
for American and international scholars to undertake research in
Cambodia. It also supports a free 15,000 volume Library at Wat
Damnak- Siem Reap and runs training programs and workshops for
both students and academic staff of Cambodian universities. CKS
sponsors international conferences and workshops for Khmer and
international scholars and offers monthly free public lectures in Siem
Reap and Phnom Penh. In addition it runs a Publishing Program to
translate major scholarly texts into Khmer and it sponsors their sale
at prices beneath usual market rates to make them accessible to a
wider public. It sponsors Khmer scholars’ travel to regional
conferences.
A recently completed CKS project was the compilation, in
collaboration with the Dance Division of the NY Public Library of
the Performing Arts, of an archive dedicated to classical Cambodian
dance, which includes photos and objects as well as extensive video
interviews with artists who survived the Khmer Rouge genocide.
Among CKS’s current programs is a major multi-year project to
create a digital inventory of the Cambodian National Museum’s
collection, including multiple digital photos of each object. The
second phase of that project, now underway, is the creation of a
multilingual interactive database accessible from the Web. The
project is supported by the Leon Levy Foundation in New York, and
is managed by Australian scholar, Daryl Collins.
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The Center for Khmer Studies is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers