Spring 2022 Seminar Series

February 9, Wednesday, 2:00pm – 3:30pm HST
Kung Saan Man Tayo (Wherever We May Be) Filmmaker Panel Discussion
Panelists: Adrian Alarilla (History, UH Mānoa) and Kenneth Cardenas (Geography, York University)
Moderator: Maria Natividad I. Karaan (English, UH Mānoa)
Co-sponsored with UH Department of History
(Note: The film will be screened virtually from Feb 4-9)
Registration/more info, go here.

February 10, Thursday, 12:00pm – 1:00pm HST
Women Workers’ Resilience in Nglanggeran Tourism Village during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Speaker: Dr. Wiwik Sushartami (Universitas Gadjah Mada; Visiting Fulbright Scholar)
Registration/more info, go here.

February 22, Tuesday, 2:00pm – 3:30pm HST
People and Their Forests
Panelists: Ahmad Dhiaulhaq (Senior Researcher, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature), Micah Fisher (Fellow, East-West Center Research Program), Naw Pe Tha Law (Advocate, Chiang Mai), and Courtney Work (Associate Proffesor, National Chengchi University (NCCU)
Moderator: Dr. Daniel Ahlquist (James Madison College, Michigan State University).
Part of the Southeast Asia in Transition Series
For more info, go here.

March 21, Monday, 12:00pm – 1:00pm HST
Netherlands New Guinea, 1949-1962: A Civilizing Mission in the Era of Decolonization
Speaker: Dr. Grace Cheng (Director, Center for Human Rights, San Diego State University; UHM Political Science Alum)
Registration/more info, go here.

Co-sponsored with the UH Center for Pacific Islands Studies.

March 22, Tuesday, 12:15pm – 1:15pm HST (Hybrid: Saunders 443 & On zoom)
Particulate Matters: A Political Ecology of Seasonal Air Pollution in Northern Thailand
Speakers: Dr. Olivier Évrard (French Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD)) and Dr. Mary Mostafanezhad (Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)
Registration/more info, go here.

Co-sponsored with the UH Department of Geography and Environment, and Political Ecology Working Group.

March 22, Tuesday, 2:00pm – 3:30pm HST
Changing Lives of Southeast Asian Rivers
Panelists: TBC
Moderator: Dr. Chayanis Krittasudthacheewa (Stockholm Environment Institute, Asia)
Part of the Southeast Asia in Transition Series
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March 23, Wednesday, 2:00pm – 3:30pm HST (Hybrid: Agricultural Science 220 & On Zoom)
Cambodia and the Maritime World in the Post-Angkorian Period (14th -18th centuries)

Speaker: Dr. Nhim Sotheavin (Researcher and Lecturer, Sophia University, Japan)
Registration/more info, go here.

Co-sponsored with the UH Department of History.

March 24, Thursday, 12:00pm – 1:00pm HST (Hybrid: Saunders 443 & On zoom)
The contested production of property: State land and plantations in Laos

Speaker: Dr. Miles Kenney-Lazar (Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore)
Registration/more info, go here.

Co-sponsored with the UH Department of Geography and Environment, and Political Ecology Working Group.

April 6, Wednesday, 2:00pm – 3:00pm HST
Interconnectivity of Southeast Asia Visualized through Historical GIS Mapping

Speaker: Dr. David Blundell (PhD, UCLA)
Registration/more info, go here.

April 7, Thursday, 12:00pm – 1:00pm HST
Recognized Forests: The Political Ecologies Of Land Returns

Speaker: Dr. Micah Fisher (Fellow, East-West Center, Research Program)
Registration/more info, go here.

Co-sponsored with the UH Department of Geography and Environment.

April 26, Tuesday, 2:00pm – 3:30pm HST
Chroniclers of Transitions: Documentarians and Writers
Panelists: TBC
Moderator: Dr. David Feingold (Anthropologist, Documentary Filmmaker)
Part of the Southeast Asia in Transition Series
For more info, go here.

May 24, Tuesday, 2:00pm – 3:30pm HST
Imagining Environmental Futures in SEA: Mekong 2030
Panelists: TBC
Moderator: TBC
Part of the Southeast Asia in Transition Series
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The Southeast Asia in Transition Series is co-hosted with UH Center for Chinese Studies, East-West Center, Michigan State University, and Chiang Mai University.
All events are subject to change.
Free and open to the public with registration.