Category: Books
Book Talk: Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema
The world tends to see Myanmar (Burma) as an ancient, idyllic land of emerald-green rice paddies dotted with golden pagodas, yet sadly tarnished by a contemporary reality of grinding poverty, a decades-long civil war, and the most enduring military dictatorship in modern history. Burmese society is frequently stereotyped as isolated, hidebound to Buddhist cultural foundations, […]
“Fish…pay no attention to political boundaries”: Tilapia and travel in the making of today’s Indo-Pacific
This talk follows fish in a way that opens up a new kind of interaction for the environmental humanities, Asian Studies, and transregional histories. In particular, it thinks with the travels of the Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus Peters, 1852) in the period between the 1930s and 1960s to show how (and explain why) this fish’s movements were central to the making of today’s Indo-Pacific.
Absences and Ancestors: An Afternoon with VA Poet Laureate, Emerita Dr. Luisa A. Igloria
The University of Hawai’i Center for Philippine Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literature, Whitenoise Project and the Philippine Consulate General in Honolulu cordially invite you to “Absences and Ancestors: An Afternoon with VA Poet Laureate, Emerita Dr. Luisa A. Igloria” on October 7, Saturday, 3:00-5:00pm at Ka Waiwai. […]
Call for Papers: SEALS2022
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 03, 2022 (HST)
June 2021_Selection of Books
The theme of our June 2021 selection of books is “Southeast Asia during and after the Cold War”
May 2021 – Selection of Books
Here is our selection of books with Southeast Asia related topics for the month of May!
May 2020 Books
FACULTY PUBLICATION Women Warriors in Southeast Asia edited by Vina Lanzona &Frederik Rettig Learn More FACULTY PUBLICATION Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands by Jonathan Padwe Learn More The Dragon in the Jungle: The Chinese Army in the Vietnam War by Xiaobing Li Learn More Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution by […]
May 2020 Faculty Publications
Learn more about these new faculty publications as well as other new releases about Southeast Asia by clicking here for our Books page.
Film and Filmmakers: a Book Spotlight
Two books dealing with cinema, one a history and the other a memoir.
Ghosts and the Spirit World in SEA Films and Literature
Edited volume on horror cinema & novels on the supernatural.
