Category: Books
Book Talk: “Imperfect Partners: the United States and Southeast Asia”
Date and Time: October 30, 2024 from 3:00-4:30pm HST Regisration here About the book Imperfect Partners is a unique hybrid – part memoir, part foreign policy study of U.S. relations with Southeast Asia, a critically important region that has become the central arena in the global U.S.-China competition. From the People Power revolt in the […]
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, […]
Bookshelf Spotlight: Performing Arts and the Royal Courts of Southeast Asia, Vol. 1
Join University of Hawai’i at Mānoa’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies in congratulating our UH-CSEAS contributors to this important publication!
“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. […]
The Road Less Traveled: Garrett Kam
Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2023Time 3:00-4:30PMVenue: Hamilton Library 306 (Hybrid) Garrett Kam will speak about his work compiling a two-volume illustrated book about Mads Lange, the Danish merchant who settled in Bali in the 19th century. The 2-volume publication focuses on Bali during the late 18th to mid 19th centuries and is illustrated with over […]
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 […]