Category: Research
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, […]
Webinar: Relearning Southeast Asia: Field School
Join us for the first session in this webinar series on decolonizing Southeast Asian Studies, as we look at learning and relearning Southeast Asia through the lens of students from the region.
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!
Congratulations, Yi-Yu Lai!
Please join us in congratulating Yi-Yu Lai for receiving the 2023 Outstanding Graduate Paper Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA)!
Spring 2024 Southeast Asia Course List
These are the courses with a Southeast Asia focus or relevance which will be offered during the Spring 2024 semester at UH Mānoa
Congratulations, Erin McConkey!
Please join us in congratulating Erin McConkey for receiving a Soroptimist Founder Region PhD fellowship!
The changing face of language documentation: An example from Indonesia
Hybrid TalkDate and Time: November 8, 2023, 3:00 – 4:30 PMVenue: Moore Hall 258 Moderator: Bradley McDonnell, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Speakers:Yanti, Head, Center for Language and Culture Studies, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia (regina.yanti@atmajaya.ac.id)Dendi Wijaya, Researcher, National Research and Innovation Agency (dendi.brin@gmail.com)Jacob Hakim, PhD student,Department of Linguistics, […]
Reflections on Cross-cultural Research and Methodologies
This presentation spotlights graduate student perspectives and methodological strategies on working in cross-cultural, interdisciplinary teams focusing on agrarian change. Date and Time: Nov 1, 2023: 3:00-4:30pm HSTIn-person Venue: Burns HallRegistration: https://tinyurl.com/LuceSea3
Congratulations Olivia Meyer!
Congratulations to UH Geography and Environment PhD candidate and two-year Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship recipient Olivia Meyer for being awarded a Fulbright-Hays award to conduct her dissertation research in Bangkok. Her project, “Plastic Panacea- ‘Circular Economies’ and the Political Ecology of Plastic Waste in Thailand” proposes a year of ethnographic research in Thailand. […]
Book Chapters on Filipinos in Hawai’i
Prof. Jonathan Okamura publications on Filipinos in Hawai’i now on Scholarspace!
