Category: Talks
Peace, Education, and Social Development in Cambodia
Date and Time: Tuesday, April 30 at 3:00PM HSTLocation: Hamilton Library Room 306Zoom Registration: https://go.hawaii.edu/FyR Description Central to Cambodia’s journey of reconciliation is the enduring role of Buddhism, a cornerstone of Cambodian identity and resilience. Throughout the dark days of the Khmer Rouge regime, Buddhism served as a beacon of hope amidst the chaos, offering […]
The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia
Come and join our UH Mānoa CSEAS Director Dr. Miriam Stark for her talk on “The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia”! Date and Time: Thursday, April 11, 2024 from 7:30-9:00pmLocation: UH Art Auditorium, Room 142, 2535 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu 96822 Description: Angkorʻs first great kin, Jayavarman II, established Cambodiaʻs Angkorian state on […]
Kain na Tayo: Food Memory and the Creation of the Filipino Self
Join FLAS Awardee Jensen Villaflor for a Spring 2024 UHMFIL Sinag Brown Bag hybrid storytelling event! Find out why a recipe (book) becomes a contested ground for meaning and identity construction for Filipinos. This event is hosted by UHM-Filipino in cooperation with the Center for Philippine Studies. Date and Venue: March 25, 2024, 3:00-4:00pm (HST), […]
Researching Southeast Asia: Positionality and Fieldwork
Date and Time: April 3, 2024 from 3:00pm HST This panel will address the fieldwork and positionality of experienced researchers and PhD students who have conducted field research in Southeast Asia. Panelists will explore how Western scholars conduct field research in Southeast and Southeast Asian scholars studying ethnic minorities and Indigenous peoples in their home […]
Online Talk: Fishing in Troubled Waters
Date and Time: March 7, 2024 from 12:00-1:15pm HST In this presentation, Dr. Hongzhou Zhang (Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University) will provide an overview of the fishing issues in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on the South China Sea. He will also discuss the causes of the fishing disputes and the implications of fishing […]
Reteaching Southeast Asia: Towards critical urban pedagogy and scholarship in developing Southeast Asia
Date and Time: March 6, 2024 from 3:00pm HST This webinar will focus on recent collaborative efforts—between the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) in Honolulu, HI, and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (PWK), Diponegoro University (UNDIP) in Semarang, Indonesia—to bolster critical urban planning and policy […]
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, […]
UH CSEAS Spring 2024 Seminar Series
Join UH Mānoa’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies for our Spring 2024 Hybrid Seminars and Webinars!
UH CSEAS Spring 2023 Seminar Series
From January 11 to May 1, 2023