Month: February 2026
Public lecture ‘Saints, Companions, and Sinners’ by Dr. Teren Sevea (Harvard Divinity School) featured on Manoa Mirror
On February 5, CSEAS and Department of Religion hosted a public lecture, titled ‘Saints, Companions, and Sinners’ by Dr. Teren Sevea, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School. The lecture explores interspecies histories from Islamic Asia, learning from communities’ narratives about the entangled relationships among animals, humans and trees. Highlights […]
Bringing Vietnamese Cinema to global audiences
We are pleased to announce the completion of Southeast Asian film project led by the Center Southeast Asian Studies. Recently, in partnership with Vietnam Film Institute in Hanoi, more than 70 classic Vietnamese feature films have been digitized and subtitled in English. For more on this exciting project, read the full story on UH News […]
2026 Spring Colloquium: On Record: Telling the Stories in Our Voices (In-person)
Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 3:00–4:30 PM (HST) @ Moore Hall 319 Join us for the Spring 2026 Colloquium on On Record: Telling the Stories in Our Voices. This colloquium draws on archival materials, exhibitions, and research related to the 1975 Operation Babylift evacuation. Drawing from the speaker’s work developing Operation Babylift Collection, this talk explores […]
2026 Spring LuceSEA Webinar #2: Arts and Resistance: Cultures of Expression, Censorship, and Resilience in Southeast Asia.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 3:00–4:30 PM (HST) | Registration: https://go.hawaii.edu/ZAD Join us for the second webinar of the 2026 Spring LuceSEA Webinar Series on Arts and Resistance: Cultures of Expression, Censorship, and Resilience in Southeast Asia. This webinar explores how artists across Southeast Asia resist censorship through music, performance, and visual arts. This session highlights […]
Annual Report 2022-2023
The Center is pleased to announce the release of our annual report covering 2021-2022 academic year!
Vietnamese Cinema for Libraries Catalog
A landmark Southeast Asia film subtitling project has reached completion. Through a multi-year collaboration between the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at the University of Hawai’i-Mānoa (UHM) and the Viện Phim Việt Nam (Vietnam Film Institute – VFI) in Hanoi, more than 70 classic Vietnamese feature films have been digitized, translated, and subtitled in […]
SPAS joined Research Day at the State Capitol
The School of Pacific & Asian Studies (SPAS) at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa participated in the annual UH Mānoa Research Day at Hawai’i State Capitol on February 3, 2026. Representing the “The School of Pacific & Asian Studies (SPAS) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa participated in the annual UH Mānoa Research Day at the Hawai’i State […]
