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2026 Spring LuceSEA Webinar #3: Smart Cities in Southeast Asia? Present Realities and Future Ventures.
Wednesday, April 1, 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 Smart Cities in Southeast Asia: Present Realities and Future Ventures. This webinar explores Southeast Asia’s fast-evolving smart city initiatives – from data governance to climate adaptation. This session asks, “Are Southeast […]
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Announcing LuceSEA Spring 2026 Webinar Series
Join us for four thought-provoking webinars this Spring, bringing together scholars and practitioners to explore critical issues shaping Southeast Asia today. LuceSEA Spring 2026 Webinar Series Schedule 1) Facing Nature: Disaster Preparedness, Responses and Innovations 2) Arts and Resistance: Cultures of Expression, Censorship, and Resilience 3) Smart Cities? Present Realities and Future Ventures 4) Imagining […]
UH System Common Scholarship Application (2026–2027)
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Environmental Biographies of Southeast Asia: Collaborative Learning in the Field
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) is pleased to highlight a new exhibition, Environmental Biographies of Southeast Asia: Collaborative Learning in the Field. This exhibition brings together stories from forests, rivers, paddy fields, and fish ponds in Chiang Mai (Thailand) and South Sulawesi (Indonesia), created through collaborative fieldwork by undergraduate and graduate students from […]
Announcing the 2025 Fall LuceSEA Webinar Series
Theme: Southeast Asia in Transition: Memory, Governance, and Regional Challenges in a Turbulent World Join us for four thought-provoking webinars this fall, bringing together scholars and practitioners to explore critical issues shaping Southeast Asia today. Fall 2025 Schedule Times vary by region – see flyer for details.Free & open to the public.Registration: A registration link […]
11th International Conference on Southeast Asia (ICONSEA2025): 50 Years of Southeast Asian Studies – Regional Contour, Global Trajectories
December 11–12, 2025, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya will host the 11th International Conference on Southeast Asia (ICONSEA2025) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from December 11 to 12, 2025. In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Southeast Asian Studies at Universiti Malaya, […]
New Publication Announcement: Cambodian: An Essential Grammar by Dr. Chhany Sak-Humphry
We are pleased to share the release of Cambodian: An Essential Grammar (Routledge, 2025), authored by Dr. Chhany Sak-Humphry, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Khmer Language/Culture Program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. This accessible and comprehensive guide introduces key grammatical structures of the Cambodian (Khmer) language across 14 chapters, drawing on real-world […]
Student Spotlight: Chinoko Shirakura , Graduate Student, Curriculum Studies, Department of Education and the current Thai Language Lecturer, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Our third student spotlight in 2025 is Chinoko Shirakura , Graduate Student, Curriculum Studies, Department of Education and the current Thai Language Lecturer. Read Chinoko’s story here: About Chinoko Chinoko Shirakura was born and raised in Thailand to a Thai mother and Japanese father, in a household where language was not just a means of communication, […]
CSEAS NRC grant funded the purchase of Rare 1478 Southeast Asia Map for SEA Collection in Hamilton Library
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) NRC grant funded the purchase of a rare and historically significant 1478 map—one of the earliest printed representations of Southeast Asia. The map, from a Rome edition of Cosmographia by Claudius Ptolemy and engraved by pioneering printer Konrad Sweynheim, was acquired with funding […]
