Category: Students
Fall 2025 LuceSEA Webinar #2: Southeast Asia Facing the US Tariff Turbulence
Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 3:00–4:30 PM (HST) | Registration: https://go.hawaii.edu/reN CSEAS invites you to the first event in our Fall 2025 LuceSEA Webinar Series, exploring the theme Southeast Asia in Transition: Memory, Governance, and Regional Challenges in a Turbulent World. This webinar explores how Southeast Asian states are responding to the economic, political, and social […]
Call For Abstracts: East-West Center’s International Graduate Student Conference
12-15 Feb 2026 | Abstract Submission | Deadline: September 30th, 2025 The East-West Center welcomes graduate students from around the world for the annual International Graduate Student Conference (EWC-IGSC). This conference provides an opportunity for scholars to share interdisciplinary perspectives formally, through presenting research papers and attending other panel presentations, and informally in the multi-cultural environment of […]
CSEAS Fall 2025 Events
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies is excited to share our Fall 2025 lineup of webinars, colloquia, book talks, film screenings, and community gatherings. Please see the flyers below for dates, times, and event details. September 2025 October 2025 November–December 2025 For the most up-to-date information and to subscribe to our newsletter:
From Transmission to Tradition: Noisy Hegemonies in Vietnamese Music History
Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 3:00 – 4:30 PM, Tokioka Room, Moore Hall 319 The Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Ethnomusicology Program at UH Mānoa are pleased to host a talk by Professor Alexander M. Cannon (Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Birmingham, UK). Synopsis: Tradition is enriching, perplexing, beautiful, and uncomfortable. In many ways, […]
Global Asia Working Group Talk
From Japanese pioneers to Igorot Nikkeijin pioneers: Tracing migration across generations Friday, September 12, 2025, 12:00–1:00 PM, Saunders Hall 624, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Speaker: Haruka Kei Waseda, Masters in Asian StudiesDiscussant: Dr. Ben Kerkvliet, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University This talk examines the histories and lived experiences of the Igorot Nikkeijin—descendants of Japanese […]
Meet Dr. Gillian Bogart, Our Newest Asian Studies Faculty and CSEAS Affiliate
Aloha and welcome to Dr. Gillian Bogart, our newest Asian Studies faculty member and CSEAS affiliate. She joined UH Mānoa in Fall 2025. Read her story here: Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Gillian Bogart Where she’s from Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Bogart most recently came to Hawaiʻi from Santa Cruz, California. She joined […]
Fall 2025 LuceSEA Webinar: Who Tells the War? – Sep. 3
Registration: https://go.hawaii.edu/r4n CSEAS invites you to the first event in our Fall 2025 LuceSEA Webinar Series, exploring the theme Southeast Asia in Transition: Memory, Governance, and Regional Challenges in a Turbulent World. This session brings together distinguished scholars and practitioners to discuss how community narratives shape the memory and ongoing legacies of the Vietnam War. […]
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 […]
Webinar Recording Now Available: “Revitalizing Traditional Arts: Innovations & Agency in Response to Environmental Change”
Final Session – LuceSEA Spring 2025 Webinar Series In Southeast Asia, the intersection of the arts and environmental change is a lived reality for many communities whose cultural practices rely on natural resources. Climate change, migration, and environmental degradation are transforming the way traditional arts are practiced, preserved, and passed on. This webinar brings together […]
Online Series Continues: Southeast Asian Children’s Literature Workshops
Following the in-person workshops held earlier this summer, this five-part online workshop series invites K–12 educators to explore Southeast Asian children’s literature through new and returning sessions. Each workshop features a different book and offers creative strategies for integrating Southeast Asian cultures, languages, and themes into classroom teaching. This series is co-organized by the Cornell […]
