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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
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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
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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