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UH Mānoa Students and Faculty highlight Southeast Asia Research at the 2026 Association for Asian Studies Conference
Last March, the 2026 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference was held in Vancouver, Canada. The CSEAS is delighted to share the participation of two UH Mānoa students, Areerat Worawongwasu and Xiaoyun Neo, who joined others to present Southeast Asian research at the AAS. In Summer 2025, the pair joined a group of students from
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2026 Spring Colloquium on ‘Operation Babylift’ featured on UH News
On March 3, CSEAS hosted a colloquium on Operation Babylift, a U.S-led effort to evacuate children from Vietnam at the end of the war. Devaki Murch, a Vietnam War adoptee and raised in Hawai’i shared how this experience have shaped how history of Vietnam War is remembered. Drawing from her work building the Operation Babylift
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Professor Barbara Andaya receives a prestigious award in Asian Studies
We are proud to celebrate Professor Emeritus Barbara Watson Andaya on receiving the Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies Award from the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Professor Andaya’s expertise centers on the Malay-Indonesian world. Since 2014, she has published more than 30 works, including The Flaming Womb, which was recognized as an outstanding academic title.
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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