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- CSEAS Program Featured in UH News: $64K Grant Awarded to Expand Filipino Youth Cultural Program
We are thrilled to share that our Pamana ng Lahi: Philippine Language and Culture Workshop has been featured in UH NEWS The program, led by Professor Pia Arboleda, was recently awarded a $64,648 National Resource Center grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand its reach and impact. Pamana ng Lahi, which means “heritage… Read more: CSEAS Program Featured in UH News: $64K Grant Awarded to Expand Filipino Youth Cultural Program - Webinar Harnessing Transformative Potentials of Southeast Asian Urbanization
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 3:30-5:00 PM HSTWednesday, Nov 13, 2024, 8:30 – 10:00 pm ESTThursday, Nov 14, 2024, 8:30 – 10:00 am ICT Register Here The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar titled “Harnessing the Transformative Potentials of Southeast Asian Urbanization.” This… Read more: Webinar Harnessing Transformative Potentials of Southeast Asian Urbanization - FLAS Fellowships Available for All Year 2025-2026!
Application Close Date: Friday, January 31, 2025 The Center for Southeast Asian Studies is pleased to announce that applications are now beingaccepted for AY 2025-2026 and summer 2025 Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for the study of Southeast Asia and one of the following languages: Tagalog (Filipino), Cambodian (Khmer), Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese. The fellowship is open… Read more: FLAS Fellowships Available for All Year 2025-2026! - Book Talk: “Imperfect Partners: the United States and Southeast Asia”
Date and Time: October 30, 2024 from 3:00-4:30pm HST Regisration here About the book Imperfect Partners is a unique hybrid – part memoir, part foreign policy study of U.S. relations with Southeast Asia, a critically important region that has become the central arena in the global U.S.-China competition. From the People Power revolt in the… Read more: Book Talk: “Imperfect Partners: the United States and Southeast Asia” - Exploring the UHM Southeast Asia Collection: A Special Event for Students from Southeast Asia
Friday, October 11, 2024, 1:00 to 2:30 PM (HST) Location: Hamilton Library Room 306, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Join us on October 11, 2024, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM (HST) in Hamilton Library, Room 306, to explore the rich resources available at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Southeast Asia collection. Learn how these valuable materials can support… Read more: Exploring the UHM Southeast Asia Collection: A Special Event for Students from Southeast Asia - Gathering on Friday Sep. 20, Mingle, Mix, & Munch: CSEAS Fall 2024
Friday, September 20, 2024 from 5:00-8:00pm Have you registered for our CSEAS Fall Gathering event? This is a great opportunity for for students, faculty and researchers interested in languages, cultural traditions, and the region of Southeast Asia. Come and join us for this great event. Please bring a potluck dish to share! RSVP by Wednesday,… Read more: Gathering on Friday Sep. 20, Mingle, Mix, & Munch: CSEAS Fall 2024 - Preserving Cambodian Indigenous History: UH Mānoa Awarded $126K Grant
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is excited to announce that Professor Miriam Stark, CSEAS Director, along with Associate Professor Courtney Work from National Chengchi University, has been awarded a three-year, $126,265 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Their project, “Of Water, Crocodiles, and Kings:… Read more: Preserving Cambodian Indigenous History: UH Mānoa Awarded $126K Grant - CAORC-NEH Research Fellowship OpportunityApplication Deadline: January 15, 2025 at 5:00pm ET The Council of America Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Research Fellowship offers a valuable opportunity for scholars to conduct advanced research in the humanities while residing in one of the Overseas Research Centers. The fellowship provides funding for research conducted in one… Read more: CAORC-NEH Research Fellowship Opportunity
- GETSEA and CSEAS Present: Breaking the Cycle – A Simulcast Film Screening and Discussion
October 1, 2024 from 12:00 PM- HST Moore Hall 319, Tokioka Room Join us on October 1st, 2024, at 12:00 PM (HST) in Moore Hall 319, Tokioka Room for a special simulcast screening of Breaking the Cycle, a powerful documentary capturing Thailand’s 2019 elections, marking the end of five years of military rule. The film… Read more: GETSEA and CSEAS Present: Breaking the Cycle – A Simulcast Film Screening and Discussion - CSEAS Featured in UH News for Expanding Career Opportunities in the Asia-Pacific!
We are excited to share that the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) has been featured in UH News for its critical role in expanding the Careers in Asia-Pacific Affairs (CAPA) initiative at UH Mānoa. Launched in 2023, CAPA aims to provide students with the skills and resources they need to build successful careers in… Read more: CSEAS Featured in UH News for Expanding Career Opportunities in the Asia-Pacific! - LuceSEA Webinar: “Changing Labor Relations in Southeast Asia”
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 from 3:00-4:30pm HST Register here About This webinar, LuceSEA Webinar Fall 2024 series, focuses on how the growing economy in southeast Asia changed the labor relations. The talk is looking at what kind of marginalization and who are marginalized amid the growing economy of southeast Asia. The changing labor issues in… Read more: LuceSEA Webinar: “Changing Labor Relations in Southeast Asia” - Sustainable futures: ecologies, kinships, and communities in Southeast Asian CinemasDeadline: December 1, 2024.Symposium date: 14 – 16 August 2025Symposium venue: Chiang Mai University The 12th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference will take place at Chiang Mai University, on 14 – 16 August 2025. The focus of the conference is Sustainable Futures: ecologies, kinships and communities in Southeast Asian Cinemas. This theme will be… Read more: Sustainable futures: ecologies, kinships, and communities in Southeast Asian Cinemas
- Call for Proposals: ASIANetwork 2025 Annual Conference “Asian Interconnections: Toward New Interdisciplinary Approaches” from March 28-30, 2025 in TexasDeadline: October 1, 2024Symposium date: March 28-30, 2025Symposium venue: Trinity University San Antonio, Texas We teach about and study landscapes, ecosystems, cultures, and societies in states of constant change and linked in various ways across time and space within and beyond Asia. The interconnectedness of places and people, past and present, draws our attention to… Read more: Call for Proposals: ASIANetwork 2025 Annual Conference “Asian Interconnections: Toward New Interdisciplinary Approaches” from March 28-30, 2025 in Texas
- Call for Papers: ANU Southeast Asia Institute Student Research SymposiumDeadline: Friday 20 SeptemberSymposium date: 26-27 November 2024Symposium venue: The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Connecting Southeast Asian Research: Grounded Empirics, Textured Theory, and Regional Methodologies Given the diversity of Southeast Asia and the entrenched traditions of country-specific research, how should we develop more explicitly regional approaches and methodologies? Scholarly efforts to conceptualise Southeast Asian… Read more: Call for Papers: ANU Southeast Asia Institute Student Research Symposium
- CSEAS-Supported Program Enhances UH Mānoa Students’ Understanding of Southeast Asia
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at UH Mānoa is pleased to highlight a recent immersive learning experience in Indonesia, partly supported by our LuceSEA Transitions: Environment, Society and Change grant. For the third consecutive year, UH Mānoa’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) partnered with Diponegoro University (UNDIP) in Semarang, Indonesia, to… Read more: CSEAS-Supported Program Enhances UH Mānoa Students’ Understanding of Southeast Asia