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Upcoming Film Screening: 3.11 and Contemporary Art
Artists Respond to 3.11: The Great East Japan Earthquake & Contemporary Art by Eimi Tagore-Erwin (Department of Arts and Cultural Science, Lund University, Sweden) Co-sponsored by the UHM’s Asian Studies Program and Center for Japanese Studies May 15, 2018, 12:00 -…
Dr. Anna Stirr Receives Fulbright and CAORC NEH Senior Fellowships
Dr. Anna Stirr is the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship and a Council of American Overseas Research Centers NEH Senior Fellowship for research in Nepal during her sabbatical year of 2018-2019. Her research project, “Performing Aspirations: Love and…
Summer 2017 release from Dr. Abinales!
The second edition of Dr. Patricio Abinales’ book State and Society in the Philippines will be released this summer via Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group. About the Book: People in the Philippines routinely vote, run for office, organize social movements,…
Job Talk: Permeable Policymaking: Foreign Firms in the Japanese Political Economy
The Asian Studies Program invites all to a talk by Dr. Kristi Govella, candidate for the position of Assistant Professor of Asian Studies. The talk is entitled “Permeable Policymaking: Foreign Firms in the Japanese Economy,” and will be held on…
Job Talk: Interpreting Okinawa: Place-Making and the Nature of the Past
The Asian Studies Program invites you to a talk by Dr. Andrea Murray, “Interpreting Okinawa: Place-Making and the Nature of the Past,” on Monday, February 27, from 2:30-3:30 pm, in Bilger Hall 335. Abstract: “Nature” in Okinawa is a thing…
Job Talk: (Re)Figuring South Asian Coolie Identities
The Asian Studies Program invites the UH Manoa community to a talk by Dr. Arunima Datta, candidate for the Assistant Professor position in Asian Studies, from 1:30-2:30 pm on Friday February 24, at the Center for Korean Studies Auditorium. (Re)Figuring South Asian…
New Indonesian translation of Prof. Barbara Andaya’s book To Live as Brothers
New Book Translation Professor Barbara Andaya’s book To Live as Brothers: Southeast Sumatra in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (University of Hawaii Press, 1993), is now available in an Indonesian language version. Link to access the Indonesian version.
New Publication from Prof. Barbara Andaya
Asian Studies Program Chair Prof. Barbara Andaya, along with Leonard Andaya, has published A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830, with Cambridge University Press. Reviews & endorsements ‘… the authors convey in remarkably clear terms the complexity of the…
Featured Course – Sustainable Development in Asia
ASAN 470 – Sustainable Development in Asia CRN 88280 Taught by Prof. Sang Hyop Lee Spring 2017 Tuesdays 10:30 – 1:15 This course provides an overview of problems and challenges of sustainable economic development in Asia, focusing on East Asia.…