New Partner: UC Berkeley APEC Study Center (BASC)
UH Manoa Asian Studies has signed an MOU with Berkeley APEC Study Center, and welcomes Vinod Aggarwal to Graduate Faculty
UH Manoa Asian Studies has signed an MOU with Berkeley APEC Study Center, and welcomes Vinod Aggarwal to Graduate Faculty
The 20th anniversary edition of Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine Nation-State by Patricio N. Abinales is now off the press! This classic on Mindanao studies first published in 2000 now includes the stories of…
Webinar Information Please join us Wednesday October 21 at 12:00 pm for a webinar on The South China Sea: China, Southeast Asia & Maritime Security. This webinar is part of the Crossing Borders: International Affairs between China and Southeast Asia…
A People’s History of the Pandemic: Global Households and Covid-19 in Asia Asian Studies Chair Cathryn Clayton and her team have been awarded a Rapid Response Grant on COVID-19 and the Social Sciences by the Social Science Research Council. The…
Kristi Govella on the National Bureau of Asian Research’s Asia Insight Podcast Podcast Feature Asian Studies Program Assistant Professor Kristi Govella was recently interviewed by the National Bureau of Asian Research about her research on increasing competition in the outer…
Following the surprising resignation of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Assistant Professor Kristi Govella spoke to The New York Times about his departure and his legacy. Read the article here. Dr. Govella also spoke to Time magazine about the challenges that his successor will face with…
Professor Patricio ‘Jojo’ Abinales and journalist and author Criselda Yabes discussed the 2017 siege of Marawi in the Philippines in this East-West Center online seminar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qClPQhDSuNA
Professor Barbara Andaya’s recent article for the Art of the Ancestors online educational platform focuses on women in Asian indigenous religions. The full article, “Speaking to the Spirits: Thinking Comparatively about Women in Asian Indigenous Beliefs,” can be found here,…
The New York Times article “As the World Gets Tougher on China, Japan Tries to Thread a Needle” (July 25, 2020) quotes Dr. Kristi Govella on Japan’s evolving relationship with China.
The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated headlines around the world in 2020and complicated an already tangled web of political, economic, andsecurity dynamics in the Asian region. The webinar addressed recentdevelopments in Japan’s domestic affairs as well as its externaldiplomacy, including questions…