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Adjunct Faculty Debito Arudou’s book “Embedded Racism: Japan’s Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination” (Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield 2015) was recently reviewed by the Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ). The reviewer concluded: “In an anti-globalist era of Trump…
The School of Pacific and Asian Studies is proud to announce that two of its faculty have publications available to the public this spring! In May, Dr. Michael Aung-Thwin’s book Myanmar in the Fifteenth Century: A Tale of Two Kingdoms…
On March 5, 2017, SPAS Lecturer Debito Arudou had a column published in Japan’s largest English-language newspaper, The Japan Times, entitled “Government of Japan, survey thyself”. The article talked about the Ministry of Justice’s first nationwide survey of discrimination against…
In February, Professor Barbara Watson Andaya was a presenter and keynote speaker at two conferences in Singapore. On February 7, 2017, she gave a presentation to a workshop, ‘Circulating the Bay of Bengal Miraculously: Translating Wonder and Travel in South and…
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,…
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…
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…
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 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.
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…