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The Asian Studies Program was incredible because most professors were undertaking their own research, passionate about their subject of study, and enthusiastic about sharing their knowledge with students. It felt fresh and profound at the same time. Inspiring!
I was able to delve deep and focus on the areas of Asian Studies that truly interested me, and therefore gained a much more thorough and developed understanding of my fields of interest, which are applicable to my current career path. Also, the professors are extremely helpful and want their students to succeed. They were very supportive both while I was at UH and after I graduated.
Congratulations to our Asian Studies BA student Kyaw Hsan Hlaing! His latest piece, “Responses to Humanitarian Needs in Western Myanmar after Cyclone Mocha” was published in ISEAS Perspectives, a publication of the Yusof Ishak Institute (ISEAS), a leading Singapore-based research…
Monica Orillo is a second-year MAAS candidate at UH Mānoa. She spent her summer interning at the U.S. Department State as part of the Pickering Fellowship. At the Office of Maritime Southeast Asia, she worked on issues related to the…
The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa’s Center for Chinese Studies and Center for Southeast Asian Studies present a panel discussing the Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative on Southeast Asia. China’s Belt and Road Initiative is being likened to…
The International Council for Traditional Music and Dance has awarded a lifetime membership to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Ricardo Trimillos for his years of advocacy, service and academic contributions. Trimillos is a professor emeritus in ethnomusicology and Asian studies at UH Mānoa. His career has…
The Department of Asian Studies, along with the Better Tomorrow Speaker Series, is co-sponsoring the first keynote event of the Center for South Asian Studies Spring Symposium on Climate Change and South Asia: a public, in-person talk by author Amitav…
Nor Ismah, who received her MA degree in Asian Studies in 2012, successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis at Leiden University (Netherlands) on 12 January 2023. The thesis is entitled “Women Issuing Fatwas: Female Islamic Scholars and Community-based Authority in Java,…
Public Lecture with Vinod Aggarwal (UC-Berkeley) Join us Wednesday, January 11th, 2023, for a public lecture on “Is New Economic Statecraft Passé?” Register for the event here: https://tinyurl.com/YS3N5BJA The recent crisis in the Taiwan Strait has led some to focus…
Nov 23, 2022 at 3:00pm to 4:30pm (HST) join us on Zoom for the webinar “Discussing Development: Dams & Rivers. In this segment of the Luce Southeast Asia in Transition Webinar Series, we explore the story of development from varied…
CSEAS Webinar Nov. 2 from 2-3:30pm (HST) Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) for a talk on popular and orthodox spiritual practices in mainland and Southeast Asia. The event will focus on the Cham Bani in south Vietnam;…
Congratulations to Jordan Miller Antonio who has successfully defended his MA thesis in Asian Studies! Jordan Miller Antonio joined the Master of Arts in the Asian Studies program in 2017 and his studies have focused on Southeast Asia, but specifically…