We are so proud of UHM graduate students Areerat Worawongwasu (American Studies) and Xiaoyun Neo (Geography and Environment) who presented their LuceSEA Transitions Field School findings at the 2026 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference in Vancouver, Canada! UHM faculty…
Join us for four thought-provoking webinars this Spring, bringing together scholars and practitioners to explore critical issues shaping Southeast Asia today. 1) Facing Nature: Disaster Preparedness, Responses and Innovations 2) Arts and Resistance: Cultures of Expression, Censorship, and Resilience 3)…
Recordings for our Fall 2025 LuceSEA series, Southeast Asia in Transition: Memory, Governance, and Regional Challenges in a Turbulent World, are now available on our YouTube channel! Webinar #1: Who Tells the War? Webinar #2: Southeast Asia Facing the US Tariff…
A new research article by Ming Li Yong, Micah Fisher, Olivia Meyer, and Krisnawati Suryanata examines the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) field schools in Thailand and Indonesia, supported by the Henry Luce Foundation’s LuceSEA Transitions grant. Rather than…
Information session: Dec 4, 2024 3:00 – 4:00 PM at Crawford 322 Registration Here We are excited to announce an incredible opportunity for UH Mānoa undergraduate students: an expenses-paid, two-week Oral History Field School in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, happening in…
Join us for our final Fall 2025 LuceSEA webinar – Findings from the LuceSEA Field School: Political Ecology in Practice and Applied Research in Southeast Asia. This webinar is part of our “Southeast Asia in Transition: Memory, Governance, and Regional…
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 3:00–4:30 PM (HST) | Registration: Join us for the third webinar in the 2025 Fall LuceSEA Webinar Series, Southeast Asia in Transition: Memory, Governance, and Regional Challenges in a Turbulent World. This session explores ASEAN’s…
Chiang Mai Field School, May 25 – June 26, 2025 From May 25 to June 26, 2025, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa supported an on-site field school in northern Thailand as part…
Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 3:00–4:30 PM (HST) | Registration: CSEAS invites you to the first event in our Fall 2025 LuceSEA Webinar Series, exploring the theme Southeast Asia in Transition: Memory, Governance, and Regional Challenges in a Turbulent World.…
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) is pleased to highlight a new exhibition, Environmental Biographies of Southeast Asia: Collaborative Learning in the Field. This exhibition brings together stories from forests, rivers, paddy fields, and fish ponds in Chiang Mai…