UH Center for Southeast Asian Studies

💼 OPEN POSITION: HISTORIAN NEEDED FOR DPAA IN HAWAI'I 🌺

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) in Hawai'i is looking for a Historian with strong understanding of U.S. military history, history of science and/or World War II, Korean War and/or the Vietnam War.

Qualified candidates should have expertise related to Japanese and/or Indonesian History.
Applicants working toward a PhD with focus in the Indo-Pacific Theater preferred.

📌 The position is based in Hawai'i, and U.S. citizenship is required.

🔗 Application Link: https://jobs.jobvite.com/snainternational/job/on27zfwP?utm_campaign=google_jobs_apply&utm_source=google_jobs_apply&utm_medium=organic

Please spread the world about this opportunity!

🌏 Summer 2026 Southeast Asia Focused Courses | DNCE 255W - Global Perspectives on Dance 💃🏾

Looking for an engaging summer course that fulfills your W requirement? Consider taking DNCE 255W, a fully ONLINE 3-week summer intensive that explores how dance shapes culture, identity, politics, spirituality, media, and social life around the world.

In this course, students will learn to examine dance as ritual, indigenous, resistance, cultural identity, power, and memory. Students will engage with video screenings, online discussions, short writing assignments, and a final research project on a dance topic of their own choosing.

Whether your interests are in the arts, humanities, social sciences, education, ethnic studies, gender studies, media studies, or global cultures, this course offers tools for thinking critically about movement and embodied expression.

✨ No prior dance experience is required. If you have questions or concerns, please contact the instructor at [email protected].

🇮🇩 Indonesia Summer Workshop 2026 | City & Energy: Towards Sustainability, Resilience, Equity ☀️

Rising global energy demand and continued reliance on fossil fuels increase environmental and climate challenges. To address these issues, the Faculty of Engineering of Universitas Diponegoro and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa organize the Summer Workshop 2026 as an inclusive platform for engineering students to collaborate, gain real-world insights, and develop innovative solutions for future sustainable energy challenges. 🌱

This Summer Course will bring participants to do site visits to communities in and around the Semarang city to enable an appreciation of the multiple implications of energy dynamics for cities. Besides that, participants will also be complemented with lectures and group work. This is a unique opportunity to experience new cultures and learn together with students from different backgrounds.

🌟 THIS PROGRAM IS FREE OF CHARGE!

Supported in part by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and by the World Class University Program at Universitas Diponegoro.

⏳ Due: July 10, 2026
🔗 Application Link: bit.ly/SummerWorkshop2026
💻 Further Information: https://ft.undip.ac.id/en/summer-course-2026-city-and-energy-towards-sustainability-resilience-equity/

Please email your inquiries to [email protected].

💬 CALL FOR PROPOSALS | International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation 2027: Arts Sustaining Language 🎨

The 10th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) 2027 hopes to facilitate a dialogue that places artistic and creative practice at the heart of language documentation and conservation.

Oral literature, theatre, music, dance, visual arts, poetry, film, and digital media all offer pathways for strengthening speaker identity and language awareness, for reaching new generations of learners, and for documenting language in ways that recognize its creative potential. How do creative practices reshape documentation methodologies? What role do emerging media play in amplifying minoritized languages, and what risks do they carry?

ICLDC welcomes and encourages performance-based contributions that demonstrate the connections between art and language.

📅 Date: March 4-7, 2027
📍 Location: Honolulu, Hawai'i
🔗 Submission Details: https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/

For details about each Call for Proposals type and its requirements and timelines, please visit the link above.

🚀 SEADL | Hanoi Grapevine's Finest Digital Collection Launch 🚀

Please join the Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL) online to celebrate the launch of their newest collection, Hanoi Grapevine’s Finest! This event is followed by a discussion about audience-led archives and contemporary Vietnamese Art. 🎨

This conversation marks the launch and explores what it means for a grassroots, bottom-up archive to enter an international digital library consortium as a cultural practitioner, a curator/art researcher, and a digital librarian think through questions of whose knowledge counts, how digital archives shape research narratives, and what happens when an audience-led record meets the infrastructure of international scholarly preservation.

Hanoi Grapevine's Finest (HGF) is an annual, audience-nominated recognition of outstanding contemporary art projects in Vietnam which has been running since 2019. HGF is now hosted on the Southeast Asia Digital Library.

📅 June 19, 2026
⏰ 9:30 AM (ET) | 3:30 AM (HST)
📍 Online via Zoom
🔗 https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/ngl-1UGwS2KOisOoNlqbkA #/registration

Registration required. Scan the QR code in the flyer or click on the link above to sign up!

👁️‍🗨️ GI-TOC: Mekong Career Accelerator Programme | Call For Applications 📣

The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) is calling for applications from PhD students working on transnational organized crime-related topics who wish to be part of the Mekong Network Counter Transnational Crime Career Accelerator Programme (MNET-CTC).

This programme offers students an unique opportunity to learn from international academics on organized crime, strengthen their analytical skill, and meet with peers from across the Mekong region! ⛓️

The Mekong Network to Counter Transnational Crime (MNET-CTC) is a multi-year programme implemented by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) in partnership with the Australian Government.

⏳ Due: 29 May, 2026 (4PM Bangkok - Indochina Time)
📩 Submission: [email protected]

For further inquiry, please email the organizer at the email address above.

📣 SEA Fieldwork Fellowships - Deadline: Jun 15, 2026 📣

The Cohesion under Crisis research team at the University of Michigan is offering five $18,000 fellowships for graduate students and recent graduates to conduct three months of fieldwork on social cohesion in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, or Vietnam!

In addition to their own research, fellows will conduct three months of fieldwork in one of five focus countries, examining the historical roots of social cleavages and how communities respond to political, economic, and environmental crises.

📥 Application Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeggfDfA_qSwjVqmU25Z2LyY4bJaqziYO1Lj4XP72W-EgI05A/viewform

Best of luck to you all! 🌈

🌏 Fall 2026 Southeast Asia Focused Courses | Language Courses 🗣️

Are you a Linguistics major interested in non-Latin script languages of the world? Is it your dream to work as a policy makers and/or connecting with business in the Southeast Asian region? If this sounds like you, consider taking ARABIC, THAI, or KHMER Language Courses next semester!

Did you know that a significant portion of the Southeast Asian population is Muslim? Thus, having Arabic on your CV is a big advantage if you want to understand the region and work with Southeast Asian partners. 🕌

Khmer is the official language of Cambodia and is spoken by around fifteen million people! Khmer speakers can also be found in Thailand and Viet Nam. Khmer culture is one of the oldest and best known culture of Asia. Do consider taking Khmer courses before going to Southeast Asia for research! 🌱

Traveling to Thailand soon? Sign up for Thai language classes at UHM! The IPLL Department offers both in-person and online classes in the Fall. Immerse yourself in not just Thai language but also culture with our beloved lecturer Chinoko! 💟

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🌈 Whether you're working toward the SEA Certificate or exploring new interests, UH Mānoa offers a wide range of Fall 2026 courses that center on the region — from history and politics to languages, art, dance, and more!

🔗 Full SEA Course List: https://go.hawaii.edu/iRX

Make sure to cross-check STAR for the most up-to-date information.

Mahalo for showing up for us on UH Giving Day! 🌺✨

Recently CSEAS has faced severe reductions due to the elimination of grants from the U.S. Department of Education and the Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS). Your generosity last month helped sustain Southeast Asian students, faculty, research, and community at UH Mānoa.

We seriously do appreciate every single cents you donated to us! Your gift has real impacts on keeping Southeast Asian Studies thriving in Hawai'i! 🌈🤙

In case you didn't know, you are more than welcome to make a gift to our Friends of Southeast Asia Fund at any time, even after UH Giving Day! Just click on the link below, or scan the QR code to access the pre-filled donation link to our fund.

🔗 Make a Gift: https://giving.uhfoundation.org/funds/12099832

To our supporters, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts! Mahalo nui loa! 💞

🌏 Fall 2026 Southeast Focused Courses | Philippine Studies! 🇵🇭

A quarter of Hawai'i population are Filipinx and/or Filipinx American. Whether you are looking for a career in the private or the public sector, it is important that you are familiar with Philippine culture and language if you are to work in Hawai'i. 🌺

And of course, for heritage learners, you are more than welcome to immerse yourself in the academic place of Philippine Studies at UH Mānoa in the Fall!

Next semester, the Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures offers various Philippine language courses at different levels as well as culture-focused courses on Philippine food, music, linguistics, and literature! 📚🎵

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🌈 Whether you're working toward the SEA Certificate or exploring new interests, UH Mānoa offers a wide range of Fall 2026 courses that center on the region — from history and politics to languages, art, dance, and more!

🔗 Full SEA Course List: https://go.hawaii.edu/iRX

Make sure to cross-check STAR for the most up-to-date information.