2005
Faculty
Prof. Barbara Andaya
Professor Barbara W. Andaya, Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, will be sworn in as President of the prestigious Association for Asian Studies in the Spring of 2005.
Events
May 18-21, 2005. SHAPS once again sponsored the United Nations University Global Seminar 2nd Hawai'i Session "Consuming Cultures: Change, Tradition and Choice in Asia and the Pacific"
November 9-12. "Culture Moves" Center for Pacific Islands Studies, in collaboration with Pacific Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, will devote its 2005 conference to dance in Oceania.
2004
Faculty
Prof. Belinda Aquino, 2nd from right.
Professor Belinda Aquino, Director of the Center for Philippine Studies, was recognized by the Organizing Committee of the 7th International Philippine Studies Congress for her outstanding leadership in the organization of the conference series, which began in the 1980s.
Prof. Vilsoni Hereniko
Professor Vilsoni Hereniko completed production of his new film, The Land Has Eyes: Pear ta na 'on maf. He previewed the film at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival, among other venues.
Prof. Edward Shultz
Professor Edward Shultz received the 2004 Robert W. Clopton Award for Outstanding Community Service for his leadership and support of the Korean Centennial celebration. The Clopton award recognizes a Manoa faculty member for playing a socially significant role by applying intellectual leadership and academic expertise to the improvement of the community.
Professor Ronald Brown, Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, began a one-year Fulbright Fellowship at Beijing University.
Professor Ricardo Trimillos, Asian Studies Program chair, received a 2003-2004 Po'okela Award from the Hawai'i State Theatre Council for his accomplishments as music director of the UHM Spring 2004 Kabuki production.
Prof. Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa
Professor Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa led a delegation of six to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The delegation testified on education, culture, health and the environment.
Grants
The Pamana Foundation of Hawai'i donated $35,000 to the Center for Philippine Studies to establish an endowment in the name of the late Ligaya Victorio Fruto, Filipino author and longtime Hawai'i community leader.
Events
SHAPS hosted the first UN University Seminar in the United States. The seminar, entitled "Negotiating Pacific Identities: Ethnicities, Encounters and Self-Determination", dealt with identity and peaceful coexistence, culture and place, land resources, and self-determination for indigenous peoples. Fifty-four students and professionals from 17 nations and 13 institutions throughout the Asia-Pacific region attended. A video of the presentations has been shown on public television.
The Center for Korean Studies hosted an over-flow conference on "Korean Drama in Global Media Culture", October 8-9, 2004. It was sponsored by the centers for Chinese, Japanese and Korean studies and a host of others.
Publications
Professor of Asian Studies, Dru C. Gladney, Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities and Other Subaltern Subjects, London: C. Hurst & Co., 2004
CSEAS published Blood Bond, a translation by Than Than Win of Ma Ma Lay's Burmese novel.
General
In 1999, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies started a program for faculty from historically black universities and colleges. It took selected faculty on trips to Southeast Asian countries. The faculty, their chairs and deans agreed to either start new courses or add an Asian component to courses they were already teaching. The program has been so successful that the Centers for Chinese, Japanese and Korean studies have begun to participate. 1999 (Vietnam), 2000 (Philippines), 2002 (Thailand), 2003 (China), 2004 (Malaysia), 2005 (Korea), 2006 (Vietnam), 2007 (Japan). Funding has come from the USDOE, Freeman Foundation,the Institute for International Public Policy (UNCF) and the Stern Memorial Trust,
Center Newsletters
Center for Southeast Asian Studies Newsbulletin (Includes Center for Philippines Studies)
Center for Japanese Studies Newsletter