Words in the World: Literatures, Oratures, and New Meeting Grounds
February 8, 12:30pm - 8:30pmMānoa Campus, Art Auditorium and the KamakakÅ«okalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
The WORDS IN THE WORLD: LITERATURES, ORATURES, AND NEW MEETING GROUNDS symposium, is being held at the University of Hawai‘i at MÄnoa from February 7 to February 9, 2013, featuring speakers including Albert Wendt, NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong'o, Pualani Kanaka‘ole Kanahele, Kimo Keaulana, Hosam Aboul-Ela, Francesca Orsini, and Chantal Spitz.
This symposium has its impetus in the movement within literary, cultural, and performance circles to reconceptualize the field of “world literature.†Working from a location in Hawai‘i and Oceania, the symposium pursues an alternative vision of “words in the world†that foregrounds perspectives and cultural forms from around the world that the field of “world literature†previously peripheralized. A central theme will be the need for the literatures and oratures of the world to engage indigenous aesthetic and ethical traditions of speaking from and for particular places, while developing lines of connection and affiliation among disparate communities of writers and scholars. Toward this end, the symposium brings together literary critics, performance artists, and cultural practitioners—from Hawai‘i, Oceania, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East—to discuss the situations of literatures and oratures both in relation to the earth and to each other.
A practical outcome of the symposium will be a contribution to the archive of methods and pedagogical resources that study the worldliness of literature, including strategies for a new comparativism, along with reading practices elaborated from within emerging networks of literary and cultural production.
FULL SCHEDULE
Thursday, February 7 at the Art Auditorium
4:00 – 4:30 Introduction to Conference Welcome Chant: Jonathan Osorio Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Reed Dasenbrock Dean of the Hawai'inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge Maenette K. P. Benham Professor S. Shankar
4:30 – 6:00 Albert Wendt & Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: Reading and Conversation Introducing Albert Wendt: Vilsoni Hereniko Introducing Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: S. Shankar Moderator: Cristina Bacchilega
Albert Wendt and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o will read selections from their literary work and engage in a conversation on the overarching themes of the symposium.
6:00 – 7:00 RECEPTION
7:00 – 9:00 Screening and Discussion of Drua: The Wave of Fire Introduction: Vilsoni Hereniko Respondent: Kara Miller
This film celebrates voyaging on double-hulled canoes in the 18th Century, their demise upon contact with Europeans, and their revival in recent years.
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Friday, February 8 at the HÄlau o Haumea, KamakakÅ«okalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
12:30 Welcome: Maenette K. P. Benham
12:45 – 2:15 Mele Panel and Performance Moderator: ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui Panelists: Kale Hannahs, Pualani Kanaka‘ole Kanahele, Kimo Keaulana, Jonathan Osorio
With a focus on mele Hawai‘i, the indigenous music of Hawai‘i, this panel will engage with the intersection between orature and literature, as represented by the poetry of song and chant, and performance.
2:30 – 4:00 Literatures of the World Moderator: Paul Lyons Panelists: Hosam Aboul-Ela, Francesca Orsini, Ruth Mabanglo, Craig Santos Perez
This panel will engage from different locations the question of the limits of the concept of World Literature, both in terms of classroom practice and theoretical understandings of literary traditions across the world.
4:15 – 5:30 Global Native Literary Studies Moderator: Alice Te Punga Somerville Panelists: Chantal Spitz, Daniel Justice, Albert Wendt
Rather than proposing how or why Indigenous and Pacific texts might be included in a concept of (and classes about) World Literature on the basis of the fact that these too are “part of the world,†the panelists will be invited to suggest how World Literature, Pacific, and Indigenous Literary worlds might mutually engage.
5:30 – 6:30 RECEPTION
6:30 – 7:45 Performing Arts and Decolonization
An evening of cultural sharing.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9 at the HÄlau o Haumea, KamakakÅ«okalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
9:00 – 10:30 Translation(s) Moderator: Cristina Bacchilega Panelists: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Yung-Hee Kim, Bryan Kuwada, S. Shankar
This panel will discuss the impact of translation on the conceptualization and circulation of literatures and oratures in the world, historically and in the present, and ask how translation practices can contribute to resisting a globalizing pedagogy of "world literature."
10:45 – 12:15 Closing Roundtable
Student Facilitators, including Meghan Leialoha Au, Jacquelyn Chappel, Kim Compoc, Steven Gin, Bryan Kuwada, Cheryl Naruse, Tagi Qolouvaki, No‘u Revilla, Aiko Yamashiro Panelists: Hosam Aboul-Ela, Daniel Justice, Pualani Kanaka‘ole Kanahele, Kimo Keaulana, Francesca Orsini, Chantal Spitz, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Albert Wendt
In a similar spirit of an “alternative vision of words in the world,†the Student Hui seeks new and different ways to generate discussion, conversation, observations, and reflection among symposium panelists and participants through capturing reactions, questions, themes, and memories generated from the symposium.
Stay tuned for more information about this symposium on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/389065227842284/?ref=ts&fref=ts! We hope you can join us!
Ticket Information
Free and open to the public
Event Sponsor
Department of English and the Hawai‘inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, Mānoa Campus
More Information
956-7619, https://www.facebook.com/events/389065227842284/
Tuesday, March 19 |
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9:30am |
Graduating Student Global Seal of Biliteracy Testing
Mānoa Campus, Moore Hall 153B EWA Computer Lab
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12:00pm |
East-West Toastmasters Leadership/Public Speaking Club Meeting
Mānoa Campus, Hemenway Hall 215
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Thursday, March 21 |
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12:00pm |
NDPTC Webinar - Disaster Planning for Vulnerable Populations
Mānoa Campus, Online
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Monday, March 25 |
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12:30pm |
Linguistics Final Oral
Mānoa Campus, Moore Hall, Room 155A and Zoom, Link Below
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Wednesday, March 27 |
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9:00am |
Community Dialogues: “Microaggressions” with Jessica Lau
Mānoa Campus, ACCESS Lounge, Dean Hall, room 5/6
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11:00am |
Community Dialogues: “Microaggressions” with Jessica Lau
Mānoa Campus, Online
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12:00pm |
Law School Admissions Zoom Information Session
Mānoa Campus, Virtual
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3:00pm |
Fifty Years as Historians of Southeast Asia: Personal Perspectives
Mānoa Campus, UHM Music Building, Room: 36
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4:30pm |
Student Sustainability Council Meeting
Mānoa Campus, Gilmore Hall 212
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4:30pm |
Entrepreneurship Live x ThriveHI
Mānoa Campus, Walter Dods,Jr. RISE Center, Level 2
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6:00pm |
Turning to the Archives to Decenter the Settler State
Mānoa Campus, Kuykendall 410
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Thursday, March 28 |
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9:00am |
PI-CASC Graduate Student Symposium
Mānoa Campus, Inmin Conference Room, East West Center
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9:30am |
Mathematics Final Oral
Mānoa Campus, George 213
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12:00pm |
Lunchbreak Mindfulness Series: The Spring Refresh
Mānoa Campus, Online
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2:00pm |
ASUHWO General Senate Meeting
West Oʻahu Campus, Student Life Center, C-214 OR Online via Zoom
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3:00pm |
Gaza is Palestine: On Bakers and Storytellers
Mānoa Campus, 3114 Paliuili st
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4:30pm |
Gaza is Palestine: On Bakers and Storytellers
Mānoa Campus, 3114 Paliuili st
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5:00pm |
Part Time JD Flex and Law School Admissions - Zoom Information Session - March
Mānoa Campus, Virtual
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7:00pm |
Navigators Bible Study
Mānoa Campus, Honolulu Christian Church 2207 Oahu Ave, Honolulu, HI 96822
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Friday, March 29 |
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3:00pm |
Business Administration Final Oral
Mānoa Campus, Zoom
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Saturday, March 30 |
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7:30pm |
JAVANESE GAMELAN CONCERT
Mānoa Campus, Music Department Barbara Smith Amphiteater
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Sunday, March 31 |
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12:00pm |
Kalo Grant 3rd Round Application
Mānoa Campus, Walter Dods,Jr. RISE Center, Level 2
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