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Join our friends at ISR for the latest films in th

Join our friends at ISR for the latest films in the Sustainability Film Series at the Doris Duke Theatre, Sea Level Rise and the Pacific Islands, on Friday, December 1 at 7 pm!

This event will include two films that explore how sea level rise is affecting island communities. The first is Anote’s Ark, which follows Kiribati President Anote Tong’s effort to save his nation. The second short film is Rise: From One Island to Another—a poetic expedition between two islanders, one from the Marshall Islands and one from Greenland. Following the film screening, weʻre excited to hear from CPIS alumna and moderator Dr. Tammy Tabe and a panel including Rise Director Dan Lin will discuss the making of this film and how sea level rise is impacting Hawaiʻi and our Pacific neighbors.

Register here: https://honolulumuseum.org/events/17950/

Our friends in the History Department are offering

Our friends in the History Department are offering new exciting courses for the Spring 2024 semester!

HIST/PACS675: Land, Law & Decolonization and HIST482: Histories of Oceania II, with Dr. Joseph Foukona (foukona@hawaii.edu)

HIST483: United States in the Pacific with Dr. Noah Dolim (ndolim@hawaii.edu)

HIST288: Oceania Survey with Meagan Harden (mharden@hawaii.edu)

Please share with your students and networks!

Our 'ohana at the Music Department is holding thei

Our 'ohana at the Music Department is holding their long time tradition of an end-of-the-semester informal concert by students in the Asian and Hawaiian music and dance ensemble classes offered by the Department of Music and Department of Theater and Dance. All are welcome to attend!

03 December, 3-5 p.m
Orvis Auditorium

Aloha from our friends at the Dept of Art & Art Hi

Aloha from our friends at the Dept of Art & Art History! Very excited to share news of new faculty member, Nina Tonga, joining from New Zealand in the Spring 2024 semester. New courses are being offered which Nina Tonga will be facilitating in the coming semester!

ART 400C- Contemporary Pacific Art

ART 475C- Pacific Art- Polynesia/Micronesia

We'd really appreciate you sharing this info with your department's faculty and students.

Are you a memory keeper or story collector? Can yo

Are you a memory keeper or story collector? Can you remember a story from a time before you were born? Have you been searching for a space to share your story? Whether you’re a novice storyteller or a seasoned memory collector, Write Oceania invites you to join "Talking Stories and Collecting Memories," a workshop series designed to engage the intergenerational transmission of Pacific knowledge and traditions through the art of storytelling in an enriching space of cultural continuity and collective memory.

Friday, 8 December 2023, 4PM
Hale Hālāwai, East-West Center

Limited seats are available. Please RSVP HERE or email evacruz@hawaii.edu for more information.

We are excited to host a talk titled “Artefacts

We are excited to host a talk titled “Artefacts of Relations: Building in Moananui” at 12:00 pm today in Moore Hall 258.

Rau Hoskins, Emily Parr, and Albert L. Refiti will be presenting on their current research which pulls together a Pacific Ocean architectural history that identifies and analyzes principal elements in Pacific buildings that contribute to Tangata Whenua (Māori) and Tangata Moana (Pacific Diaspora) peopleʻs wellbeing. Emily and Albert will also discuss their Vā Moana Talanoa video interview series online and the work that the Vā Moana Research Cluster has been doing in the last 5 years.

Please join us today at 2:00 p.m in UH Mānoa Moor

Please join us today at 2:00 p.m in UH Mānoa Moore Hall 258 for the FIFO screenings of Bons basiers de Muroroa and Passeur de legend!

Les bons baiser de Muroroa, this film takes us to the nuclear tests carried out by France Between 1966 and 1996 in Polynesia, and the harmful effects on civilian and military personnel, from mainland France and Polynesia.

Passeur de Légendes, in French Polynesia, Matorai, a young Polynesian is in search of his identity… He practices an ancestral art called ‘ōrero, which is the art of declamation in a Polynesian language. This passionate youngster allows us to participate in the preparation of his ‘ōrero.

And add the final screening of FIFO to your calendar:
Tuesday, 12/12, 2:00 p.m, Moore Hall 258, UHM: Screenings of No Māori Allowed and Kāhuli

Created in 2004 in Tahiti, French Polynesia, FIFO: The International Oceanian Documentary Film Festival aims to promote Oceania and make it visible through documentary films. In the context of rampant globalization, its ambition is to bring the voice of the peoples and cultures of Oceania beyond its shores and to make it heard in Oceania and on the media scene. Finally, it aims to promote Oceanian cinema and filmmakers on screens worldwide. Organized by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies in collaboration with key partners, FIFO in Hawaiʻi is an official screening of films selected for the Hawaiʻi audience.

We hope to see you there!

#FIFO #cpisstudentlife #CPIS #filmfestival

The Department of Pacific Island Studies in the Co

The Department of Pacific Island Studies in the College of Arts, Languages, and Letters at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (UHM) invites applicants for a 9-month, tenure-track, full-time assistant professorship, to begin Fall 2024, pending availability of funds. We are looking for a collegial and talented colleague whose teaching, research, and scholarship will be centered on subtropical and tropical fisheries of the Pacific, with a demonstrated expertise in Marine Policy and Ocean Governance bearing on the diverse dynamics and concerns surrounding Fisheries in the Pacific Islands region of Oceania. Special consideration will be given to candidates whose work engages with relevant issues through an Indigenous, place-based, or regional lens. UHM is a leading institution for the study of the Pacific Islands and Oceania, and the Department of Pacific Island Studies is committed to providing students with an interdisciplinary, holistic understanding of the region.

Learn more and apply here: https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawaiiedu/jobs/4271423/assistant-professor-ocean-governance-and-marine-resources

Join us to celebrate the exhibition, "7 Degrees No

Join us to celebrate the exhibition, "7 Degrees North – The Arts of Micronesia," through a roundtable discussion with Micronesian artists. The exhibit originally debuted at the Downtown Art Center in Honolulu’s Chinatown in June 2023 and is on view in Hamilton Library’s Bridge Gallery from August 21 - December 1, 2023 (revised end date).

The roundtable discussion, "Micronesian Voices through Art" will feature co-curators Floyd Takeuchi and Margo Vitarelli in conversation with artists Lissette Yamase, Anthon Watson, Eric Cano, and Kalany Omengar.

Light refreshments will follow.

We are grateful to our cosponsors including MCHACE, Center for Pacific Island Studies, Downtown Art Center, UHM Library Pacific Collection, East West Center Arts Program, and the EWC Pacific Islands Development Program.

Please join us tonight at 4:30 p.m in UH Mānoa AR

Please join us tonight at 4:30 p.m in UH Mānoa ART101 for the Screening and Discussion of PATUTIKI: the Guardians of Marquesan Tattoos!

Posting here too, is the FIFO schedule of Film Screenings from now until December:
1. Wednesday, 11/15, 4:30 p.m, ART101, UHM: Screening and Discussion of PATUTIKI: The Guardians of Marquesan Tattoo

2. Tuesday, 11/21, 2:00 p.m, Moore Hall 258, UHM: Screenings of Bons basiers de Muroroa, and Passeur de legend

3. Tuesday, 12/12, 2:00 p.m, Moore Hall 258, UHM: Screenings of No Māori Allowed and Kāhuli

Created in 2004 in Tahiti, French Polynesia, FIFO: The International Oceanian Documentary Film Festival aims to promote Oceania and make it visible through documentary films. In the context of rampant globalization, its ambition is to bring the voice of the peoples and cultures of Oceania beyond its shores and to make it heard in Oceania and on the media scene. Finally, it aims to promote Oceanian cinema and filmmakers on screens worldwide. Organized by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies in collaboration with key partners, FIFO in Hawaiʻi is an official screening of films selected for the Hawaiʻi audience.

We hope to see you there!
#FIFO #cpisstudentlife #CPIS #filmfestival

Please join us alongside our friends at Pasifika A

Please join us alongside our friends at Pasifika Allies Association and TIDES, for a day of mālama ‘āina with Kāko‘o ‘Ōiwi, He‘eia, on the 25th of November at 8:30 to 2p.m.
Students RSVP by 15 November if transportation is needed!

Please join us for the screening of FIFO film, PAT

Please join us for the screening of FIFO film, PATUTIKIi: The Guardians of Marquesan Tattoo, tomorrow at the Bishop Museum from 6p.m to 9p.m; this film will feature Miriama Bono, Director of Musee de Tahiti et des iles- Te Fare Manaha, and Heretu Tetahiotupa, Co-Director of PATUTIKI!

First-time feature filmmakers Heretu Tetahiotupa and Christophe Cordier delve into the ritual art of Marquesan tattoo, sharing its cultural and historical significance by reenacting the past and challenging the present through a visually and acoustically immersive 55-minute documentary, PATUTIKI. Marquesans created a vocabulary and an art by which to tell their people’s story, their way of seeing the world and humankind’s place in it. In 1920, 97% of their population was decimated; only 2000 survived. With tattoo declared illegal by church and state, the last of the “black-skinned” elders found unique ways to guard their dying people’s precious history. Witness how a remote Southern Pacific Islander people rediscover and celebrate their nearly lost identity by uncovering the cultural puzzles left behind through PATUTIKI: The Guardians of Marquesan Tattoo,the world’s first film directed, written, and produced by a native Marquesan. PATUTIKI won the Audience Prize at Tahiti’s 2019 International Festival of Oceania Documentary Films (FIFO).

Created in 2004, FIFO aims to make Oceania more visible through the sharing of documentary films. In the context of rampant globalization, FIFO's ambition is to amplify the voices of the peoples and cultures of Oceania while also promoting Oceanian cinema and filmmakers on screens around the world.

On Wednesday, 1 November 2023, the Center for Paci

On Wednesday, 1 November 2023, the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at UH Mānoa was honored to host Professor Katerina Teaiwa for a lunch-time conversation about Project Banaba.

Katerina discussed the ideas and motivations behind Project Banaba, a multi-media exhibition about phosphate mining for industrial agriculture and its harmful impacts on the island of Banaba (Ocean Island) and its people. Many Banabans were relocated to Rabi Island in Fiji in 1945 in order to make way for phosphate mining.

The Project Banaba exhibition will be showcased at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu from 4th November 2023 - 18th February 2024. It had previously toured Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia.

The exhibition is based on Katerina’s years of scholarly research, which culminated in her book, Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba.
Katerina is a graduate of the MA in Pacific Islands Studies MA program at UH Mānoa and a former CPIS faculty. She is now a professor and convener of the Pacific Studies at the Australian National University.

If you are in Honolulu, we encourage you to visit the Project Banaba exhibition at the Bishop Museum.

We are excited to announce a special screening and

We are excited to announce a special screening and discussion with Miriama Bono, the President of AFIFO and Director of Te Fare Manaha the Museum of Tahiti and its Islands, and Heretu Tetahiotupa, co-Director of Patutiki: the Guardians of Marquesan Tattoo as part of the International Oceanian Documentary Film Festival, or FIFO 2023 in Honolulu.

The screening and discussion will be on Tuesday, 14 November 2023 from 5:30 to 9:00 PM in the Atherton Hālau at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (1525 Bernice St, Honolulu, HI 96817).

Please register here: https://www.bishopmuseum.org/calendar/patutiki-the-guardians-of-marquesan-tattoo/

Created in 2004, FIFO aims to make Oceania more visible through the sharing of documentary films. In the context of rampant globalization, FIFO’s ambition is to amplify the voices of the peoples and cultures of Oceania while also promoting Oceanian cinema and filmmakers on screens around the world. The film Patutiki: The Guardians of Marquesan Tattoo (2019), directed by Heretu Tetahiotupa and Christophe Cordier, won the Audience Award for best film during the 20th Anniversary FIFO showcase in French Polynesia. The film narrates the meaning, symbolism, struggles, and richness of Marquesan tattoo art.

FIFO 2023 in Honolulu is made possible through a partnership between FIFO, the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the Bishop Museum, and the Pacific Islands Development Program at the East-West Center.

Join us for an exciting talk by Dr. Anthony Medran

Join us for an exciting talk by Dr. Anthony Medrano on “Fish...pay no attention to political boundaries: Tilapia and travel in the making of today's Indo-Pacific" this THURSDAY, 9 November 2023 from 4:30-5:30 pm in Moore Hall 319 (Tokioka Room).

This talk follows fish in a way that opens up a new kind of intersection for the environmental humanities, Asian Studies, and transregional histories. In particular, it thinks with the travels of the Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis Mossambicus Peters, 1852) in the period between the 1930s and 1960s to show how (and explain why) these fish’ movements were central to the making of today’s Indo-Pacific.

Organized by Department of Asian Studies and cosponsored by the Department and Center of Pacific Islands Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs.

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