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Join us for two exciting virtual panels connected Join us for two exciting virtual panels connected to this year's Celebrate Micronesia theme, resilience! To watch, go to our Facebook page and catch the livestream. 

We're so excited to uplift amazing youth voices as well as our community leaders.

We are grateful to our co-sponsors Pacific Islands Development Program, Bishop Museum, PREL, and the Western Educational Equity Assistance Center.

#CelebrateMicronesia #MicronesianExcellence
The Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Liter The Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures are bringing back and introducing new language courses for the next semester, Fall 2023! Please have a look, check them out, and consider enrolling into some of them!
The Department of Philosophy presents "Wayfinding The Department of Philosophy presents "Wayfinding Across the Pacific: Traditional Navigation & Voyages of Hokule'a", taking place tomorrow at 2:30. Please check the link below for location, and plan to join in the riveting conversation! https://hawaii.edu/phil/events-media/ 

The ancient Polynesians explored and settled on the islands of the Pacific, navigation across thousands of kilometers of open water. Using stars as a compass, and carefully observing the patterns of ocean swells, wind, clouds, weather, and wildlife, they could navigate their path without using any instruments. In 1975, a voyaging Hokule'a was built to revive this art of ancient wayfinding. In this presentation, the traditional navigation method and experience from the actual voyages of Hokule'a will be introduced.
Our friends at the Center of Biographical Research Our friends at the Center of Biographical Research have organized a talk story today at noon, "Mo'olelo, the Foundation of Hawaiian Knowledge: Retaining Our Heritage". The talk will highlight the content and contributions of Mo'olelo, The Foundations of Hawaiian Knowledge. The volume editors will speak to the conception and publication process, with a focus on the goals of this publication on mo'olelo, as well as the ways in which contributors discuss their use of mo'olelo in their academic and professional disciplines. 

Please consider stopping by to join them at Kuykendall 410 from 12 to 1:15 p.m
Please join us for the next installment of the Blu Please join us for the next installment of the Blue Pacific Futures series in partnership with Georgetown University Global Health Institute and Center for Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific Studies on Thursday, 20 April 2023 at 10:00 AM HST / 4:00 PM EST.

Register now: https://go.hawaii.edu/Xyd

The session is titled, "Pacific Islands Hospitals: Improving Critical Infrastructure Resilience" with Dr. Eileen Natuzzi.

Dr. Eileen Natuzzi examines the vulnerability of Pacific Island country hospitals. The COP27 Loss and Damage Fund agreement was a celebrated win for Pacific Island Countries (PICs). They are within the most at-risk region worldwide due to being subject to regular extreme weather events. Adaptation funding has not adequately addressed preventing risk and loss. In 2016 the World Risk Report defined critical infrastructure as essential adaptation to address in order to reduce both human and economic losses due to risk vulnerability. The sectors that make up critical infrastructure include “health”, which straddles two adaptation sectors: hardscape infrastructure which includes hospitals and conventional health delivery. Hospitals have historically been seen as investments in health. Vulnerable Pacific Island hospitals that lack the luxury of redundancy of services while serving populations of people living on atolls and isolated islands need to be seen as critical infrastructure. This analysis looks at 78 hospitals located in 14 Pacific Island Countries through the lens of climate change critical infrastructure adaptation.
The East-West Center Student Affiliate Program inv The East-West Center Student Affiliate Program invites externally funded (e.g. Fulbright or other scholarships, graduate assistantships, etc.) or self-funded graduate students at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) to participate in the Center’s educational and leadership development opportunities, and to live in its international residence halls.

For more information, please visit:
https://www.eastwestcenter.org/apply/east-west-center-student-affiliate-program
The Department of History at UH Mānoa invites stu The Department of History at UH Mānoa invites students to check out these exciting courses for next semester:

Micronesia, with Dr. Monica LaBriola.
Histories of Oceania I, with Dr. Joseph Foukona
Oceania Survey, with Dr. Joseph Foukona
Women in Oceania, with Dr. Monica LaBriola
Courses at UH Mānoa, Fall 2023 North Shore Field Courses at UH Mānoa, Fall 2023
North Shore Field School: Waiale'e Lako Pono

Students will conduct community-based oral history interviews in Waialeʻe in collaboration with the North Shore Community Land Trust and the Waiale‘e Lako Pono initiative.  This course fulfills the field requirement for the Kū‘oko‘a ‘Āina-Based Leadership Graduate Certificate.
Undergraduates may register in the crosslisted ES 493 (CRN 77067) / ANTH 493 (CRN 77066) Oral History: Theory and Practice course.
Graduate students may register in the ANTH 682 (CRN 77948) Applied Cultural Anthropology Practicum course with instructor consent.

For more information and questions about the course, email Kumu Ty Kāwika Tengan (ttengan@hawaii.edu).
Our friends at the East-West Center will be hostin Our friends at the East-West Center will be hosting their annual East-West Fest on the 16th of this month from 2pm to 6pm at the IMIN International Conference Center- in celebration of the many culturally diverse communities that make up the East-West Center 'ohana and the Honolulu community! 

You are invited to join for an afternoon of family-friendly fun with dance and musical performances, cultural booths, storytelling and food representing people from across the Asia Pacific region and beyond!
Te Wheke will be having a theater showing on Frida Te Wheke will be having a theater showing on Friday 14 April at 7:30 p.m at the Leeward Theater at Leeward Community College, visit outreach.hawaii.edu/events to purchase tickets for you and your family!

Te Wheke is a work of legacy and succession commemorating the 21 years of creative existence of Atamira Dance Company. Te Wheke refers to the Octopus, a guardian on the journey from past into future, activating healing in the now. Created in collaboration by 8 leading Māori choreographic practitioners & embodied by 8 dancers, the dimensions of human experience, each symbolized by the tentacles of the mighty Te Wheke, are explored through a Māōri knowledge base.
The work embodies a unique artistic landscape shaped by the cultural identity of our people and their stories. We are driven by choreographic and design excellence in an ever-expanding repertoire of local and cross-cultural dance work.
Our friends and peers at Chaminade University will Our friends and peers at Chaminade University will be holding their annual spring tradition, International Extravaganza, tomorrow the 14th of April at 6 p.m at the Sullivan Library Lawn, where they showcase student performances through dance and song. Join them for an evening where their student cultural clubs and organizations share their talents with the campus community!
The exhibition “ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters” ta The exhibition “ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters” takes place simultaneously this semester in different locations.  It features existing and newly commissioned works by nearly 40 kanaka ‘oiwi artists. 

Please consider visiting the exhibition at the respective gallery locations on any of the following dates.

Koa Gallery, Kapiolani Community College: February 16 - August 13
Gallery ‘Iolani, Windward Community College: March 31 - May 5 
East-West Center Gallery: April 30- August 13 
Ho’ikeakea, Leeward Community College: May 1 - August 25

 #PacificIslands #Oceania
On Thursday, April 13th at 3:30 p.m, there will b On Thursday, April 13th  at 3:30 p.m, there will be an open event presented by Atamira Dance Company, the leading creator and presenter of Māori contemporary dance theater from Aotearoa New Zealand at Windward Community College, Hale A’o 101-102.
Feel free to go check out the show!
Please join Dr. Charles Lawrence in his talk about Please join Dr. Charles Lawrence in his talk about Critical Race Theory today at 12:30 noon to 2:00 p.m! 
Register at this link: https://tinyurl.com/CRTUHWO
The Water Resources Research Center at UHM is plea The Water Resources Research Center at UHM is pleased to announce the “Environmental Justice Through the Lens of Coastal Health” seminar with Dr. Eileen Nalley.

Dr. Eileen Nalley will present the work done in Hawai’i and the Marshall Islands on marine contamination and the risks to marine ecosystems and seafood consumers.

Date: April 14, 2023 (2 pm, HST)
Registration: https://hawaii.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsdu6upjkuHtHzOvbuvHOB16myZkv8NQZk
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