9 October 2024, 12:30-1:45 PM at the Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319)
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UH Mānoa Political Science PhD student Landon Tom will present his research exploring the complex relationships of environmental justice, cultural heritage, and stewardship of ‘āina in the Kaloko-Honokōhau area through a reflection of oral history interviews collected in the summer of 2024. Register by 10/3 to place your lunch order!
2 October 2024, 10:30-11:30 AM at Moore Hall 258
Lunch to follow
Join us for Dr. Keola Donaghy’s book talk for Mele on the Mauna: Perpetuating Genealogies of Hawaiian Musical Activism on Maunakea. In his new book, he explores the role of music in building solidarity, inspiration, and activism in the most contentious confrontations about protecting Maunakea.
Lunch to follow in the Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319)
Keola is a prolific haku mele (composer of Hawaiian poetry), whose compositions have been recorded by Keali‘i Reichel, Kenneth Makuakāne, Kainani Kahaunaele, Amy Hānaiali‘i, The Pandanus Club, The De Lima ‘Ohana, O’Brian Eselu, Patrick Landeza, and Steven Espaniola. His co-composition “Aloha Keauhou” (with Makuakāne) was performed by the senior women at the 2012 Kamehameha Schools Song Contest. He produced the Institute of Hawaiian Music’s Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award-winning compilation “Aloha ‘Ia Nō ‘O Maui,” and has received numerous nominations for the Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards as a composer, producer, and liner note annotator. Keola is the Faculty Coordinator of the Institute of Hawaiian Music and Music Studies at UH-MC. He teaches Hawaiian and world music, music theory and applied music.
25 September 2024, 12:30-1:45 PM at the Tokioka Room (More 319)
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Faculty, students, and postdocs actively working on AAPI-EHEJ-relevant research projects can present work in progress, get feedback from a small audience, and exchange ideas and resources, with the goal of identifying and bolstering a community of environmental humanities scholars across disciplines (a nod to the integration that takes place in an ecotone). We’ll provide a delicious lunch for attendees! Registration is required and capped at 25, so sign up early!
The first talk of the Ecotone series features CPIS Assistant Professor Tammy Tabe with “Becoming My Grandfather’s Dream: A story of Resilience, Perseverance, and Hope”.
15 April 2024, 2:00-4:30 PM at the Center for Korean Studies
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We are pleased to invite you to a special launch and discussion of the latest volume in the Pacific Islands Monograph Series (PIMS), My Land, My Life: Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire, with author Siobhan McDonnell!
Land, and the kinship it nurtures, is the basis for sustaining livelihoods and ways of life. My Land, My Life explores the land rush that took place in Vanuatu from 2001 to 2014 which resulted in over 10% of all customary land being leased. In this book, Siobhan McDonnell offers new insights into the drivers of capitalist land transformations. Using multi-scalar and multi-sited ethnography she describes not simply a linear march toward commodification of the landscape by foreign interests, but a complex web replete with the local powerful Indigenous men involved in manipulating power and property.
The launch and discussion will be on Monday, 15 April 2024 from 2:00 to 4:30 PM HST (Tuesday, 16 April 2024 at 11:00 AM in Port Vila and Tuesday, 16 April 2024 at 10:00 AM in Canberra) in the Center for Korean Studies building (1891 East-West Rd. Honolulu, HI 96822).
Siobhan McDonnell is a lawyer and anthropologist with over 25 years of experience working with Indigenous people in Australia and Oceania on land rights, gender, and climate change issues. She is a Associate Professor at the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy and has been a lead negotiator on climate change for the Vanuatu and Fiji governments.
April 2, 2024, 3:00-4:30 PM at Crawford 115
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Come join us for a book talk and lecturer on conducting Oral History from an Indigenous perspective.
Dr. Mahuika (Ngāti Porou) is the immediate past president of the National Oral History Association of New Zealand and Associate Professor in History, School of Humanities Media and Creative Communication at Massey University, New Zealand. He is the author of the groundbreaking book, Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective, which provides a provoking discussion on decolonizing the field of oral history and acknowledges that Indigenous oral accounts are oral history. According to Dr. Amy Starecheski, Director of the Oral History Master of Arts Program at Columbia University described it as, “a book deeply needed by the field of oral history […] that has the potential to destabilize productively and transform how we as oral historians think about our work.”
This event is cosponsored by the Center for Oral History, the Department of Ethnic Studies, the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, and the Center for Biographical Research.
June 15, 2024, 09:00 am – 04:00 pm HST at Bishop Museum
Join us on Saturday, June 15, 2024 as we celebrate our Micronesian cultures and Pacific communities at the annual Celebrate Micronesia Festival at Bishop Museum!
The Festival showcases traditional and contemporary art, dance, fashion, stories, poetry, food, and music of the people and cultures of the Republic of Palau, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, Guåhan (Guam), Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Kiribati and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Program and ticket information forthcoming.
Download the e-booklet: Resilience & Ten Years of Celebration
Supported in part by:
School of Pacific & Asian Studies
College of Arts, Languages & Letters
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
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