The 2022-2023 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Pacific Islands Studies competition is now open. The application deadline is Tuesday, February 1, 2022. For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.star.hawaii.edu/scholarship/ (Search for “FLAS” under keyword search). Applicants must be U.S. citizen or permanent resident UHM graduate and undergraduate students combining modern foreign language training with area/international studies in full-time degree programs.
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Dr. Katerina Teaiwa Joins #TCP as New Arts Editor
Excited to share this wonderful news about our cherished colleague and #CPISgraduate Dr. Katerina Teaiwa! We are beyond thankful that you’ve joined the team as Arts Editor of The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs and look forward to working with you! #CPISfriends
REMINDER: FLAS Scholarship
REMINDER: The 2020-2021 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Pacific Islands Studies competition deadline is February 3, 2020. For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.star.hawaii.edu/scholarship/ (Search for “FLAS” under keyword search). Applicants must be U.S. citizen or permanent resident UHM graduate and undergraduate students combining modern foreign language training with area/international studies in full-time undergraduate or graduate degree programs.
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CPIS Welcomes Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer!
CPIS is happy welcome Oscar Kightley to Hawai’i! Oscar is a Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer in Residence who will be based at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies for three months during the Spring 2020 semester. He is an award-winning journalist, writer, playwright, actor, presenter and director from Auckland. He is no stranger to CPIS. Oscar was a 2007 artist resident at UH Mānoa, shortly after the release of hit movie Sione’s Wedding (internationally released as Samoan Wedding), which he co-wrote and acted in.
As part of the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency he will network with the local creative community through writing and lectures, undertake research within the Samoan community in Hawai’i, and work on a new screenplay. Welcome to CPIS Oscar!!
Job Opportunities: UH Mānoa Department of Languages & Literatures of Europe and the Americas, and Department of Indo-Pacific Languages & Literatures
The UH Mānoa’s Department of Languages & Literatures of Europe and the Americas, and the Department of Indo-Pacific Languages & Literatures are seeking “an innovative instructor who combines elements of Tahitian and French languages, cultures, and literatures.”
Applications are now being accepted for the position of Instructor (French and Tahitian) (Position #82862). Applications are accepted on a continuous basis with review beginning February 12, 2020. For more information and instructions for applying, please visit: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/hawaiiedu/jobs/2679811/instructor-french-and-tahitian-pos82862?pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs
Congratulations to Dr. Lilikalā Kameʻeleihiwa!
Congratulations to Dr. Lilikalā Kameʻeleihiwa, senior professor at Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies and CPIS Affiliate Faculty, who has been selected as the new Gladys Brandt Chair for Comparative Polynesian Studies. As chair, Professor Kameʻeleihiwa is hosting a series of mini-symposiums about Polynesia at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in January (Politics), March (Ancestors, Stars and Temples), April (Medicinal Plants) and May (Visual Arts). For more information, please contact Professor Kameʻeleihiwa at lilikala@hawaii.edu.
