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Posted: February 4, 2026 12:02 am | IGSC, keynote address

The Ecotone – IGSC 2026 Keynote Address by Professor Katerina Teaiwa

02/12/26 – 4:00-5:30 PM at Kuykendall 101, reception to follow

The Ecotone Scholarly Forum Series Presents a Keynote Address in Honor of the 25th Anniversary International Graduate Student Conference 2026 featuring Professor Katerina Teaiwa.


Posted: January 31, 2026 12:33 am | TIDES, community event, loʻi day

TIDES Loʻi Day at Kānewai

02/07/26 – 8 AM at 2613 Dole Street (Loʻi Area)

Calling all our TIDES colleagues and network for a day of mud, sweat and community at the lo’i with our friends at Kānewai!


Posted: August 13, 2025 12:32 am | 75th Anniversary, arts & culture, community, environmental justice, language, literature, oral history

Pacific Islands Studies: Continuity & Community **REGISTRATION OPEN**

11/05/25 – 11/07/25, 9 AM to 4 PM daily

The Center for Pacific Islands Studies is pleased to invite you to register and submit abstracts for our upcoming 75th anniversary conference. Registration is open until August 20.


Posted: March 2, 2025 2:19 am | Indigenous Knowledge, public talk

The Ecotone – Weaving Knowledge(s): Addressing Climate Change through Epistemic Crafting with Manuhuia Barcham, PhD

04/01/25 – 12 PM at Moore 258

Please join us for an ecotone session with Dr. Manuhuia Barcham, Associate Professor of the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. The last half century has seen a dramatic shift occur in Western academia and practice around the recognition of Indigenous Knowledge (IK). We see examples of this shift in the adoption of IK in health management programs or the granting of legal personhood to mountains and rivers. However multiple critiques have emerged around this shift seeing it as often still being situated within specific socio-technical power structures which continue to be extractive in practice.


Posted: January 1, 2025 2:11 am | Pacific research, public talk

Indigenising research: Moanaroa a philosophy for practice with Dr. Lefaoali’i Dion Enari

01/16/25 – 4 PM at the Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319)

The Mellon AAPI EHEJ presents: Growing interest in Pacific issues has meant a surge in Pacific research across the globe. Sadly, some research on Pacific people has been done without Pacific knowledge, wisdom and culture. As Pacific researchers, we understand the importance of outputs that interweave our ancestral and cultural wisdom, whilst centering and privileging our people’s narratives.


Posted: January 1, 2025 1:55 am | conservation ethics, environmental justice, public talk

The Ecotone – What does a decolonial conservation ethics look like? with Celia Bardwell-Jones

01/15/25 – 12:30-1:45PM at the Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319)

What does a decolonial conservation ethics look like? Conservation ethics has been guided by three ethical paradigms: preservationism, resourcism and harmonization. The aim of the talk is to place these ethical paradigms in discussion with ethical paradigms of environmental justice to envision what would a decolonial conservation ethics look like.


Posted: September 30, 2024 10:33 pm | environmental justice, land stewardship, public talk

The Ecotone – Environmental justice, cultural heretiage, and stewardship of ʻāina in Kaloko-Honokōhau presented by Landon Tom

10/09/24 – 12:30-1:45 PM at the Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319)

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!


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