webinar

Aiko Yamashiro

Hoʻokaiāulu: Public Humanities in the Pacific speaker series

Tuesday, May 3, 2 - 3 pm 

Please join us for the final event in our Hoʻokaiāulu: Public Humanities in the Pacific speaker series featuring Dr. Aiko Yamashiro, Executive Director of the Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities. Aiko Yamashiro is the coeditor of Value of Hawaiʻi 3: Hulihia (UH Press, 2021), and executive director of Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities. Some of her poetry can be found in Blackmail Press, and essays on Ke Kaupu Hehi Ale. Her dissertation from the UHM English Department (May 2020) was on community-engaged poetry in Hawaiʻi, and can be found online. Aiko hopes we can all write and share poems more often. She is the Executive Director of the Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities.

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China100 @UH Mānoa: Online Exhibit to Commemorate 100 Years of Chinese Studies at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

organized by the Center for Chinese Studies

Tuesday, May 3, 3:30 - 5 pm

Speakers to launch online exhibition

• Shana Brown, Associate Professor of History

• Song Jiang, Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics

• Dongyun Ni, Chinese Studies Librarian, Hamilton Library

Online exhibit commemorates the centennial of Chinese studies at UH Mānoa focusing on the first fifty years (1920-1970), highlighting the evolution of academic units, the contributions of faculty, and the creation of our library collection. CCS welcome syour comments, questions, and suggestions, and hope that former students and UH faculty will share memories and contribute materials.

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Chinese History and Chinese Possibilities: Understanding a Changing Society's Place in the World

Faculty Dialogue organized by the Center for Chinese Studies
 
Wednesday, May 4, 2 - 3:30 pm
 
Faculty Dialogue between two of the world’s most renowned China scholars, historians Kenneth Pomeranz and R. Bin Wong. In this dialogue, both will exchange thoughts on four broad areas related to the past, present and future of China in the world context. These include Chinese urbanization and persistent political concern about rural China, China’s domestic economic development and the economy’s evolving presence in the global economy, the meanings of political reform in China, as well as China’s place in the world. The two will also address the inadequacy of some widely used social science binaries (e.g. liberal vs. authoritarian) to capture the dynamics and complexity of Chinese development. They argue that understanding China requires a more nuanced and interconnective approach of reciprocal and encompassing comparison, which, among other things, means evaluating the country’s activities according to the same set of standards to which we hold other countries or world regions accountable.
 
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zoom lecture

The Green Ideas Project: Developing Intercultural Competence & Professional Language Skills in Korean through Simulations

organized by the Center for Language & Technology

Thursday, May 5, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
 
This session will demonstrate how a simulation-based blended learning course was created for Korean Flagship students to develop sophisticated professional language skills and a deep understanding of Korean workplace culture, essential for their capstone year in Korea. Illustrating the design and implementation process, the presenters will discuss considerations that went into creating two interactive learning modules (Korean workplace culture and public speaking skills), facilitating the learning experience, and providing support for the learners and instructors. Attendees are also invited to join the discussion and explore the possibilities of adapting this model project for other target language contexts.

Presenter: Naiyi Xie Fincham, Assistant Faculty Specialist in Instructional Design (CLT)
Co-Presenters: Sang Yee Cheon, Lydia Chung & Dianne Juhn (UHM Korean Language Flagship Center)
 
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live in-person performance

One Body, Five Dances, Six Perspectives II

organized by Peiling Kao Dances  
 
Friday, May 6, 8 pm + Sunday, May 8, 2 pm 
Earle Ernst Lab Theatre at UH Mānoa 
 
This dance production features Peiling Kao as a soloist to perform five commissioned dance pieces choreographed by internationally renowned male choreographers: Gerald Casel, Peter Rockford Espiritu, Keith Hennessy, Shinichi Iova-Koga, and Wen-chung Lin.

TICKETS: $25 (General), $15 (Student) 

in-person conversation

Homi K. Bhabha and Melissa Chiu in Conversation

organized by the Department of Art and Art History in collaboration with Hawai’i Triennial
 
Sunday, May 8, 11 am - 12 pm
Art Building Auditorium

Eminent postcolonial scholar Homi K. Bhabha (Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the English and Comparative Literature Departments at Harvard University) will be in conversation with Hawai‘i Triennial 2022 (HT22) curatorial director Melissa Chiu (Director of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC). On the occasion of the closing of HT22 and the book launch of the HT22 catalogue, the pair will continue their ongoing discussions of constellated cultures, in-betweenness, and the fluid concept of a Pacific Century. Guest moderated by Susan Acret, managing editor of the HT22 catalogue. 
 
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panel discussion

Navigating the In-Between: Oceania in the Pacific Century

organized by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, East-West Center, Hawaiʻi Contemporary

Monday, May 9, 10 - 11:30 am

A panel discussion expanding on Homi K. Bhabha’s reflections around the Hawaiʻi Triennial 2022’s thematic refocalizations of a ʻPacific Century.’ A diverse panel of scholars will join Bhabha to discuss fluxes and formations, betwixes and betweens, edges and margins of history, reflecting on knowledge, people, and culture in Oceania’s contemporary and emerging futurities.

Moderated by Alexander Mawyer, Director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies

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in-person sale

Annual Mother’s Day Ceramics and Glass Sale

organized by the Department of Art and Art History
 
Tuesday, May 4 - 8, 10 am – 4 pm
Art Building Commons Gallery
 
MORE INFO: Rick Mills at rmills@8189@aol.com / 808-349-0289

2022 BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITION

organized by the Department of Art & Art History

April 24 – May 8, 2022
The Art Gallery, ART Building

Featuring works by

Studio Art: Suzanne Barnes, Claire Bellock, Dylan Gomez, Kang Hyun Soo, Noah Kneeream-Lapian, Peichao Li, Hana McEvilly, Christian Navarro, Juliette Puplava, Giovanna Sgambelluri, Nicole Jane Tagalicud

Graphic Design: Julia Alexander, Divine Grace Cabico, Eleazar Herradura, Marika Higgins, Joelle Image, Alyssa Kagimoto, Jalen Lam, Jasmin Marty, Yenan Mo, Nathan Nishimura, Ryan Jay Pacris, Coby Shimabukuro-Sanchez, Lisa Watanabe

Gallery Walk Throughs with the Artists
all 3:00 - 5:45 pm
ZOOM ID: 641 863 5286 / passcode: Manoa2022

Tuesday, April 26, Susanne Barnes, Hana McEvilly, Giovanna Sgambelluri, Christian Navarro, Juliette Puplava, Noah Kneeream-Lapian (BFA studio art).

Thursday, April 28, Peichao Li, Kang Hyun Soo, Nicole Jane Tagalicud, Claire Bellock, Dylan Gomez

art exhibition

The Haiku as Visual Form: A Stanton Macdonald-Wright’s Haiga Portfolio 

organized by the Department of Art & Art History 

John Young Museum of Art, Krauss Hall [map]
January 24 – May 8
Sunday – Thursday, 12 – 4 pm

In 1966¬1967, the American artist Stanton Macdonald-Wright created the Haiga Portfolio, while working in Kyoto, Japan. The series of experimental prints offer visual interpretations of haiku by seven Japanese poets including Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa. Macdonald-Wright felt the immediacy of the haiku poem could serve as a model for the abstract painting he was interested in developing: It was a form that could quickly get to an essential truth while omitting extraneous detail. In the 20 colorful, quasi-abstract woodblock prints we see Macdonald-Wright revisiting the early 20th century European ideal of making visible relationships between color, abstraction and feeling. The result is a visually spectacular proto-psychedelic series testing the relationship between words and images. MORE