panel 

People and their Forests

Co-organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, the East-West Center, Michigan State University-James Madison College and Asian Studies Center, and Chiang Mai University-Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development

Tuesday, February 22, 2 - 3:30 pm 

Panelists
Ahmad Dhiaulhaq (Senior Researcher, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature)
Micah R. Fisher (Fellow, East-West Center, Research Program)
Naw Pe Tha Law (Advocate, Chiang Mai)
Courtney Work (Associate Prof, National Chengchi University)

Moderator: Daniel Ahlquist (Assistant Professor, James Madison College, Michigan State University)

More info / Registration: https://eastwestcenter.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tQoD7QkNSISlMw-HUai3cA

all welcomed 

Biweekly Chinese Corner 

organized by the Chinese Language Flagship Program in collaboration with the Center for Chinese Studies

Tuesday, February 22 (Biweekly Tuesdays, 3 – 4 pm)

Chinese Flagship continues to welcome members of our UHM Chinese language learning community to join our biweekly Chinese Corners, held in collaboration with the Center for Chinese Studies. This has been opened up to not just UHM CHN and Chinese Flagship students of all levels but to the general public as well. We welcome all of our students to come to practice speaking Chinese while also helping promote Chinese language learning beyond our Manoa campus! Participants join breakout rooms to practice with fellow participants at similar levels. Our UH Chinese Flagship student ambassadors along with several native-speaking UH instructors as well as other Flagship program staff members will be there to share and engage with participants in Chinese. You should be sure to ask your individual CHN instructors regarding possible extra credit for attending. 

Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/98505344103
Meeting ID: 985 0534 4103
Passcode: 297276

zoom talk

Designing Engaging Instructional Materials: Creating Interactive Videos and Course Presentations Using H5P

presented by Dr. Naiyi Xie Fincham, CLT Assistant Faculty Specialist in Instructional Design

organized by the Center for Language & Technology (CLT)
Wednesday, February 23, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

H5P is a free platform that empowers instructors to create, share and reuse a variety of rich interactive content and experiences for online and hybrid courses. This session focuses on two H5P Interactive types: interactive video and interactive course presentation. Naiyi will demonstrate how they can be used to scaffold students’ interaction with video materials and course content with embedded activities for comprehension checks, different forms of assessments, and awareness-raising commentaries. She will also discuss specific features and settings offered by H5P that allow instructors to regulate and monitor students’ learning process in different ways.

Register at: http://go.hawaii.edu/DvV

zoom talk

Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders by Todd Miller

Wednesday, February 23, 12 - 1:15 pm

By the time Todd Miller spots him, Juan Carlos has been wandering alone in a remote border region for days. Parched, hungry and disoriented, he approaches and asks for a ride. Miller’s instinct is to oblige, but he hesitates: Furthering an unauthorized person’s entrance into the U.S. is a federal crime.

Todd Miller has been reporting from international border zones for over twenty-five years. In Build Bridges, Not Walls, he invites readers to join him on a journey that begins with the most basic of questions: What happens to our collective humanity when the impulse to help one another is criminalized?

A series of encounters-with climate refugees, members of indigenous communities, border authorities, modern-day abolitionists, scholars, visionaries, and the shape-shifting imagination of his four-year-old son-provoke a series of reflections on the ways in which nation-states create the problems that drive immigration, and how the abolition of borders could make the world a more sustainable, habitable place for all.

Registration bit.ly/toddmillerbridges

brown bag Biography talk

Memorializing Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask with M. Healani Sonoda-Pale

organized by the Center for Biographical Research

Thursday, February 24, 12 - 1:15 pm
 
This talk will explore the effects Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask has had on the collective political consciousness of her people struggling to break free from the charred chains of colonialism.
 
Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/95346181006
Meeting ID: 953 4618 1006
Password: 421123

zoom talk : brown bag lecture series

Defining EFL for non-English majors in higher education: Taking an assessment in a Freshman English writing course in a Japanese university as an example

organized by the Department of Second Language Studies 

Thursday, February 24, 12 - 1:15 pm 

Presenter: Dr. Tomoko Wada-Kowata, Associate Professor at Kogakuin University and UH Mānoa Second Language Studies visiting colleague

More information + Registration  http://go.hawaii.edu/ZTV
 

in-person Theatre performance

Hawai‘i Nō Ka ‘Oi: A Sakamoto Celebration by Program Director Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker

organized by the Kennedy Theatre and the Department of Theatre + Dance

February 24-27, 2022 

Showcasing selected scenes spanning the breadth of Edward Sakamoto’s career and guided by a variety of directors, this performance will stand as a testament to Sakamoto’s contribution to the local and world-wide theatre community. His plays uniquely feature stories from and about Hawai’i from a specifically Japanese-American point of view, depicting the highs and lows, the struggles and celebrations, and highlighting how culturally diverse the Hawaiian archipelago has become.

ADVISORY: Patrons ages 5 and up must show proof of completed COVID19 vaccination and comply with all UHM and Kennedy Theatre COVID19 prevention protocols including but not limited to wearing a CDC approved mask over the nose and mouth at all times inside Kennedy Theatre.

Tickets + More Info http://manoa.hawaii.edu/liveonstage/sakamoto/

ENTIRE SHOW RUN IS SOLD-OUT!!! The waitlist for any last minute cancellations/openings will start taking names 60 minutes prior to showtime each day at the Kennedy Theatre Box Office Window. In-person sign-ups only. First come, first served. Waitlist seating is not guaranteed.

symposium

Held in conjunction with "Hawai‘i nō ka ‘Oi: A Sakamoto Celebration"

organized by UHM Department of Theatre and Dance

Panel 1 : Asian American Theatre Artists: Representation, Social Change and Community Building
Sunday, February 27, 10 - 11:15 am (Register in advance) 

• Leilani Chan - Artistic Director, TeAda Productions, Los Angeles, CA

• Leslie Ishii - President, Consortium of Asian American Theater Artists and Artistic Director, Perseverance Theatre, Juno, Alaska

• Joan Osato - Managing Director, Youth Speaks / The Living Word Project, San Francisco, CA

• kt shorb - Vice President, Consortium of Asian American Theater Artists and Assistant Professor, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA

• Ryan I. Kaha‘i‘ōlelo Sueoka - Interim Managing Director, Consortium of Asian American Theater Artists, Mō‘ili‘ili, O‘ahu

• Roger Tang - Executive Director, Pork Filled Productions, Seattle, WA 

Panel 2 : The Contributions and Impact of Playwright Edward Sakamoto
Sunday, February 27, 11:30 am - 12:45 pm (Register in advance)

• Sammie Choy - Scholar/Director and Lecturer, Kapi‘olani Community College

• Dennis Ihara - Retired Attorney, Actor, Author, Playwright

• Taurie Kinoshita - Director/Playwright and Lecturer, Windward Community College

• Stephanie Keiko Kong - Performer/Playwright

• Justina Mattos - Assistant Professor, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo

• Harry Wong III - Artistic Director, Kumu Kahua Theatre

Panel 3 : Directing Sakamoto: Directors' Perspectives and Production Processes 
Sunday, February 27, 5 - 6:15 pm (Register in Advance)

• Ron Heller

• Maggie Ivanova

• Ākea Kahikina

• Kaipulaumakaniolono

• Iāsona Kaper

• Marguerite Saxon

• Robert Torigoe

speaker series

Spring 2022 LLEA Speaker Series Historical and Cultural Intersections

organized by Anastasia Kostetskaya, Department of LLEA
 
Friday, February 25, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
 
Spring 2022 LLEA Speaker Series Historical and Cultural Intersections feature talks by scholars working at the intersections between cultures across time and space. Dr Yulia Uryadova, an associate professor of History at Longwood University, VA, will present on “Prostitution, Alcoholism, and Drugs: Social disorder in Central Asia (a case of imperial Ferghana).” Her talk examines the rise of these social problems in the heartland of Central Asia, the Ferghana Valley, from 1905 to 1914, and the political issues it ensued. 
 
More Info https://manoa.hawaii.edu/llea/llea-speaker-series/

UH Bands Spring Concert 

Sunday, February 27, 4 pm
Moanalua High School Performing Arts Center 2825 Ala Ilima Street

UH Wind Ensemble
Jeffrey Boeckman, conductor
 
Shafer Mahoney - Sparkle
Frigyes Hidas - Flute Concerto No. 2 (Ellie Lundberg, flute) 
Cindy McTee - Transmission (Alan Evans, graduate conductor)
Amanda Aldridge - On Parade 
Omar Thomas - Of Our New Day Begun
 
UH Symphonic Band
Adam Kehl, conductor
 
Omar Thomas - A Mother of a Revolution! 
Wallingford Riegger -Dance Rhythms
Omar Thomas - Shenandoah
Erika Svanoe - Steampunk Suite 
 
All attendees (exception, children under the age of 5) must provide proof of full vaccination OR a negative COVID-19 test from a state approved facility (dated no later than Tuesday, February 22 for PCR tests and no later than Friday, February 25 for antigen tests). All attendees must wear face masks the entire time they are in the Moanalua High School Performing Arts Center. Seating will be open. Groups and individuals are asked to sit at least one seat apart.
 
Free admission
Pre-registration + More Info

art exhibition

Ken Okiishi: A Model Childhood 

organized by the Department of Art & Art History 

The Art Gallery, Art Building [map]
through April 10, 2022 
Gallery Hours: Sunday – Thursday 12 – 4pm

The exhibition focuses on ruptures and paradigm shifts that destroy not only continuity in living one’s life, but the ability to think in coherent streams of thought, and conjectures that these modes of dis-formation are important central dis-organizing principles of writing American history. In A Model Childhood, Okiishi approaches history through the lens of family and oral history, bringing both an intimacy and complexity to official narratives of the time period. Immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Okiishi’s grandfather, following a frantic phone call from his brother, whose house had just been searched by the Honolulu police looking for connections to Japan, decided to suddenly unload all traces of the family’s Japanese possessions by dumping them into Māmala Bay. This leitmotif of American identity formation haunts what ensues. MORE

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

art exhibition

2022 Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidate Exhibitions

organized by the Department of Art & Art History
 

Commons Gallery, Art Building
Sunday – Thursday, 12 – 4 pm

Jake Everett: Liminal Matter
Sunday, February 13 – Thursday, February 24

Liminal Matter investigates the industrial landscape as a permanent state of liminality. Broken down into three main bodies—The Doors of Separation, The Limen, and The Vehicles of Initiation—the exhibition is physically characterized by discarded matter that facilitates a rite of passage for the material, the artist, and the viewer.

The artist’s studio overlooks a loading dock, an environment in flux where materials come and go. The exhibition interprets discarded material and objects as liminal matter; no longer serving their previous existence as commodities, they possess an ambiguous identity that hovers between form and intended function. 

Helena Noordhoff: Realphantasie

Sunday, February 27 – Thursday, March 10, 2022

Realphantasie features frosted Mylar and acrylic ink monoprint inkblots, zines, and an original audio score. Perceptions of inkblots vary among individuals; in order for the viewer to find a connection or a moment beyond the surface, they engage with the abstract images to recognize images and shapes. The zines, consisting of collections of drawings and writings, summon further consideration from the viewer. An audio composition imagines the sounds of anxiety and its fluctuations. Collectively, these works ask the viewer to engage with, perceive, and contemplate the unconscious mind and mental health, thus inviting the development of empathy.

Upcoming
Sadaf Naeem: Sunday, March 20 – Thursday, March 31
Makenzie Davis: Sunday, April 3 – Thursday, April 14
Nathan Talamantez : Sunday, April 17 – Thursday, April 28 

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