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CALL WEEKLY (3-14-2022)

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zoom lecture

The Heart of the Matter: The Chaplain’s Relevance In Our Healthcare System

organized by the Department of Religion
 
Tuesday, March 15, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
 
A Religion in the Community lecture by Laura Ritter, Chaplain at United Healthcare. Through a series of vignettes based on her interactions with patients, physicians, and family members, Ms. Ritter will illustrate how the human realities of mortality, loss and persistence propel us toward unexpected encounters with our deepest held beliefs and values.

Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/93537163440 
Meeting ID: 935 3716 3440 
Passcode: 113214

conference

Empires in Motion: Colonial Diasporas & Cultural Production in the Shadow of the Japanese Empire

organized by the Empire Studies Initiative and Zainichi Literary Studies Consortium

Empires in Motion is a 3-day conference taking place at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa from March 21-23rd. Through panels, screenings, poetry readings, and workshops, the event will explore the literary and cultural production of diasporic populations displaced across the Asia-Pacific by the Japanese colonial empire and postcolonial Cold War structures, with special attention to the legacies of Korea-Japan entanglements. Please join a group of visiting scholars and artists for this series of events, including a keynote and reading by zainichi Korean poet Zhong Zhang (3/21), a discussion of the comfort women controversy with screening of the documentary Shusenjo (3/22), panels on the cultures of colonial migration and zainichi Korean fiction and film (3/21, 3/23), and a special conversation with Soo Hugh, showrunner of the upcoming Apple TV+ series Pachinko (3/22).
 
Register today at empiresinmotion.com

zoom talk

Netherlands New Guinea, 1949-1962: A Civilizing Mission in the Era of Decolonization

Co-organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Center for Pacific Islands Studies
 
Monday, March 21, 12 - 1 pm
 
Although the “standard of civilization” had largely fallen out of favor in the postwar period, conceptions of “civilization” colored political campaigns regarding West Papua, or the Netherlands New Guinea (NNG), as the Dutch then referred to it, particularly in its efforts to retain the territory following the independence of Indonesia.  This talk presents the Netherlands’ evolving “civilizing mission” and its campaigns to gain international support for its continued possession of the NNG after 1949.  The talk refers to Dutch sources from the period that address its efforts to colonize the territory against the prevailing trend of decolonization, and how this undermined West Papua’s prospects for self-determination.
 
Registration: https://hawaii.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AgG-Go9aSwuGL2e6Ad44Bw
More info: https://www.cseashawaii.org/events/netherlands-new-guinea-1949-1962-a-civilizing-mission-in-the-era-of-decolonization-external-inbox/

talk

Particulate Matters: A Political Ecology of Seasonal Air Pollution in Northern Thailand

co-organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Department of Geography and Environment, and Political Ecology Working Group

Speakers: Olivier Évrard (French Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) and Mary Mostafanezhad (Department of Geography and Environment, UHM)
 
Tuesday, March 22, 12:15 - 1:15 pm
Location: Saunders 443 and on Zoom (hybrid)
 
Based on ethnographic research in northern Thailand, we conceptualize air pollution as a (trans)boundary object that is flexibly interpreted through a range of historical and contemporary socialities that validate differential constructions of knowledge. Situated within broader regional agrarian transitions, we draw on mixed ethnographic, archival, and geospatial methods to examine the chronopolitics of seasonal air pollution and by what mechanisms such pollution comes to be constituted as a crisis. This presentation contributes to broader questions of how particulate matter matters differently within and between social groups as well as scholarship that accounts for the sociality of environmental change.
 
Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/97698324908 (Passcode: Lecture)
More info: https://www.cseashawaii.org/events/particulate-matters-a-political-ecology-of-seasonal-air-pollution-in-northern-thailand/

virtual event

Hoʻokaiāulu is a speaker series focused on the Public Humanities in the Pacific

Co-sponsored by the Mānoa Center for the Humanities and Civic Engagement and the Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship.
 
Wednesday, March 23, 10:30 am

Kelsey Amos is the Co-Founder and COO of Purple Maiʻa Foundation. She is a writer, non-profit professional, and entrepreneur. She has a PhD in English from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and is co-founder and COO of Purple Maiʻa Foundation. Kelsey grew up in Waipiʻo Uka and currently lives in Nuʻuanu with her partner, Jordan, and son, Marco. Her ancestors came from Japan, the British Isles, and France.
 
Register in advance: https://hawaii.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lDsRUzL7S8O8YrzM32goVQ

zoom talk

Revealing the Works of the “Cosmic Dancer”: Access to the Digitized Mitsuo Aoki Collections

 
Wednesday, March 23, 12 – 1 pm
 
Learn about the Mitsuo Aoki Collections and the work to preserve and make them accessible to the public. Demonstrations on how to access the digitized written papers of unpublished talks, sermons, articles, lectures and yet unseen videos of Rev. Aoki through the on-line portals of the University Archives of UH Mānoa and ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawaiʻi, UH-West O‘ahu.

 

Theologian, minister, college professor and founder of the UH Department of Religion for over sixty years the Rev. Dr. Aoki counseled and taught others how to experience death not merely as an end, but as a vital, inseparable part of life. A Living Treasure of Hawaiʻi, Aoki was instrumental in establishing Hospice Hawaiʻi and received their Lifetime Achievement Award and the national Jefferson Award for his exemplary career of religious and academic leadership and volunteer services to those experiencing terminal illness. 


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talk

Cambodia and the Maritime World in the Post-Angkorian Period (14th-18th Centuries)

co-organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Department of History

Speaker: Nhim Sotheavin (Researcher and Lecturer, Sophia University) 
 
Wednesday, March 23, 2 – 3 pm
Location: Agricultural Science 220 and on Zoom (hybrid)

The 15th to 19th century Cambodia is often referred to as the “Dark Age” owing largely to the paucity of documents and the collapse of Angkor political power followed by the steady decline of Cambodia. This talk uses East Asian documents relative to Cambodia, and recent archaeological research in Angkor and post-Angkorian capitals to illustrate that Cambodia remained a power player in the South China Sea through the 17th -18th centuries. This talk outlines a brief historical timeline and sources relative to the post-Angkorian Cambodia and recent archeological findings from decade of collaborative research at the Banteay Kdei Temple (Angkor) and the post-Angkorian capital of Oudong (Phnom Penh).
 
Register: https://hawaii.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5ER5ElnzT8yLIoHDhkK3Dg
More info: https://www.cseashawaii.org/events/cambodia-and-the-maritime-world-in-the-post-angkorian-period-14th-18th-centuries/

talk

The contested production of property: State land and plantations in Laos

Co-organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Department of Geography and Environment, and Political Ecology Working Group

Speaker: Miles Kenney-Lazar (Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore)
 
Thursday, March 24, 12 – 1 pm
Location: Saunders 443 and on Zoom (hybrid)
 
This talk examines the property systems that underlie plantation expansion in Laos, which is linked to global processes of land grabbing. It focuses on the category of “state land”, which must be produced and carved out of a broader landscape, a process that is highly contested by rural communities. The talk is based upon long-term ethnographic research in southern Laos.
 
Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/97698324908 (Passcode: Lecture)
More info: https://www.cseashawaii.org/events/the-contested-production-of-property-state-land-and-plantations-in-laos/

zoom forum

Never Forget: Remembering the Armenian Genocide 107 Years Later

organized by the Department of History
 
Thursday, March 24, 4 pm
 
Annika Topelian, PhD Candidate in the UHM Department of Linguistics, will discuss the events leading up to the Armenian Genocide, the catastrophe itself, and some of the many legacies and impacts for the survivors and their descendants. What does it now mean to officially recognize these massacres as "Genocide?"
 
Please contact Prof. Peter H Hoffenber at peterh@hawaii.edu for the Zoom link

live in-person Dance performance
organized by the Kennedy Theatre and the Department of Theatre + Dance
 

Co-Motion: BLUE
 

Friday, March 25, 2 pm & 7:30 pm*
Saturday, March 26, 2 pm

*Post-show Rap (Q&A) follows the 7:30 pm performance
Concert Directors Betsy Fisher & Lorenzo Perillo
 
Featuring original choreography by: Kayla Eisenberg (BFA Sr. Project), Greta Pearse (MFA thesis), Dulcinea Sabin (BFA Sr. Project), Erika Sanchez (MFA thesis), and Katelyn Wyatt (MFA thesis). Two completely different dance concerts showcase the culmination of years of study and sweat by students in the Dance program. Co-Motion: Blue and Co-Motion: Green feature exemplary undergraduate and graduate student choreography as well as graduating BFA and MFA students’ culminating works in a variety of dance styles.
 

Co-Motion: GREEN

 
Saturday, March 26, 7:30 pm*
Sunday, March 27, 2 pm & 7:30 pm

*Post-show Rap (Q&A) follows the 7:30 pm performance
Concert Directors Betsy Fisher & Lorenzo Perillo
 
Featuring original choreography by: Holly Chung (MFA thesis), Carla Guajardo (MFA thesis), and Christianne Moss (BFA Sr. Project). Two completely different dance concerts showcase the culmination of years of study and sweat by students in the Dance program. Co-Motion: Blue and Co-Motion: Green feature exemplary undergraduate and graduate student choreography as well as graduating BFA and MFA students’ culminating works in a variety of dance styles.
 
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.
 
For more info and link to purchase tickets: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/liveonstage/comotion/

 

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

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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Faculty Opportunities

Call for Nominations 

Director of the Center for the Study of Human Language (CSHL) 


Call for nominations of faculty members within CALL to serve as Director of the newly-formed Center for the Study of Human Language (CSHL). We welcome self-nominations and nominations of colleagues, with their permission.  DETAILS

2021-22 Dean's Travel Awards are available for CALL faculty and staff. With fewer travel restrictions, now is a good time to plan your professional travel. Guidelines + Application

Summer Research Funding
The CALL UH Endowment for the Humanities 2022 Summer Research Awards application form is now available. Faculty seeking support for 2022 summer research projects that fall within a humanities discipline may apply. Maximum individual award is $4,000. Deadline: April 1, 2022

More Info http://go.hawaii.edu/VpY

Faculty & Student Opportunities

2022 Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference (PLL 2022): Teaching and Learning Interactional Pragmatics in a Digital World
organized by the National Foreign Language Resource Center (UHM) & Center for Applied Second Language Studies (University of Oregon)

September 12-14, 2022, online

We welcome a broad range of topics in pragmatics, discourse, interaction, and sociolinguistics in their relation to second and foreign language learning, education, and use, approached from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. We hope this conference brings together scholars and educators from all around the world who are interested in discussing both established and innovative approaches to teaching and learning pragmatics to strengthen our understanding of principles and practices in PLL and push the field to new and exciting directions in research and practice. Extended deadline: March 15, 2022

More Info https://bit.ly/PLL2022 

Student Opportunities

The Hawai'i Language Roadmap has an immediate opening for a student proficient in 'Olelo Hawai'i to serve as a Roadmap intern (short-term, paid internship). The successful applicant (graduate or undergraduate) will have at least some experience using his/her language ability in a workplace or community setting.  The intern will assist with the Roadmap's 5th annual Multilingual Career Development Day (MCDD) on Friday, April 1 from 8:15am - 3:00pm (to be held in the Campus Center Ballroom), and participate in training sessions prior to the event. Applicants must be available for the full duration of the event.  Interested students should submit a resume and cover letter indicating reasons for interest in this position to roadmap@hawaii.edu. Deadline: March 20, 11:59pm



The Hawai‘i Language Roadmap is sponsoring its second annual Multilingual PSA Contest for registered UH students. Students are invited to create a 30-second video that highlights how multilingual individuals make a difference in our communities. First and 2nd place winners will receive prizes of $150 and $75 dollars, respectively. Deadline Sunday, March 27, 11:59 pm (Guidelines)
 
Questions and More Info: hlrintrn@hawaii.edu + @roadmap



Global Opportunities Scholarship


The purpose of this Fund is to provide support to students in a study abroad and/or international exchange program at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Funds shall be used for costs associated with attendance (e.g. tuition, books, fees, etc.), and expenditures associated with study abroad and exchange (airfare, lodging, meals, etc.). The prospective recipient should also have been accepted into a qualified study abroad or international exchange program and intend to complete a full semester or academic-year-long program abroad. Students should apply via the STAR Scholarship site and use keywords "Global Opportunities Scholarship" to search for the scholarship. Deadline: April 1, 2022



Summer 2022 Library Treasures Scholarships
 
Scholarship Categories: 
    Individual projects – undergraduate: up to $1,000 per project
    Individual projects – graduate: up to $1,500 per project
 
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic that continues to impact our students’ lives, the University of Hawaiʻi Library at Mānoa is offering Summer 2022 Library Treasures Scholarships. The purpose of the scholarships is to promote the use of the library’s collections by our students and to raise awareness campus-wide about the educational values of the library’s unique holdings. Students in any discipline and at any level of study are invited to submit proposals of projects that involve the use of our library’s collections, and whose final outcomes will result in either research pieces or creative works. Deadline: April 29, 2022

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