CALL is scheduled to undergo a comprehensive program review from April 12-14, 2022. Six invited external reviewers will spend two days with different CALL focus groups meeting with chairs, directors, faculty, staff, and students, followed by an Exit Report meeting on April 14. Some meetings are only in person and others are in-person and via ZOOM. We invite you to participate to share your perspective at the relevant focus group meetings. 

For More Information (FAQs, Reviewer Profiles, Submitted Material, Overall Schedule, Focus Group Meetings, ZOOM links, and Exit Report)

online Dissertation defense

Monstrous Wives, Murderous Lovers, and Dead Wet Girls: Examining the Feminine Vengeful Ghost in Japanese Traditional Theatre and Horror Cinema 

organized by the Department of Theatre + Dance

presented by Jennifer Yoo, PhD Candidate in Asian Theatre

Tuesday, April 5, 1 – 3 pm

Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/99489408316
Meeting ID: 994 8940 8316
Passcode: onryo 

Chinese Corner

organized by the Chinese Language Flagship

 
Tuesday, April 5 (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

online panel

Gender Inclusive Language Across Languages

organized by the Avant Assessment and the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
 
Wednesday, April 6, 12 - 1 pm
 
Currently, gender-inclusive and gender-neutral language is being discussed by teachers K-16+ and others. Avant Assessment and the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) have assembled a dynamic panel of educators for a webinar seeking to contribute to the discussion of attitudes, experiences, and strategies towards gender-inclusive language in the US classrooms and beyond. Multiple languages will be represented including French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. Language educators from any language are invited to attend.
 
REGISTER

talk

Interconnectivity of Southeast Asia Visualized through Historical GIS Mapping

organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Speaker: Dr. David Blundell (Ph.D. Anthropology, UCLA; Professor Emeritus, National Chengchi University) 

Wednesday, April 6, 2 – 3 pm  
 
This presentation illustrates ways to facilitate configuring historical data with geospatial tools featuring Southeast Asian research utilizing geographic information systems (GIS) point locations of ancient trade routes and religious sites of the region linked to enriched spatial information. The project interacts with various research fields, and integrates many different types of data and analytical styles developing enhanced research methodologies that have possibilities of creating paradigm shifts and multi-vocal views in the humanities and social sciences. The research has found that sea ports are orientated with mountain peaks serving as navigational points of reference. 3D mapping has provided new guidance for developing the best practice standards applied to databases giving interactive multimedia utility aspects. This has allowed uniting the context of landscapes with cultural and language data components for making new possibilities in spatial humanities for local community and scholarly exchange.
 
Registration + More info

in-person and zoom talk

Recognized Forests: The Political Ecologies of Land Returns

organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Department of Geography and Environment

Speaker: Dr. Micah Fisher (Fellow, East-West Center, Research Program)
Saunders 443 and on Zoom
 
Thursday, April 7, 12 – 1pm
 
In the face of immense deforestation and dispossession in tropical forest countries, social movements have succeeded in establishing mechanisms for securing land rights for local and Indigenous Peoples. Recognizing local rights to forests are framed not only in terms of environmental justice, but increasingly as a broader solution for climate change. Engaging with longstanding debates around land grabbing, this research examines the mechanisms, processes, and outcomes of land returns in Indonesia. The presentation will highlight not only the formal mechanisms for securing land rights and forest tenure, but also centers understanding of any initiative for land rights recognition through the lens of local livelihoods and ecologies.

Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/97698324908
Passcode: Lecture
More info

brown bag Biography balk

Trouble Enough’: Enslaved Women’s Testimony as an Ethics of Care with Elizabeth Colwill

organized by the Center for Biographical Research

Thursday, April 7, 12 - 1:15 pm
 
In 1793, in the heat of revolution in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), a handful of women of African descent testified before government officials about brutal acts committed by a slaveholder couple in the colonial city of Cap français. In this talk, Colwill will draw upon Christina Sharpe's work on Black survival, improvisation, and an "ethics of care" to think through the implications of these radical, eighteenth-century acts of witness, preserved in rare archival documents.
 
Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/91927577192
Meeting ID: 919 2757 7192
Password: 208236

live webinar

Engaging with Public Scholarship: Idea Sharing for Knowledge Mobilization by Dr. Ryuko Kubota, Professor, University of British Columbia

organized and hosted by Multiʻōlelo with support from the Department of Second Language Studies

Thursday, April 7, 12 noon

More information/registration: https://tiny.cc/alupuz

talk series
EALL Talk Series Student Colloquium

organized by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature

 
Thursday, April 7, 12 – 1:30 pm
 
The Chinese section has four Ph.D. graduate students who are going to make their presentations at the National Chinese Teachers' Association Annual Conference, to be held on April 6-10. The Chinese section organizes a special EALL Talk session for the four students to present their papers to the department audience and receive some feedback. Professor Haidan Wang will be the moderator. 
 
Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/91623214249
Meeting ID: 916 2321 4249
Passcode: eall

online colloquium

English Represents! Undergraduate Showcase

organized by the Department of English
 
Thursday, April 7, 3 - 4:30 pm
 
Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/93959194850?pwd=SjF3MVduVVJQejd3VnEzZ1FobmN4Zz09
Meeting ID: 939 5919 4850
Passcode: 236190

zoom talk

Japan's Sweet Manifest Destiny: Sugar, Japan, and the Asia-Pacific with Vicky Shen, PhD candidate, University of Pittsburgh

organized by the Department of History
 
Thursday, April 7, 4 pm
 
Vicky Shen will discuss her dissertation project exploring Japanese expansion into the Asia-Pacific through its sugar industry. The talk will consider the technological and biological transfers among Japan, the U S, and the Territory of Hawai'i, which were indispensable in building an industrialized sugar industry. What were the relationships among the Japanese imperial state and both ecologies and peoples in the Pacific?
 
Contact Peter H Hoffenberg at peterh@hawai.edu for Zoom link

zoom talk

The Lost Valley of the Crescent Moon: 30 years of research in Petra

sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America and UHM Sidney Stern Foundation   
 
Thursday, April 7, 7 pm
 
In a visually stunning presentation, Professor Thomas Paradise (University of Arkansas) will discuss his thirty years of research in the magical ruined city of Petra, Jordan. Coming from a diverse background in geology, materials conservation, climatology, and architecture, Paradise will address his work in the Valley of Petra since 1990 discussing the melding of the geosciences, cultural heritage management, history, architecture, and politics that have driven his research.  From understanding deterioration of 2,000-year-old sandstone structures, effects of tourism at this UNESCO site, to new findings on architectural alignments to the Sun, many answers to haunting questions regarding Petra will be examined.  Professor has been involved with the writing and filming of eight (8) international TV specials (i.e. NatGeo, Smithsonian, Discovery, PBS Nova) on Petra as well and will discuss his research in these television specials.
 
Zoom: https://HAWAII.ZOOM.US/J/97481890495
Meeting ID: 974 8189 0495
Image name: Petra Archaeology.png
 
Hold the date for in-person events:
April 27, Nicholas Warner, CAIRO "Conserving Cairo 1882-2022"  
April 28, Salima Ikram:  Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt

free guest talk

Contemporary Asian American Theatre presented by Dr. Sammie Choy

organized by the Department of Theatre + Dance
 
Friday, April 8, 10:30 - 11:20 am
 
Dr. Sammie Choy has educational, community, and professional experience as an actor, director, and teacher, as well as a BFA, MFA, and Ph.D in theater. After working as an in addition to teaching at Kapi‘olani Community College and UH Mānoa, she has been a co-director/co-producer for public radio show Aloha Shorts and director/co-producer for the Hawai‘i Pono‘ī Coalition.  The living history plays she has directed for the past 11 years were all written by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, with another currently in development. Made possible through funding from the Edward A. “Skeep” Langhans Guest Artist/Scholar Award for THEA 412 

Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/91715022293
Meeting ID: 917 1502 2293  
Passcode: 412

in-person and online colloquium

Fatigue, Sleep and Insomnia, a colloquium presentation by Dr. Arindam Chakrabarti 

organized by the Department of Philosophy
 
Friday, April 8, 2:30 pm
Room POST 126

Chinese Culture Day 2022

sponsored by the Chinese Language Flagship and the Center for Chinese Studies
 
Friday, April 8, 9 am - 1:30 pm
Biomed Building D Court
 
 
This is a great opportunity for those studying or are interested in Chinese language and culture. Get a glimpse of the Chinese way of life with hundreds of UH students and visitors from the communities who will be attending this special event. Come and join us for fun and educational activities to experience diverse aspects of Chinese culture.
 

in-person seminar
Projects I Finally Have Time For : Seminar by Robert Huey, retired UHM Professor of Japanese Literature
 
Monday, April 11, 12 pm
Moore Hall 258
 
"I am going to talk about my future, rather than my past, and tell you a little about five projects that have been waiting for my full attention: a book on Japanese writing in the Ryukyu Kingdom; a joint research project with a Japanese research team looking at the classical literature revival in Edo Japan; editing the English database for the Sakamaki-Hawley Collection; and volunteer work for the Honolulu Museum of Art. One more project stands apart as something I would never have imagined getting involved in but am now fully committed to transcribing and translating poems in classical Japanese written by an internee at the Topaz Internment Camp during World War II. In this presentation, I will explain these projects in more detail, and perhaps by talking about them publicly, I can spur myself to actually finish some of them!" Robert Huey

zoom forum

Romani Resistance in Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp Complex with Dr. Justyna Matkowska, Fellow, U S Holocaust Memorial Museum

organized by History Department
 
Thursday, April 14, 4 pm
 
Matkowska will share her scholarship on Roma and Sinti resistance and escape attempts at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp complex in Poland. Dr. Matkowska's research includes genocide and resistance in Roma and Sinti histories, as well as race, ethnicity, memory and representation.
 
Contact Peter H Hoffenberg peterh@hawaii.edu for Zoom link

live in-person Theatre performance

Hoʻoilina, written and directed by MFA Candidate Ākea Kahikina

organized by Kennedy Theatre and the Department of Theatre + Dance  

April 15,16*, 22, 23*, 24
Friday/Saturday, 7:30 pm
Sunday, 2 pm
*Pre-show event prior to saturday performances
 
Set in a pre-pandemic Hawai‘i upon the luxurious slopes of Lēʻahi, Hoʻoilina is a farcical hana keaka that knocks on the door of a Kanaka Maoli family anxiously poised for a will reading that will determine the fate of a huge inheritance from their beloved matriarch.  Just as the will is about to be read, a quirky stranger appears at the door, claiming her right to the hefty endowment. As chaos ensues, family secrets are revealed, causing the family to question their own relationships, identity, and future as Kanaka while being insidiously constricted by the pressures of capitalism and cultural loss. Hoʻoilina is a hana keaka (Hawaiian theatre) production performed in ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i (Hawaiian language), Pidgin, ʻōlelo māhū (Māhū language), and English. Tickets range from $5-$25.

More info + tickets: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/liveonstage/hooilina/

live in-person Theatre performance

Keep It Brief...A Festival of Short Works

organized by the Late Night Theatre Company, Kennedy Theatre, and the Department of Theatre + Dance
 
April 16-17 & 23-24
Saturday, 11 pm
Sunday, 7:30 pm
 
This Late Night Theatre Company production showcases the creative works directed by UH Mānoa students, including short 10-minute plays, scenes from larger works, devised works, original songs, and dance pieces. Tickets range from $5-$15.
 
More info: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/liveonstage/kib/

speaker series

Historical and Cultural Intersections

organized by the Department of LLEA
 
Friday, April 22, 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. Professor Peter Arnade’s talk “Einbürgerung, or How I became a German Jew” recounts his recent undertaking as a historian to document the Arnade family’s atypical Holocaust story when family papers and other memorabilia came into his possession.
 
MORE INFO https://manoa.hawaii.edu/llea/llea-speaker-series/

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

Makenzie Davis: Deep Time

Sunday, April 3 – Thursday, April 14
 
Deep Time by Makenzie Davis uses paint and handmade paper pulp to envision an environment where geologic deep time is observed in mythology, mo‘olelo, and memory. The installation consists of a monumental twenty-four-foot-long painting on paper that suggests landscapes. Five sculptural paper columns refer to both the notion of axis mundi, and contemporary phenomena like lava trees and urban utility poles. Each component emphasizes a geologic perspective that fosters a sense of deep time within the human experience.
 

Upcoming 

Nathan Talamantez : Sunday, April 17 – Thursday, April 28 MORE

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