in-person MFA thesis presentation and defense

JoyMobile Jumblies by MFA TYA Candidate Jessica Israel

organized by the Department of Theatre + Dance
 
Tuesday, April 26, 3 pm
Kennedy Theatre - Room 101

virtual lecture

Soto, Communications Officer of the Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities

co-sponsored by the Mānoa Center for the Humanities and Civic Engagement and the Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship
 
Tuesday, April 26, 5:30 pm
 
Lyz Soto was born on the Hāmākua coast on the island of Hawaiʻi and raised on Maui and Oʻahu. She was the Executive Director of Youth Speaks Hawaiʻi and Pacific Tongues for more than ten years—teaching spoken word and poetry to youth in Hawaiʻi, Aotearoa, Papua New Guinea, and the Marshall Islands. Lyz worked in construction for nearly twenty years and has also taught 20th century American poetry, spoken word, and Pacific Island literature for more than ten years. She is a published poet, acclaimed performer, dramaturg and theater director. She has her PhD in English from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Register

webinar book launch

Doing What You Really Want: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mengzi

organized by the Center for Chinese Studies
 
Wednesday, April 27, 1 - 2:30 pm
 
The Center for Chinese Studies introduces a new Book by Professor Franklin Perkins along with a Faculty Dialogue. For more than two thousand years, the writings of the Confucian philosopher Mengzi have been a source of guidance and inspiration for those set on doing something to improve the state of the world. Doing What You Really Want: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mengzi presents a coherent, systematic, and accessible explanation of Mengzi's philosophy. The book covers everything from the place of human beings in nature to human psychology and philosophy of emotions to the various ways in which we can deliberately change and cultivate ourselves. Mengzi was concerned not just with theory but also effective action. Perkins thus includes a collection of practical advice and a Confucian analysis of politics-oriented toward how individuals can make a difference in the world.
 
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in-person/zoom hybrid dance workshop

Ori Tahiti Workshop 

Department of Theatre + Dance, Tahiti Mana - Moananuiākea Artists-in-Residency 
 
Wednesday, April 27, 6 – 8 pm
 
Tahiti Mana was founded in 2011 by Manarii & Nalini but has become the vibrant dance family it is today because of all the talented and passionate individuals who share the love for Tahitian dance and culture. Manarii Gauthier is the Founder & Ra'atira (Director) of Tahiti Mana. He is also the Tane (Male) Choreographer and Dance Instructor as well as lead Musician. Manarii, born and raised in Tahiti, was immersed in 'Ori Tahiti from birth. Nalini Gauthier is the Co-Founder of Tahiti Mana, as well as the Creative Director, Costume Designer and Vahine (Female) Choreographer and Dance Instructor. Besides over 20 years of Tahitian & Polynesian dance experience, she has been blessed to be able to tour Japan performing and has taught workshops in New Zealand, Japan, mainland US as well as around the Hawaiian islands. 
 
Dance Building Studio, 3052-3198 Maile Way
Zoom/Registration

Conserving Cairo 1882-2022

Sponsored by the School of Architecture, Classics, Undergraduate Islamic Certificate, (UH); Sidny Stern Memorial Fund, AIA-Hawaii
 
Speaker: Nicholas Warner, American Research Center of Egypt

Wednesday April 27, 7:30 pm

Art Auditorium, UH Art Building 
 
This lecture offers a retrospective view of the history of architectural conservation in Cairo. Blessed, or perhaps cursed, with an astonishing number and variety of historic structures, Cairo has served as a physical laboratory for different conservation approaches from the time of the foundation of the ‘Committee for the Conservation of Monuments of Arab Art’ in 1882 until the present. This lecture addresses many of these approaches ranging from honest repair to ‘Disneyesque’ fabrication,and looks behind them to motivations that vary from the aesthetic to the commercial. The presentation concludes with a personal project at the Gayer-Anderson /Bayt al-Kritliyya Museum next to the Mosque of Ibn Tulun.
 
Masks and Vaccination Required / Information: littman@hawaii.edu

Poetry reading

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Creative Writing Fellow Lawrence Ypil

organized by the Creative Writing Program and The Department of English
 
Thursday, April 28, 3 - 4:30 pm
 
Lawrence Lacambra Ypil is an award-winning poet and essayist whose work explores the intersection of text and image, and the role of material culture in the construction of cultural identity.In 2020, he was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and on the longlist for The Believer Book Awards for The Experiment of the Tropics, the winner of the inaugural Gaudy Boy Book Prize. Lawrence has received MFAs from Washington University in St. Louis and from the Nonfiction Writing Program of the University of Iowa. He teaches creative writing at Yale-NUS College.

Zoom / ID: 939 5919 4850 / Passcode: 236190

panel presentation and discussion

Accountability for War Crimes: WWII Cases in Europe and Asia/Pacific

Co-sponsored by the History Forum at the Department of History and the War Crimes Documentation Initiative (WCDI) at Hamilton Library
 
Thursday, April 28, 4 - 5:15 pm
 
This panel showcases significant research pieces that have arisen from the UHM history graduate program in AY 2021-2022. Peter Bushell's “The Charge of Command Responsibility” sheds light on divergent ways in which the U.S. authorities pursued the accountability of members of the Axis Powers’ armed forces for war crimes following the end of World War II. By making a systematic inquiry into the records of the Yamashita and Honma Trials at the U.S. military commission at Manila in 1945-1946 and the Hostage and High Command Cases at the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (“NMT”) in 1947-1948, this paper assesses the promises and missed opportunities of the post-WWII American justice initiatives. Zi Ye's “The Early Institutionalization of Military Comfort Women” delves into a wealth of Japanese-language primary sources to piece together the historical formation of the Japanese military sexual slavery in the initial years of the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945). This paper brings to light the vital role played by the pre-existing Japanese human trafficking networks, law enforcement authorities, and bureaucratic officials in developing the practical methods of recruiting, transporting, and receiving women for sex at the Japanese military comfort stations in the China theater. 
 
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webinar series

Squaring the languag.e.ing circle: language-independent literacy models overcoming the dichotomy between language-based and languaging literacies

organized by Multiʻōlelo

Thursday, April 28, 7 pm
 
Friederike Lüpke, Professor of African Studies at the University of Helsinki and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London.  More Information + Registration

Adventures with Animal Mummies

Sponsored by the Classics (LLEA), (UH), AIA-Hawaii Sidny Stern Memorial Fund

Speaker: Salima Ikram, American University of Cairo

Thursday, April 28, 7:30 pm

Art Auditorium, UH Art Building 

The relationship between humans and animals has always been complex with mutual dependencies that are practical, psychological, and even theological. Ancient Egyptian animal mummies are a particular manifestation of this complex web of inter-relations. This lecture presents the different types of animal mummies (food, pets, votive offerings, sacred creatures, and ‘other’) and explains how and why they were made, the theological and aesthetic decisions that went into their 'packaging', what each type meant to the ancient Egyptians, and how they reflect the ways in which the Egyptians interacted with the animal world, and how even today they influence our view of the ancient Egyptians and influence contemporary thought and art.
 
Masks and Vaccination Required / Information: littman@hawaii.edu

online PhD dissertation defense

Contemporary Sagi kyŌgen by PhD Candidate Alex Rogals

organized by the Department of Theatre + Dance
 
Friday, April 29, 12 noon – 2 pm

Zoom / Password: 594800

in-person colloquium

Falsity and the "Paradox of Elimination" in Advaita Vedānta

organized by the Philosophy Department Colloquium Series

Presentation by Emma Irwin-Herzog, Winner of the 2022 Eliot Deutsch PhD Merit Award
 
Friday, April 29, 2:30 pm
Room POST 126

in-person Theatre auditions

Joint Auditions for Fall '22 Prime Time Shows

organized by the Department of Theatre + Dance
 
Saturday, April 30 & Sunday, May 1
 
One Audition for two shows: Chinee, Japanee, All Mix Up and Memorial Day. UHM students are given priority in casting. This includes incoming students who will be registered for the Fall 2022 semester.  Per departmental casting policy, “other UH system students, faculty, and staff are also welcome to audition.” Community members may audition.
 
More information about the shows, rehearsal & performance dates, and link to fill out the Audition google form: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/liveonstage/f22jointaudition/

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

final MFA thesis exhibition of 2021/2022

Nathan Talamantez: Reflection

organized by the Department of Art & Art History

Sunday, April 17 – Thursday, April 28
Commons Gallery, ART Building

Nathan Talamantez collects and alters vintage photos. Reflection delves into the interconnectedness of the past and the present moment to ask the viewer if photographs might be actual pieces of memory. This body of work challenges the binaries we continually construct and reconstruct between self and other, and between our own past and present selves. Such reconstruction is performed by contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience.

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