organized by the Chinese Language Flagship Program
Monday, September 26, 3-4 PM
BioMed T111 (Flagship Center)
This biweekly session will focus on some popular Chinese slang terms and memes that circulate online. Questions? chnflag@hawaii.edu.
*Note: Basic conversational skills of Mandarin Chinese is required for the event.
lecture
The Current Situation in the Middle East
organized by the Department of History
Tuesday, September 27 at 7 pm
Sakamaki Hall A201
Ambassador Yossi Gal, former Director General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will discuss diplomacy and negotiations between Israel and Iran, the Palestinians, Jordan and the European Union. Where is the region headed in light of the recent Abraham Accords and the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran?
book talk
Conversations on The Wuhan Lockdown : Guobin Yang with Wei Zhang
organized by the Center for Chinese Studies
Wednesday, September 28, 12:00-1:30 pm
The lockdown of Wuhan in 2020 was the first of its kind in the COVID-19 global pandemic. Keenly aware of the unprecedented nature of this event, many residents in Wuhan took it upon themselves to document its history by recording their personal experiences and sharing them on social media. These acts of citizenship inspired the writing of The Wuhan Lockdown, a book that recounts the extraordinary stories of ordinary people in the first moments of the COVID pandemic. In this conversation, two sociologists discuss the themes of the book and its narrative strategies and explore the meanings of the history and memories of a global crisis that would define the age.
The speaker, Guobin Yang, is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of its Center on Digital Culture and Society. Wei Zhang is Professor and the Chair of UHM’s Department of Sociology. ZOOM REGISTRATION
"SAG/AFTRA Session on Commercial Acting"
with Adam Green
Adam Green is an organizer and strategist at SAG-AFTRA in the commercials department. Every year he schedules info sessions with BFA and MFA acting programs across the nation to talk about commercial acting and the commercial industry, as well as SAG-AFTRA and an overview of unions, and how young performers can protect themselves from exploitation, particularly in commercials (which, of course, is a very different beast than other mediums actors work in). Half of the session is a Q&A for the students—to ask Adam and one or two accomplished actors accompanying him anything related to commercials, unions, and beyond.
zoom lecture
Discussing Development
organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Wednesday, September 28, 3:00 - 4:30pm
In this segment of the Luce Southeast Asia in Transition Webinar Series, we will explore the story of Development from varied perspectives, putting local interactions with the development paradigm and the more-than-human world into a broad conversation. Picking up where the last series left off, exploring through film the Mekong River as a living entity, we have invited speakers who talk about, engage with, and experience Development through relationships with the dead, with invisible entities in the land, and with the living world of fish, frogs, rice, and trees. We will hear about development from people who share different perspectives upon and experiences with these matters. Our speakers include academic, practitioner, and local voices, and the conversations will reveal what Development looks like from a mix of viewpoints and social positions. MORE INFO + ZOOM REGISTRATION
Brown Bag Biography Talk
Peeking Behind the Curtains at Catherine the Great: Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century with Ruth Dawson
organized by the Center for Biographical Research
Moderated by Lurana Donnels O'Malley
Thursday, September 29 at 12 to 1:15 pm
Biomed B-104 & Zoom
How, in the 21st century, to peek behind the curtains of the woman who overthrew her husband and became Russia's 18th-century tsar and an international celebrity outside her empire's borders? The first steps required in-person visits and corresponding adventures to locate artifacts of Catherine's reception among ordinary people, including the least skilled prints of her, the full range of newspaper accounts, and many now obscure biographies.
Thursday October 6, 3: 00 pm
Kuykendall Hall, room 410
Joseph Han received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the UH Mānoa Department of English. Set in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, a Korean American family living in Hawai'i faces the fallout of their eldest son's attempt to run across the Demilitarized Zone into North Korea in this "fresh, inventive, and at times, hilarious novel" (Kaui Hart Hemmings, author of The Descendants)
Joseph Han was born in Korea and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. His writing has appeared the New York Times Magazine, Lit Hub, Catapult, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. A recipient of a Kundiman Fellowship in Fiction. Currently, he’s an affiliate fiction faculty at the Antioch University Los Angeles low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program.
Hanʻs debut novel, Nuclear Family, which was released in June, was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and a 2022 National Book Foundation 5 under 35 Honoree.
performance
Memorial Day
Presented by the Department of Theatre & Dance and Kennedy Theatre
Written by Paul Donnelly
Directed by MFA Candidate Ron Heller
October 19-23, 2022
WED-SAT 7:30pm - SUN 2:00pm
It’s 1992. AIDS and anti-gay hysteria are rampant. George is a doctor who has been watching his patients die. As a gay man himself, he understands the stigma and discrimination they face. How does he deal with the cold hard fact that he cannot offer them any effective treatment? When Evelyn, a drag queen who died years earlier, appears, is it a hallucination or is she an angel of mercy? Playwright Paul Donnelly mixes empathy with unsettling humor to deal with a difficult question – when a generation of young men is dying, and there is nothing you can do to stop it, how do you deal with that pain?
Content Advisory: mature themes. Not recommended for children.
A post-show Q&A follows the Friday, October 21, 2022 performance.
This is the first production of Memorial Day in Hawai’i.
Performed and Choreographed by Betsy Fisher
Dance Building Studio
Saturday, October 22, 7:30pm
Betsy Fisher has been on the UHM Dance faculty since 1994 and offers this program with
gratitude to the many dance students she’s worked with over the years. Donations will be accepted for Friends of Dance.
Opportunities
The Writing Center at Mānoa now Offers Workshops!
The Writing Center (Kuykendall 411) supports writing and research by offering one-to-one and online, collaborative writing consultations free of charge to all students, faculty, and staff affiliated with UHM. Our writing consultants are trained to help writers working in different disciplines at every stage of the writing process and with various writing projects—essays, research papers, personal statements, resumes, letters, creative work.
You can bring in drafts or just your ideas. The Writing Center is a pedagogical space that
supports an active research agenda, where writers gather and our consultants learn about working collaboratively with individual writers and foundational theories for teaching composition. MORE INFO / SCHEDULE A CONSULTATION
The Writing Center is only a click away: log in to MyUH, search for Writing Center, then click the orange heart emoji.
Facilitates the implementation of diversity initiatives through a variety of projects that make a concerted effort to meet the core value of the University of Hawaii system goal for diversity. SEED deadline is October 7, 2022 at 4:30pm but if the applicant is a department of faculty member, the CALL fiscal Office staff needs to receive your application at least one week prior.
call for proposals
8th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC 8)
organized by the Department of Linguistics & National Foreign Language Resource Center
Proposals deadline: October 2, 2022
Virtual conference: March 2-5, 2023
The theme for the 8th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC 8) is Centering Justice in Language Work. We welcome your proposals on Indigenous languages, which address the theme or other important topics within the field of language documentation and reclamation.
The conference program will feature Keynote presentations, Talk Story and Workshop sessions, papers, and posters. The He ʻŌlelo Ola Hilo Field Study, showcasing Hawaiian language K-20 immersion programs, will again be integrated into the conference schedule. MORE INFO
Faculty & Staff Opportunities
Travel awards, fellowships, and research stipends...
The Dean's Travel Fund reopens for the new academic year for both faculty and staff. See LINK for this and other funding opportunities. If you do not know or have forgotten the password, email <gchan@hawaii.edu>
Student Opportunities
Undergraduate and Graduate Scholarships
A multitude of scholarships and their application forms can be found on STAR. Don't forget to check them out this semester!
Now Accepting Abstracts for The 22nd East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference 2023
This is a great way for students who want to get their feet wet in entrepreneurship and test the feasibility of a business idea. Competitors are asked to submit a 2-minute description of their idea in video format. Qualifying finalists will be paired with a business mentor, who will help them craft a presentation for the finals. Each contestant can win up to $1,000. Details + Registration registration deadline: October 2, 2022
SP23 John Young Scholarship Application is Open
This prestigious scholarship provides support to undergraduate juniors or seniors, and graduate students enrolled in the College of Arts, Languages & Letters pursuing a degree in any field related to the arts. These awards are made possible by the John Young Foundation and honor the late renowned artist John Young. Deadline: October 10, 2022
Up to $10,000 for participating in undergraduate research and creative work!
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) coordinates and promotes opportunities for undergraduate students across ALL DISCIPLINES at UH Mānoa to engage in faculty-mentored research and creative work.
Students from ALL DISCIPLINES are encouraged to apply for the following Fall funding opportunities:
Project Funding (up to $5,000 per individual, $10,000 per group) DUE October 10, 2022
Entering Research and Creative Work (ERC) Funding (up to $3,000 per individual for a maximum of two consecutive semesters) DUE October 20, 2022
Presentation Funding (up to $2,000 per individual, $4,000 per pair, or $,5000 per group) on a rolling deadline
Project Funding due: October 10, 5pm / ERC Funding due: October 20, 5pm
MORE INFO urop@hawaii.edu • 808.956.7492 • Moore Hall 107/108
Library Treasures Scholarships AY 2022-2023
organized by Hamilton Library
The 2022-2023 Library Treasures Scholarships are open to students in any discipline and at any level of study with projects that involve the use of the UHM Library’s collections, and whose final outcomes will result in the production of either research or creative pieces. Proposed projects may be an integral part of faculty-guided undergraduate or graduate course-related activities, such as those required in research seminars, labs, and creative media. The scholarships will be given to the best proposals with an award amount of up to $400 per proposal. Submission Deadline: November 18, 2022 MORE INFO
The East-West Center provides funding for graduate students with a commitment to the Asia Pacific region to pursue a graduate degree at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and to participate in the Center's residential, educational and leadership development programs.
Type of study: Master's or Doctoral degree study (up to 24-month fellowship)
Eligibility: Citizens or permanent residents of the United States and citizens of countries in the Pacific and Asia, including Russia. Deadline: December 1, 2022
The East-West Center, in partnership with the Okinawa Prefectural Government, provides funding for graduate students with commitment to Okinawan development and the broader Asia Pacific region to pursue a graduate degree at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and to participate in the Center's residential, educational and leadership development programs.
Type of study: Master's or Doctoral degree study (up to 24-month fellowship); or Asia Pacific Leadership Program (4.5-month fellowship)
Eligibility: Residents of Okinawa, Japan Deadline: December 1, 2022 (degree study); November 1, 2022 (leadership program)
The East-West Center, through the Asian Development Bank and Government of Japan, provides funding for graduate students with a commitment to the Asia Pacific regional development to pursue a graduate degree at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and to participate in the Center's residential, educational and leadership development programs.
Type of study: Master's degree study
Eligibility: Applicants must be a citizen of a developing member country of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Visit website for list of eligible countries. Deadline: December 1, 2022
The East-West Center, through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, provides educational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students from South Pacific Island nations to pursue degrees in fields of study meeting regional development needs, and to participate in the Center's residential, educational and leadership development program.
Type of study: Bachelor's degree study or Master's degree study
Eligibility: Citizens from the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu. Deadline: January 15, 2023
The East-West Center, through USAID PROJECT Governance, provides funding for promising young leaders from Pacific Island countries to pursue a graduate degree at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and to participate in the East-West Center's residential, educational and leadership development programs.
Type of study: One-year professional degree in accounting, finance, information systems, or law
Eligibility: Applicants must be a citizen of one of the following Pacific Island countries: Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, or Vanuatu Deadline: March 1, 2023
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