Fufubessei or "selective marital surname" has reemerged in media headlines. Japan appears to be the only country in the world that holds onto the unitary surname system, under which 96% of wives relinquish their birth surnames. At the grassroots level, liberal lawyers and feminist activists have been advocating for the introduction of a system that allows a married couple to choose whether they select one family name or retain their own surnames. Some activists took the matter to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, which has been pressuring the Japanese government. This paper presents that the current Japanese law pertaining to a marital surname produces a disparate treatment of part of the population, despite the law facially providing individual freedom of choice and gender equality as stipulated in the Japanese constitution. This paper approaches this issue with both social and legal backgrounds.
China’s Globalized Populism: Complexity, Alienation, and Crisis Response
organized by the Pacific-Asian Legal Studies Program, William S. Richardson School of Law (Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies)
Wednesday, November 2, 3:30-4:30 pm (Zoom or In-person)
William S. Richardson School of Law, Classroom 2 ZOOM registration
Professor Potter returns to Richardson to present his most recent project in which he examines China’s populist engagement with the rules-based international order by reference to China’s policy responses on Covid-19, Climate Change, and Refugee Migration.
Telecollaboration Environments: Task motivation and engagement
Organized by the Center for Language & Technology (CLT)
Thursday, November 3, 2:00-3:00 pm HST
Two ways to participate (registration required for both):
Moore Hall 258, or ZOOM pre-register to receive link via email
This session will focus on an upcoming Spanish-American telecollaboration project which will take place at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. The construct of engagement and motivation will be explored in relation with task design in telecollaboration environments. Particularly, elements such as task motivation and engagement are of interest for those teachers and practitioners willing to carry out successful intercultural telecollaboration projects. From the research perspective, the upcoming investigation attempts to shed light on how these constructs may affect task design as well as the monitoring of telecollaboration projects. Different types of tasks will also be discussed.
webinar
Exploring the Intersections of Popular and Orthodox Spiritual Practices in Mainland Southeast Asia
organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Wednesday. November 2, 2:00 - 3:00 pm
In this webinar we explore the intersections between popular and orthodox religious practices among three groups in Mainland Southeast Asia: Cham Bani in South Vietnam; Chinese in Phuket, Thailand; and Khmer in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In each case we will consider how the western notions of “religion” and “tradition,” as well as processes of state formation and modernization have impacted localized religious practices and practitioners. MORE INFO + REGISTRATION
Speakers:
Poonnatree Jiaviriyaboonya - Lecturer, Nakhon Phanom University
Tatsuki Kataoka - Professor, Kyoto University
Yasuko Yoshimoto - Lecturer, Kyoto University
Moderator:
Dr. Susan Needham, Professor, California State University of Dominguez Hills
brown bag biography talk
Graphic Medicine: Stories Drawn from Illness, Health, and Caregiving
Graphic Medicine brings together scholars and comics artists to consider how life narratives in the medium of comics open up new channels of communication between medical staff, patients, their loved ones, and the community. By treating illness and disability as experiences of fundamentally changed living, rather than as separate narrative episodes organized by treatment, recovery, and a return to “normal life,” it asks what it means to give and receive care. In this panel, six Graphic Medicine contributors will share their work and converse about representing lives, illness, and disability in comics form.
Theatrical Improv Techniques Workshop with R. Kevin Doyle
presented by Late Night Theatre Company and the Department of Theatre & Dance
Sunday November 6, 2:30pm-5:30pm
Dance Studio Building
Wear comfortable clothes you can move in and also no street shoes are allowed in the Dance Studio.
UHM Kennedy Theatre MFA Alum, R. Kevin Garcia Doyle has been an active member of the Hawaii improv comedy scene since 1989. As a member of On The Spot and Loose Screws, he has participated in creating dozens (and multiple varieties) of improv shows - notably Loose Screws' improvised Kabuki play "Screwbuki," which was the first improvised play from Hawaiʻi invited to the Chicago Improv Festival. With improv troupe On The Spot, he has toured internationally in their acclaimed silent movie style improv show, "Hush." Currently, he and his frequent collaborator Sean T.C. O'Malley make up the front-men in the improv rock and roll show "Oil in the Alley," which tours all over the country when they're not working their day jobs as a theatre teacher (Doyle) and scientist (O'Malley). Also, for six years he led the Saturday improv workshop at Kennedy Theatre. Questions? lnilesn@hawaii.edu
screening + talk
The Curse of Quon Gwon
highly recommended by Tom Brislin, Former Associate Dean, College of Arts, Languages & Letters
Wednesday, November 9 - 3:30 - 5:15 pm
KUY 101
The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916) is the earliest known Asian American film. It was directed and produced by Marion Wong. This pioneering movie features an all Chinese American cast. The black-white silent film storyline is a melodramatic storyline filled with issues facing Chinese Americans, romance and intrigue. In 2006, The Curse of Quon Gwon had the distinct honor of being placed on the National Film Registry, the Library of Congress' list of the nations's most treasured films.
This screening will include a presentation by Dr. Gregory Mark, formerly of Ethnic Studies at UH and CSU-Sacramento. The 1916 silent film "The Curse of Quon Gwon" was made by his great aunt Marion Wong and stars his grandmother Violet Wong, who gave him two reels of 35mm nitrate stock negative and a 16mm print, from which the current film has been restored. Dr. Mark will screen the 35 minutes rescued of the film that was never released and assumed lost. He'll discuss the family's production company, the discovery and restoration, the theme of a young woman caught between traditional Chinese and "modern" American values, and the continuing process of creating intertitles and music.
The Unrelated Community’: Indian Christians and the Punjab Partition by Dr Yaqoob Khan Bangash
organized by the Center for South Asian Studies
Monday, November 14 at 4:00 pm
Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319)
Historiography on the partition of the Punjab in August 1947 as part of the creation of Pakistan and India has almost always focused on the Muslims on the one hand, and Hindus and Sikhs on the other. However, there was another significant community in the province–the Indian Christians– who also lived through the partition process and were deeply affected by it. This talk thus focuses on the half a million strong Indian Christian community in the Punjab examining how it articulated its politics in the period immediately preceding and during the partition. Primarily assessed through the lens of Dewan Bahadur S.P. Singha, an Indian Christian member of the Punjab Assembly, who interestingly became the speaker of the very divided assembly in 1946, this talk exhibits the attempts of the Indian Christians to also become a part of the partition deliberations and even become ‘consequential’ in some ways. It also sheds light on the internal dynamics of the Indian Christian community where not only were questions of identity critical, but the location of their ‘homeland’ became a life and death issue. MORE INFO
Continuing Exhibitions
art exhibition
TADASHI SATO : ATOMIC ABSTRACTION IN THE FIFTIETH STATE, 1954 - 1963
exhibition: until December 4, 2022
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 12:00 – 4:00 pm
The Art Gallery, Art Building
Public reception: Sunday, November 13, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
This exhibition examines the work of Tadashi Sato (1923–2005), one of the most significant and visible Hawaiʻi-born painters of the twentieth century. From early Precisionist-mentored studies celebrating urban life during the 1940s, to luminous large-scale abstract canvases of the 1950s, to monumental public art commissions, the show looks at Sato as an artist whose painting sprang from post-war aspirations towards modernity and democracy and whose unique position as a Japanese-American veteran born in Hawaiʻi gives us a greater understanding of the complexities of American identity during a decade of intense cultural change and transition. The first major exhibition of Sato’s works in over twenty years, the show features never-before-seen artworks and archival materials to demonstrate that Sato’s painting was the site of significant and ongoing public conversations in Hawaiʻi pitting abstraction against representation, debating the value of public art, and speculating on who audiences would be for art in the new state of Hawaiʻi. MORE INFO
This exhibition was curated by Maika Pollack, Director and Chief Curator, John Young Museum of Art and University Galleries.
exhibition
THE GRAPHIC WORKS OF TETSUO OCHIKUBO, 1956 – 1970
until December 28, 2022
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
John Young Museum (Krauss Hall)
This is the first solo exhibition to examine the work of Hawaiian-born artist Tetsuo Ochikubo (1923–1975) in almost 50 years, and the only one to focus exclusively on his printmaking.
Opportunities
open enrollment self-study course
Envisioning Project-Based Language Learning
organized by the National Foreign Language Resource Center
Registration : October 22, 2022 – February 24, 2023
Online course : October 22, 2022 – March 31, 2023
Envisioning Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) is designed as a 5-module open-enrollment self-study course for language educators beginning to learn about Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL). Successful learners will be able to describe essential features of high quality PBLL and to generate high-quality ideas for projects using the Product Square. A digital badge is available for candidates fulfilling course requirements.
Registration and the content for this MOOC (massive open online course) is FREE. MORE INFO + REGISTRATION
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.
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!
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
CALL WEEKLY focuses on CALL-organized events & opportunities at UH Mānoa
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