Tuesday, January 31 at noon
Zoom Meeting ID: 915 2148 6770 / Passcode: 905586
Nilosree Biswas will talk about her book and the foodscape as an incredible journey of tastes, innovations, acceptance, indulgences, and celebrations.
What is known as Kolkata's food today has its backstory embedded in 250 years of political, social and cultural history—a fascinating testimony of self-fashioned Bengali baboos, whose aspirations pushed the boundaries of Bengal's traditional gastronomy, resulting in a new food universe.
From the private kitchens of an exiled king and the homes of a handful of upper-class Bengalis, how some dishes became so popular is a thrilling story of taste, smell and savouring. To think that some of today's signature dishes such as dum biriyani, kebabs, fish chops, kabirajis, cutlets, kathi rolls and Moghlai paratha were once exclusive to those who had access to the ingredients or for whom it was their' home food', is perhaps overwhelming at some level. With influences of mostly two cooking styles—the English and the Mughlai-Awadhi, aided by contributions of the Portuguese, and a pre-existing food habit from the medieval times, Calcutta's foodscape underwent a sea change, impacting people's lives, food habits, food procurement and the ways of social engagement. Calcutta on Your Plate touches upon this incredible journey of tastes, innovations, acceptance, indulgences and celebrations. MORE
Brown Bag Biography Talk
Mālama I Ka Wai with Ernie Lau and Kathleen M. Pahinui
organized by the Center for Biographical Research
Thursday, February 2, 12 to 1:15 pm ZOOM / Password: 385105
The US Navy's Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility sits just 100 feet above O'ahu's primary drinking water supply. Since its construction in 1943, at least 200,000 gallons of fuel have leaked into nearby water sources. Though Red Hill operations have stopped, fuel remains in the tanks, threatening O'ahu's water supply.
In November 2021, a fuel leak from Red Hill contaminated the drinking water supply, affecting nearly 100,000 Navy residents, businesses, and employees. Following this petroleum exposure, Navy families have reported health issues including difficulty breathing, dizziness, rashes, and vomiting.
In this talk, Ernie Lau and Kathleen M. Pahinui of the Board of Water Supply will discuss the importance of our water and threats to its continued viability. In particular, they will focus on the impacts of Red Hill on our water sources and what we can do to ensure their protection from contamination.
workshop
Building a Professional Website with Google Sites
A presentation by Julio Rodriguez, CLT Director
organized by the Center for Language & Technology (CLT)
Session 3: Layout and media integration / February 2 (Thurs), 2:00pm - 3:00pm HST
This 3-session hands-on workshop will help participants design and build a basic professional website. Participants will become familiar with the basic features of Google Sites, including layout and media integration tools. The second session will focus on producing and optimizing digital resources (pictures, video, etc.) to integrate into the website. The last session will focus on improving layout and integrating media.
Musical Theatre Audition Technique Workshop
with Julia Hamilton Ogilvie
organized by the Late Night Theatre Company
Sunday, February 5, 1 - 4 pm
Space for active participation is limited. Advanced Registration Required + MORE INFO
This FREE workshop provides: How to walk into an audition room confident, prepared and at ease. How to choose music that best showcases your talents. How to choose the 16 or 32 bars of your songs that best show your voice. How to communicate with the audition accompanist. How to perform the material in an entertaining and engaging way. How to have fun!
Robin Kimmerer: Land Justice - Engaging Indigenous Knowledge for Land Care
organized by the Better Tomorrow Speaker Series
Tuesday, February 7, 6:30 pm
Orvis Auditorium REGISTER
Kimmerer is a botanist, professor, and a Citizen of Potawatomi Nation member. Her deep connection with nature and ambition to educate about the beauty of Mother Earth is shown in her book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Follow the link for more information.
panel discussion
Smallholder Definitions, Presents and Futures: Agriculture & Aquaculture
organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies
With rapid and diverse transformations taking place across Southeast Asia, the conditions of smallholder farming and fishing are increasingly coming into question. From different disciplinary vantage points, this webinar brings together a diverse group of panelists to discuss emerging challenges to smallholder livelihoods. From Cambodia to Indonesia, Vietnam to the Philippines, and more, we examine the ways smallholders are preparing to navigate the future of farming.
Speakers:
Nurhady Sirimorok, PhD candidate, Hasanuddin University
Somvilay Chanthalounnavong - Professor, National University of Laos
Sango Mohanty - Professor, Australian National University
Python Series (Levels 2, 3, 4)
Organized by theCenter for Language & Technology
Presenter: Richard Medina, UHM Specialist in Human-Computer Interaction
Level 3: Working with Natural Language Toolkit
Wednesday February 8, 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Level 4: Exploring More Python-based Tools for Studies in Human Language & Technology
Wednesday February 22, 3:00 - 4:00 pm
*Basic familiarity with Python programming or scripting is expected (see Python Level 1 to catch up). This series of three workshops introduces and demonstrates techniques for working with language data in Python. Topics include Python structures such as lists and loops, the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), and working with third party libraries and cloud based services such as the Google Cloud Natural Language API. The goal of this series is to provide participants an initial foundation into these topics for use in their own scholarly or academic work.
book talk
Gail Okawa: Remembering Our Grandfathers’ Exile
organized by UH Press and Hamilton Library
Wednesday, February 8, 4:00 - 5:00pm
Hamilton Library Room 306 or ZOOM REGISTRATION
Gail Y. Okawa is professor emerita of English at Youngstown State University, Ohio. Remembering Our Grandfathers’ Exile: US Imprisonment of Hawai’i’s Japanese in World War II is a composite chronicling of the Hawai‘i Japanese immigrant experience in mainland exile and internment during World War II, from pre-war climate to arrest to exile to return. Told through the eyes of a granddaughter and researcher born during the war, it is also a research narrative that reveals parallels between pre-WWII conditions and current twenty-first century anti-immigrant attitudes and heightened racism. The book introduces Okawa’s grandfather, Reverend Tamasaku Watanabe, a Protestant minister, and other Issei prisoners―all legal immigrants excluded by law from citizenship―in a collective biographical narrative that depicts their suffering, challenges, and survival as highly literate men faced with captivity in the little-known prison camps run by the U.S. Justice and War Departments.
concerts
New and Traditional Music for Korean Instruments
organized by the Music Composition Program
Wednesday, February 8, 7:30 pm
Friday, February 10, 7:30 pm
Orvis Auditorium
Manoa plays host to musicians from Korea, as faculty and student composers from UH collaborate with top performers of Korean traditional instruments from Seoul National University in two special concerts.
Wednesday, February 8 will feature a gayageum sanjo performance by Jiyoung Yi (이지영), who is widely recognized as the leading gayageum performer of her generation, and a geomungo sanjo performance by Yoon Jeong Heo (허윤정), who is a superstar in demand internationally. In addition, the whole group will give a sinawi performance. The second half of the concert will feature Jiyoung Yi and Yoonjeong Heo performing new works by UH composition faculty - Thomas Osborne, Takuma Itoh, and Donald Reid Womack.
Friday, February 10 will feature SNU performers giving world premieres of new works by 10 UH student composers, as the culmination of a 6-month collaborative project.
Monday, February 14, 4:00 - 5:00pm
Hamilton LIbrary Room 306 or ZOOM (sorry no link)
Jonathan Pettit is an UHM Associate Professor of Chinese Religions
From early times, Daoist writers claimed to receive scriptures via revelation from heavenly beings. In numerous cases, these writings were composed over the course of many nights and by different mediums. New revelations were often hastily appended, and the resulting unevenness gave rise to the impression that Daoist texts often appear slapdash and contain contradictions. A Library of Clouds focuses on the re-writing of Daoist scriptures in the Upper Clarity (Shangqing) lineage in fourth- and fifth-century China. Scholarship on Upper Clarity Daoism has been dominated by attempts to uncover “original” or “authentic” texts, which has resulted in the neglect of later scriptures—including the work fully translated and annotated here, the Scripture of the Immaculate Numen, one of the Three Wonders (sanqi) and among the most prized Daoist texts in medieval China. The scripture’s lack of a coherent structure and its different authorial voices have led many to see it not as a unified work but the creation of different editors who shaped and reshaped it over time.
art exhibition
Garakutashu: A Network for Modern Craft and Design
February – May 2023
John Young Museum of Art, Krauss Hall
museum hours:
Fall + Spring Semester Hours
Wednesday – Sunday, noon – 4pm
closed Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays
lecture
From Samoa to South American and Back: The Great Polynesian Diaspora
organized by Classics (RLAS)
Wednesday, February 8, 7:30 PM
ART Building Auditorium
Speaker: Patrick Kirch, UHM Professor of Anthropology, and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley
The questions of when Polynesian voyagers first discovered and settled the islands of the eastern Pacific, and of whether they made contact with South America, have long intrigued anthropologists. Over the past two decades, new archaeological evidence combined with human genetic studies have shed new light on these questions. Professor Patrick Kirch, who has been directly involved in much of this new research, will summarize our current understanding regarding the rapid expansion of Polynesian explorers around AD 900-1100, on voyages that took them to the coast of South America and back.
Continuing Art Exhibition
art exhibition
We Search for Peace
until February 5, 2023
The Commons Gallery, ART Building
New work by first and second year MFA
students in the Department of Art & Art History: Enrico Battan, Rosie Connelly, Caroline Holmes, Mari Matsuda, Hala Megahy, Katharena Rentumis, Hiroko Sakurai, and Erik Sullivan. MORE INFO
art exhibition
Ai Pōhaku, Stone Eaters
Works by Hawaiian Artists
Curated by Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, Noelle Kahanu + Josh Tengan
January 22 – March 26
The Art Gallery, ART Building
gallery hours:
Wednesday – Sunday, noon – 4pm
closed Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays
This is the first and largest iteration of the multi-site exhibition of Kānaka ʻŌiwi artists, portions of which can also be seen throughout spring and summer 2023 at other college and university venues on Oʻahu, including Koa Gallery, Kapiʻolani Community College; Gallery ʻIolani, Windward Community College; East-West Center Gallery; and Hōʻikeākea Gallery, Leeward Community College. This exhibition gathers new commissions, works-in-progress, and existing artworks by an intergenerational group of nearly 40 poets, painters, carvers, weavers, filmmakers, photographers, and musicians to help tell a story of Native Hawaiian contemporary art that began during the archipelago-wide cultural reawakening of the 1970’s. Seeds of resistance planted following the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy continue to bear fruit. MORE INFO
Funding Announcements
more faculty + staff can be found on the CALL website under FOR-FACULTY+STAFF
The Foundation considers applications from performing organizations from any country for the joint commissioning of composers of all nationalities. This commissioning program is designed primarily for orchestras and chamber groups that have a record of excellence in the performance of contemporary music. Other types of ensembles with records of excellence in the performance of contemporary music may also be eligible; please inquire with the Foundation. deadline February 1, 2023
The Ambroggio Prize is a $1,000 publication prize given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation. The winning manuscript is published by the University of Arizona Press, which is nationally recognized for its commitment to publishing the award-winning works of emerging and established voices in Latinx and Indigenous literature, as well as groundbreaking scholarship in Latinx and Indigenous studies. deadline: February 15, 2023
Supports recent PhDs in the humanities and interpretive social sciences as they work with social justice organizations in communities across the United States. Deadline: March 15, 2023
The UHVC is an intense, semester-long, experiential program that provides hands-on education, mentorship and resources to University of Hawai’i students and faculty. Teams compete to win a grand prize of $10,000 cash plus thousands in other prizes in support of their venture. Register by 12:00 pm on February 8, 2023.
open enrollment self-study course
Envisioning Project-Based Language Learning
organized by the National Foreign Language Resource Center
Registration : until 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
EARLY REGISTRATION : virtual conference
8th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation: Centering Justice in Language Work
organized by the Department of Linguistics & the National Foreign Language Resource Center
Early registration with discounted rates is officially open and ends on January 31, 2023. Conference is March 2-5, 2023. 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
Accepting applications for faculty-mentored undergraduate research and creative work funding opportunities in Spring 2023. UROP encourages all undergraduate students from all disciplines at UH Mānoa to apply.
Project Funding (up to $5,000 per individual, $10,000 per group)—Due 5 p.m., March 3, 2023
Presentation Funding (up to $2,000 per individual, $5,000 per group)—prior to the event date on a rolling deadline (three months in advance strongly recommended)
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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