organized by the Hawaiʻi Language Roadmap Initiative
Moore Hall Computer Lab
Testing 12:30 - 4:30 pm on
Tuesday, February 21
Thursday, March 2
Tuesday, March 14
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book talk
"Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience, Protest and Law During the Iraq War" with Author Lawrence Repeta
organized by the Center for Japanese Studies and William S. Richardson School of Law
Tuesday, February 21, 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Moore Hall 258
Professor Repeta’s new book takes readers inside the criminal justice system, focusing on a case that raised fundamental questions about government authority to go to war, freedom of political speech, and treatment of criminal suspects. He has served as a lawyer, business executive, and law professor in Japan and the United States. The primary focus of his advocacy and research is transparency in government. He has served on the board of directors of Information Clearinghouse Japan, an NGO devoted to promoting open government in Japan, and the Japan Civil Liberties Union.
lecture
Remaking the Humanities Post-Covid: Renewing Our Value in the Academic Marketplace
speaker: Darin Payne ( UHM English Department)
organized by the History Department
Wednesday, February 22
Sakamaki Hall A201
Payne discusses future teaching and scholarship in the Humanities in light of recent public health issues and the wider changes in higher education. What changes might we articulate and embrace as we reform the Humanities? Payne will draw and expand upon examples of applied learning in rhetorical education.
webinar
Assessing the Legacy of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia
Speaker: Randle DeFalco, Assistant Professor, UHM William S. Richardson School of Law
organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies
This webinar will provide an overview of the work of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) also known as the “Khmer Rouge Tribunal.” This Tribunal was created to prosecute former senior Khmer Rouge leaders and others considered “most responsible” for the atrocities committed in Cambodia between April 1975 and January 1979. It will also discuss some of the controversies surrounding the Tribunal, ranging from corruption allegations, to political interference and sharp disagreements over the number of individuals to be tried.
Python Series (Levels 2, 3, 4)
Organized by theCenter for Language & Technology
Presenter: Richard Medina, UHM Specialist in Human-Computer Interaction
Level 4: Exploring More Python-based Tools for Studies in Human Language & Technology
*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.
Brown Bag Biography Talk
Radical Wāhine of Honolulu, 1945 with Mari Matsuda
organized by the Center for Biographical Research
Thursday, February 23, 12 to 1:15 pm ZOOM / Meeting ID: 937 2651 3101 / Password: 146708
This talk is presented in conjunction with Mari Matsuda's art exhibit at Aupuni Space: Radical Wāhine of Honolulu, 1945. The exhibit honors women who were members of various left formations on the UH campus and in the broader Honolulu community, who were red-baited and persecuted for their efforts to bring about true democracy. Matsuda presents a prosographic approach, asking why a cohort of radical women thinkers emerged in Honolulu in 1945. In what ways were these women, who seem singularly astonishing in the depth of their radical thought, perfectly predictable given world events and the realities of their lived experience?
International Conference: Justice, Identity Politics, and Public Diplomacy
organized by the Center for Korean Studies
Thursday, February 23, 1:30 - 5:00 pm
Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
In this conference, speakers will discuss several contemporary issues in Korea including challenges to the criminal justice system in South Korea, social integration of foreign immigrants and in Korea, recent development in Korean education, social barriers to inclusion and equality in sport and physical activity participation inherent in the foreign workers community in South Korea, labor immigration policies in the agricultural sector in South Korea, the role of Korean cultural and artistic activities for Soviet Korean identity in Tashkent, and the linkages between Korean democracy, transitional society, and international law.
talk with reception to follow
Debunking the Myth of Rising Nationalism: Measuring Nationalism with Social Media Data and Evidence from VIetnam and the Philippines
Speaker: Xinru Ma
Organized by the Department of Asian Studies
Thursday, February 23, 4-5pm
Tokioka Room (Moore 319)
Light refreshments will be served
Is nationalism rising in East Asia? How do we know? In this talk, Dr Ma presents a method for measuring ebbs and flows of nationalist sentiment by applying machine learning methods to social media data. Results from Vietnam and the Philippines suggest that the existing literature overestimates the degree of nationalist sentiment, with implications for how scholars think about security and stability in East Asia.
Xinru Ma is an Assistant Professor in the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at Beijing Foreign Studies University. MORE INFO
Words@Mānoa
Writer and Editor Mary Anne Mohanraj
organized by the Creative Writing Program
Thursday, February 23, 5:30 - 7:00 pm
Kuykendall 410
Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of A Feast of Serendib, Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and twelve other titles. Other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series, Perennial: A Garden Romance (Tincture), stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies.
Mohanraj founded Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning speculative literature magazine Strange Horizons, and serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (speclit.org). She is Clinical Associate Professor of fiction and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. MORE
speaker series
Haitian Books in Motion: Transcontinental Diffusion of a Multilingual
Speaker: Chadia Chambers-Samadi
Friday, February 24, 12:00 to 1:00 pm ZOOM / Meeting ID: 963 8779 1168 / pw: 896012
Using the trajectory of the Haitian novel, this talk illustrates intercontinental and multilingual movements of a unique industry: the publishing of Haitian Literature.
Chadia Chambers-Samadi (Ph.D., the Graduate Center of the City University of New York) teaches First Year Writing, World Literature and French at Hawai’i Pacific University in Honolulu. She is the author of Repression des manifestants algériens à Paris: la nuit meurtrière du 17 octobre 1961, an essay that argues that literature, film and music allowed the resurgence of the memory of the State’s attack against Algerians in Paris on October 17th, 1961 in the social sciences. The monograph is published at l'Harmattan in Paris. She has also worked as a research specialist and editor with Thomas Spear on the website ile-en-ile.org. Her work on Haitian literature is multifaceted: as an Editor for Ruptures Editions (based in Leogane, Haiti) she has edited several political essays and as a researcher, her work on the author Jacques Stephen Alexis appeared in Arnold Antonin’s movie celebrating the legacy of the author in a documentary entitled Mort Sans Sépulture. In December 2022, she published an article highlighting the poetical and political influence of Cuba in the literary work of the very same Jacques Stephen Alexis in a collective Volume published in Port-au-Prince by Legs Editions.
public workshop for all UHM students
Martha Graham technique master class with Yung Yung Tsuai Lerner
organized by the Department of Theatre & Dance
February 24 & 27, 12:30pm
Dance Building
Yung Yung Tsuai Lerner was born in China and grew up in Taiwan. She came to New York under a personal scholarship from the Modern Dance Icon, Martha Graham, in 1970. Since then, she has worked with Martha Graham, Pearl Lang, Daniel Nagrin, Susan Stroman, and other choreographers. She founded the Yung Yung Tsuai Dance Company and the Byrdcliffe Performing Arts Organization in 1979. Her company has toured throughout the USA, Spain, Italy, and Japan. More Info: pkao@hawaii.edu
faculty roundtable
How Should Chinese & American Universities Cooperate in the New Geopolitical Context?
Cooperation in higher education has been one of the foundational elements in US-China relations. Today, there are over 350,000 students from the PRC studying in undergraduate and graduate programs across the US. In addition, over the course of four decades, US and Chinese universities have built up an array of collaborative research projects that have resulted in a growing number of publications in top tier refereed journals. Most recently, however, with the souring of the overall bilateral political relationship, the bilateral higher educational relationship has encountered numerous challenges. The proposed panel will examine evolving trends and developments regarding US-China university cooperation and exchanges.
Panelists:
Professor Denis Simon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professor Qiang Zha, York University (Canada)
Professor Hantian Wu, Zhejiang University (China)
Moderator: Professor Baoyan Cheng, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Chinese Corner-Chinese Calligraphy
organized by the Chinese Language Flagship Program
In this session, we are conducting a hands-on workshop on Chinese calligraphy. Every participant will have the opportunity to work on their own calligraphy work. Snacks and beverages will be provided. Questions: chnflag@hawaii.edu.
*Note: Basic conversational skill in Mandarin Chinese is required for the event.
theatre for young audiences performance
20,000 Leagues Deep #hawaii_ascending
organized by the Department Theatre & Dance and Kennedy Theatre
February 24 & 26 and March 3 - 5
FRI/SAT 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30 pm
SUN 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30 pm
Urgent! Mayday! Danger! Dash through hallways, backways, stairways, and sneakways as part of a thrilling, top secret mission. This immersive, site specific, audience driven quest to confront the climate crisis – in Hawaiʻi, the Pacific, and around the globe – lifts up the voices of young audience members to take action and make choices. Your voice matters as we dive knee-deep into the story, confronting obstacles and dangers in the battle for the planet. Directed by alumnus and former HTY (Honolulu Theatre for Youth) Artistic Associate, Alvin Chan, this collectively devised piece is an adventure for all who are young at heart. Game on. Come and play. Estimated run-time is approximately 40 minutes. MORE INFO
theatre performance
Almost Theatre
Co-Directed by UHM MFA students Arlo Chiaki Rowe and Robert Morris, III
organized by Late Night Theatre Company, Department of Theatre & Dance, Kennedy Theatre /
Feb 25-26 & March 4-5
SAT/SUN at 7:30pm
Almost Theatre is disguised as a high school theatre’s dress rehearsal. However, the real-life performers in this play-within-a-play have only been given a synopsis from which they must perform Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, completely unscripted and unrehearsed. Each evening, only those in the audience will know if the unprepared actors are able to pull off a miracle or if the ill-fated “dress rehearsal” will dissolve into chaos. *Please note that this performance may contain mature themes and language**/
Tickets available starting 1 hour prior to showtime at the Kennedy Theatre Box Office. MORE INFO
online workshop
Fast Track to UH Foundation Training
organized by UH Foundation
Monday, February 27, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm REGISTER (Zoom details will registration)
This training is open to all UH faculty and staff interested in learning more about how to work with UH Foundation (UHF), what we do, our processes and the corresponding forms. Questions? training@uhfoundation.org
Topics + approximate schedule:
UHF and Policies (10:00 am)
Endowments & Account Establishment (10:05 am)
Gift Processing (starts approximately at (10:35 am)
Expenditures (11:05 am)
Student Aid Administration (11:35 am)
Finance Reports (11:55 am)
talk with reception to follow
Taking it to the Sea: China's Escalation Decisions and Strategies in Maritime Disputes
speaker: Shuxian Luo
organized by the Department of Asian Studies
Monday, February 27, 4-5pm
Tokioka Room (Moore 319)
Shuxian Luo is an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Naval War College and a nonresident Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center. LINK
book talk
Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising from Humanism to Terrorism
speaker: Olga Fedorenko,
Associate Professor, Anthropology Department of Seoul National University
organized by the Center for Korean Studies
Wednesday, March 1, 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Center for Korean Studies
Advertising in South Korea is habitually referred to as a “flower of capitalism.” Rarely dismissed as an intrusive commercial message, South Korean advertising is often celebrated for the humanist societal ideals it may advance. This presentation, based on Fedorenko's new book, shows how contests over advertising freedoms and obligations become a focal point for challenges to corporate power in post-millenial South Korea.
colloquium
The Cultural and Political Significance of ‘Dalit’ Literature
lecture by K. Satyanarayana (EFL University, India)
organized by the Department of English
Thursday, March 2, 3 - 4:30 pm
KUY 410
Presentation on the literature of Dalit (formerly "untouchable") communities of India
Strongmen: How Illiberal Leaders Consolidate Power & How they can be Defeated
organized by the Better Tomorrow Speaker Series
Thursday, March 2, 6:30 pm
Art Building Auditorium REGISTER
Cultural and political historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat shows how modern-day authoritarians from Putin to Trump draw on a playbook originally perfected by Moussolini a century ago. Emphasizing virility, violence, social division, and perceived national victimhood, these reactionary "strongmen" exploit populist discontent to rise to power and then govern in their own corrupt interest. Drawing upon decades of scholarship, Ben Ghiat demonstrates why this is such a perilous moment for democracy around the world. More importantly, she explains how authoritarianism has been defeated in the past and can be again.
Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University, a Guggenheim fellow, and an advisor to Protect Democracy. She is an MSNBC opinion columnist and a regular contributor to CNN and The Washington Post. She publishes Lucid, a newsletter on threats to democracy. Her latest book, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, looks at how illiberal leaders use propaganda, corruption, violence, and machismo—and how they can be overcome. MORE INFO
panel discussion
Oceanic Filipinx Studies in Occupied Hawaiʻi organized by the Department of American Studies
March 3, 12 -130 pm
George Hall 213 or ZOOM (to register)
Moderator: Katherine Achacoso
Panelists: Ellen Rae Cachola, Malaya Caligtan-Tran, Shannon Cristobal, Rebecca Goldschmidt, Nadine Ortega, Kenzie Ozoa, Lyz Soto
This panel features contributors from the recently published “Oceanic Filipinx Studies” special issue (ALON: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies, 2023). It highlights emerging debates in the field of Filipinx Studies discussing the potentiality and limitations of what has been described as an “oceanic turn” in the field. Through featuring various contributors who wrote articles on Ilokano resurgence, Filipinx movements for demilitarization, Filipinx foodways, and Filipinx settler colonial critique, this panel invites panelists and community members to share how they envision Filipinx Studies pivoting towards oceanic methodologies. In doing so, we navigate the complexities of engaging oceanic methodologies and metaphors in the context of the Filipinx diaspora in occupied Hawaiʻi.
Continuing Art Exhibition
art exhibition
Ai Pōhaku, Stone Eaters
Works by Hawaiian Artists
Curated by Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick + Noelle Kahanu + Josh Tengan
until March 26
Public programming:
Every Friday and Sunday, 1 pm curator led tour (with the exception of Friday during Spring Break)
Every Sunday, 2 pm artist talks + discussion
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
Ukrainian Folk Costumes
In The Folds
Display by MFA Dance candidate Allan Zablocki
East-West Center Gallery
through April 16
Gallery hours: M-F, 8am-5pm & Sun 12-4pm
These costumes and thesis production were inspired by the traditions of Ivan Kupala Night in Ukraine. For the upcoming production and this display, Zablocki wanted to showcase a variety of distinct regional embroidery patterns and folklore characters from Ukraine drawing attention to the artistry and culture that make Ukraine the beautiful and strong country it is. Zablocki worked with Mariana Pysanchyn, a Ukrainian folk costume designer based in Lviv, Ukraine. Even through power outages, sirens, and so many other challenges that she faced due to the ongoing war, Mariana was able to design, construct, and send her creations to the opposite side of the globe. These dresses are just a small example of the strength and resilience the Ukrainian people hold. Zablocki also designed the masks and headpieces based on folklore stories and traditional practices that were related to the Summer Solstice festival that their thesis performance in March pertains to.
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
National Endowment for the Humanities deadline April 26, 2023
Opportunities
Jaga Alam Team seeking puppeteers and narrators
Balinese Master Artist Made Moja & Professor Kirstin Pauka, Department of Theatre & Dance
Interested in shadow puppetry? Join the Jaga Alam Team for the next master-artist residency with Balinese artist Made Moja in April 2023. No official auditions. Contact Kirstin Pauka for more details by March 1: pauka@hawaii.edu.
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
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>
NEH Professional Development Opportunities
The National Endowment for the Humanities offers stipends to undergraduate faculty for 50 different humanities programs. Stipends range from $1,300 to $3,450 for its residential programs, and $650 to $1,725 for its virtual programs. MORE INFO
applications due March 3, 2023
Student Opportunities
Want to be CALL's TikTok Star +More?
CALL Seeking Student Assistant for college public relations, publicity and outreach to work with Associate Dean Gaye Chan. DETAILS
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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