The Lāhui Hawaiʻi Research Center specifically aims to meet the following goals:
- Provide applied critical thinking dialogue for Native Hawaiian students around Hawaiʻi-focused issues,
- Prepare Native Hawaiian students for careers in research and applied thematic content areas like education, policy, health and governance
- Promote a Hawaiian place of learning through convening critical research opportunities
- Promote faculty and student scholarship
- Increase opportunities for Native Hawaiian students and faculty to present and publish their scholarship and research
These goals are aligned to several institutional objectives, namely outcomes from the University of Hawaiʻi System Hawaiʻi Papa o ke Ao and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Ke Au Hou Native Hawaiian Advancement reports:
- “Foster multidisciplinary (Hawaiian Studies) research” (Ke Au Hou, p. 19)
- “Collaborate with the Hawaiian community to develop and initiate research on problems important to the Hawaiian community” (Ke Au Hou, p. 19)
- “Establish a broad based research collaborative effort” (Ke Au Hou, p. 19)
- “Create opportunities for interactions…hosting at least one conference…each year” (Ke Au Hou, p. 36)
- “Innovative programming (curriculum) using Hawaiian language and culture” (Hawaiʻi Papa o Ke Ao, p. 10)
- “Provide resources for Native Hawaiian undergraduates to attend conference; provide research support, academic support” (Ke Au Hou, p. 30)
- “Create and publish a quarterly journal” (Ke Au Hou, p. 19)
LHRC Student Conference
The Lāhui Hawaiʻi Research Center Student Conference provides a venue for undergraduate and graduate students to present and ideate on their scholarship and research. The conference is held on the UH Mānoa campus, during the spring semester, over the course of 2-3 days. Any native Hawaiian student may submit a presentation proposal or register to attend the conference.
The presentation submission portal will open in January, with registration to follow not long after.
For more information contact us at (808) 956-4288 or by email at nhss@hawaii.edu
2024 7th Annual Student Conference
ʻĀINAMOANA
April 11 & 12, 2024 | Imin Conference Center, UH Mānoa
Native Hawaiian Student Services (NHSS) invites you to the seventh annual Lāhui Hawaiʻi Research Center Student Conference—ʻĀinamoana.
The term ʻĀinamoana appears in an 1840 publication “He Mau Palapala ʻĀina a me Nā Niele e Pili Ana” authored and published by S.P. Kalama and Kapehoni, Hawaiian students & apprentices at the Hawaiian Kingdom’s first college, Lāhaināluna. The cartographic project mapped the physical and political world, providing Hawaiian translations and visual representations of the earth’s natural features along with the administrative subdivision of states and provinces that bound the globe.
In this publication, ʻĀinamoana is used to describe what was traditionally known as Moananuiākea, characterizing a far reaching body of water that produced an ancestral pathway that connected an expansive society, culture, and cosmogony. The term also resonates with Oceania, derived from “Terres océanique” or “Oceanic lands.” ʻĀinamoana is also a geo-political marker, reflective of the Pan-Oceanic policies of the 19th century used by Hawaiian diplomats to avert colonial projects. Renowned anthropologist Epeli Hauʻofa later expounded on this notion: “As I watched the Big Island of Hawaiʻi expanding into and rising from the depths, I saw in it the future of Oceania, our sea of islands.”
The 2-day conference seeks to feature research from undergraduate and graduate students from UH Mānoa and across the UH System. We invite individual, poster, panel and roundtable presentations. This year’s conference will be in-person at the IMIN International Conference Center at UH Mānoa on April 11 & 12, 2024.
Questions? Email us at nhss@hawaii.edu
EARLY ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2024
FINAL ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 10, 2024
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MARCH 29, 2024
Abstract Writing Workshop Series
Need help preparing your abstract for conference submission? These workshops will go over the mechanics of a solid abstract and will have editing opportunities with trained support!
Thursday, February 8th at 1:30 pm in QLCSS 113
Wednesday, February 28th at 1:30 pm in QLCSS 113
No pre-regisration required.
Questions: Email nhss@hawaii.edu
Papakilo Database Workshop Series
Need help preparing your abstract for conference submission? Learn how to effectively navigate Papakilo databaseʻs nūpepa collection.
Thursday, February 6th at 10:30 pm in QLCSS 113
Wednesday, February 21st at 1:30 pm in QLCSS 113
No pre-regisration required.
Questions: Email nhss@hawaii.edu
The conference program will be available here just before the conference.