Pedagogical Design
The Pedagogical Design component supports UHM faculty to develop and redesign courses that enhance AAPI representation in environmental humanities and address environmental justice issues of concern to AAPI communities through a culturally-engaged lens. Some courses will implement a collaborative and co-productive model of university-community pedagogical resource development with publicly available materials for teaching post-secondary EHEJ topics.
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Intertidal Chat Professional Development
The Intertidal Chat is a professional development & networking talk series. These discussions address field-specific ebbs and flows, complementarity across the humanities, examples of humanities applications for research and public engagement, and career-building strategies for students and emerging professionals.
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Ecotone Scholarly Forum Series
The Ecotone is a regular scholarly forum where faculty, students, and postdocs share developing work as well as keystone or novel research that resonates across disciplines. This format creates opportunity for feedback and exchanging ideas and resources, fostering an interdisciplinary community of environmental humanities scholars (a nod to the integration that takes place in an ecotone).
Learn MoreAdvancing Asian American and Pacific Islander Voices in Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice
AAPI EHEJ is a three-year initiative launching an interdisciplinary thematic cluster on Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) environmental humanities and environmental justice (EHEJ) located in UH Mānoa’s School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS). We are generously supported by the Mellon Foundation.
Upcoming Events
Fermenting for the Future
May 6th
12:30PM - 1:30PM
LUNCH PROVIDED
While fermenting vegetables and fruit was once a task of domestic drudgery, Aya Hirata Kimura shows how the art of tsukemono can now be appreciated as a catalyst for sociocultural change amid a growing awareness of the drawbacks of antibiotic modernity.
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Making Livelihoods in Muddy Margins
People of Olio have long made their lives in the coastal zone of Kupang Bay. The wetlands that encircle bay waters are a source of sustenance and kinship, as well as a place of connection. However, in the last three decades national initiatives have catalyzed widespread conversion of these wetlands into property for commercial salt production. This talk considers how different modes of knowing shape the physical landscape as well as more-than-human relations within it. Thinking with human foragers, molluscs, and vegetal life, Dr. Gillian Bogart shows intertidal mudflats as a vibrant multispecies assemblage. Her work describes some of the ways that this muddy world-in-the-making offers possibilities to step away from forms of state governance that have come to permeate everyday life.
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Fish that Empty the Water: Co-Species Invasion as Occupation
The concept of “co-species invasion” points to the role of non-human species in colonial, neocolonial, and settler occupation. Thinking with Manitoba Metis scholar Zoe Todd’s “Critical Indigenous Fish Philosophy,” this talk shows how introduced fish remake landscapes for settler projects. In the city of Sorong, in Indonesian Papua, new infrastructure has destroyed the local hydrology, replacing it with deoxygenated, sediment-filled drains, sinks, and canals. Introduced fish flourish in such waters while also themselves enacting an almost complete replacement of native freshwater fauna. In promoting invasive species as “food security,” the government justifies the infrastructure-driven destruction of the Indigenous landscape and its replacement with a settler property regime. This talk, based on research performed together with Hatib Kadir, tells the story through fish. The talk also continues experiments with a more-than-human anthropology with nonhuman protagonists.
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Humanities Across Disciplines
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Dean Saranillio from the UHM Department of Political Science and Dr. Candace Fujikane from the UHM Department of English as we explore how to have critical conversations and build humanities scholarship through different disciplinary lenses.
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Collaborative Creativity: Envisioning Futures Together
From games to grants, the practices of collaborative development are vital in how we engage academically, professionally, and informally in daily life.
Join us for a discussion with Lyz Soto from the Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities and the AAPI EHEJ Initiative’s own Joon-Ho Ahn as they discuss how collaborative creativity can be a pedagogical tool and a strategy for envisioning restorative environmental futures!
