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.
Recent Events
Fermenting for the Future: Japanese Pickles and Microbial Foodways
Fermenting for the Future reveals the fascinating story of tsukemono, the rich variety of pickles that have been an integral part of the Japanese diet for over a thousand years. Today, industrial pasteurization and declining agrodiversity have led to the disappearance of many of the hundreds of traditional tsukemono along with their benefits to human health. 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.
By examining the complex socio-environmental facets of tsukemono, Kimura deepens our understanding of how the modernization of food and agriculture transform not only human relationships to plants and the land but also the microbial diversity in our food systems and bodies.
