Date: February 20, 2019 Time: 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Place: Mānoa School of Music & Arts A Kanaka ʻŌiwi poet-scholar, Brandy Nālani McDougall will discuss the intellectual practice of kaona in her book, Finding Meaning: Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature (University of Arizona Press, 2016) and read poetry...
Thinking, Creating, Sharing is a new series of events that share the exciting scholarly, creative, and activist projects undertaken by our faculty and students. Please join us to hear from and speak with American Studies scholars about their work...
Vernadette Gonzalez' latest project, Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i, is covered in Fodor's. Public programming around the Detours project has also been awarded a 2019 Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities grant. For more about the Detours book, you can listen to...
Congratulations, Guoqian Li, on passing the qualifying exams. ...
Congratulations to Katherine Achacoso, Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, and Logan Narikawa for organizing a successful and memorable conference. What began as an idea for a modest one-day meeting turned into a major two-and-a-half day event bringing in top-notch scholars, activists, and artists...
We are pleased to announce two exciting and long-anticipated events on the topic of decolonizing the museum. We invite you to join us! Seeding Authority: A Symposium on Decolonizing the Museum, November 9-10, 2018 http://www.museum.hawaii.edu/decomu2018/ For decades now, university faculty and students have...
The (Re) mapping Indigenous and Settler Geographies in the Pacific Conference will be held on October 19-20. For more details, please see the flyers below: ...
Congratulations to American Studies students for awards and achievements attained over the past academic year (Fall 2017 and Spring 2018)! We would like to congratulate our 2017-2018 scholarship recipients. Our future depends on the contributions you make in our department and...
Congratulations to the best student worker, Shannon Yoshikawa! She is graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Biology. Shannon will be working at the Hawai′i Blood Bank starting on Monday, May 15th. We are so proud of you….best of...
We are so proud to announce that Brandy McDougall was chosen by her peers as the recipient for this year’s Beatrice Medicine Award for Published Monograph for her book Finding Meaning: Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature. [Originally posted April 21, 2017]...