Please join us for an informal talk with Dr. Theodore Gonzalves, curator at the Smithsonianʻs National Museum of American History (NMAH). Theo left a tenured position at the University of Maryland - Baltimore County to join the Smithsonian Institution....
We are pleased to announce the 2019 Experts at the Cathedral Lecture Series. For more information, please see the flyer or contact jessejo@hawaii.edu. ...
The first of our talk series, Thinking, Creating, Sharing, was held on January 16. Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez shared stories about the process of curating and editing an alternative guidebook to Hawaiʻi. ...
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: ...