This book talk centers Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez’s book Empire’s Mistress, starring Isabel Rosario Cooper, and will be hosted by Elaine H. Kim. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.The event is co-sponsored by Eastwind Books of Berkeley...
Nights on B Street: A Collaboration by Adam LeBlanc and Joseph Stanton This is an exhibit showing a collaboration of long-time friends, poet Joseph Stanton and artist Adam LeBlanc. LeBlanc’s installation “Nights on B Street” and Stanton’s sequence of poems “Nights...
UHM American Studies Department Statement on Atlanta ShootingsMarch 19, 2021 The faculty, staff, and students of the Department of American Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa condemn the murder of Daoyou Feng, Hyun J. Grant, Suncha Kim, Paul Andre...
Anna Deavere Smith, acclaimed playwright, actor, and scholar, is doing a virtual residency at UHM as the Spring 2021 Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals later this month. See: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=11130Her keynote presentation, “Snapshots: Portrait of a World in...
Please join us on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 3-5 p.m. for a very important discussion featuring our own Logan Narikawa. For more information, please see the flyer above. ...
Please join us for the special premiere of Native poet Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s filmed keynote address as she reflects back on 2020. Hedge Coke served as the Spring 2020 Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals....
The Center for Biographical Research presents: "Roots and Routes along Keaukaha’s Seashore: Tidalectic Repertoires of Place”Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, Doctoral Candidate, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai‘i at MānoaCosponsored by the Departments of History, Political Science, and Anthropology, the Museum Studies Program,...
DATE: Friday, October 30, 1:00pm HST on Zoom To join the panel, click on this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82929383180 Meeting ID: 829 2938 3180 Huliāmahi (pronounced who-lee-ah-muh-hee). To join together in great numbers. To cooperate. To overflow as a river. To be full of water. To...
Please join me in congratulating Tomoaki Morikawa! He recently accepted an offer of a tenure-track position at Kanazawa University in Japan. Tomoaki successfully defended his dissertation (“After the Ruins: The 9/11 Complex, Memory, and the Global War on Terror”) in...
On July 16 and July 23, the Huakaʻi Education Initiative will facilitate two conversations with ʻāina-based education leaders, who will share stories about their work and offer strategies for facing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both events, hosted by Malia Nobrega-Olivera...