28 Feb Alumni News: Mark Ott
We would like to share achievements made by one of our graduates. Dr. Mark Ott is currently teaching at Deerfield Academy and is a noted Hemingway scholar. He is the author of three books, Sea of Change: Ernest...
NEWS + EVENTS
22 Feb Music, Resistance, and Anticolonial Activism
WHEN: March 12, 2019, 5:30 PMWHERE: Kuykendall (KUY) 410, University of Hawaii, Manoa A public talk and performance sponsored by English, AMST, Ethnic Studies, Political Science, Hawaiʻinuiakea, University of Pittsburg, UH Students and Faculty for Justice in Palestine, Ecosocialist...
21 Feb Broken Men: Pleasure, Power, and Pathos at the Movies
Please join us at the next American Studies: Thinking, Creating and Sharing When: March 27, 2019, 5:00 - 6:30 PMWhere: Manoa School of Music & the ArtsSpeaker: Jonna Eagle, AMST Associate Professor Taking contemporary political discourse as...
16 Feb Liberty’s Defense
David Cole As national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, David Cole supervises over 1,400 state and federal lawsuits and a network of nearly 2,000 attorneys. Cole has litigated extensively before the U.S. Supreme Court and has won...
16 Feb Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Entertainment Industry
On February 26, 2019, Visual Effects Supervisor Kaitlyn Yang, who was last year's recipient of Forbes "30 Under 30" award in the Hollywood/Entertainment category, will deliver two free public talks at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa and West Oʻahu...
13 Feb A Conversation with Theo Gonzalves, February 26 @ 5:30 p.m., Moore Hall 323
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....
24 Jan Commemorating Kamehameha the Great 2019 Experts at the Cathedral Lecture Series
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. ...
17 Jan Congratulations American Studies on a very successful event!
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. ...
17 Jan Finding Meaning in Hawaiian Literature
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...
17 Jan American Studies: Thinking, Creating, Sharing
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...