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...
Please join us for a live conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist Matthew Desmond The Coming Covid Eviction Crisis and How to Stop It Tuesday, July 28, 2020, 9:00 am Hawai‘i time Register and submit questions in advance HERE. Hawai‘i residents have long struggled with...
Please join us on Thursday, June 25th at 12:00 p.m. for a talk by Richard Morrison. This event is co-sponsored by the American Studies and English Departments. Details are provided below. The UHM Dept. of English, as part...
Please join us for a livestream conversation with author, humanitarian, and Super Bowl champion Michael Bennett. Reclaiming Humanity: Racism, Violence, Resistance, Love Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 12:00 noon Hawai‘i time Please register and submit advance questions HERE. Please also help us spread the...
The UH American Studies Department shares the indignation and sorrows over the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, and far too many others and stands in solidarity with our Black family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, and their...
The UH American Studies Department recognizes the organizational work of Academic Labor United to demand better labor conditions for graduate student workers. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act requires the University to provide employees--including GAs and lecturers--who are unable to...