CALL WEEKLY
Spring 2025
(01-12-2025 to 01-17-2025) subscribe
Upcoming Events
I AM MULAN by Elizabeth Ung
Auditions
Date & place: January 9-12, 17-19, 2025, video submissions accepted until January 25 (see audition form for details); Kennedy Theatre
Organized by: Department of Theatre and Dance
The world knows the tale, the myth, the legend, the ballad of Mulan. But does Mulan know Mulan? Incarnated into five distinct personalities, an ensemble of “Mulans” must find a way out of Dìyù (Hell)… and from each other. A confrontation, an introspection, and a deconstruction of the Chinese folkloric heroine, I AM MULAN is an existential dramedy by Elizabeth Ung that examines what it means to embrace and reject one’s identity and legacy.
For current students, alumni, community members, or anyone with a passion to perform! A new play I AM MULAN is in need for actors with Mandarin and/or Cantonese fluency/proficiency!
The Mellon AAPI Environmental Humanities & Environmental Justice Initiative
Date, time, place: January 15, 2025, 2:30 – 1:45 PM, Moore Hall 319 Sponsored by: Center for Pacific Island Studies, Department of Asian Studies, AAPI EHEJ
Conservation ethics has been guided by three ethical paradigms: preservation, resourcism, and harmonization. This talk, with UH Hilo Professor of Philosophy Dr. Celia Bardwell-Jones, will place these ethical paradigms in discussion with ethical paradigms of environmental justice to envision what would a decolonial conservation ethics look like.
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CPIS Seminar – Dr Lefaoali’i Dion Enari
The Mellon AAPI Environmental Humanities & Environmental Justice Initiative
Date, time, place: January 16, 2025, 4:00 PM, Moore Hall 319
Sponsored by: Center for Pacific Island Studies, Department of Asian Studies, AAPI EHEJ
Growing interest in Pacific issues has meant a surge in Pacific research across the globe. Sadly, some research on Pacific people has been done without Pacific knowledge, wisdom and culture. As Pacific researchers, we understand the importance of outputs that interweave our ancestral and cultural wisdom, whilst centering and privileging our people’s narratives. Through the birth of our Moanaroa Pacific Research group, we explore the importance of a research collective which decolonizes and re-indigenizes research as we know it.
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Ogata Gekkō (1859-1920), Yamato Takeru and His Sword
Kusunagi
Heroes, Poets, Gods, and Monsters: From Gekkō’s Brush
Lecture by exhibition curator Dr. Ioan Colta
Date, time, place: January 19, 2025, 12:30 – 2:00 PM, Art Building Rm 101
Reception to follow:2:00 – 4:00 PM, John Young Museum of Art
Heroes, Poets, Gods and Monsters is an exhibition featuring the woodblock print series Gekkō Zuihitsu (“From Gekkō’s Brush”) by artist Ogata Gekkō (1859-1920), a central figure among the Japanese painters and print designers of the Meiji period (1868-1912). The series introduces viewers to a plethora of characters and episodes from Japanese history and mythology. Curator Ioan Colta aims to encourage a re-evaluation of the arts of the Meiji period, particularly of this important artist and body of work, bringing them to light to audiences in Hawai‘i. Heroes, Poets, Gods and Monsters represents the first time for this important print series to be exhibited in its entirety outside of Japan.
Yuki Onodera, Charcoal
FOCUS
Date, time, place: January 19, 2025, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, The Art Gallery
The collective Photography? End? consists of seven contemporary Japanese
artists whose respective avenues of work look at the potentiality of photography in a rapidly evolving digital age.
Sheika Alghezawi, Hutu, 2024
Dark Slide
Date, time, place: January 19, 2025, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Commons Gallery
Place runs through this exhibition as physical being, as image received or unmade,
as a story. Seven artists and one collective explore the uncanny materiality of the photographic medium to consider Hawai‘i as setting and subject. The work charts nodes of connection and histories negotiated and contested. Like the care of sustaining a family lo‘i photographed by Ualani Davis, the artists’ processes shares a kinship with the ritual of farming: labor, water, time, and also ingenuity, devotion, incantation.
Date, time, place: January 23, 2025 10:00 -11:00 AM, via Zoom
Presented by: Tamika Shingler, Museums and Visual Arts Specialist, Visual Arts Division, National Endowment for the Arts
Tamika Shingler from the NEA will hold office hours for the UH Mānoa faculty. Please attend (or watch recording) of the Grants for Arts Project webinar and come prepared with questions. (see NEA website).
Date & place: April 15-17, 2025, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Organized by: The Department of Languages & Literatures of Europe & the Americas and the School of Cinematic Arts
The deadline for submissions of individual papers or panels is January 22, 2025.
The theme of the 1st Film, Literature & Culture Conference is (Dis) Connections: The Heroic via Word, Image & Practice. The conference aims to encourage dialogue between the disciplines of Film Studies, Literary Studies and Cultural Studies and to enrich the debate on the representation of the heroic in contemporary society from a multidisciplinary perspective. Given that a number of scholars have begun to define the dismantling of heroism under the term “the post-heroic,” the conference seeks to initiate a conversation on new perspectives, approaches and subversions of the heroic, as well as the emergence of new cultural heroes.
If you have any questions, please email us at lleamail@hawaii.edu
Faculty and Staff Funding Opportunities
Travel Awards, Fellowships, and Research Stipends…
Links to currently available and annually available funding opportunities (such as travel awards, fellowships, and research stipends) for faculty and staff can be found on the CALL website under the “For Faculty” page. If you do not know or have forgotten the password, email <karinm@hawaii.edu>
As a reminder, staff are also eligible to apply for the Dean’s Travel Awards.
Student Scholarships
Undergraduate and Graduate Scholarships
A multitude of scholarships and their application forms can be found on STAR. Don’t forget to check them out this semester!
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