CALL WEEKLY
Spring 2025
(01-19-2025 to 01-24-2025) subscribe
Upcoming Events
Chamorro/Chamoru: “Promesa” Event Schedule
Date, time, place:
January 20, 4:00 – 6:00 PM, Promesa Film Screening, Pearl City Peninsula Community Center (100 Lehua Ave, Pearl City)
January 22, 5:00 – 7:00 PM, Back Kitchen Talk Story | Kusinan Sanhiyong Kombetsasion, Moore Hall 319
January 24, 1:00 – 3:00 PM, Promesa Film Screening, Moore Hall 258
January 25: Håfa Adai Club Clean-Up, 7:00 – 8:00 AM, Immaculate Conception Church (91-1298 Renton Rd., Ewa Beach) and Finakpo’ (Potluck, music talk story), 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Organized by: Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the Håfa Adai Club of Hawai’i
Join us for a week centered on Chamorro/CHamoru promise traditions! Explore the histories and evolution of Chamorro/CHamoru nubenas in a documentary by Dr. Lola Quan Bautista. To follow is an intergenerational conversation about indigenous spirituality with mantecha (prayer leaders) and mankantora (singers). Lastly, join the Håfa Adai Club in observance of their promesa to clean-up their church, or celebrate our finakpo’ with us as we reflect on our weekly engagements.
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Hawaiʻi International Conference on Film, Literature & Culture
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.
We are inviting submissions to the 1st Hawaiʻi International Conference on Film, Literature & Culture: (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.
Center for Korean Studies 15th Critical Issues Forum:
After Yoon’s Impeachment: Lessons from Candlelight Democracy
Date, time, place:January 23, 2025, 3:00 – 5:00 PM, Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
Organized by: Center for Korean Studies
Turbulent events in December 2024 have plunged Korean politics into crisis and revived debates about the continued legacy of authoritarian politics on the peninsula. While often understood as a symptom of ‘conservative democratization,’ this legacy, I argue, requires a critical, political economic analysis. For income inequality, unaffordable housing, super-sized conglomerates, and prosecutor-party nexus have helped fuel cycles of optimism and disillusionment with liberal and conservative administrations alike. Consequently, the failure of the liberal President Moon Jae-in to effectively address these issues following the 2016-17 Candlelight Revolution helped revive a tarnished conservative bloc and offer lessons for the present conjuncture. The failure of Moon’s ‘candlelight administration,’ I argue, can be seen through three interlinked phenomena: the narrowing, depoliticized vision of what constitutes ‘economic democracy’ among key reformers, the ambiguous space accorded to workers within Moon’s reform plans, and a problematic ‘politics of personality’ that has been used to pursue legitimacy in lieu of effective alliance-building and substantive policy change.
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Everything but the Bomb: South Korea’s Nuclear Hedging Strategy
Date, time, place:January 31, 2025, 3:00 – 5:00 PM, Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
Organized by: Center for Korean Studies
Despite the growing concern for South Korea’s nuclear armament due to its deteriorating security environment, Seoul is pursuing “nuclear hedging”—the option to build nuclear weapons in short order—instead of nuclear armament, due to the latter’s prohibitive costs. Given its sophisticated nuclear technology, expertise and know-how acquired through its civilian nuclear program, and advanced dual-capable delivery systems that can carry both conventional and nuclear weapons, South Korea can build a workable nuclear arsenal relatively quickly. The only thing that is missing for its nuclear hedging strategy is the ability to produce nuclear fissile materials through enrichment or reprocessing. In order to acquire such capability, South Korea has been pursuing through both civilian and military routes.
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Universal Design for Language Learning
Dates (3-session series):
January 21: Enhancing Learner Engagement
January 28: Supporting Learner Comprehension
February 4: Empowering Learner Expression Time, place:2:00 – 3:15 PM, Moore Hall 257, UH Mānoa Organized by: Center for Language & Technology
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a research-based framework that aims to meet the needs of all learners. This three-part workshop series guides language educators in creating inclusive and engaging learning environments using the recently updated UDL 3.0 guidelines. Additionally, it will explore ways in which instructors can leverage technology to support language learners.
Date, place: January 23-24, 2025 Campus Center Ballroom Organized by: Department of Philosophy Graduate Students
The graduate students from the Department of Philosophy invite you to join them at the 2025 Uehiro Philosophy Graduate Student Conference. The theme for this year’s conference is “Political & Social Emotions – How They Divide or Unite.” The keynote speakers will be Dr. Martha Nussbaum and Dr. Hagop Sarkissian.
Dr. Martha Nussbaum is the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago and winner of multiple international prizes (2016 Kyoto Prize, 2018 Berggruen Prize, and 2022 Balzan Prize Winner). She will give a talk on “War and Types of Pacifism.” Dr. Hagop Sarkissian is a Chair and Professor of the Department of Philosophy at the City University of New York, Baruch College, CUNY, and also Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. He will speak on “Resonating Presence: How Personal Vibes Shape Social-Emotional Dynamics.”
Abstracts and the full conference schedule are available on the conference website at 2025 Uehiro Graduate Student Conference. Everyone is welcome to attend!
Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore (a Book Talk)
Date, time, place: January 29, 2025, 3:00 – 4:30 PM, Moore Hall Rm 258 and via Zoom
Organized by: Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Moderated by: Dr. Cathy Clayton, Asian Studies Department
Speaker: Dr. Ruth Toulson, Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Faculty Member in the Division of Liberal Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art
Can a state make its people forget the dead?
Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted with high population density and rapid economic growth, the government has ordered the destruction of all but one burial ground, forcing people to exhume their family members. In this ethnography of Chinese funeral parlors and cemeteries, anthropologist and trained mortician Ruth E. Toulson uses death ritual and grieving as interrogative lenses, exploring the scope of and resistance to state power over the dead, laying bare the legacies of colonialism and consequences of whirlwind capitalist development. In doing so, she offers a new anthropology of death, one both more personal and politicized.
Date, place: January 29 – February 2, 2025, Earle Ernst Lab Theatre
Organized by: Department of Theatre & Dance and Kennedy Theatre Directed by: Sami L.A. Akuna
The UHM Department of Theatre and Dance and Kennedy Theatre present the MFA/BFA Dance Concert: Introspection, a dynamic dance concert consisting of original Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Creative Projects and Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Senior Projects choreography. This dance production is a celebration of the creativity of our undergraduate and graduate dancers and highlights their artistic development. The concert features selected works and new premiere performances for both the stage and screen.
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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