CALL WEEKLY
Spring 2025
(02-23-2025 to 03-01-2025) subscribe
Upcoming Events
Water, Land, and Crops: Agricultures in China’s Core and Peripheries (17th – 20th Centuries)
Date, time, place: February 26, 2025, 12:00 – 1:30 PM, via Zoom Organized by: Center for Chinese Studies Speakers: You Wang (University of Chicago), Yiyun Peng (Oberlin College), Yuan Gao (Case Western Reserve University) Moderated by: Frank Zelko, Department of History
Rather than a monolithic system, agriculture encompassed diverse practices, infrastructures, and local adaptations across its vast and varied landscapes. Through the interplay between water, land, and crops, this webinar panel examines agricultural production in China’s core and peripheries, as well as the underlying environmental conditions, resource management strategies, and economic imperatives.
Wang explores the Lower Yangzi Delta, a “world of water,” and unravels how rural communities sustained their water resources through self-organized hydraulic institutions and under minimal state intervention. Peng turns to the mountainous highlands of Southeast China, where ramie cultivation not only transformed local agriculture, but also connected the region to expanding domestic and global textile markets. Gao shifts the focus to Qing Xinjiang’s arid frontier, investigating how karez irrigation shaped property rights, agrarian practices, and imperial governance in Turpan. Together, these studies reveal how regional ecologies, infrastructures, and communities influenced agricultural development, offering new insights into China’s environmental and agrarian history.
Collaborative Creativity: Envisioning Futures Together
An Intertidal Chat with Lyz Soto and Joon-Ho Ahn
Date, time, place: February 25, 2025, 3:30 – 4:30 PM, Moore Hall 319 Sponsored by: Center for Pacific Island Studies, Department of Asian Studies, The Mellon AAPI Environmental Humanities & Environmental Justice Initiative
Join us for a discussion with Lyz Soto from the Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities and the AAPI EHEJ Initiative’s own Joon-Ho Ahn as they discuss how collaborative creativity can be a pedagogical tool and a strategy for envisioning restorative environmental futures.
String Crossings: 2025 University of Hawaii Composition Residency
Two concerts
Date, time, place: February 26, 2025, 7:30 PM, Orvis Auditorium
Music by Dan VanHassel and Christopher Stark as well as Korean traditional music
Date, time, place: March 1, 2025, 7:30 PM, Orvis Auditorium
World premieres by student composers Jessica Ackerley. Jun Yi Chow, Paul Gabriel Cosme, and Mieke Doezema, along with works by faculty composers
Organized by: Music Department
Featured guest artists Iksoo Heo (geomungo) and duo 48 saint stephen (Clara Kim, violin; Angela Kim, piano) come together for two concerts exploring the rich connections between Korean traditional and Western classical musical traditions.
Free admission
The Cliburn: Pianist – Clayton Stephenson
Date, time, place: February 27, 2025, 7:30 PM, Orvis Auditorium Organized by: Music Department
2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Finalist, Clayton Stephenson graduated from the Harvard-New England Conservatory (NEC) dual degree program in spring 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in economics at Harvard and a master’s degree in piano performance at NEC under Wha Kyung Byun. In addition to being the first Black finalist at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2022—where he was hailed for his “extraordinary narrative and poetic gifts” and interpretations that are “fresh, incisive and characterfully alive” (Gramophone)—he received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2024, won the inaugural Nina Simone Piano Competition in 2023, and is a 2025 Sphinx Medal of Excellence honoree.
Honolulu Chamber Music Series – Violinist Nathan Metlzer
Date, time place: March 2, 2025, 4:00 PM, Orvis Auditorium Organized by: Honolulu Chamber Music Series and Music Department
Winner of the 2023 Concert Artist Guild Competition, major prize winner at the 2022 Sibelius and Singapore International Violin Competitions, youngest ever to win the Windsor Festival Competition, and recipient of the Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, New York City based violinist Nathan Meltzer excels as both a soloist and a chamber musician, with passions for standard and contemporary repertoire. “As with his teacher Itzhak Perlman, Meltzer’s technique is of the sort that rarely draws attention to itself but enables a full expressive command of whatever he is playing.” (Gramophone (UK)) He shares the stage with pianist Wynona Wang, who launched her career after winning the First Prize at the 2018 Concert Artists Guild International Competition in New York City. This duo is brought to us under the auspices of Midori’s Partners in Performance program.
Date, time, place: March 2, 2025, 4:00 PM, Pearl City High School: Nakasone Performing Arts Center
Organized by: UH Bands, Music Department
UH Wind Ensemble: Jeffrey Boeckman, Conductor
UH Symphonic Band: Dustin Ferguson, Conductor
Includes music by Sonia Megías, Yo Goto, Victoriano Valencia, and Gustav Holst
Positionality at the Intersection of Ethnomusicology and Critical Indigenous Studies
Date, time, place: March 4, 2025 4:00 PM, Music Department, Room 9
A guest lecture by renowned scholar of Pacific and Hawaiian music, Dr. Amy Stillman, Professor at the University of Michigan, Department of American Culture, and author of numerous articles and books on Hawaiian music.
Dr. Stillman will “explore an experiential approach, using my own positionality as a Native Hawaiian academic, to articulate the roles of relationship and responsibility in ethnomusicological scholarship.”
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Indigenous Women: Strength, Resilience, and Inspiration
Date, time, place: February 27, 2025, 12:00 – 1:15 PM, Kuykendall 410 Organized by: Center for Biographical Research
In this Brown Bag talk Dr. Patricia Cutright (pictured) will begin with a short reading from her book, Native Women Changing their Worlds, followed by a discussion on the research and experience in writing the work. The book explores the lives of 12 Native American and First Nations activists and changemakers, showing how they overcame racial and gender discrimination, poverty, abuse, and other obstacles to become leaders in their professions and communities. Each of the biographies demonstrates the importance and influence of someone who believed in them and pushed them to move beyond the expectations of Indigenous women in the non-Native world.
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Kapwani Kiwanga: (in) Practice
Date, time, place: February 27, 2025, 7:00 PM, Art Building Auditorium (rm 132)
Sponsored by: Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals
The Better Tomorrow Speaker Series is a joint venture of Hawaiʻi Community Foundation, Kamehameha Schools Kaiāulu, and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, with assistance from the UH Foundation.
Kapwani Kiwanga is a French and Canadian artist, living and working between Paris and Berlin. Kiwanga studied Anthropology and Comparative Religion at McGill University in Montreal and Art at l’École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Kiwanga’s work traces the pervasive impact of power asymmetries by placing historic narratives in dialogue with contemporary realities, the archive, and tomorrow’s possibilities. Kiwanga has been shortlisted for the 2025 Joan Miró Prize. In 2022, she received the Zurich Art Prize (CH). She was also the winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize (FR) in 2020, Frieze Artist Award (USA) and the annual Sobey Art Award (CA) in 2018. She represented Canada at the 60th International Venice Art Biennale in 2024. Kiwanga will serve as the Spring 2025 Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals.
Date, time, place: February 28 – March 9, 2025, Kennedy Theatre Mainstage Organized by: Department of Theatre & Dance and Kennedy Theatre
Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking rock opera, RENT, delves into timeless themes of love, loss, and friendship, resonating deeply across generations. New Assistant Professor of Acting Joshua “Baba” Tavares’ unique interpretation of this iconic musical draws profound parallels to our contemporary reality. While rooted in the AIDS crisis of the 80s and 90s, RENT‘s narrative transcends time, addressing pressing issues of today. Amidst the aftermath of the global pandemic and the ongoing challenges of COVID-19, we confront similar struggles depicted in the musical: the escalating cost of living, homelessness, displacement, mental health crises, and substance abuse. Through the eyes of our talented young artists, RENT offers a compelling exploration of self-discovery amidst adversity. At its heart, this story poses a poignant question: how do we measure our lives?
Date, time, place: March 1-2 and 7-8, 2025, Earle Ernst Lab Theatre Organized by: Late Night Theatre Company, Department of Theatre & Dance, and Kennedy Theatre
Come Play with Us! New Plays Festival, will showcase six different short plays, written by student artists in the Department of Theatre & Dance: Ad Astra, Q-Pass, Anatomy of Shame, Constant Thoughts, Unfinished Canvas, and We are Stars. Come Play with Us!
A talk by Dr. Keya Maitra (Professor of Philosophy and Director of Humanities, University of North Carolina Asheville)
Date, time, place: February 28, 2025, 3:30 – 5:00 PM, Sakamaki C-308 Organized by: Department of Philosophy
Nyāya philosophers explain the phenomenon of perceptual error in terms of our perceiving a real object but as another object. This view is called anyathā khyāti which is often translated as a ‘theory of misplacement’ where an object is misplaced and therefore mislabeled as another. In a previous work, Dr. Maitra has argued that concepts are better understood in terms of our abilities to reidentify and recognize a thing. In this talk, she will explore the juxtaposition of her proposed theory of concepts in Nyāya with its theory of error. Her working conclusion is that anyathā khyāti is best understood as a matter of misidentification and not a matter of mislabeling.
Everyone is welcome to attend!
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Text Mining and Analysis: Digital Humanities Tools for Research
Date, time, place: March 5, 2025, 2:00 – 3:00 PM, Moore Hall 257 and via Zoom Organized by: Center for Language & Technology Facilitated by: Courtney Nomiyama, Hamilton Library
What does it mean to take a bird’s eye view of reading and understanding text? This session introduces text mining, a digital humanities-based approach that combines digital and humanities thinking and methodologies to explore patterns, trends, and other ways of looking at texts that would otherwise not be possible manually. Using open-source software and web-based tools, participants will learn the basics of text mining, including important terms, limitations, sources of text, as well as possible applications for their own work with ample opportunity for hands-on practice – no prior experience or knowledge required.
Healing Together: The Journey From Trauma to Wellness
A public conversation on trauma and healing with California’s first surgeon general, Nadine Burke-Harris, and Governor Josh Green
Date, time, place: March 7, 6:30 PM, Art Building Auditorium (rm 132) Sponsored by: Governor’s Office of Wellness and Resilience, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Office of Strategic Health Initiatives, Queen’s Health Systems, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Nursing & Dental Hygiene
Trauma has profound and lasting effects. Adverse childhood events correlate to a range of negative health outcomes, from asthma to obesity, and have costs across society. Less known is that toxic stress can be effectively treated, both clinically and in the community. Join us to discuss how we can work together to journey from trauma to wellness.
Date, time, place: March 6 and 13, 2025, 2:30 – 3:30 PM, Moore Hall 257 Organized by: Center for Language & Technology Facilitated by: CLT Faculty
We invite you to this two-session professional development program designed to support CALL language faculty as they transition to the new learning management system, Lamakū, with an emphasis on language courses. The program consists of two interactive sessions:
Session 1 (3/6/2025): A guided demonstration on creating a sandbox course with one of the existing templates, along with an overview of essential features and functions for language teaching
Session 2 (3/13/2025): An open consultation session where you can work on your Lamakū sandbox course and get your questions answered in real-time
This workshop is designed to help you gain essential knowledge to get started with building a course in Lamakū, and provide you with the time, practice, and support to explore and experiment with features of functions in Lamakū that are particularly related to language teaching.
UH Endowment for the Humanities 2025 Summer Research Awards
CALL Faculty are invited to apply for funds to support summer research projects that fall within a humanities discipline. Deadline: Thursday, April 3, 2025. TO APPLY
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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 and Fellowships
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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American Council of Learned Societies: Leading Edge Fellowships
Leading Edge Fellowships place recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations committed to promoting social justice in their communities.
Recent PhDs from across all fields of the humanities and interpretive social sciences are encouraged to apply for this fellowship.
Deadline: March 12, 2025, 9:00 PM EDT
ACLS will hold a webinar on March 5, 2025 for applicants to the 2025 ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship, offering real-time feedback on questions about eligibility, the online application, and the fellowship review and selection process. Register here.
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