CALL WEEKLY
Spring 2025
(02-09-2025 to 02-15-2025) subscribe
Upcoming Events
The Spirit of Tea and Peacefulness
Date, time, place: February 10, 2025, 1:30 – 2:45 PM, Bachman Hall 107, reception to follow Organized by: Center for Japanese Studies Co-sponsored by: Center for Japanese Studies Way of Tea Center and the Department of History
Please join us for the first event of the CJS seminar series this spring, featuring a public lecture by Dr. Genshitsu SEN, the 15th-generation Grand Master of the Urasenke Chadō Tradition. The event is open to the public.
Rosalie Abella: Putting Law Back in the Service of Humanity
Date, time, place: February 12, 2025, 6:30 PM, William S. Richardson School of Law, Classroom 2 Organized by: William S. Richardson School of Law
The Better Tomorrow Speaker Series is a joint venture of the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation, Kamehameha Schools Kaiāulu, and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, with assistance from the UH Foundation.
Justice Abella is known for her pathbreaking decisions to enforce civil rights in Canada and for her lectures and writings on employment equity, disability, racial and gender justice, and First Nations rights. Awarded 42 honorary degrees, she is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
After her parents survived Nazi concentration camps, Abella was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany in 1946; her family was allowed to enter Canada in 1950. After practicing both civil and criminal law in Ontario, Abella was appointed to the Ontario Family Court at age 29—the youngest and the first pregnant judge in Canadian history. She went on to be the first refugee and the first Jewish woman ever appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court in 2004. Her extensive and innovative work on judicial independence, human rights, and democracy is particularly pertinent today.
Date, time, place: February 12, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM, Moore Hall 319 Sponsored by: Center for Pacific Island Studies, Department of Asian Studies, The Mellon AAPI Environmental Humanities & Environmental Justice Initiative
Culturally significant practices have been restricted by Euro-centric laws impacting access and knowledge sharing. Bonita Bigham’s research aims to identify, interrogate and challenge these constructs which impinge on our ability as tangata o te Moananui a Kiwa, especially Māori and Māoli, to access and utilize these taonga and to live authentic, artistic, indigenous lives.
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.
Language Learning & Technology and Reading in a Foreign Language
Date, time, place: February 12, 2025, 2:00 – 2:45 PM, Moore Hall 257 and via Zoom Organized by: Center for Language & Technology and the National Foreign Language Resource Center Facilitated by: Dorothy Chun (LL&T), Greta Gorsuch (RFL), and Jing Zhou (RFL)
Want to get your articles published in academic journals? Come join the editorial staff of Language Learning & Technology (LL&T) and Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL) at this special presentation. They will discuss their journals and their own submission & review process, while also providing strategies and tips for getting published in refereed journals in general.
Date, time, place: February 13, 2025, 12:00 – 1:15 PM, Kuykendall 410
Organized by: Center for Biographical Research
How one makes sense of, derives meaning from, and ultimately practices accountability is informed by the paradigms and genealogies from which this concept emerges. Of the many sources and uses of accountability, this talk will explore how restorative and transformative justice, as well as prison abolition, shapes our understanding of accountability. The centering of accountability by these three interrelated paradigms invites an analysis and interrogation of how we might advance efforts for justice beyond criminalization, punishment and incarceration. In addition to tracing the history and key elements of restorative and transformative justice and abolition, this talk will explore what it means to approach accountability through the lens of genealogy and how such a perspective might influence approaches to interpersonal and structural harm. Finally, this talk will clarify the distinction between the pathways to accountability for interpersonal harm and violence as opposed to those for structural harm and state violence.
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Gallery Walkthrough with Visiting Artist Ken Kitano and Jonathan Clark (Maui Arts & Cultural Center)
Date, time, place: February 16, 2025, 1:00 – 2:00 PM, The Art Gallery, reception to follow
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. With a diverse range of approaches in material innovation and conceptual direction, their work asserts that there are many ways to arrive at an image, whether through intention, subversion, chance, experimentation, or research. With each member having a distinct voice, the space between their works provokes conversation, reminding us that this field harbors yet undiscovered possibility.
Exhibition Date, place: February 16-23, 2025, The Commons Gallery
Opening Reception Date, time, place: February 16, 2025, 2:00–4:00 PM, The Commons Gallery
Kumiko Sato has spent many years creating places for “play” with familiar materials such as cardboard, inviting viewers to observe society through her own world view. She won the grand prize at Tokyo Midtown Award 2024 competition held annually to support emerging artist and designers.
Date, time, place: February 18, 2025, 1:00 – 1:45 PM, Moore Hall 257 and via Zoom Organized by: Center for Language & Technology and the National Foreign Language Resource Center Facilitated by: Jesse Gleason and Senta Goertler
Want to get your articles published in academic journals? Come join the editorial staff of Second Language Research & Practice (SLRP) at this special presentation. They will discuss their journal and their own submission & review process, while also providing strategies and tips for getting published in refereed journals in general.
Date, time, place: February 19, 2025, 3:00 – 4:00 PM, Moore Hall 257 and via Zoom Organized by: Center for Language & Technology Facilitated by: Dr. Richard Medina
Utilize social media data for your research in this engaging one-hour workshop! This session will introduce you to essential techniques for accessing, collecting, and preparing data for research. Examples from YouTube comment threads and Reddit forums will be demonstrated. You’ll explore methods for using APIs, web scraping tools, and specialized tools for collecting data. Additional tips and best practices for using data APIs for other platforms will be discussed. Discussion will also include ethical considerations to ensure your data collection aligns with privacy and platform policies. With practical examples and hands-on guidance, you’ll leave equipped with the foundational skills to harness social media as a rich data source for academic or social research. No prior programming experience required!
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 Spring 2025 the Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguised Chair in Democratic Ideals.
Graduating Student Global Seal of Biliteracy Testing Dates Now Open!
Date, time, place: February 27, March 20, March 27, April 24, April 29, May 8, 2025,
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM, Moore Hall 153B Organized by: Hawai‘i Language Roadmap Initiative
The Hawai‘i Language Roadmap is running its Spring semester testing for the Global Seal of Biliteracy. This testing opportunity is available to students who have graduated in Fall 2024, or who will be graduating in Spring or Summer 2025, and for students in the Language Flagship Programs. Employers across the United States are using the Global Seal of Biliteracy to certify employee language proficiency. In 2023, the Hawai’i Language Bank began using the seal to certify interpreters. Earning the seal can enhance confidence in your language abilities and increase prospects for employment. Students can sign up via this link.
Faculty and Staff Funding Opportunities
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
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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