CALL WEEKLY
Spring 2025
(02-16-2025 to 02-22-2025) subscribe
Upcoming Events
Focus
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!
Graphic Energy: Comics, Ecology, and the Politics of Extraction
Date, time, place: February 20, 2025, 2:00 – 1:15 PM, Kuykendall 410 Organized by: Center for Biographical Research Presented by: Dr. Jeffrey Mather
This talk focuses on graphic narrative as a form that maps connections between energy infrastructures, ecology, and experience. Through a discussion of two contemporary texts that depict industrial resource extraction in Canada – Joe Sacco’s Paying the Land (2020) and Sarah Beaton’s Ducks (2022) – Mather shows how the form of comics can offer slow readings of extractive processes as narratives of historical and ecological violence that take place within overlapping networks of power. While discussing these works in relation to critical studies of comics, documentary, and autobiography, this paper will also draw on work related to petrocultures and the visibility/invisibility of resource-making and energy extraction in contemporary culture
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Talking about Nothing: Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, Metaphor, and Reference
A talk by Dr. Malcolm Keating, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Smith College
Date, time, place: February 20, 2025, 4:00 – 5:30 PM, Sakamaki C-308 Organized by: Department of Philosophy
The seventh-century philosopher Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, in a passage explaining his theory of metaphor, also discusses the problem of negative existentials and non- referring terms. In this talk, Dr. Keating shows how Kumārila’s broadly descriptivist solution to these puzzles acts as a defense of his preferred theory of metaphor. This case also illustrates the importance of taking Mīmāṃsā texts like the Tantravārttika seriously as philosophical works, even if, given their concern with Vedic hermeneutics, they are less often the topic of modern philosophical interest.
Everyone is welcome to attend!
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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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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 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.
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RENT
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?
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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