CALL WEEKLY
Spring 2025
(04-19-2025 to 04-26-2025) subscribe
Upcoming Events
A Concert of Central Javanese Gamelan
Date, time, place: April 19, 2025, 7:30 PM, Barbara B. Smith Amphitheater Organized by: Department of Music
Hear the sounds of the UH Music Department’s Central Javanese Gamelan, Kyai Gandrung (the Venerable One in Love), at the Barbara B. Smith Amphitheater. This set of gamelan instruments, some of which are over 100 years old, came to UH in 1970. The UH Gamelan Ensemble has been in existence since then, first directed by Hardja Susilo, and now by Byron Moon. The ensemble include both students and community members.
Admission: General – $15; Senior – $10; Students – Free; purchase at the door
UH Symphony Orchestra Concert
Date, time, place: April 19, 2025, 7:30 PM, Moanalua Performing Arts Center, 2825 Ala Ilima Street Organized by: Department of Music
Admission: General – $15; Seniors – $10; Students – Free; purchase at the door
UH Contemporary Music Ensemble
Date, time, place: April 22, 2025, 7:30 PM, Orvis Auditorium Organized by: Department of Music
The UH Contemporary Music Ensemble presents an eclectic program of music from a broad range of composers and styles. Featured guest artists Helen Liu (violin) and Todd Yukumoto (saxophone) will join the ensemble.
Jean Ahn: Blush
Aphex Twin: Nanou 2
Juhi Bansal: Cathedral of Light
Chen Yi: Yangko (featuring Helen Liu, violin)
Pierre Jalbert: Ultraviolet
Thomas Kotcheff: death, hocket and roll
Rain Michael: Ambivalence
Armand Russell: Particles (featuring Todd Yukumoto, saxophone)
Frederic Rzewski: Les Moutons de Panurge
Free admission
A Collaborative Faculty Recital
Date, time, place: April 27, 2025, 7:30 PM, Orvis Auditorium Organized by: Department of Music
Performing:
The violin sonatas of Aaron Copland and Charles Ives Mendelssohn’s Story first piano trio
Featuring:
Joseph Stepec, violin; I-Bei Lin, cello; Thomas Yee, piano; Tyler Ramos, piano
Free admission
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Date, time, place: April 21, 2025, 2:00 – 3:00 PM, starting point in front of Paradise Palms Organized by: German Program (Languages & Literatures of Europe & the Americas)
We invite UH students and faculty to participate in this community event. We will take a walk through the Mānoa campus with Professor Niklaus Schweizer exploring the history of our university.
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Humanities Across Disciplines
Date, time, place: April 22, 2025, 3:30 – 4:30 PM, Moore Hall 319 Sponsored by: Center for Pacific Island Studies, Department of Asian Studies, The AAPI Environmental Humanities & Environmental Justice Initiative
How can we have critical conversations on environmental humanities with different disciplinary lenses? Join the AAPI EHEJ Initiative in our Intertidal Chat with Professor Dean Saranilio of the Political Science department and Professor Candace Fujikane of the English department.
Ea Mai Ke Kai Mai: 2025 Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition
Date, time, place: April 22 – May 11, 2025, Art Gallery and Commons Gallery, Art building Awards Ceremony: April 27, 1:00–2:00 PM, Art Auditorium Opening Reception: April 27, 2:00–4:00 PM, Art Gallery
The Department of Art & Art History is thrilled to present the 2025 Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition. This exhibition closes out each academic year with new works by the forthcoming graduates from the BFA program.
Studio Art: Spencer Beckley, Minami Cheever, K. Cevi Rocha Cevidanes, Juel Contemprato, Joanne Eng, Hazel Grace Felipe, Solomon Firth, Avery Holshouser, Cecilia Navin, Rick “Tonk” Oania-Elam, Alexandra Marget O’Connor, Malia Osorio, Jordan Paguirigan, Naomi Santoki, Marcel “Zeus” Saragena, Yuhuan Zhang
Date, time, place: April 23, 2025, 12:00 – 1:30 PM, via Zoom Organized by: Center for Chinese Studies
Join us for an engaging webinar exploring the intersections of religion, state power, and missionary activity in the early 20th century history of Manchuria. This webinar brings together three papers that explore the contested history of Manchuria in the early twentieth century from Korean, Japanese, and Chinese perspectives. Once a geopolitical crossroads shaped by imperial ambitions, migration, and revolutionary movements, Manchuria offers a rich site for examining the overlapping and often conflicting narratives of East Asia’s modern history.
Three scholars will examine different facets of religious influence in this contested region. Dr. Jungsun Kim will discuss the strategies used by Western and Korean missionaries in their evangelization efforts. Karli Shimizu will examine Shinto shrines in Manchuria. Ziyi Zhang will discuss state rituals in Manchukuo. The presentations invite a multi-vocal and comparative understanding of Manchuria’s pivotal role in shaping the trajectories of East Asia’s modern transformations.
Date, time, place: April 23, 2025, 1:00 – 5:00 PM, & April 24, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Kōpiko 127B & 128, Kapiʻolani Community College Organized by: Kapiʻolani Community College, Center for Pacific Island Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and National Resource Center for East Asia at UH Mānoa
Join us for a dynamic workshop highlighting career paths for interpreters across various sectors. While the speaker will focus on medical interpreting, this session is open to professionals and aspiring interpreters in all fields, including legal and human services. Gain insights from an expert in healthcare interpreting and discover how your language skills can make a meaningful impact in your community. This workshop offers valuable opportunities for career growth and community support through interpreting.
Date, time, place: April 23, 2025, 12:00 – 3:00 PM, Honolulu Hale, 530 S. King St. Organized by: Meleanna Meyer and the Department of Philosophy Co-Sponsored by: The Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts
Visual poet, educator, and HT25 multimedia artist Meleanna Meyer will share the process, inspiration, and collective effort behind ʻUmeke Lāʻau: Culture Medicine, a sculptural calabash symbolizing care and cultural practice currently on display at Honolulu Hale.
The visit is open to Philosophy department faculty and students. Space is limited to 20 attendees. RSVP to tbhunter@hawaii.edu if you are interested in attending this special talk.
The Eliot Deutsch PhD Merit Award
Date, time, place: April 25, 2025, 2:30 PM, Sakamaki Hall C-308 Organized by: Department of Philosophy
The Eliot Deutsch PhD Merit Award recognizes the PhD student who has the best PhD proposal defense in the Department of Philosophy. Bobby McCullough will present his winning PhD proposal defense, “The First Political Question: Value Disagreement and the Problem of Collective Action in Early China.” In this presentation, McCullough will provide an overview of his dissertation which explores what he terms “the problem of collective action” in the early Chinese political and philosophical context.
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Latino Poetry & Writing the Places We Call Home:
A Poetry Reading & Conversation with author Javier Zamora
Date, time, place: April 24, 2025, 3:00 – 4:30 PM, Kuykendall 409 and via Zoom Sponsored by: Words@Mānoa, the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English, the Center for Biographical Research, and Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology
Javier Zamora will give a poetry reading and discuss how Latino poets write the places they call home. Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador. His first poetry collection, Unaccompanied, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. In his debut New York Times bestselling memoir, Solito, Javier retells his nine-week odyssey across Guatemala, Mexico, and eventually through the Sonoran Desert at age nine. He is also included in Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology and is the winner of numerous fellowships and prizes.
Meeting ID: 278 190 9633 (Passcode: 80808)
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Career Talk: A Conversation with Medical Interpreter Alyes Wong
Date, time, place: April 25, 2025, 12:30 – 1:30 PM, Moore Hall 258 Organized by: Careers in Asia-Pacific Affairs, Department of Asian Studies, Center for Pacific Island Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and National Resource Center for East Asia at UH Mānoa
Alyes Wong, CoreCHI-P, is the Business Manager of Interpreting and Translation Services at UCSF Health. She is certified in Cantonese by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters and is also qualified to interpret in Mandarin. Ms. Wong received her BA degree in Asian Studies with a certificate in Chinese from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She was awarded Interpreter of the Year in 2014 by the California Healthcare Interpreting Association.
Date, time, place: April 26, 2025, Dance Building Dance Studio
Contact Improvisation: Warm up class 10:00 – 11:00 AM
Contact Improvisation: Jam 11:00 – 12:30 PM
Led by: Pei-Ling Kao, Department of Theatre and Dance
Open to CI experienced practitioners, improvisation musicians, drawing artists.
Please read the consent before the event.
For more information, contact Pei-Ling at pkao@hawaii.edu
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“Karl Marx as an American Journalist”
Date, time, place: April 28, 2025, 3:00 – 4:00 PM, Moore Hall 258 Speaker: Dr. Gabriel De Pablo Sponsored by: Department of Languages & Literatures of Europe & the Americas
Dr. Gabriel De Pablo, University of Navarra, will discuss Karl Marx’s life and his contributions to journalism, his only profession. Dr. De Pablo will focus on Marx’s development as a London correspondent for the New York Tribune and offer new interpretative keys to understanding Marx’s work and life.
For more information, please contact Joy Logan <logan@hawaii.edu>
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Date, time, place: May 1, 2025, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, May 2, 2025, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM, Center for Korean Studies Conference Room Organized by: Center for Korean Studies
This conference explores the ideology and practice of development in North Korea and South Korea by focusing on the two Koreas’ mutual but opposite, responsive but divergent discourse-formation and societal transformation contingent on the universal rationality of technoscience geared for the masses. The technoscientific developments of the two Koreas are critically juxtaposed—mirrored across the impermeable border—to analyze not only the binary comparative perspectives between North and South, but also the diversified directions and entangled historical moments of colonialism, the Cold War, and global modernity. The combined term “technoscience and statecraft” then describes the confluence of operations between population management, technological education, and scientific primacy imposed on the masses.
Faculty & 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 & 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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