CALL WEEKLY 10-20-2024
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CALL WEEKLY 10-20-2024
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CALL WEEKLY
Fall 2024
(10-20 to 10-25-2024)
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Upcoming Events
Critical Language Scholarship Information Session
Date, time, place: October 21, 2024, 12:45 PM, via zoom
Come learn about opportunities for fully funded summer language study abroad! The CLS program provides opportunities for American college and university students to study languages and cultures essential to America’s engagement with the world. Each summer, American undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities across the country, spend 8-10 weeks learning one of a dozen languages at an intensive study abroad institute. The CLS program is designed to promote rapid language gains and essential intercultural fluency in regions that are critical to U.S. national security and economic prosperity.
The CLS program offers scholarships for the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish & Urdu
Meeting ID: 915 8162 9696
Passcode: CLS
Deadline to apply: November 19, 2024
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Designing & Building AI Chatbots in the Language Classroom
Date, time, place: October 22, 2024, 3:00 – 4:00 PM, Moore Hall 257 and via zoom
Organized by: Center for Language & Technology
Facilitated by:
Dr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, Assistant Specialist in Language Technology, CLT
Dr. Richard Medina, Associate Specialist in Human-Computer Interaction, CLT
Dr. Suzanne Freynik, Learning Design Specialist, Tech Center
This D&D will show how instructors and students can design and build custom AI-powered chatbots for language learning. No coding experience is necessary! Participants will explore different tools and learn how to create chatbots that focus on vocabulary building, conversational practice, and cultural insights.
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The Year(s) that Changed My Life:
The Lasting Value of Overseas Public Service Experiences
Date, time, place: October 23, 2024, 4:00 – 5:00 PM, via zoom
Sponsored by: Department of Asian Studies; Matsunaga Institute; Careers in Asia-Pacific Affairs
Alumni from the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, the JET Program and the Jesuit Volunteer Corps will reflect on the value of these post-college experiences as a foundation for long-term career success.
For more information email <asianst@hawaii.edu>
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Graduating Student Global Seal of Biliteracy Testing
Organized by: Hawai‘i Language Roadmap Initiative
October:
10/22, 8:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Moore Hall 153B
10/25, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM, Moore Hall 153B
10/31, 8:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Moore Hall 153B
November:
11/01, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM, Moore Hall 153A
11/12, 8:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Moore Hall 153B
11/21, 8:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Moore Hall 153B
December:
12/03, 8:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Moore Hall 153B
12/12, 8:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Moore Hall 153B
12/13, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM, Moore Hall 153B
The Hawai’i Language Roadmap is running our Fall Semester round of testing for the Global Seal of Biliteracy with testing dates in October, November, and December. This testing opportunity is available for students who are graduating in Fall 2024, or who have graduated in Spring or Summer 2024, and for students in the Korean and Chinese Flagship Programs. Employers across the United States are using the Global Seal to certify employee language proficiency, and in 2023, the Hawai’i Language Bank began using the Seal to certify their interpreters. Earning the Seal can enhance your confidence in your language abilities while enhancing your prospects for employment. Students can sign up via this form.
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“Imagining Life in Honolulu Chinatown circa 1900”
Wing Tek Lum, Honolulu Businessman and Poet
Date, time, place: October 24, 2024, 12:00 – 1:15 PM, Kuykendall 410
Organized by: Center for Biographical Research
Co-sponsored by: Co-sponsored by Hamilton Library, Conflict and Peace Specialist, Hui ʻĀina Pilipili: Native Hawaiian Initiative, the School of Communication & Information, the School of Cinematic Arts, and the Departments of American Studies, Anthropology, English, Ethnic Studies, and Political Science
In The Oldtimers, his third collection of poetry, Wing Tek Lum imagines life in Honolulu Chinatown circa 1900, giving voice to the forgotten pioneer generation of sojourners and settlers, detailing the trials and temptations of this bachelor society living far from their homeland—their hard work, their diversions, their challenges, and, even amidst the notorious plague and fire, their perseverance. For this Brown Bag presentation, Wing Tek will share how he was inspired to write certain poems, based on personal memories, family stories and documents, government records, published histories or sociological studies, or pure make-believe.
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Nippon Culture Day
Date, time, place: October 25, 2024, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM, Campus Center Ballroom
Organized by: Japanese program, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Nippon Culture Day is an exciting annual event where high school and college students, community members, and faculty can explore both traditional and modern Japanese culture. With interactive games, engaging performances, and hands-on activities, it offers a unique opportunity to experience Japanese culture. The event also features informational booths highlighting Japan-related programs and career opportunities, making it a perfect blend of fun and learning. Please join us for this wonderful experience!
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Book Talk: “Imperfect Partners: The United States and Southeast Asia”
Date, time, place: October 30, 2024, 3:00 – 4:30 PM, via zoom
Organized by: Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs
Imperfect Partners is a unique hybrid – part memoir, part foreign policy study of U.S. relations with Southeast Asia, a critically important region that has become the central arena in the global U.S.-China competition. From the People Power revolt in the Philippines to the opening of diplomatic relations with Vietnam, from building a partnership with newly democratic Indonesia to responding to genocide in Myanmar and coups in Thailand, Scot Marciel was present and involved. His direct involvement and deep knowledge of the region, along with his extensive policymaking work in Washington, allows him to bring to life the complexities and realities of key events and U.S. responses, along with rare insights into U.S. foreign policy decision-making and the work of American diplomats in the field.
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Togetherness: A Reading & Book Talk with author Wo Chan
Date, time, place: October 31, 2024, 3:00 – 4:30 PM, Kuykendall 410
Co-sponsored by: Words@Mānoa, the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English, and the Department of East Asian Language & Literatures
Wo Chan is a poet and drag artist who performs as The Illustrious Pearl. They are the author of the poetry collection Togetherness (2022), which was a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize. Wo has received fellowships from MacDowell, New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, The Asian American Writers Workshop, Poets House, and Lambda Literary. Their poems appear in POETRY, WUSSY, Mass Review, No Tokens, The Margins, and elsewhere. As a member of the Brooklyn-based drag/burlesque collective Switch N’ Play, Wo has performed at venues including The Whitney Museum of American Art, National Sawdust, New York Live Arts, and the Architectural Digest Expo.
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HRZ, 2019, pastel on canvas, 68 x 70 inches
Nana I Ke Kumu, Pay Attention to the Source
Michele Zalopany
November 3 – December 1, 2024, The Commons Gallery
Gallery Walkthrough
November 3, 2024, 1:00 – 2:00 PM, Commons Gallery
Opening Reception
November 3, 2024, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Commons Gallery
Panel Discussion
November 7, 2024, 5:00–7:00 PM, Art Building Room 101
Michele Zalopany, Heather Waldroup Professor, Art History and Visual Culture, Appalachia State University, and Emily Cornish, PhD student, University of Michigan (19th Century Hawaiian Visual Culture)
As I was led to inform myself by my face and curiosity, I am hoping that by putting more images of an older Hawaiian reality out into the world, I may provoke interest in the true history of the Hawaiian people and their land, and thus chip away at the false narrative that overwhelms most peoples’ current perceptions. - Michele Zalopany
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Harnessing Transformative Potentials of Southeast Asian Urbanization
Date, time, place: November 13, 2024, 3:00 – 4:30 PM, via zoom
Organized by: Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Michigan State University
Urbanization brings problems, pitfalls, and promises. It is possible to transform cities for the better by harnessing urbanization’s positive potentials while mitigating and eliminating its existing, emerging, and often intensifying unintended and adverse impacts. These include uneven access to opportunities and services, inequitable development, environmental degradation, and social polarization, among others. Climate change is exacerbating many of these challenges. The experts in this webinar will illuminate us about these trends and their potentials for transformative change—inclusive, equitable, just, and sustainable—with precious insights into nuances of urbanization and responses from different Southeast Asian contexts.
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Faculty and 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
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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