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CALL WEEKLY 3-3-2024

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SPRING 2024
CALL WEEKLY (3-3 to 3-17-2024)
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lecture

Enhancing Visibility Through Accessibility: Developing Open Educational Resources of Women-authored Texts through Student-Teacher Collaborative Initiatives         

LLEA Speaker Series
 
Monday, March 4, 12:30-1:30
Moore Hall 258
 
Benito Quintana will present a case-study on methodology and pedagogical approaches for the production of an Open Educational Resource (OER) in a student-teacher collaborative project. Dr. Quintana and the students of his UHM graduate seminar on Spanish Golden Age Prose approached their OER edition (2023) of El desdeñado más firme (1665), by Leonor de Meneses, from a two-fold perspective: as a way to broaden the accessibility and visibility of women-authored works of Spanish pre-modern literature, and as an innovative project-based strategy for the study of literature, language, and culture that reaches well beyond the term paper and the classroom.
 
MORE INFO: Joy Logan logan@hawaii.edu

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book talk

Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema

Speaker: JANE FERGUSON, Associate Professor: Anthropology, Southeast Asian History, School of Culture, History, and Language, Australian National University
organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Monday, March 4, 3:00-4:30 pm 
Hamilton Library, Room: 306 or ZOOM (to register)

The world tends to see Myanmar (Burma) as an ancient, idyllic land of emerald-green rice paddies dotted with golden pagodas, yet sadly tarnished by a contemporary reality of grinding poverty, a decades-long civil war, and the most enduring military dictatorship in modern history. Burmese society is frequently stereotyped as isolated, hidebound to Buddhist cultural foundations, or embroiled in military rule and civil strife. Its thriving, cosmopolitan film industry not only questions such orientalist archetypes but also provides an incisive lens to explore social history through everyday popular practices. Emerging from a vibrant literary and performing arts scene, Burmese talent and ingenuity spurred a century of near-continuous motion picture production. Dozens of local film companies have churned out thousands of films, bringing to life popular folk tales, tear-jerking dramas, and epic adventures for millions of adoring fans. Even during the purportedly isolated Burmese Way to Socialism years, local movie production continued, and ticket sales even increased. Glamorous stars adopted international fashions, yet inspired Burmese cultural pride in the face of foreign economic and political domination. From silent films depicting moral perils, to Hollywood remakes, to socialist realism and ethnic unity films, locally made motion pictures have captured the imaginations of Burmese people for over a century.

In a tour-de-force study of sixty years of cinematic entertainment, Silver Screens and Golden Dreams traces the veins of Burmese popular movies across three periods in history: the colonial era, the parliamentary democracy period, and the Ne Win Socialist years. Author Jane M. Ferguson engages cinema as an interrogator of mainstream cultural values, providing political and cultural context to situate the films as artistic endeavors and capitalist products. Exploring how filmmakers eschewed colonial control and later selectively toed the ideological lines of the Burmese way to socialism, Siiver Screens and Golden Dreams offers a serious yet enjoyable investigation of leisure during difficult times of transition and political upheaval. By skillfully blending historical and anthropological approaches, Ferguson shows how Burmese cinema presents a lively, unique take on the country’s social history.

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lecture series on environmental humanities

Interwoven Structures

Speaker: Mary Babcock, Professor, Department of Art & Art History
organized by the Institute for Sustainability and Resilience
 
Wednesday, March 6, 12:00 – 1:30 pm
KUY 201 + ZOOM
email ISR@hawaii.edu to register and for zoom link

We live in a time of deep entanglement, in which our actions have resounding consequences both for the benefit and detriment of the natural world of which we are a part.  How do we sort through these contradictions?  How can we sit with difficult questions?  How can we begin to have a deeper sense of engagement?  How can we own our agency?  How can we begin to untangle these threads of experience and reconfigure them in a way that leads to deeper understanding?  Through discussion of her own creative practice as well as her teaching methodology, Mary Babcock discusses the role of the arts in fostering embodied knowledge and a deep sense of our interconnectedness both to one another and the natural world.

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lecture

Reteaching Southeast Asia: Towards critical urban pedagogy and scholarship in developing Southeast Asia

organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Michigan State University

Wednesday, March 6, 3:00-4:30 pm 
Moore Hall, Room: 258 or ZOOM to register

Speakers:
Ashok Das, UHM Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Priyam Das, UHM Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Moderator: 
Miriam Stark, UHM Department of Anthropology

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performance

BFA/MFA Dance Concert: Resonance

organized by the Kennedy Theatre, Department of Theatre & Dance

WED-SAT, March 6-10, 7:30 pm and SUN at 2:00 pm 

Department of Theatre and Dance presents a dynamic dance concert consisting of original Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Senior Projects and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Creative Project choreography. Under the direction of Sami L.A. Akuna, this dance production is a celebration of the creativity of our undergraduate and graduate dancers and highlights their artistic development. The concert features selected works and new premiere performances for both the stage and screen by Kavya Bhagawatula (MFA), Carlee Kasadate (BFA), Katherine Koch (BFA), and Gabriella Raitano (BFA). Tickets range from $8-$18. MORE INFO

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Uehiro Graduate Student Conference

The Benefit of the Doubt: Skepticism – Epistemic and Moral

organized by the Philosophy Students’ Association

March 7-8, 2024
Day 1: March 7 – Campus Center Dining Room, 203E; 9:30am – 4:45pm
Day 2: March 8 – KUY 101, 9:30am – 5:05pm

Speakers from various institutions will explore skepticism in its many permutations (not only epistemic) and deal with questions around that theme.

Keynote speakers: 
Dr. Tamara Albertini, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Dr. Hans-Georg Moeller, University of Macau
Dr. Karen Jones, University of Melbourne

For schedule + More Info

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talk

Seeing Like an Empire: A Biography of the Bureau of Insular Affairs

speaker: Colin Moore, Director, Matsunaga Institute for Peace, and Associate Professor, UH Economic Research Organization (UHERO)
organized by the Center for Biographical Research

With responses by:
Mary Therese Perez Hattori, Director of the Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center
Roderick Labrador, Professor of Ethnic Studies at UH Mānoa
Tom Coffman, author of Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai’i

Thursday, March 7, 12 – 1:15 pm
Kuykendall 410

The Bureau of Insular Affairs was an obscure yet essential bureaucracy that played a major role in the creation and extension of the American empire. This presentation will provide a “biography” of the Bureau that illustrates its inception as the linchpin of US colonial administration and explores how it facilitated imperial rule while minimizing interference from Congress and the American public. Drawing on new archival research, the presentation will consider the Bureau’s early impact on the Philippines and the Dominican Republic and its later role in Guam and the US Virgin Islands.

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faculty forum

Navigating the Decisions and Ethics of Authorship

organized by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship

Friday, March 8, 12 – 1 pm
Information Technology Center (ITC) Conferencing Room 105 A/B
To REGISTER

Session Moderator: Dr. Christopher Sabine, Professor of Oceanography, Interim Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship, UHM

Presenters:
Linda Voong Human Resources Specialist, Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Excellence, UHM
Dr. Jack Barile, Professor of Psychology, Interim Director of Social Science Research Institute, UHM
Dr. Peter Arnade, Professor of History, Dean of College of Arts, Languages & Letters, UHM
Dr. Julienne Maeda, Interim Dean of the UH Manoa Graduate Division
Dr. Sandra Chang, Professor & Graduate Chair, Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology

Responsible authorship is vital to the ethical conduct of research and scholarship. Moreover, authorship and authorship order in a peer-reviewed journal are visual indicators that communicate one’s success. Graduate students experience increasing pressure to publish peer-reviewed research during their education. In fact, employers, particularly universities, evaluate candidates based on the number of peer-reviewed journal articles during their graduate studies. Moreover, undergraduate students, especially those who have their own research funding through UROP or other programs, expect to be published. However, decisions on who should be included as an author and in what order the authorship should be arranged are not easy to navigate. These decisions are complicated in cases when a faculty and a student decide to separate. Join us for a panel discussion on authorship negotiation and authorship order.

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lecturer + discussion

The American Peace Initiative: The Abraham Accords and US National Security Strategy

Speaker: Jason Olson, Ph.D., US Navy Foreign Area Service Officer, Pacific Fleet
organized by the History Forum

Friday, March 8, 12:30 to 2:00 pm
Sakamaki Hall A201

Olson will discuss U S interests in the Palestinian-Arab-Israeli and general Middle East relationships. He will also present the Middle East Integration Digital Archive (MEIDA) to gather and make accessible primary sources connected to Arab-Israeli integration and normalization, since 1967. This Archive seeks to gather those sources from different sources and perspectives. Dr. Olson brings to our Forum his scholarship and professional experiences.

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film screening

Edo Avant Garde

with director Linda Hoaglund
organized by the Department of Art + Art History

Saturday, March 9, 1:30 pm
Art Auditorium

Edo Avant-Garde (2019) explores how the concepts of abstraction, minimalism, and surrealism are all to be found in paintings of the Edo period (1603 – 1868), and reveals the pivotal role played by Japanese artists in setting the stage for modern art movements in the West.

This special screening will be followed by a conversation with director Linda Hoaglund, Stephen Salel (Robert F. Lange Foundation Curator of Japanese Art, Honolulu Museum of Art) and John Szostak (Associate Professor of Japanese Art History, UH Mānoa).

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All that Melodrama Allows: Sirk, Fassbinder, Almodóvar, Haynes

LLEA Speaker Series: Mondays in Moore
 
Monday, March 11, 2:30 – 3:30 pm 
Moore Hall 258
 
Dr. Eric Thau (Dept. of LLEA) will discuss the development of melodrama from Douglas Sirk in the US in the 1950s, through the New German Cinema of Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the 1970s, Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s reworking of the genre in the 1980s and 1990s, concluding with a return to the US with Todd Haynes’s postmodern reworking of Sirk in 2002’s Far from Heaven. MORE INFO <logan@hawaii.edu>

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Leveraging AI tools for PBLL

Organized by the Center for Language & Technology 

Facilitators: UH Mānoa, CLT Faculty Rachel Mamiya Hernandez

Wednesday, March 13, 2:00 – 3:00 pm

In-Person: Moore Hall 258 or ZOOM (To Register)

Have you ever wanted to try project-based language learning (PBLL), but felt that it’s too overwhelming or time-consuming? Then this D&D is for you! In this session we will use the High Quality PBL framework as a guide and delve into AI powered tools that can support project design, planning, and implementation. 

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lecture

More than Just Mosaics: The Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee

Speaker: Professor Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Director of Huqoq Excavation
organized by the Department of Religions & Ancient Civilizations

Thursday, March 14, 7:30pm
Art Auditorium

Professor Jodi Magness has been directing excavations in the ancient village of Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee since 2011.  The excavations have brought to light the remains of a monumental Late Roman (fifth century AD) synagogue building paved with stunning and unique mosaics, including biblical scenes and the first non-biblical story ever discovered decorating an ancient synagogue.  In this slide-illustrated lecture, Professor Magness describes these exciting finds, including the discoveries made in the last season. 
MORE INFO / Questions? Robert Littman (littman@hawaii.edu)

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Noiʻi Nowelo

An Inaugural Conference on Hawaiian and Indigenous Performance
organized by ANNO, the ʻAhahui Noiʻi Noʻeau ʻŌiwi – Research Institute of Indigenous Performance

March 14 and 15
Kennedy Theatre

The NOIʻI NOWELO conference (March 14th – 15th) represents a new chapter for the ʻAhahui Noiʻi Noʻeau ʻŌiwi – Research Institute of Indigenous Performance (ANNO), and will be a culmination of our Scholarship and Publication Maʻawe – one of our three major objectives – whose primary purpose is to explore performance in its manifestations within Hawaiian and Indigenous communities, their cultural practices, and across temporal boundaries, vis-à-vis rigorous, community-based and artist-led scholarship. In this inaugural conference, we have carefully curated a phenomenal slate of artist-scholars, practitioners, and community leaders who represent the heart of what we aim to achieve as an institute. We are also delighted to welcome guests from around Hawaiʻi and the Pacific who represent the best of our past, present, and future, as scholars, as artists, and as leaders. TO REGISTER / MORE INFO

Continuing Exhibitions

art exhibition

Legacy in Ink: Selections from the Print Collection of Charles Cohan

Until May 5, 2024
John Young Museum of Art (Krauss Hall)
Hours: Tuesday – Friday, & Sunday 12 – 4 pm

Charles Cohan, Professor and Area Chair of Printmaking in the Department of Art and Art
History is a celebrated printmaker, educator, and master printer. The prints presented in this exhibition were selected from over two thousand hand printed works on paper collected since 1984. The collection represents prints by fellow printmakers, printers’ proofs produced by Cohan’s Arm and Roller Press, international collaborative exchange portfolios, artists’ books, and zines. Featuring over fifty artists including Terry Adkins, Emmy Bright, Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, Allyn Bromley (in collaboration with Erin Goodwin-Guerreo, Jaime De la Torre, and Einar De la Torre), Lee Chesney, Andrea Dezsö, Sally French, Helen Gilbert, Charles Gill, Fred Hagstrom, Andrew Keating, Jacob Lawrence, Allison Miller, Abigail Romanchak, Joe Singer, Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Vuyile C. Voyiya, William Walmsley, Judy Watson, WD40 (Walter Lieberman and Dick Weiss), and Judy Woodborne.

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exhibition

Kabuki in Hawai‘i: Connections through Time and Space

organized by the East-West Center Arts Program and Japanese Theatre Professor Julie A. Iezzi and Annie Reynolds

Until May 5
East-West Center Gallery

The exhibition features selected newspaper articles, advertisements, photographs, posters, and material objects from the unique 130-year Hawai’i kabuki history, and celebrates the individuals who over many decades devoted their lives to enabling this art to continue to thrive in Hawai‘i. MORE INFO

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exhibit

Sounding the Earth: Bamboo, Metal, and Wood Instruments of Southeast Asia

Co-curated by Teri Skillman (CSEAS Associate Director), Ricardo D. Trimillos (Emeritus, Ethnomusicology Program) and Rohayati Paseng (Southeast Asia Librarian)

Until May 20, 2024
Asia Collection, 4th Floor Hamilton Library, UH Manoa

General Opportunities

Visions & Voices : Call for Submission

The Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP) at the East-West Center is thrilled to announce the call for submissions for the inaugural issue of Visions & Voices.

Visions & Voices seeks articles, commentary, essays, or short manuscripts addressing issues relevant to the Pacific islands. Deadline: March 31, 2024

Submissions should be between 800 and 1,200 words written for a general audience, and emailed to pireport@eastwestcenter.org. MORE INFO

Faculty & Staff Opportunities

more at CALL/for-faculty

4th Mānoa Strategic Investment Initiative Competition

Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship

Grant opportunity. 24 months. Funds will be dispersed beginning (7/1/24)
Deadline for submission (4/12/24) Friday

Grant opportunity, funded by Provost Office and Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship. A total of $2 million to be made available to support successful proposals over a 24-month project period. Designed to support activities or projects that are multidisciplinary, innovative, and novel and are supportive of achieving the goals outlined in the UH Mānoa Strategic Plan: 1) Becoming a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning; 2) Enhancing Student Success; 3) Excellence in Research; 4) Building a Sustainable and Resilient Campus Environment.

Submit forms to  Strategic Investment Initiative Grant Proposal form.
Questions? April Quinn, (808) 956-6145, (agoodwin@hawaii.edu)

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UH Endowment for the Humanities 2024 Summer Research Awards

CALL Faculty are invited to apply for funds to support summer research projects that fall within a humanities discipline. Deadline: Wednesday, April 3, 2024. TO APPLY

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Book Publication Subvention / Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies

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Travel awards, fellowships, and research stipends…

The Dean’s Travel Fund reopens for the new academic year for both faculty and staff. See LINK for this and other funding opportunities. If you do not know or have forgotten the password, email <gchan@hawaii.edu>

Student Opportunities

Graduating Student Global Seal of Biliteracy Testing

organized by the Hawai‘i Language Roadmap Initiative

Testing Dates : 3/19, 4/11, 4/23, 5/2 

9:30am – 2:30pm 

Moore Hall 153B (EWA Computer Lab)

The Hawai’i Language Roadmap is running our Spring Semester round of testing for the Global Seal of Biliteracy. These testing opportunities are available for students who are graduating in Spring or Summer 2024, who have graduated in Fall 2023, 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 the following form. 

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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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