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CALL WEEKLY 4-21-2024

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SPRING 2024
CALL WEEKLY (4-21 to 5-5-2024)
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art exhibition + annual awards ceremony

________ identity: 2024 Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition

Exhibition: April 21 – May 7, 2024
The Art Gallery + Commons Gallery, Art Building

Awards Ceremony
Sunday, April 21, 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Art Auditorium

Opening Reception
Sunday, April 21, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
In front of the Art Gallery

Featuring works by:
Studio Art: Daniel Briscoe, Florani Camacho, Simone Fromen, Jade Hurley, Yi Lin Lei, Amelia Miller, Malia Neumann, Noël Piechowski, Danielle Turner
Graphic Design: Matthew Chytil, Olga From, Minami Fukushima, Charlotte Han, Caitlyn Lok, Angela Luo, Amy Nomura, Kekaila Suzumu, Julia Takahashi, Serina Turner, Tyler Uetake, Lisa Vo

BFA Graphic Design Portfolio Showcase 
Thursday, April 25, 5:00 to 7:00 pm
at Capitol Modern

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theatre performance

Cherry Blossom Eskapo & Eva Hamok

Organized by the Late Night Theatre Company, Kennedy Theatre, and Department of Theatre & Dance

April 21 & 26-27
FRI/SAT at 11pm / SUN at 7:30pm

Double Feature of one-act plays that aim to bring AWARENESS about the dangerous implications of human trafficking and cybersex in the Philippines.

Cherry Blossom Eskapo or “Cherry Blossom Escape”, follows a young woman named Sarah aims to provide a better life for her family by going to Japan to work as a band musician. Unfortunate events take a U-turn when she learns that she is scammed and recruited as a guest relations officer (GRO) at a club in Japan. Escaping from the maltreatment and abuse of its Filipino club owner, she seeks refuge in the most unexpected places. She finds Andrew, one of the Filipino employees in the club who MIGHT be the key to her freedom and safety.

Eva Hamok or “Haunting Eva” is inspired by a true story about human trafficking in the Philippines. Specifically, about mail-order brides. This one-woman show follows Eva whose persona splits into two. Eva is a woman in her early 30s who used to be a mail-order bride and a babymaker. She has big dreams of becoming something more. The play begins with Eva receiving news that fulfills her dreams of being matched and married to an American, Mr. Jones. Plot thickens when her “other” self harasses and taunts her against accepting Mr. Jones’s proposal. Is this going to be the happy ending she’s always wanted? MORE INFO

Tickets can only be purchased at the Kennedy Theatre Box Office Window starting one hour prior to each show time (no pre-sales). Tickets range from $5-$10

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in-person seminar 

The oink in Okinawa: Rooting through changes in Okinawa’s heirloom pigs and cuisine

organized by the Center for Japanese Studies

Monday, April 22, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM HST
Moore Hall 258
To Register

Speakers:
Benjamin Schrager, Assistant Professor, Division of Agricultural Economics, School of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University
Sayaka Sakuma, Project Research Associate, Center for Promotion of Social Co-creation, Utsunomiya University

A rich culture of rearing and eating pigs emerged during the independent Ryukyu Kingdom. As Japan colonized Ryukyu and renamed it Okinawa Prefecture, pigs persisted as a resilient and distinct characteristic of Okinawan society. This presentation develops the idea of a companion breed to explore the unique relationship between Okinawans and their heirloom pigs. Here, we explore how this special partnership enabled unique socio-ecological formations to emerge and evolve. Historically called “island pigs” (shima buta) and today widely called “Agu,” Okinawa’s oldest heirloom pig breed is a small black pot-bellied pig that likely first arrived in the latter part of the 14th century but only thrived after the introduction of sweet potatoes in the early 17th century. This presentation focuses on local responses to three changes in sovereign administration. The first change is the interwar effort by the Japanese government to introduce Western bacon-type breeds like the Berkshire to replace island pigs. The second change is the postwar effort by the US government to disseminate Western pig breeds and industrialize pig husbandry. The third change is the post-reversion effort of Japanese industries to market value-added “Agu” pork as heirloom pig from Okinawa. These changes elicited a range of responses in Okinawa as relations to heirloom pigs and cuisine have continued to evolve.

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lecture + discussion

The Armenian Genocide: Collective Remembrance, Reflection, and Healing

Speaker: Annika Topelian, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Linguistics
organized by the History Forum, Department of History

Monday, April 22, 12:30 to 2:00 pm
Sakamaki Hall A201, U H M History Department Seminar Room 

Topelian will discuss the history of the Armenian Genocide including the context leading up to it, events that took place during, and post-genocide impacts for survivors and their descendants. The speaker will also consider the politics of naming the Genocide and official recognition. This discussion is even more relevant in the wake of the recent ethnic cleansing of Armenians from Artsakh this past September. Ms. Topelian will also introduce her own current research on the Armenian language. 

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Lauhoe Speaker Series: Healing Hawaiʻi’s Societal and Ecological Landscape Through the Cultural Ideology of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi

organized by the Department of Linguistics & Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language

Tuesday, April 23, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Moore Hall 151

Join us for the first event of the Lauhoe Speaker Series. Guest speaker G. Kalehua Krug, PhD, will share about how ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi and its knowledge system can reshape the societal and ecological landscape of Hawaiʻi, pointing to the connectivity between the language we speak, the thoughts that we think, and the cultural behaviors that we employ in our relationships to people, land and our future. Krug will speak from his experiences as the Poʻokumu of Ka Waihona O Ka Na’auao Public Charter School. The first Lauhoe Speaker Series event will also serve as the soft launch for the new Kūpinaʻi Language Center in Moore 151, a combined research space and community-oriented language workshop that is part of the LAE Labs network of CALL. MORE INFO

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Teaching Climate Change in Higher Education

speaker: Krista Hiser, English, KCC
organized by Christina Gerhardt, LLEA / German

Wednesday, April 23, 12:00 – 1:30 pm
KUY 201 + ZOOM (to register)

Krista Hiser has studied sustainability and climate change curriculum as a transformative shift in higher education since 2005. She is the former director of the University of Hawaii System Center for Sustainability across the Curriculum and is currently developing the Key Competencies in Sustainability Education framework. Since 2020, she has interviewed faculty from across the UH system for an IRB approved research study on “What faculty know, think, feel, and do about climate change.” The study employed a “live field notes” method in a medium.com blog, Teaching Climate Change in Higher Education. Professor Hiser will discuss the study, the blog, and some implications and ideas drawn from what faculty shared about their motivations, influences, and experiences with sustainability and change climate education. What began as a question about faculty professional development turned out to be about the profession of teaching and the purposes of higher education. 

Krista Hiser is a professor of writing at Kapiʻolani Community College. She teaches ENG 100 with a Sustainability Focus and has taught a climate fiction course (ENG 272) called “Cli Fi, Sci Fi, and the Culture of Sustainability.” She is the host of the Ultimate Cli Fi Book Club, a professional development offering of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). Her Ph.D. in Educational Administration focused on students as stakeholders in curriculum related to sustainability. She is currently on professional leave of absence serving as Senior Advisor for Sustainability Education at the Global Council for Science and the Environment in Washington, D.C. 

 

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talk

The Aloha ʻĀina and the Limahana: Class and Hawaiian Nationalism at the Turn of the 20th Century

Speaker: ʻIlima Long, Director of Education & Editor, ILWU Local 142, and PhD student, UHM Department of Political Science
organized by the Center for Biographical Research 

Thursday, April 25, 12 – 1:15 pm
Kuykendall 410

Hawaiian national leaders of the late nineteenth century were members of an educated political class in Hawaiʻi, many descending from kau kau aliʻi lines. While the state of Hawaiian independence was always at the forefront of their fight, a close look at their political organizing, public debates, and professional duties brings to light a discourse around class that moves to the front of organizing in the early twentieth century. This presentation highlights some of those findings to bring forward a more complete and a more nuanced narration of Hawaiian national politics at the turn of the century.

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colloquium

Equality & Elitism: Early Modern Women and the Philosophy of Friendship

organized by the Department of Philosophy

Thursday, April 25, 2:30 pm
Sakamaki Hall C-308

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics famously restricts the ideal form of friendship to subjects that are “alike” in virtue (1156b6-8), which entails that “such friendships should be infrequent; for such men are rare (1156b25). Critics highlight counterexamples showing genuine friendship requires neither high degrees of similarity (odd couples), nor even a minimum of virtue (partners in crime). Call this the elitism objection. The charge of elitism is especially forceful in considering how women historically have been thought to be incapable of achieving true friendship.

Michaela Manson, PhD is an instructor at Simon Fraser University. In this talk, Dr. Manson will argue that accounts of friendship of some early modern women philosophers formulate the ideal of friendship in a way that averts the elitism objection while preserving commitments to virtue and similarity.

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talk

EAduation: Letters from Hawaiʻi to Palestine 

organized by the Department of Philosophy

Friday, April 26, 2:30 pm
Sakamaki Hall C-308

Cynthia Franklin is a Professor of English at UHM, cofounding member of Students and Faculty for Justice in Palestine at UH (SFJP@UH), and author of Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea (2023). Māhealani Ahia is a Kanaka ʻŌiwi artist, scholar, activist, songcatcher and storykeeper with lineal ties to Maui. She is a PhD candidate in English (Hawaiian life writing) and certificate student in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at UHM.

Structured as a series of letters to their audience and to one another, this talk with Franklin and Ahia explores practices of solidarity from Hawaiʻi to Palestine. They are particularly interested in the role stories have to play in creating bonds of friendship that are at the core of political community, and to the role they play in EAducation. This concept bridges liberation and learning.

 

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Creating podcasts for active and authentic learning

organized by the Center for Language & Technology (CLT)

Facilitators: 
Naiyi Xie Fincham, UHM CLT Assistant Faculty Specialist in Learning Design
Michaela Nuesser, SLS PhD Candidate, UH Mānoa

Tuesday, April 30, 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Moore Hall 257 or ZOOM (to register)

Podcasts, a unique media model that has enabled a fresh generation of content producers, offer exciting opportunities for active and authentic learning in languages, cultures, and various specific domains. In this session, Naiyi will share the principles and processes involved in designing and creating podcasts as class projects. We will introduce the resources and facilities available at the CLT for podcast production, and highlight a successful podcast project implemented in one of the Department of Second Language Studies courses, produced right here at the CLT.

Join us to discover how podcasts can provide students with rich language and cultural experiences, discuss practical strategies for incorporating podcast creation into your classes, and learn how to start your own podcast project with CLT’s support. Additionally, in-person attendees will have the opportunity to tour the CLT recording studios at the end of the session.

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Rewriting Southeast Asia – Data and Publication

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

Wednesday, May 1, 3:00 – 4:30 pm
ZOOM (to register)

Speakers:

Try Thuon, Lecturer and Department Head, Faculty of Development Studies at the Royal University of Phnom Penh

Samphoas Im, a visiting scholar at Stanford University and an affiliated scholar at the University of Michigan

Cheng Nien Yuan, Faculty Early Career Award Fellow at the Singapore University of Technology and Design

Maggie Jack, Industry Assistant Professor at New York University

This panel will explore challenges and opportunities faced by Southeast Asian and western scholars in writing about Southeast Asian.  Panelists are primarily early academic researchers who are based in Southeast Asia and western universities. Scholars from different disciplines will discuss how scholars’ geographical, political, institutional, cultural contexts shape the way they write and publish about Southeast Asia.
 

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

Faculty & Staff Opportunities

more at CALL/for-faculty

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 : 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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