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CALL WEEKLY 4-7-2024

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SPRING 2024
CALL WEEKLY (4-7 to 4-21-2024)
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Mānoa Interdepartmental Language Symposium

organized by the MILS Steering Committee

Friday – Sunday, April 5 – 7 REGISTER 

The Mānoa Interdepartmental Language Symposium (MILS) is an annual event that brings together students, faculty, and alumni engaged in language-related work at the University of Hawaiʻi to build connections and collaborations across disciplines through the sharing of ongoing or completed projects. We are accepting submissions for language-related research and creative projects at any stage of completion for presentation at this year’s symposium. Presentations will be in one of four formats: papers, posters, roundtables, and “speed presentations,” which are informal, five-minute overviews that introduce work focused on a specific geographic or language region. This event is open to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty and alumni. MORE INFO

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LLEA Speaker Series: Mondays in Moore

Filming from the Pacific: The Trajectory of a Spanish Documentary Maker Gemma Cubero del Barrio

organized by the Department of LLEA, Spanish & LAIS
 
Monday, April 8, 2:30 – 3:30 pm
Moore Hall 258
 
Gemma Cubero del Barrio is a Spanish/American documentary director and producer and instructor of Spanish in the Department of LLEA. For the last 24 years she has gained a breadth of experience producing non-fiction documentary films and original programming around the world with her company Talcual Films. Her documentaries include: Ella Es el Matador (She Is the Matador), Ottomaticake, Our Atoll Speaks, and The Island in Me. Gemma is a board member of Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Films, and serves on the jury of the News and Documentary Emmy Awards. MORE INFO

 

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lecture series on environmental humanities

Natural Resource Extraction in the Pacific and Climate Change

organized by the Institute for Sustainability and Resilience
 
Wednesday, April 10, 12:00 – 1:30 pm
KUY 201 + ZOOM
email ISR@hawaii.edu to register and for zoom link

Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Pacific has been a place for collecting and extracting plants, animals, and objects (trees and minerals). These plants, animals, and objects were transported on ships back to the laboratories, factories, libraries, and museums in Europe, where they represented, for an avid public, the imperial interests of Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. Recently, many of the extracted resources from the Pacific have been exported to Asian markets and factories. These collecting and extracting activities contribute to altering the Pacific’s ecosystem, which then generates climate change effects.

Joseph D. Foukona is from the Solomon Islands. He is an Assistant Professor of Pacific History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. 

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artist in residence

Angela Tiatia 

organized by the Department of Art and Art History

Storyboarding Workshop          
Wednesday, April 10, 3 – 5 pm  
ART Building room 215
email jaimeyh@hawaii if you want to participate.

Artist Talk                                 
Thursday, April 11, 5pm  
ART Building room 101

Angela Tiatia is a New Zealand-born artist of Sāmoan heritage who explores representations of gender, neo-colonialism, and the commodification of the body and place. MORE

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reading & book talk

Yellow Rain: A Reading & Book Talk with author Mai Der Vang

organized by Words@Mānoa, the Creative Writing Program, Department of English, and the Department of Indo-Pacific Languages & Literatures

Wednesday, April 10, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Kuykendall 410

Mai Der Vang is the author of YELLOW RAIN (Graywolf Press, 2021), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, an American Book Award, and a Northern California Book Award. It was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, PEN/Voelcker Award, the LA Times Book Prize, and the California Book Awards. Her first collection, AFTERLAND (Graywolf Press, 2017), received the First Book Award from the Academy of American Poets, was longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her third collection, PRIMORDIAL, is forthcoming in 2025 from Graywolf Press. Mai Der also co-edited How Do I Begin: A Hmong American Literary Anthology with the Hmong American Writers’ Circle. A Kundiman fellow, she has completed residencies at Civitella Ranieri and Hedgebrook. Born and raised in Fresno, California, she earned degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. Mai Der teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Fresno State.

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book talk 

Powa-yuramgi (布哇遊覽記) and Modern Travelogues about Hawai‘i

organized by the Center for Korean Studies

Thursday, April 11, 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

This book talk aims to illuminate Korean travelers’ perspectives on Hawaii during the early 20th century. Dr. Yelee An will first introduce Powa-yuramgi (布哇遊覽記), written by Hyun Soon in 1909, which stands as the inaugural document informing Korea of Hawaii’s geography, history, and culture, alongside detailed accounts of early Korean immigrants’ lives in Hawaii. Subsequently, Dr. An will present travelogues about Hawai‘i published in Korean newspapers and magazines from the 1900s to the 1930s. These accounts were penned by individuals from diverse backgrounds, including journalists, novelists, politicians, painters, and athletes. Despite their differing professions, they collectively left an indelible mark on Korea’s modern history.

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Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia

Speaker: Professor Miriam Stark, UHM Anthropology
organized by the Department of Religion & Ancient Civilizations

Thursday, April 11, 7:30 pm 
ART Building Auditorium

Angkor’s first great king, Jayavarman II, established Cambodia’s Angkorian state on the banks of the Tonle Sap in 802 CE and built his first capital, Mahendraparvata, on the slope of the nearby Kulen mountains. What followed were six centuries of political competition, warfare, and imperial rule by Angkor’s kings. Like rulers of other ancient states, Khmer kings built vast stone monuments to honor their predecessors and gods that still stand today. A century of scholarly research on the Khmer Empire’s achievements has shed light on the scale and nature of premodern Southeast Asia’s most influential polity; it has also shaped political agendas in unanticipated ways. This lecture introduces the Angkorian world, from its temples to its ceramics, and examines how cosmology and statecraft created Southeast Asia’s greatest premodern empire and the world’s largest preindustrial city. More info: Robert Littman <littman@hawaii.edu>

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Award Presentation + Winner’s PhD Proposal Defense Presentation

The Eliot Deutsch PhD Merit Award 
“Forgiveness as a Transformative Project”

organized by the Department of Philosophy

Friday, April 12, 2:30 pm
Sakamaki Hall C-308

The Eliot Deutsch PhD Merit Award recognizes the PhD student who has the best PhD proposal defense in the Department of Philosophy. Jana Light will present her winning PhD proposal defense, “Forgiveness as a Transformative Project.”
In this talk, Ms. Light will provide an overview of her dissertation plans on the topic of forgiveness and its moral significance and social-psychological dimensions. After outlining the set of issues that her dissertation will address, she will explore one theme in greater detail: the role of trust in forgiveness as a personally transformative project.

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summit

The 1898 Project Summit

organized by the Center for Biographical Research and Native Hawaiian Student Services 

Saturday, April 13, 1:00 – 8:00 pm
Sunday April 14, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies

The 1898 Project is a two-day summit of leading scholars and activists on American imperialism from Hawaiʻi, Guåhan, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico; the how and why, its effects, and what can be done now and in the future to cope, heal, and decolonize. MORE INFO

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lecture + discussion

Social Psychology and Authoritarianism: The Contributions of Milgram and Zimbardo

Speaker: Jean Rosenfeld, Ph.D., and Independent Scholar

organized by the History Forum, Department of History

Monday, April 15, 12:30 – 2:00 pm
Sakamaki Hall A201

With the rise of authoritarian leaders, parties, and movements globally, some historians are turning their attention to charismatic strongmen as worthy of study in addition to social snd political forces. This paper utilizes the work of social psychologists as well as sociologists to explain how ordinary people obey authority and conform to behaviors that are regarded as inhumane in authoritarian regimes that demand compliance with genocide, violence, and or marginalization of targeted groups. Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo reached surprising conclusions in their 20th-century experiments on obedience to authority and on prison abuse. Zimbardo followed up his study of “The Lucifer Effect” with a study of altruism and heroism and whether or not resistance to malevolent systems can be taught. Other relevant research on authoritarian leaders and followers involves sociologist’s refinements to Max Weber’s fruitful theory of charisma. The recent rise of authoritarianism in the US and the prominence of the MAGA movement can be better understood through the application of these and other contributions from social psychology.

Rosenfeld has researched and published extensively in the fields of the History of Religion and Terrorism. Her current interests include trying to better understand the history and causes of religious extremism, including the popularity of authoritarian leaders and anti-democratic ideas. Can the work of important Social Psychologists help in that effort?

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Artistic Resilience in Perilous Times: Exploring Afro-Cuban Music, Dance, and History

organized by the Department of Language and Literature of Europe and Americas

Monday, April 15, 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Richardson Law School Classroom 2
 
Featuring the rich African- and European-influenced dances and music of Cuba, participants will experience a vibrant island heritage that is not only extraordinarily unique but also strikingly familiar in its use of dance and music as a vehicle for overcoming historical hardship. 

In particular, participants will learn about the human resiliency at the core of Cuban tradition, forged by several million Africans of diverse ethnic origins who were brought to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade. Over time, these enslaved people and their descendants creatively melded their complex African rhythms and dances with European musical traditions, such as Spanish flamenco and French contredanse, resulting in music and dance that is uniquely Cuban. Rich polyrhythm and graceful ceremonial dances are their enduring legacy. Their influence is pervasive in salsa, rap, jazz, and other styles of contemporary pop culture and entertainment today. 

Royland Lobato is an acclaimed master Cuban dance teacher and performer in the San Francisco Bay Area, originally from Guantánamo, Cuba. He holds a degree in education, specializing in dance, from La Escuela de Instructores de Arte de la Ciudad de La Habana (School of Arts Instructors in Havana), and has performed throughout Europe, Mexico, Cuba, and the United States. Royland was a founding member of the Havana-based dance company, Siete Potencias (“Seven Powers,” referring to the seven major deities of the Yoruba pantheon), where he served as Artistic Director, choreographer, and dancer. Specializing in researching and studying the African roots of Cuban dances, the troupe has won numerous national awards for its authenticity and adherence to perpetuating and celebrating Cuban folkloric dance traditions. Questions: Mario Cruz <mcz@hawaii.edu>

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seminar

Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan

Speaker: Chris McMorran, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore
organized by the Center for Japanese Studies

Tuesday, April 16, 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Moore Hall 258 or ZOOM (to register)

Kurokawa Onsen is a rare bright spot in Japan’s countryside. Its two dozen traditional inns (ryokan) annually host hundreds of thousands of guests who admire its landscape, experience its  hospitality, and soak in its hot springs. As a result, these ryokan have enticed village youth to return home to take over successful family businesses and revive the community. What does it take to produce this family business and one of Japan’s most relaxing spaces, and who does the day-to-day labor of hospitality? In this talk, I share findings from a year spent welcoming guests, carrying luggage, scrubbing baths, cleaning rooms, washing dishes, and talking with co-workers and owners about their jobs, relationships, concerns, and aspirations. I share how Kurokawa’s ryokan mobilize hospitality to create a rural escape, emphasizing the gendered work or hospitality, as well as the generational work of ryokan owners vs. the daily embodied work of their employees. 

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Working with Climate Change and Sustainability in the Asia-Pacific

organized by the Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs, Careers in Asia-Pacific Affairs Initiative

Wednesday, April 17, 3:00–4:00 pm
258 Moore + ZOOM (register)

Are you interested in helping to fight climate change and promote sustainability? Want to learn more about how companies are trying to reduce carbon emissions and implement better energy policy in the Asia-Pacific region? Join us for a conversation with Ken Haig (Head, Energy & Environmental Policy, Asia-Pacific & Japan, Amazon Web Services) to hear about how he is helping to chart a path to 100% renewable energy and net carbon neutrality and how you can prepare for careers in this exciting field. Ken Haig was born and raised in Hawai‘i. He is currently based in the Tokyo office of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and travels extensively throughout the Asia-Pacific region addressing energy and environmental policy in multiple countries. Students from all majors and academic backgrounds are welcome. 

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webinar

Big Brother: Friendship, War, and Peace between China and the USSR in the Socialist Era

organized by the Center for Chinese Studies

Wednesday, April 17, 2:00 – 1:30 pm
REGISTER

Drawing on big data analytics of over 50,000 newspaper articles published in People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), this international collaborative project delves into the CCP’s narrative portrayal of the USSR from the late 1940s to the collapse of the world’s first proletarian revolutionary state. The analysis reveals significant shifts in both the thematic focus of discussions surrounding socialist ideology and sentiments towards Soviet Union within Chinese official discourse over the socialist era. Notably, the distribution of discussion topics concerning the USSR appears to have been primarily influenced by China’s domestic political dynamics. Conversely, the sentiments expressed towards the USSR reflect a broader diplomatic spectrum, encompassing expressions of friendship, debates, conflicts, and instances of reconciliation between the two nations.

Qiang Fu is an Associate Professor of Sociology and a co-director of the Centre for Chinese Research at the University of British Columbia. His recent publications have appeared in journals such as American Journal of Epidemiology, American Journal of Sociology, Annuals of the American Association of Geographers, Annals of Epidemiology, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, and Sociological Methods & Research.

Organizer/Online Moderator: Le LIN, UHM Associate Professor, Sociology
Onsite Moderator/Discussants: Kate Zhou, Professor, Political Science and Wensheng Wang, History

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in-person talk

English Translation of Togani (도가니) and the Expanding World of Translation

Speaker: Gong Ji-young 공지영

organized by the Center for Korean Studies

Thursday, April 18, 3 – 4 pm
Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

Atmospheric and fast-paced, this novel of manners set in a provincial South Korean city leads readers through the silent corridors of a school for hearing-impaired children and the city’s foggy back streets to a stirring courtroom climax. Gong Ji-young’s Togani (The Crucible), published in Korean in 2009, is based on a historic case of child sexual abuse at a state-run institution. The novel went on to sell nearly a million copies and, along with a 2011 film adaptation, prompted South Korea to pass the “Togani Laws” to provide greater legal protections for children and vulnerable adults. At a time when Korean popular culture drives cultural production worldwide, Togani reminds us of the power of fiction to effect meaningful societal change. Gong Ji-young is South Korea’s renowned author of over thirty books. Ju-Chan Fulton & Bruce Fulton are literary scholars and pioneering translators of numerous Korean fiction. 

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kabuki performance

The Maiden Benten and the Bandits of the White Waves

organized by the Department of Theatre & Dance, Kennedy Theatre

April 19-20 & 26-28
FRI-SAT at 7:30pm / SUN at 2:00pm 

A popular kabuki play, The Maiden Benten and the Bandits of the White Waves, commonly known as Benten Kozō, features five distinctive thieves with a mastery of masquerade, and a command of language from the gutter to the poetically sublime. Together with a full array of colorful kabuki characters, their schemes and backstories lead to shocking revelations, surprising reunions, startling twists and ultimately result in the realization that one cannot escape karma—though in meeting it, one need not abandon spectacle or beauty.

This production celebrates the long tradition of kabuki in Hawaiʻi, and marks the 100th anniversary of English-language kabuki productions at the University of Hawaiʻi as well as Kennedy Theatreʻs 60th birthday. Benten Kozō, presented in the 1963-64 inaugural season, is also a magnificent showcase for the hanamichi, an acting pathway through the audience which fosters an intimacy between actors and audience members. To this day, Kennedy Theatre remains the only theatre in the United States designed with a hanamichi. As in the previous 100 years, we are fortunate and grateful to bring community artists, guest artists from Japan, and UHM faculty, staff and students together to collaborate and ensure that regional “Hawaiʻi kabuki” thrives for the next 100 years. Tickets range from $8-$25. MORE INFO
 

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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 20-21, & 26-27, 2024 – FRI/SAT at 11pm and 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

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

Graduate Assistantships

CLT/NFLRC Graduate Assistant

The Center for Language & Technology (CLT) and the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at UH Mānoa are looking for a Graduate Assistant (GA) to join our team. This individual will work with our faculty and staff to support and advance language learning in the College of Arts, Languages & Letters and through national projects. This GA position will begin in August 2024. 

For more details and how to apply application deadline: 4/21/24

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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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 : 4/11, 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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