FALL 2018 SCHEDULE

Sept 27: “Writing About Other People’s Memories.”
Ellen G. Friedman, English Dept., The College of New Jersey
Cosponsored by U H Fund for the Promotion of Jewish Life and Studies and the UHM Dept of English
*this session will be held in KUYKENDALL 410

Oct 4: “Techniques for Conveying Unusual Personal Experience (Such as Growing Up with Psychics): Readings from Two Short Sections of River Stone Running.”
Kathy Phillips, Dept. of English, UH Mānoa
*this session will be held in KUYKENDALL 410

Oct. 11: “Hawaiʻi Okinawan-Owned Restaurant Project: Oral History and Community Archives.”
Gene Kaneshiro and Howard Takara, Project Leaders
Cosponsored by the Center for Oral History

Oct. 18: “Kihawahine: Shapeshifting Life and Afterlife of Maui’s Famous Akua Mo’o.”
Māhealani Ahia, Dept. of English, UH Mānoa

Oct 25: “Return to Kahiki: Native Hawaiians in Oceania.”
Kealani Cook, Dept. of Humanities, UH West-O‘ahu

Nov. 1: “Jewish Childhood Recollections in Post-Soviet Autobiographical Discourse.”
Marina Balina, Russian Studies, Illinois Wesleyan University
Cosponsored by Russian Studies, Dept of LLL at UH Mānoa

Brown Bag Biography Cosponsored Event on Nov 1st: 3:00 to 4:30 pm, Lecture in KUY 410: Ramzy Baroud, “Give the Palestinian People the Right to Tell Their Own Stories.” Response from Gaza by Yousef AlJamal (via Skype).
Cosponsored by UH-Students and Faculty for Justice in Palestine and the UHM Departments of English and Political Science

Nov 8: “‘Aumua Mata’itusi Simanu: The Lifestory of a Ninety-Seven-Year-Old Samoan Orator and Educator in Diaspora.”
Fata Simanu-Klutz, Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, UH Mānoa

TUESDAY Nov 13: “The ‘intimate sphere of poetry’ of Ștefan Baciu, Jean Charlot, and Larry Kauanoe Kimura in the literary magazine MELE: International poetry letter from Hawaiʻi.”
Yoshiro Sakamoto, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Visiting Researcher at the Center for Biographical Research UH-Mānoa