We’re excited to announce the schedule for Brown Bag Biography, Fall 2023.
All of our talks will be held in person in Kuykendall 410 or Biomed B-104 (UH Mānoa). For streaming information for select talks, please visit our website and social media, where we will post detailed announcements for each event. We will also record and post many of the talks. You can find some past presentations on our YouTube channel here.
THE CENTER FOR BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIʻI AT MĀNOA
BROWN BAG BIOGRAPHY
DISCUSSIONS OF LIFE WRITING BY & FOR TOWN & GOWN
THURSDAYS, 12:00 NOON–1:15 PM HST •
All are welcome to attend. To find streaming information for select events, please visit the Center for Biographical Research’s website https://manoa.hawaii.edu/cbr/, contact us at 808-956-3774 or gabiog@hawaii.edu, or sign up for our mailing list at https://forms.gle/Sr9WdvNBD9WdwG7EA.
Fall 2023 SCHEDULE
September 14: “Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea: A Book Talk”
Cynthia Franklin, Professor, Department of English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Location: KUY 410
Time: 12:00–1:15 pm HST
September 21: “Staging Shakespeare in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi”
Tammy Hailiʻōpua Baker, Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Justin Fragiao, MFA Student in Scenic Design, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Iāsona Kaper, MFA Student in Hawaiian Theatre, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Joshua Kamoaniʻala “Baba” Tavares, MFA Student in Acting & Hawaiian Theatre, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Devin Walter, MFA Student in Costume Design, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Noelani Montas, MFA Student in Hawaiian Theatre, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Location: KUY 410
Time: 12:00–1:15 pm HST
September 28: Break
October 5: “Reflections on Returning Home to Hawaiʻi”
Patrick Kirch, Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Location: KUY 410
Time: 12:00–1:15 pm HST
October 12: “The Political Economy of Environmental Racism in Waiʻanae”
Laurel Mei-Singh, Assistant Professor of Geography and Environment and Asian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Location: KUY 410
Time: 12:00–1:15 pm HST
October 19: “Makawalu Perspectives on Silence: Reimagining the ‘Gaps’ as Stories”
Kayla Watabu, PhD student and Assistant Director of the Writing Center, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Location: KUY 410
Time: 12:00–1:15 pm HST
October 26: “Beyond Anthropocentrism(?): Logos and the Aesthetic Relation”
Sarah Allen, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition and the Director of
Writing Programs, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Location: KUY 410
NB: Time: 3:00–4:30 pm HST
November 2: “Anarchives: How We Remember Our Political Movement Is Part of the Movement”
Kathy E. Ferguson, Professor, Departments of Political Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Location: KUY 410
Time: 12:00–1:15 pm HST
November 9: “Lifelines: Poems for Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper”
Joseph Stanton, Professor Emeritus of American Studies and Art History, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Location: KUY 410
Time: 12:00–1:15 pm HST
November 16: “Explorations of Agency in Life Writing by LGBTQ+ Youth ”
Dr. Roz Bellamy, Academic, La Trobe University, Melbourne/Naarm
Location: Biomed B-104
Time: 12:00–1:15 pm HST
NB: November 21: “Narrative self-construction in autobiographical comics”
Zuzana Fonioková, Assistant Professor, Department of Czech Literature, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Location: Biomed B-104
Time: 12:00–1:15 pm HST
November 23: Thanksgiving
November 30: “World War II Legacies and Inheritances: Discoveries in a Community Biography Project”
Moderated by Gail Y. Okawa, Professor Emerita of English, Youngstown State University-Ohio, and Coordinator, CONNECTIONS: Santa Fe Internment Camp Descendants Group
Naomi Hirano-Omizo, Japanese language faculty, Punahou School, Mid-Pacific Institute (ret.)
Alison Kaʻōlinokaimana Yasuoka, Arts Integration Specialist, Voyager Public Charter School (Honolulu), and MEd Candidate in Curriculum Studies: STEMS2, College of Education, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Annette Tashiro, Chair, State Rehabilitation Council of Hawaii; Rehabilitation Counselor, State of Hawai`i (ret.)
Grant Din, Co-curator and lead researcher, “Taken from Their Families” exhibit, Immigration Station, Angel Island State Park (virtual from San Francisco, CA)
Location: KUY 306
NB: Time: 3:00–4:30 pm HST
