We’re excited to announce the schedule for Brown Bag Biography, Fall 2024.
All of our talks will be held in person in Kuykendall 410 (UH Mānoa). For more information, please visit our website and social media, where we will post detailed announcements for each event.
BROWN BAG BIOGRAPHY
DISCUSSIONS OF LIFE WRITING BY & FOR TOWN & GOWN
THURSDAYS, 12:00 NOON–1:15 PM HST, unless otherwise noted
KUYKENDALL 410 (UH MĀNOA)
All are welcome to attend. For more information, 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 2024 SCHEDULE
September 12: “Clairboyance: A Reading & Craft Chat”
Kristiana Kahakauwila, Director of the Creative Writing Program, Department of English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
NB: Time: 3:00 to 4:30 pm HST
September 19: “Puana: A Conversation about the Upcoming Hawaiian-language Play Exploring Music, Kūpuna, and Their Living Legacy”
Moderated by Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker, Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Featuring panelists Maile Speetjens, Kaʻiukapu Baker, Noelani Montas, Chris Patrinos, Antonio Hernandez, and Kelli Finnegan
Will be live streamed
September 26: “This Story is No Longer Available: Working with Experiential Media and Life Narratives”
Amy Carlson, Serials Librarian, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library
October 3: “Lose your Father(land): A former slave turned Calvinist missionary returns to Elmina, Ghana (1742–47)”
Peter Arnade, Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts, Languages & Letters, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
October 10: “Ahu‘ena: A Life In and Beyond the Archives”
Noah Hanohano Dolim, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
October 17 “Imua Me Ka Hopo Ole – Kānaka ‘Ōiwi Survivance and Colonial Education in Territorial Hawai‘i, 1900–1941”
Derek Taira, PhD, Historian of Education and 20th Century Hawai‘i and US, Department of Educational Administration, College of Education, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and Affiliate Faculty, Center for Pacific Island Studies and Indigenous Politics Program, Department of Political Science
October 24: “Imagining Life in Honolulu Chinatown circa 1900”
Wing Tek Lum, Honolulu Businessman and Poet
October 31: “The Afterlives of Benjamin Lay, in Biography, Play, Graphic Novel, Children’s Book, and Documentary Film”
Marcus Rediker, Dai Ho Chun Chair in the College of Arts, Languages, & Letters, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
November 7: “[…]: Poems”
Fady Joudah, Poet, Physician, and Translator
NB: Time: 3:00 to 4:30pm HST
November 14: “John Kneubuhl: A Portal to Oceanic Modernism”
Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, Writer
Jackie Pualani Johnson, Professor Emerita, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
November 21: “The Place of Jewish Voice for Peace in Hawaiʻi: An Intergenerational Roundtable”
Moderated by Cynthia G. Franklin, Professor, Department of English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Featuring panelists Imani Altemus-Williams, Josie Brody, Beverly Davis, Rose Elovitz, George Hudes, and Julie Warech
