We’re excited to announce the schedule for Brown Bag Biography, Fall 2025.
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 brownbag@hawaii.edu, or sign up for our mailing list at https://forms.gle/Sr9WdvNBD9WdwG7EA.
Fall 2025 SCHEDULE
September 10*: “Art in the Time of Genocide”
Mari Matsuda, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law
Malia Osorio, Artist and Community Organizer
*The first Brown Bag Biography event will take place on a Wednesday. All forthcoming events will be on Thursday.
September 18: “Women in the Public Sphere: Patronage as Autobiography in Medieval China”
Kate Lingley, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
September 25: “sdrawkcaB/Sideways/Onwards: Writing a Return to Borderless Futures”
Angie Cruz, Biography Prize Winner
October 2: “Collective Reverence as Knowledge Creation in Place-based Histories of Child Incarceration”
Maile Arvin, Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
October 9: “Danger Educated Black Man: A Work in Progress”
Charles Lawrence III, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law
October 16: “Speculative Nonfiction and Ancestral Haunting: Writing with a Great-Grandfather I Never Met”
Anjoli Roy, Creative Writer and High School English Teacher
October 23: “Births in the Death Camps: Pregnancy as Resistance in Delayed Holocaust Testimonies in French”
Nathalie Ségeral, Associate Professor of French, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
October 30: “Tensions in Survivor Narratives From Rwanda: Life-Writing and Memory”
Jack Taylor, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
November 6: “The Prison as a Space of Elimination: The Role of Israel’s Carceral System in the Ongoing Gaza Genocide”
Zarefah Baroud, Lecturer, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
November 13: “Crossing the DMZ: How Feminist Peace Approaches Matter”
Christine Ahn, Feminist peace activist, Founder of Women Cross DMZ
November 20: “Celebrating Mary Church Terrell’s Phillis Wheatley Play for the 1932 George Washington Bicentennial”
Lurana Donnels O’Malley, Retired Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
December 4: “Tempering, or, Queer (Un)making: Transforming the Traditional”
River Pruitt, Biography Prize Winner
