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Pushpa Palanchoke Residency, October 31-November 1, 2023

The Center for South Asian Studies is pleased to host Pushpa Palanchoke from October 31-November 1, 2023 at the UH Mānoa campus.
This event is cosponsored by the UH Department of Music.

Pushpa Palanchoke is a charismatic vocalist and ethnomusicologist from Nepal who exhibits a dedication to community work, scholarship, history and revival. She grew up in a home in which music was part of a spiritual practice. In addition to her strong musicianship as a singer, Pushpa runs a community program called Folk Lok, where she creates collaborative modules which breathe new life into community music traditions. An applied ethnomusicologist, she uses her work to educate, support, and uplift other women within indigenous and traditional music spaces. Very few women are in her field and she is a standout as an activist and artist. Grounded in social awareness and community empowerment, Pushpa stands out as an activist and artist in fields with very few women leaders. Pushpa is inspirational in her dedication to promoting women in indigenous music, her depth of knowledge about traditional music, the way she draws inspiration from personal experiences and culture to compose new music, and her strong work with youth through Folk Lok.
For more information visit our website.

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Join us for the upcoming Pallavi Banerjee Book Talk
The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program.

This event is co-sponsored by the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department and The Center for South Asian Studies.

This book talk explores how Indian immigrants grapple with the liminality of their positions as temporary workers or nonworking spouses as well as aspiring citizens after they migrate with their families to the U.S. for work. Drawing on extensive qualitative data from in-depth interviews, observations, and archival research, Banerjee compares the work and family lives of two distinct groups of Indian immigrants: men tech workers and women nurses relocating with their spouses, who arrive on H-4 dependent visas. She unravels the dissonance between the state’s perception of these migrants as internationally mobile skilled workers and the immigrant subjects’ tribulations when negotiating the contradictory expectations of being ideal citizens/workers/families without having the security of permanence in the U.S. She also shows how restrictions on the spouses of migrant temporary workers, who are not allowed to work for pay as a condition of their dependent visas in the U.S., constrain and fracture individuals and their families, leading many to refer to the dependent visas as “vegetable visas” and “prison visas.” Visa policies that are framed as legally gender- and race-neutral, in fact, have gendered and racialized ramifications for visa holders and their spouses. Banerjee shows how her research participants struggle to negotiate their lives within a visa regime embedded in a gendered and racialized system of oppression.
For more information about Pallavi and her book visit our website.
When: November 8, 2023 | 3pm – 4:15pm
Where: George Hall, 301B
Tea, coffee, and very light refreshments will be provided.

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FUNDING & OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

In order by upcoming deadlines.

Common Scholarship Application Now Open! Please check out the many opportunities that are available. 

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/mac/2022-scholarship/

Graduate Assistant (Careers in Asia-Pacific Affairs)

Assist the UH Manoa Asian Studies department chair in a developing series of activities
and resources designed to bolster UH student success in identifying and launching careers in
Asia-Pacific-related fields.
DEADLINE TODAY: October 20. 2023
For more information and to apply: https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawaiiedu/jobs/4227950/graduate-assistant-careers-in-asia-pacific-affairs?keywords=careers&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs

Call for Papers: 18th Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference (HPRC) 

To be held Date: Dec. 2 & 3, 2023, This event will be online. Zoominar from  6am – 11am MST We are accepting abstracts now: https://lnkd.in/gAjQK3YJ We also invite special panel proposals. Please reach out directly to Dr. Prakash Adhikari (adhik1p@cmich.edu) with your proposed panel theme, along with anticipated panelists. Meeting registration REQUIRED: https://lnkd.in/g7NGF6Ay
DEADLINE TODAY: October 20, 2023.

Call for Papers: Contested Monuments

Submissions are invited for an online workshop series and eventual inclusion in an edited volume on Contested Monuments. The workshop aim is to critically examine new approaches to monumentality and whether and how they challenge, re-imagine, and transform wider issues of social justice, representation, identities, nation-building, reinterpretation of contested monuments, temporary and artistic responses to (contested) monuments, etc.. 
300-word abstract deadline is TODAY October 20, 2023.
For more information please contact Paul Basu paul.basu@uni-bonn.de, University of Oxford and Global Heritage Lab, University of Bonn or Sophia Labadi s.labadi@kent.ac.uk, University of Kent and Global Heritage Lab, University of Bonn.

Call for Applications – ICSSR Institutional Doctoral Fellowships 2023-24

The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi invites applications for the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) Institutional Doctoral Fellowships for the year 2023-24. 
For Details, Click https://tinyurl.com/bdzknauy
Deadline: October 27, 2023

2024 AAS-in-Asia Conference: “Global Asias: Latent Histories, Manifest Impacts”

The theme of the conference is “Global Asias” as a new historical, conceptual, and methodological lens for exploring the multiplicity, complexity, and dynamics of Asia in its manifest and hidden connections within the region and with the rest of the world from antiquity to the present. With the 2024 AAS-in-Asia being held in Indonesia, where pluralism lives in its history, constitution, culture, languages, religions, and physical geography, the city of Yogyakarta will be well suited for our intellectual and cultural exchange on Global Asias. We therefore welcome all disciplinary and thematic approaches to Global Asias: history, literature, religion, cinema, law, politics, labor, economics, gender, archaeology, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, media studies, social movements, public health (pandemic) and the environment.
For more information visit: https://www.asianstudies.org/conferences/aas-in-asia/call-for-proposals/

Submission Deadline: October 30, 2023

LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge

We award short-term fellowships to scholars to pursue research in the history of knowledge at our research environment at Lund. We are particularly dedicated to support the research of promising international postdoctoral/early career scholars with an ambition and a capacity to develop the history of knowledge. We invite scholars to join us at LUCK during a period of 1 to 2 weeks, between the 8th and 19th of April 2024 . The scholars will have the opportunity to present their ongoing research and interact with the historians of knowledge at Lund.

For more information: https://newhistoryofknowledge.com/visiting-fellowship-programme/
Deadline: November 1, 2023.

Call for Abstracts: The Third Volume of The Itihāsology Journal. 
The Itihāsology Journal in 2021, with the aim to provide a platform for aspiring academicians who wish to illuminate narratives from Indian history that captivate them. The Journal has released two digital and freely accessible editions, both of which have received appreciation and reviews from renowned historians. The editorial team of the Journal is led by Eric Chopra and Kudrat B. Singh. We look forward to receiving your submissions for the next volume of The Itihāsology Journal. 

The deadline for abstract submissions is 1st November, 2023.
Please send your abstracts to itihasjournal@gmail.com.

Call for Papers: Research Workshop on Gender, Youth, and Media in Asia

The proposed workshop will focus on interdisciplinary approaches to gender and sexuality research, and invites papers from scholars whose work connects to disciplines such as geography, linguistics, anthropology, communications, and media studies. In particular, the workshop will highlight research within three key streams (Media and Discourse, Youth and Society, and Borders and Boundaries), with a particular focus on Asia and explore how these streams might intersect. Only original and previously unpresented/unpublished submissions will be accepted.
Paper title, 350-words abstract and short biography (up to 150 words) are to be submitted to gsrc@nus.edu.sg. 
Deadline: November 3, 2023

Fellowships for Early Career Researchers / Career Development Fellowships 2024

The University of Oxford – Merton College is taking applications for Fellowships for Early Career Researchers / Career Development Fellowships 2024 in the following fields: Humanities & Social Sciences: Anthropology, Archaeology, History Sciences: Mathematics, Computer Science   
Visit the job posting for more information.
Deadline: November 10, 2023.

Cultural Heritage Funding: New MEAP Grants Available (2023-24)

The Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) is a UCLA Library granting program. We fund projects that document, digitize, and make accessible endangered archival materials from the 20th and 21st Centuries. Collections focus on history, society, culture, and politics, with an emphasis on social justice, human rights activism, cultural production, indigenous experiences, and under-documented communities. Materials may include print, photography, film, audio, ephemera, and digital objects.
Increased Grant Amounts for all documentation and digitization awards.Planning Grants can now budget up to $20,000 for organization and inventory work; Project Grants up to $70,000 for digitization and metadata creation.
New Grant Opportunity. Regional Grants should be used to create digital collections that include cultural heritage materials from three or more institutions, families, or archival repositories but related to one theme, community or historical event.
Join us in the essential work of ensuring access to cultural heritage and communal memory. 
All details available at https://meap.library.ucla.edu/applicants/how-to-apply
Preliminary Applications due November 13, 2023

Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) 

The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is an immersive summer opportunity for American college and university students to learn languages essential to America’s engagement with the world.The CLS Program provides opportunities for American college and university students to study languages and cultures essential to America’s engagement with the world. 
For more information visti: https://clscholarship.org/
Application Deadline: November 14, 2023 at 8pm EST.

Wasafiri Magazine is Accepting Themed Creative Submissions

From November 1- 15 only, Wasifiri Magazine will be taking Fiction, Life Writing, and Poetry. For more information and submissions guidleines please visit: https://www.wasafiri.org/submit/
Deadline: Submissions only accepted November 1 -November 15

Fung Global Fellows Program

During the 10-month academic year 2024-25, the program theme will be “Colonial Residues.” Colonialism is frequently evoked today as a root cause of global inequity or, in some jarring instances, nostalgic celebration. In both the “new” states and the “old” ones that reluctantly let them go, colonialism’s many impacts are ubiquitous—its traces often tangible and measurable, shaping political regimes and socioeconomic wellbeing while also determining whose stories are told and by whom; whose achievements are celebrated and how; and whose resources are used, removed, or polluted. Even when not immediately visible, colonial residues are arguably present, much like the microplastics that now pervade air, water, and earth.
For information on submission materials and to apply, please visit their website: https://funggfp.princeton.edu/applications,
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2023 (11:59 p.m. ET).

AIIS Fellowships

The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) invites applications from scholars from all disciplines who wish to conduct their research in India. Junior fellowships are given to doctoral candidates at universities in the U.S. to conduct research for their dissertations in India for up to eleven months. Senior long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (four months or less) fellowships are available for scholars who hold the Ph.D. degree. Scholarly/Professional development fellowships are available to scholars and professionals who have not previously worked in India. Creative and Performing Arts fellowships are available to practitioners of the arts of India. Eligible applicants include 1) U.S. citizens; and 2) citizens of other countries who are students or faculty members at U.S. colleges and universities (this rule does not apply to U.S. citizens).
Applications can be downloaded from the web site www.indiastudies.org. For more information please contact the American Institute of Indian Studies  (773) 702-8638. Email: aiis@uchicago.edu. Web site: www.indiastudies.org. 

Application deadline: November 15, 2023.

Library Treasure Scholarships

The University of Hawaiʻi Library at Mānoa invites applications for the 2023-24 Library Treasures Scholarships. The scholarships promote the use of the Library’s collections, raise awareness about the educational values of our library’s unique holdings, and make use of the expertise of subject specialist librarians. Students in any discipline and at any level of study are invited to submit proposals of projects that involve the use of the UHM Library’s collections, and whose final outcome will result in the production of a research or creative piece.  One may compete individually or form a team. In the case of a team, the scholarship will be split evenly among the team members. Scholarship: $500 per proposal.
Proposal submission deadline: Friday, November 24, 2023 (by midnight). Notification to scholarship recipients: Friday, December 15, 2023. Further information here.

The Library of Congress Fellowship Applications

The Library of Congress has a number of fellowship applications open now! These range from summer opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to post-doctoral research fellowships. 
For more information, visit: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/asianstudies/library-of-congress-fellowships-open/
Deadline: November 24, 2023

Robert H N Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies

Launched in 2014, the Program in Buddhist Studies, administered by the American Council of Learned Societies, promotes the academic study of Buddhism and the dissemination of knowledge of Buddhism through support for dissertations, research, and writing, and by assisting institutions to establish new, tenure-track teaching positions.  Annual symposia foster networks and knowledge sharing amongst scholars. More Information | Deadline: November 30, 2023

Asia Health Policy Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Asia Health Policy Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) promotes a comparative understanding of health and health policy in the Asia-Pacific region. From its inception, the program has been committed to fostering the next generation of Asia health policy researchers. Each year the program offers a postdoctoral fellowship position to a recent doctoral graduate.
Applicants should arrange for TWO (2) letters of recommendation to be emailed directly to Shorenstein APARC.
Submit all your application materials and arrange for two letters of recommendation to be emailed directly to Lisa Lee at llee888@stanford.edu.
For more information: https://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/education/fellowship-and-training-opportunities/asia-health-policy-postdoctoral-fellowship
Deadline: December 1, 2023

Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellowship on Contemporary Asia

Each year the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) offers two postdoctoral fellowship positions to junior scholars for research and writing on contemporary Asia. The primary research areas focus on political, economic, or social change in the Asia-Pacific region (including Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia), or on international relations and international political economy in the region. The fellowships are made possible through the generosity of APARC’s benefactor, Walter H. Shorenstein.
For more information visit: https://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/education/fellowship-and-training-opportunities/shorenstein-postdoctoral-fellowship
The submission deadline is December 1, 2023.

Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab (SNAPL) Fellowships

Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab is offering one or two postdoctoral fellowships (two years in length) to begin in fall quarter 2024. Applications for these fellowships are due by December 1, 2023.

The Lab is also offering two visiting scholar positions to researchers from Asia. Applications for these positions close on March 1, 2024 More Information

CAORC Multi – Country Research Fellowship

The Multi-Country Research Fellowship is now accepting applications! This fellowship enables US scholars to carry out trans-regional and comparative research in countries across the network of Overseas Research Centers (ORCs), as well as other countries. The Multi-Country Research Fellowship has been running since 1993 and supports advanced research in the humanities, social sciences, and allied natural sciences for US doctoral candidates, who are ‘all but dissertation,’ and scholars who have earned their PhD or terminal degree. Scholars must carry out research in two or more countries outside the US, at least one of which must host a participating ORC. Applicants are eligible to apply as individuals or as teams and independent scholars are also eligble to apply. Twelve awards of $12,600 will be granted. 
Each year the highest ranking Multi-Country Fellowship applicant will receive an additional $1,000 toward travel expenses through the Mary Ellen Lane Multi-Country Travel Award. The award is named after CAORC’s founding director, Dr. Mary Ellen Lane. 

Minority scholars and scholars from Minority-Serving Institutions are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: December 6, 2023 | Apply here. | Questions: fellowships@caorc.org

Asia Health Policy Postdoctoral Fellowship

APARC invites applications for our 2024-25 Asia Health Policy Postdoctoral Fellowship. We welcome submissions from candidates studying evidence-based health or healthcare policy of high relevance to low- and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Applications are due by December 1, 2023 Deadline: December 31 | More info: https://tinyurl.com/yukay7cj

Call for Papers: “Asia: Our Global Future”

The Organizing Committee of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) 2024 at University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo invites college and university faculty, K-12 schoolteachers, independent scholars and graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in Asian or Asian diaspora studies to submit proposals for organized panels, roundtable discussions, individual papers or poster presentations on historical or contemporary topics in the humanities, arts, social sciences, education, health, law, business, environmental sciences or other disciplines related to Asia and the Asian diasporas.
Early submission deadline is on December 31, 2023.
For more information: https://hilo.hawaii.edu/conferences/ASPAC/2024/

Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program now open!

The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad program provides U.S. educators in the arts, social sciences and humanities with opportunities to participate in short-term seminars abroad to improve their understanding and knowledge of the peoples and cultures of other countries. In 2024 summer seminars will be offered in Finland, Thailand, and Colombia.
For more information and how to apply visit: https://tinyurl.com/5fpa82x7
Deadline: January 4, 2024

CAUSE Leadership Academy (CLA)
The Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment (CAUSE) is excited to announce that the application for the 2024 CAUSE Leadership Academy (CLA) is now open! The CAUSE Leadership Academy (CLA), is a nine-week paid internship program for college undergraduates and recent graduates that prepares students and recent graduates to lead and advocate for the civic engagement and political empowerment of the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community. For more information visit: https://www.causeusa.org/leadership-academy
To apply use the google form.
Deadline: January 28, 2024

AIIS Summer 2024 and Academic Year 2024-2025 Language Programs 

The American Institute of Indian Studies welcomes applications for its summer 2024 and academic year 2024-2025 language programs. Programs to be offered include Hindi (Jaipur), Bengali (Kolkata), Punjabi (Chandigarh), Tamil (Madurai); Marathi (Pune), Urdu (Lucknow), Telugu (Hyderabad), Gujarati (Ahmedabad), Kannada (Mysore), Malayalam (Thiruvananthapuram), Mughal Persian (Lucknow), Sanskrit (Pune) and Pali/Prakrit (Pune). We will offer other Indian languages upon request.
For more information: https://www.indiastudies.org/language-programs/
Application Deadline: January 31, 2024. Applications can be downloaded from the AIIS web site atwww.indiastudies.org. For more information: https://www.indiastudies.org/language-programs/  Email: aiis@uchicago.edu.

Asian Development Bank Visiting Fellow Program

Our Visiting Fellow Program allows researchers and academics to share their ongoing or recently completed economic research at ADB headquarters in Manila. Women and applicants from ADB developing member countries are encouraged to apply. ROLLING DEADLINE. Learn more about the program: https://ow.ly/282A50Pymkt

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EVENTS

“Cultural Studies in the Contemporary World”

For over twenty years, the International Cultural Studies Graduate Certificate Program at UHM has played an important role in providing theoretical foundations in cultural studies and interdisciplinary research methods for graduate students. It has also been a valuable platform for vibrant exchanges of ideas among faculty and students. Yet, since the program’s establishment at UHM, the intellectual, institutional, and sociopolitical climate has changed considerably. What is the function of cultural studies at UHM, in US academe, and in the world today? What does cultural studies offer as we grapple with the urgent issues of the contemporary world, such as climate change, threats to liberal democracy, the permanent war on terror, and the usurping of academic freedom? Scholars from a diverse range of fields and expertise will discuss what cultural studies brings to their analysis of the world we live in.
Panelists: Ty P. Kawika Tengan (Anthropology and Ethnic Studies), Jaimey Hamilton Faris (Art and Art History), Sankaran Krishna (Political Science), Jonna Eagle (American Studies), Cynthia Franklin (English).
Moderator: Mari Yoshihara (American Studies)
WHEN: Friday, October 27, 2023 | 1pm – 2:30pm
WHERE: Kuykendall 307

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

Tuesday, October 31, 12-1:30pm at Center for Korean Studies Auditorium (Livestream on CSAS YouTube Channel) Presentation: Folk Lok & the Dāphā Music Tradition.
Tuesday October 31, 6-7pm: at Orvis Auditorium Performance: Bhavanas from the Hills.
WednesdayNovember 1, 12-1:30pm: Singers’ Workshop: Dāphā Music & its Musicality.  Sign up for details at csas@hawaii.edu

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JOBS

Positions open until filled unless otherwise noted.

Assistant/Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Asian and Asian Diaspora Art

Asia Society New York has posted for the position of Assistant/Associate Curator. For more information visit: https://tinyurl.com/2zthz7n4

 Assistant/Associate John H. Foster Curator, Pre-Modern Asian Art

Asia Society New York has posted for the position of Assistant/Associate Curator. For more information visit: https://tinyurl.com/y452hka2

Asian and Asian American Studies – Assistant Professor

The Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Loyola Marymount University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor beginning August 2024. For more information visit: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65858
Deadline: October 31, 2023

Professor in Hindi, University of Washington 

The Department of Asian Languages & Literature at the University of Washington seeks to appoint a full-time Assistant Teaching Professor in Hindi. More information can be found here:
Interfolio: http://apply.interfolio.com/130043
UW: https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/position-details/?job_id=121417
Priority Given to applications received before November 1.

Assistant Professor of History – South Asian History

The University of Oklahoma is advertising for a Professor of South Asian History. For more information visit: https://apply.interfolio.com/132509
DEADLINE: November 1, 2023.

Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the Area of Buddhist Studies

Fairfield University’s Department of Religious Studies invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the area of Buddhist Studies beginning in the fall of 2024 (pending final budget approval). For more information visit: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66250
Deadline: November 3, 2023

Transnational Asian Studies – Rice University: School of Humanities

Rice University is advertising for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the study of Southeast Asia, with a preferred sub-field in Asian-American/Diasporic Studies, Medical Humanities, Environmental Studies, Science and Technology, or the study of Gender and Sexuality. For more information visit: https://apply.interfolio.com/130621
Deadline: November 15, 2023

Assistant Professor with expertise in Asian Refugee Literatures and Cultures

Simon Fraser University is advertising for a full-time tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with expertise in Asian Refugee Literatures and Cultures, to be housed in the Department of World Languages and Literatures with 50% dedicated workload in the Global Asia Program. For more information visit: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65893
Deadline: December 5, 2023

Assistant Professor in Modern South Asian History

The Department of History at Columbia University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor for modern South Asia. For more information visit: https://apply.interfolio.com/131212
Deadline: December 12, 2023

History of Art – Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, South Asian Art and Architecture

Yale University is advertising for Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, South Asian Art and Architecture, History of Art. For more information visit: https://apply.interfolio.com/131370
Deadline: December 18, 2023

Assistant Professor of Asian History (Teaching Track)

Illinois Wesleyan University invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Asian History (Teaching Track).  For more information visit: https://www.iwu.edu/human-resources/job-openings/assist-prof-asian-history.html
Deadline: May 2024

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Assistance for Maui

 Our hearts go out to everyone affected by the fires on Maui.
The banyan tree in the background of the image above was a gift shipped from India 150 years ago, and is located in central Lahaina town. It still stands after the fires. 

Here are some verified ways to donate to relief funds:Hawaii Community Foundation MAUI STRONG FUND: https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong

Hawaii Salvation Army: https://hawaii.salvationarmy.org/

Kakoo Maui Fund: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Aloha United Way: https://www.auw.org/

Maui Mutual Aid: bit.ly/mauimutualaide      Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

UH Foundation Urgent Student Relief: https://giving.uhfoundation.org/funds/12949504?appealCode=24AG6

UH Foundation Urgent Faculty & Staff Relief: https://giving.uhfoundation.org/funds/13035204?appealCode=24AG7Nearest Foodland:  https://foodland.com/store-locations/Hawaii Restaurant Association (assisting with evacuees on Ohau):https://hawaiirestaurant.org/

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