Weekly teach-in series on campus featuring The Value of Hawai'i authors

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Posted: Sep 20, 2010


At a time when new leaders will be elected, and new solutions need to be found, the thirty-one contributors to The Value of Hawai`i (University of Hawai‘i Press) will hold five noontime panel discussions and “teach-ins” on the UH Mānoa campus starting Thursday, September 30, and continuing every Thursday in October.
The campus community and public are encouraged to bring their brown-bag lunches to meet and talk with a majority of the book’s contributors during this special noontime teach-in series at Kuykendall 410. 
EVENT:           The Value of Hawai‘i Teach-in Series, free and open to the public
DATES:          
Five consecutive Thursdays, September 30 to October 28
TIME:             
12 noon to 1:10 p.m.
LOCATION:    Kuykendall 410 (1733 Donaghho Road), UH Mānoa
Co-sponsored by the Center for Biographical Research, the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities, and the UH-Mānoa Chancellor’s Office. For more information on this and other The Value of Hawai‘i events, please email thevalueofhawaii@gmail.com, call (808) 956-3774, or visit the website at http://thevalueofhawaii.com.
Full Schedule of Speakers and Topics:
Thursday, September 30   Ka Wehena: An Introduction
Carlos Andrade (Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies)
Tom Coffman (Journalist and Writer)
Craig Howes (Center for Biographical Research)
Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio (Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies)
Thursday, October 7   Ka ‘Oihana: Business, Military, Tourism, and Hawaiian Sustainability
Lowell Chun-Hoon (Labor Attorney)
Kathy Ferguson (Political Science and Women’s Studies)
Davianna Pōmaika‘i McGregor (Ethnic Studies)
Ramsay Remigius Mahealani Taum (School of Travel Industry Management)
Thursday, October 14   Ke Aupuni: Government, Prisons, Law, and Public Education
Chad Blair (Journalist)
Kat Brady (Community Alliance on Prisons)
Meda Chesney-Lind (Women’s Studies)
Melody Kapilialoha MacKenzie (Ka Huli Ao, William S. Richardson School of Law)
Mari Matsuda (William S. Richardson School of Law)
Neal Milner (Political Science)
Thursday, October 21   Ka Nohona: The Arts, Homelessness, Race, and Agriculture
Marilyn Cristofori (Hawaii Arts Alliance)
Charles Reppun (Reppun Farms)
John P. Rosa (History)
Trisha Kehaulani Watson (Honua Consulting)
Thursday, October 28   Ka ‘Āina: The Land, Preservation, Politics, and Health
Sara L. Collins (Historic Preservation)
Henry Curtis (Life of the Land)
Dana Naone Hall (Historic/Cultural Preservation and Politics)
Deane Neubauer (Political Science)
D. Kapua‘ala Sproat (Ka Huli Ao, William S. Richardson School of Law)
For a complete list of speaker bios, please visit the website at http://thevalueofhawaii.com.