Dai Ho Chun Distinguished Chair
Writer and historian Rebecca Solnit has written more than 25 books on walking, history, catastrophe, feminism, and hope. A Guggenheim fellow and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Solnit is the author of Men Explain Things to Me and A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster. She writes regularly for Harper’s and The Guardian. Solnit is the Fall 2025 Dai Ho Chun Chair in the College of Arts, Languages & Letters.
Public Lecture
We Make the Future in the Present
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 6:30 pm
Orvis Auditorium
UH Mānoa Campus
Lead Event Sponsor: College of Arts, Languages & Letters
Event Co-Sponsors: UH Mānoa Creative Writing Program, Hawai‘i Community Foundation, and The Learning Coalition
