Upcoming CPIS Events

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies. For more information, see links at bottom, or click on the images at right.

Aloha friends and colleagues, 
Please join us for films and seminars during the final weeks of the semester: 

Thursday 4/19  – Pacific Film Series presents Shiro’s Head (Guam) 2008
6:30 pm 
Tokioka Room, Moore 319 cosponsored by the Pacific Islands Development Program and Pan Pacific Association 

Tuesday 4/24 – Marata Tamaira, PhD candidate Australian National University (CPIS MA, 2009), “Visual Sovereignty and Indigenous Countervisuality: Picturing Contemporary Kanaka Maoli Art Practice in Hawai‘i”, 
12:00 pm 
John Burns Hall room 3121/3125, East-West Center
cosponsored by the Pacific Islands Development Program 

Wednesday 4/25 – Semir Al Wardi (University of French Polynesia), “Democracy in French Polynesia” 
12:00 pm
John Burns Hall 3121/3125, East-West Center
cosponsored by the Pacific Islands Development. 

Wednesday 5/2 – Pacific Connections Seminar Series with University of French Polynesia
12:00 pm 
John Burns Hall 3121/3125, East-West Center 
cosponsored by the Pacific Islands Development Program. This is the final in a series of scholarly presentations between Hawai‘i and Tahiti Nui using video conference technology featuring faculty and students dedicated to Pacific Islands studies. 

Thursday 5/3 – Pacific Film Series presents Miss South Pacific: Beauty and the Sea (Fiji) 2011 
6:30 pm 
Tokioka Room, Moore 319
cosponsored by the Pacific Islands Development Program and Pan Pacific Association 

For more information, see the attached flyers or visit our website http://www.hawaii.edu/ cpis/news_2.html and http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/news_3.html

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