Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

The UH-Manoa Center for Biographical Research has released its fall Brown Bag Biography Series schedule: Brown Bag Biography Series Fall 2014 — Thursdays,   Noon – 1:15 Center for Biographical Research • 1800 East West Road, Henke Hall 325 (unless otherwise noted) August 28: “ I, Too, Am Harvard : Storytelling as Art, Community, Resistance” Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence, Activist and Playwright, Harvard University • Please note: this session will be held in Kuykendall 410 • September 4: “Oliver’s Travels: The Making of a Chinese-American Radical” Oliver Lee, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa September 11: “Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case and the Culture of History” John P. Rosa, Department of History, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa • Please note: this session will be held in Kuykendall 410  • September 25: “Joseph Moku‘ōhai Poepoe’s Engagements with Language and Law” Noenoe Silva, Indigenous Politics, University of...

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by UH's Center for Biographical Research. In addition to his other biographical data listed below, D. Keali'i MacKenzie also currently serves as a part-time reference librarian in the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections. "Queer Pacific Indigeneity: Constructing Our Archives" D. Keali‘i MacKenzie and Tagi Qolouvaki Thursday, September 26 • Noon to 1:15 pm Center for Biographical Research • 1800 East-West Road, Henke Hall 325 In this talanoa/talk story panel, David Kealiʻi MacKenzie and Tagi Qolouvaki, both queer-identifying, Pacific Islanders (Native Hawaiian and Fijian-Tongan) discuss how their respective genealogies, including as activists, scholars, and writers, have informed their journeys to find and construct archives of queer pacific indigeneity. Along the way we hope to share a few poems, photographs, memories of community, and some of the many questions that guide and accompany us. D. Kealiʻi MacK...

The below is quoted from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Center for Biographical Research :  "Hawaiian Music and Musicians, Revised and Updated." by John Berger, Author and Editor Thursday, March 14 noon - 1:15 p.m. Kuykendall 410 For more information, please contact   biograph@hawaii.edu , 956-3774, or   www.facebook.com/CBRHawaii John Berger has covered entertainment in Honolulu for 40 years. He has been writing about music, theatre and social events of all kinds for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser (formerly the Honolulu Star-Bulletin) since 1988. George S. Kanahele published his monumental  Hawaiian Music and Musicians: An Illustrated History  in 1979. Compiled with the assistance of a hundred contributors and the research of many more, it was immediately recognized as the most ambitious book ever written about Hawaiian music. The book is arranged alphabetically, with entries on Hawaiian music from its roots in ancient chants to the floweri...

The below is quoted from an email circulated by the Center for Biographical Research: “Who Am I to Extol Tupaia?” Tahitian Voices in a Māori Project about the Pacific Alice Te Punga Somerville, Department of English, UH Mānoa Thursday, March 7 • 12 noon – 1:15 pm John A. Burns Hall Room 3121/3125 (Third Floor) • East-West Center • 1601 East-West Road When Cook and his crew visited Aotearoa in 1769, Tupaia from Raʻiatea not only acted as translator between Europeans and Māori but also recorded first exchanges in a painting. Reflecting on the role of Maʻohi people during these encounters, Māori poet Robert Sullivan asks “who am I to extol Tupaia . . . who am I to say these things?” How, indeed, do we write about connections between Pacific people? In the Pacific, how can we tell stories of ourselves without telling stories of each other, and yet how do we avoid—as Sullivan puts it—“tak[ing] the middle of your throat[s]”? Dr Te Punga Somerville will consider the contributions of T...

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Center for Biographical Research. “Links to the Past: The Work of Early Hawaiian Artisans” By Wendy S. Arbeit   Thursday Nov. 8th, 2012 Henke Hall 325 12 noon to 1:15 pm   For more information, please call 956-3774 or write to  biograph@hawaii.edu www.facebook.com/CBRHawaii   The award-winning book  Links to the Past: The Work of Early Hawaiian Artisans  presents images of 1,000 of the earliest collected works of Hawaiian artisans. What went into tracking down those artifacts now scattered across the globe? What do the 1,400 illustrations tell you about pre- and early-contact Hawaiian culture and the ways it changed in response to Westerners? What sort of questions are raised by the grouping of so many objects? Our talk will address these topics and more.   Wendy S. Arbeit  is the author of  What Are Fronds For?,  an introduction to the...